India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009 A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
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be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (April 2011) Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Harijan causes. His speeches during such tours discussed the discriminated castes of India and appealed for the eradication of untouchability. The caste system in India is a system of social stratification‚[1] social restriction and a basis for affirmative action.[2][3] Historically‚ it defined communities into thousands of
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------------------------------------------------- India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Republic of India. For other uses‚ see India (disambiguation). Republic of IndiaBharat Ganrajya | | | Flag | Emblem | | Motto: "Satyameva Jayate" (Sanskrit) "Truth Alone Triumphs"[1] | Anthem: Jana Gana Mana "You are the Ruler of the Minds of All People"[2]MENU0:00 | National song: Vande Mataram "I Bow to You‚ Mother"[a][1]MENU0:00 | Area controlled by India shown in dark green;
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Ancient Canaan was not a “No-Man’s” but rather an “Any-Man’s” land. Situated between the Nile River Valley and the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley it served as common ground for the movements (socioeconomic and military) of other important and powerful civilizations. Its fate‚ repeatedly influenced by that of the Egyptians‚ rose and fell with the events of their neighbors. The relative peace in Egypt during the Old Kingdom era (2575-2100 B.C.E) left Canaan to be a loose quiet place with locally based
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Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very widely read‚ and the songs he composed reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughout
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Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece played an important role on how our modern society and architecture is today. They influenced ideas that were spread and shared all over the world like their architecture‚ entertainment‚ and government. The architecture in Rome included things such as Viae‚ aqueducts‚ and arches. Viae were roads that the romans created and that we have today‚ but in ancient Rome is was primarily used as military supply lines. Another architectural innovation that Rome created were
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Highlighted Ottoman decline- Egypt was Ottoman province Opened new era of European contact with Muslim regions Muslim lands Extended from western Africa to Southeast Asia Muslim empires in 1500s Ottomans in Middle East Safavids in Persia Mughals in India Empires in Decline 1700s- All 3 Muslim empires were in decline Central gov’t lost control over powerful groups: Landowning nobles Military elites Urban craft guilds Widespread corruption Muslim scholars & religious leaders Allied with the
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Ancient Greece and Ancient China have many similarities and differences. A similarity between the two ancient civilizations is how they socially treated their women‚ while a difference is how their economy was handled due to the different trade systems. Another difference between the two societies was the way they ran their political systems. The ancient Greeks and ancient Chinese were similar due to the lack of respect they had for their women. The Greeks and Chinese both gave little or no rights
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investments. There is a glaring observation to be made‚ and that is interest in India by the West seems closely tied to economic profit. Britain realized it when they took India from the East India Company and today the United States and European powers are taking advantage of a large and cheap labor force and emerging middle class. Indian artists are benefitting especially from this economic boom as the middle class and wealthy in India are their main supporters. The strife of the lower class seems to be one
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Project Report "Transport System in India" TRANSPORT SYSTEM TRANSPORT: Transport is a system in which passengers & goods are carried from one place to another. Modes of Transport: Transportation is generally divided into three modes-LAND‚ WATER & AIR. The Land Transport consists of roads and railways. Water Transport is also divided into two types: (a) RIVER OR INLAND TRANSPORT (b) SEA OR OCEANIC TRANSPORT. The latest and the fastest mode of transport is Air Transport. IMPORTANCE
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