Democracy as a Universal Value Amartya Sen Copyright © 1999 National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17 In the summer of 1997‚ I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found this to be an unusually thought-provoking question‚ since so many things of gravity have happened over the last hundred years. The European empires
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Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar
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CHAPTER-I INTRODUCTION Introduction -Education: The importance of education is quite clear. Education is the knowledge of putting one ’s potentials to maximum use. One can safely say that a human being is not in the proper sense till he is educated. This importance of education is basically for two reasons. The first is that the training of a human mind is not complete without education. Education makes man a right thinker. It tells man how to think and how to make decision.
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of the Rule 48 of the Defence and Internal Security of India Rules insofar as they prevented editors leaving editorial columns blank or filling them with quotations from great works of literature or from national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi‚ or Rabindranath Tagore. The I&B ministry did not attempt to find out whether these guidelines were within the scope of Defence and Internal Security of India Rules or not. Parliament and court proceedings were also subject to censorship. Not merely publication
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The Bangladeshi English Essay Book An Analysis by Robin Upton‚ January 22nd 2006 Public Domain under (cc) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0 Jan 2006 - Robin Upton - http:// www.RobinUpton.com/research Contents Purpose........................................................................................................... 1 Introduction to Essay Books .......................................................................... 1 Impact of Essay Books ................
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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN THINKERS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA 2. VIVEKANANDA 3. SHAIKH MUHAMMED IQBAL 4. RABINDRANATH TAGORE 5. MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI 6. KRISHNACHANDRA BHATTACHARYYA 7. AUROBINDO GHOSE 8. SARAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN 9. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTHI 10. RAJNEESH CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION When we speak about Contemporary Indian Philosophy‚ we refer to the pro and post Independence period which is known as the Indian
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------------------------------------------------- Tulsidas From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Goswami Tulsidas गोस्वामी तुलसीदास | Statue of Goswami Tulsidas at Kanch Mandir‚Tulsi Peeth‚ Chitrakuta‚ India | Born | Rambola 1497 or 1532[1] Rajapur (present-dayChitrakoot district‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ India) | Died | 1623 Assi Ghat‚ Varanasi (present-day Uttar Pradesh‚ India) | Titles/honours | Gosvāmī‚ Abhinavavālmīki‚Bhaktaśiromaṇi‚ etc | Guru | Naraharidāsa | Philosophy | Vaishnavism
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INTERNSHIP REPORT ON TOURISM PERSPECTIVE IN BANGLADESH MD. MASUD PARVEJ ID: BBA 040301009 Department of Business Administration Northern University Bangladesh NORTHERN UNIVERSITY B A N G L A D E S H INTERNSHIP REPORT ON TOURISM PERSPECTIVE IN BANGLADESH Supervised by Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim
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Towards a revival of the Bose legacy Madhuri Bose "Rose early but found Prabha still suffering. A son was born at midday..." reads a brief entry in Janakinath’s diary dated 23 January 1897. The newborn‚ the ninth child of Janakinath Bose and Prabhabati Devi was named Subhas Janakinath was then practicing law in Cuttack‚ in the state of Orissa. He headed a large extended family‚ in which‚ Subhas was to later recall in his autobiography An Indian Pilgrim‚ he felt "like a thoroughly insignificant being
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2011 Current Affairs at a Glance JANUARY The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‚ UPA’s flagship aam admi scheme‚ turned five on February 2‚ 2011. On January 14‚ the Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification revising the wage rates under the MNREGA from Rs 100 per day to between Rs 117 and Rs 181 (17-30 % hike) in different States. The revision under Section 6(1) of the 2005 Act‚ coming in wake of inflationary pressures on the poor‚ adjusts the wages by indexing it
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