HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Kashmir tragedy began when under the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846; the British sold the state of Jammu and Kashmir to Gulab Singh‚ a Hindu Dogra chieftain for the sum of 7.5 million rupees. Lord Lawrence who negotiated this treaty‚ termed this transaction as “iniquitous arrangement” The sale of such a vast area with a predominantly Muslim majority was justified by the Viceroy Lord Hardinge ‚ in his correspondence with Queen Victoria ‚to recover the losses in wars against
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John Boynton Priestley was born into a socialist family in 1894‚ and so lived through the end of the Victorian era and into the 20th century. In 1910 he worked in a textile factory as a clerk‚ and so was a bystander to the discriminations of the time rich and poor‚ men and women and‚ as a socialist‚ was affected by them. Living in Bradford also gave him a good foundation with which to build up the kind of setting a family like the Birlings would have lived in. Unfortunately for him‚ when war broke
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The Soviet Union and the Rule of Law How do they create laws? Soviet concept of law Soviet law was rooted in pre-revolutionary Russian law and Marxism/Leninism. Pre-revolutionary influences included Byzantine law‚ Mongol law‚ Russian Orthodox Canon law‚ and Western law. Western law was mostly absent until the judicial reform of Alexander II in 1864‚ five decades before the revolution. Despite this‚ the supremacy of law and equality before the law were not well-known concepts‚ the tsar was still
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Gandhian Thought On Indian Socialism 1. INTRODUCTION “Friend‚ I do thee no wrong. Didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is‚ and go thy way. I will give unto this last even as unto thee.” “If ye think good‚ give me my price; And if not‚ forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.” These lines from the ‘Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard’ appear on the first few pages of the book ‘Unto the Last’ by John Ruskin. In March 1904‚ Gandhi
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Profession in Russia Guest lecture at Law Faculty of University of Tartu‚ 5th of November‚ 2012 Dr. Mikhail Antonov Associate Professor of Law Faculty of Higher School of Economics – Saint Petersburg‚ Director of Research Center for Legal Argumentation‚ Executive Director of “Russian Yearbook for Legal Theory”‚ Advocate The author’s position does not necessarily correspond to the official position of National Research University “Higher School of Economics” Legal Education in Russia: Principles
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Hungary‚ Russia‚ and many others. This led to poverty and chaos‚ and the people were suffering. That is why they started to revolt‚ but the political system was so exhausted after the war that it didn ’t do anything to solve this. <br> <br>The effects of the war sped up the changes. It is an arguable fact‚ whether the war also had a liberating effect. If it did‚ it was greatly affected by the downfall of three empires‚ the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ Tsarist Russia and Keiser ’s Germany. In Russia the tsar
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Extra Credit Essay The Tragedy in Savar shows in my opinion what these multinational corporations are all about‚ the bottom line! Multinationals should be held accountable‚ they have a responsibility to the people of Savar and other poor countries that they choose to produce their goods in. At the same time multinationals need to keep their investors happy‚ need to turn a profit quarter after quarter‚ need to win at all costs. So do I think what happened in Savar is the result of the free market
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Omar Said Tragedy of Disappointment At the height of his presidency‚ Woodrow Wilson had many successes that made a huge impact on the country as well as the world. However‚ he also had very bad points as well. One of those bad points was the Treaty of Versailles. In many ways‚ the Treaty of Versailles mirrored his presidency. His ruthlessness for self- determination in his policies coming into Paris did not allow him to get what he really wanted in the treaty. In the end‚ Wilson was
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RUSSIA Natural environment Among Russia’s most important environmental problems: * Water pollution is the most serious concern. Less than half of Russia’s population has access to safe drinking water. While water pollution from industrial sources has diminished because of the decline in manufacturing‚ municipal wastes increasingly threaten key water supply sources‚ and nuclear contamination could leach into key water sources as well. The head of Russia’s environmental protection committee
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the sinking of the Titanic? By Rebecca Gutteridge Year 9 RMS Titanic‚ so called the ‘unsinkable ship’‚ became the largest maritime disaster in history when she hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage through the North Atlantic. Much indecision surrounds the blame circle of the sinking of the largest
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