1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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Key Landmarks in the Indian Freedom Struggle "Nadir Shah looted the country only once. But the British loot us every day. Every year wealth to the tune of 4.5 million dollar is being drained out‚ sucking our very blood. Britain should immediately quit India.’’ That’s what the Sindh Times wrote on May 20‚ 1884‚ a year before the Indian National Congress was born and 58 years before the ’’Quit India’’ movement of 1942 was launched. Contrary to the view that nationalist sentiments were awoken by the
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Panchayati raj system of India Panchayats have been the backbone of the Indian villages since the beginning of recorded history. The village panchayats‚ in one shape or other‚ have survived in spite of all upheavals and changes in India. Panchayati Raj is identified as an institutional expression of democratic decentralization in India. These bodies had occupied a prestigious position and they were considered as the self-sufficient and small republics. Panchayati Raj Institutions have always been
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Working Paper 234 EMERGING PROPERTY REGIMES IN INDIA: WHAT IT HOLDS FOR THE FUTURE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS? Sony Pellissery and Sattwick Dey Biswas The purpose of the Working Paper Series (WPS) is to provide an opportunity to IRMA faculty‚ visiting fellows‚ and students to sound out their ideas and research work before publication and to get feedback and comments from their peer group. Therefore‚ a working paper is to be considered as a pre-publication document of the Institute
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The Home and the World From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Home and the World | Book cover | Author | Rabindranath Tagore | Original title | ঘরে বাইরে Ghare Baire | Country | India | Language | Bengali | Genre(s) | Autobiographical novel | Publication date | 1916 | Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) | ISBN | NA | The Home and the World 1916 (in the original Bengali‚ ঘরে বাইরে Ghôre Baire‚ lit. "At home [and] outside") is a 1916
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THE QUESTION OF STANDARD ENGLISH: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON JOHN HONEY ’S LANGUAGE IS POWER Christopher Rollason Published in Terminologie et Traduction / Terminology and Translation: A Journal of he Language Services of the European Institutions (Luxembourg: European Commission)‚ No 3. 2001‚ pp. 30-60 Abstract In the global economy to which we are now irreprievably condemned‚ there is no escaping the English language: innumerable citizens of the planet are surrounded by it‚ in their business or professional
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the death of Bahadur Shah and his fort would be takrn over by the British. 5) Disbanding the armies of the annexed states: as a result thousands of families lost their means of livelihood. 6) Unpopular administration: The British abolished few Zamindars‚and taluqdars which created suspicion among them. The British administration in India was corrupt and inefficient. Social and Religious causes:- 1) Fear of the conversion: (i) The Missionaries showed them the lure of money‚ jobs and honour for
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INDIAN SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY The Introduction Is India a secular state and society‚ and can it be? What are the forces‚ secular and non-secular‚ curently operating in the Indian polity? Can our Constitution and governments live up to the large secular claim made by our national leadership! Do religion and para-religion infiltrate into neighbouring areas of labour‚ education and social servies corrosively? A geo-secular glance reveals that Pakistan is openly Islamic in politis while
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My History Notes Harris Masood Don’t Dare Touch! O Levelz O2 LECTURE 1- IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN. LECTURE 2- IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN IN THE LIGHT OF STATEMENTS OF QUAID-I-AZAM AND ALLAMA IQBAL LECTURE 3- THE ALIGARH MOVEMENT LECTURE 4- SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS . LECTURE 5- MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS 1857-1918 LECTURE 6- THE KHILAFAT MOVEMENT LECTURE 7- MUSLIM POLITICS IN BRITISH INDIA: 1924-1935 LECTURE 8- ALLAMA IQBAL’S PRESIDENTIAL
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Contents Introduction 3 Chapter 1 7 Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s symbolism of his eternal love 7 1.1 Who Built It? 9 1.2 Features 10 1.3 The Judgment Day 11 1.4 Conclusion 12 Chapter 2 13 Shah Jahan and his Empire 13 2.1 Religious Changes 14 2.2 Political Changes 15 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 18 Introduction Shahanshah Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Shah Jahan I‚ Shah Jahan was the 5th emperor of the Mughal Empire after Babur‚ Humayun‚ Akbar‚ and Jahangir. He reigned from 8th November 1627 to 2nd
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