The reform activities united people and the attack on institutions like caste which hampered social unity created a sense of oneness in the people. But most of these reform movements had certain limitations. The questions to which they gave primacy concerned only small sections of Indian society. Some of them failed to emphasize or even recognize that colonial rule was inimical to the interests of the Indian people. Most of them worked within the framework of their respective communities in a way
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They had set in motion various trends in the intellectual‚ social and moral consciousness of the people which the genius Gandhi mobilized and directed in a grand march. Raja Rammohan Roy‚ Ramkrishna Paramhamsa and his great disciple‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ Swami Dayananda Saraswati‚ Dadabhai Navroji‚ Badruddin Tyabji‚ Syed Ahmed Khan‚ Ranade‚ Gokhale‚ Tilak‚ Aurobindo Ghosh and Rabindranath Tagore‚ to name only a few. Each one of them‚ had in his own‚ field created a consciousness of India’s destiny and
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Hindi is the most commonly spoken language in India. It is the fifth most spoken language in the world with about 182 million native speakers in 1998. The script used in writing Hindi is Devanāgarī. More than 180 million people in India regard Hindi as their mother tongue. Another 300 million use it as second language. Outside of India‚ Hindi speakers are 100‚000 in USA; 685‚170 in Mauritius; 890‚292 in South Africa; 232‚760 in Yemen; 147‚000 in Uganda; 5‚000 in Singapore; 8 million in Nepal; 20
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These features make the Renaissance in Kerala differ from other areas in India. A unique peculiarism in Christianity-The activities of Christian Missionaries and the conversion among Dalit People. It happened in this background that the ‘Vaukunda Swami Movement’. Sree Narayana Movement’ the activities of Ayyankali and Vaikam Sathyagraha‚ took their origin‚ Religious conversions have directly or indirectly‚ influenced all renaissance movements. But it was P.R.D.S. alone that faced the identity crisis
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Bhagat Singh ( 28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian nationalist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh‚ the word Shaheed meaning "martyr" in a number of Indian languages. Born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj‚ as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to anarchist and marxist
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1757 Battle of Plassey Company rule in India (to 1858) 1759 French India (to 1954) 1760 Marathas comprehensively defeat the Nizam‚ Maratha Empire reaches its zenith. 1761 The Marathas are routed in the Third Battle of Panipat on 14 January 1761‚ by the Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Durrani‚ an ethnic Pashtun‚ also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali. The battle is considered one of the largest battles fought in the 18th century. 1764 Battle of Buxar (British victory against allied Mughal
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Dayanada and Arya Samaj 9 little effect unless it was delivered in the language of the people. He went to Bombay‚ where shortly afterwards his sect‚ following the example of the Brahmo Samaj but with a better genius of organisation proceeded to take root in the social life of India. On April 7‚ 1875 he founded at Bombay his first Arya Samaj‚ or Association of the Aryans of India‚ the pure Indians‚ the descendants of the old conquering-race of the Indus and the Ganges‚ (These italic
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Diwali is the festival of lights. It is also known as’ Deepawali’. It is celebrated in our country which joy and happiness every year. It is one of the biggest festival of Hindus. Usually it comes in the month of October and November after twenty days of Dussehra‚ on the 13th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin. It is celebrated in the memory of coming back home of Lord Rama along with his wife Sita & brother Laxman after 14 years of exile. It is believed that on this day‚ Lord Rama
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Developmental Facilitators in HRM‚ HRM linkages with the organizational processes‚ excel Books‚ 2007‚ pp • Prabhavananda Swami‚ Spiritual Heritage of India‚ Vedanta Press‚ 1979‚ pp.97 • Prabhupad A C Bhaktivedant Swami‚ Bhagavad-Gita as it is ‚ Bhaktivedanta Book Trust‚ 1997‚ pp. • Price Alan‚ Human Resource Management in a Business Context‚ Cengage Learning EMEA‚ 2007‚ pp. 31 • Rama Swami‚ Perennial psychology of the Bhagavad-Gita‚ Himalayan Institute Press‚ 1985‚ pp • Tripurari B. V.‚ The Bhagavad
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Repressive Colonial Policies The British had conquered India to promote their own political interest so followed many repressive policies. These policies become major barrier to India’s development. Some of these policies‚ especially those followed by Lord Lytton gave birth to nationalism. Lord Lytton was Viceroy from 1876-1880. The resentment against the British rule increased because of repressive measures. 1. In 1877 he organised a Grand Delhi Durbar to proclaim Queen Victoria as the Empress
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