Language has been known as a symbol of identity since a long time. It is considered as a gelling force to keep the communities united. Urdu was the official language of the sub-continent and was spoken and used by both‚ Hindus and Muslims. All groups had contributed towards the development of the language. The Urdu-Hindi controversy started with the fall of the Mughal Empire. This is because the Hindus felt that Urdu was a language of the invaders as many Turkish‚ Arabic and Persian words had been
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after 56 years of Independence‚ right from the Nehru era to the Vajpayee era‚ the rural India of today still short of basic amenities‚ like drinking water‚ electricity‚ roads‚ housing‚ food and clothing. Once Gandhiji told the renowned author Mr. Mulk Raj Anand that we can’t build India unless we build villages. Gandhiji wanted to make the villages independent republics‚ independent in governance and for routine requirements‚ governed by the people of the villages and self sufficient for financial
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Rebecca Martinez 18 November 2012 Professor Sutherland ANTH 4002 World War II’s Impact on the Indian Independence Movement The success of the Indian Independence movement is‚ by some scholars‚ largely attributed to efforts of Mahatma Gandhi. As stated by BBC‚ “Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule‚ and is widely considered the father of his country” (India.wikia.com). However‚ this revolutionary movement‚ a dream that had been growing since the mid nineteenth
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Telangana Telangana is a new proposed state to be formed out of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The city of Hyderabad would serve as the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for ten years.[2][3] On 30 July 2013‚ the ruling Congress party resolved to request the Central government to make steps in accordance with the Constitution to form a separate state of Telangana (the 29th independent state of Republic of India)‚ within a definite timeframe. The timeline for the creation of the
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APJ Abdul Kalam: ’A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure’ Abdul kalam following qualities to be of utmost importance for a creative leader. Leaders cannot go back to a dictatorial style. Who is that creative leader? You have to ask yourself? What are the qualities of the creative leader? The creative leadership‚ I define‚ ‘The creative leadership isexercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach‚ manager to mentor‚ from director to delegator‚ and from one he demands
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This is a system in which every individual owns the enterprises or business organizations equally i.e. equal subsidy for each individual. Socialism emphasis on equal distribution of the wealth In the hands of public. No private individual has share in capital assets of the enterprise. It is the state which holds it for the benefits of the public. Currently‚ steel mill is owned by the state‚ hence it is in a system of Communism or Marxian It is a system based on theory of Karl Marx It regards violence
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For example in pre-industrial India which was feudal and agrarian‚ the priestly community held sway and monarchs ruled with absolute power. In such stagnant and conservative times‚ hardly anybody deviated from the standard custom and practice. Untouchables hardly aspired to rise above their station in society as menials‚ people followed the hereditary profession of their community‚ women submitted to the authority of men and widows hardly dared to
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Is India a ‘Caste Democracy’? Introduction: Caste based politics in India Though the idea that caste is a part of a natural and moral order of things‚ that it is a hereditary quality which once for all defines ones position and occupational affiliation and which is associated with a particular law of conduct is rejected both by intellectuals and political leaders‚ caste is in Indian post independence politics continually used and abused in different ways. State politics in India has been particularly
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Satanic Verses A Suitable Boy The Glass Palace The God of Small Things Walking with the Comrades Interpreter of Maladies The Inheritance of Loss The Mammaries of a Welfare State White Tiger Last Man in Tower Witness by Night Author Mulk Raj Anand RK Narayan RK Narayan Raja Rao
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Consider Sea of Poppies as a historical novel Indian English novel writing shares a literary community. For instance‚ during 1930s‚ novelists like Mulk Raj Anand‚ Raja Rao and R K Narayan had ‘Gandhi’ as a shared literary‚ philosophical and cultural influence. Then post-independence period of novel writing portrays the partition fiction and subsequently the trauma. The decade of 1980s onwards‚ novels are exhibiting the political scenario of the nation either it is by Rohinton Mistry or novelists
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