Rels 114 Final; India

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Akali Dal Party

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collection of Sikh political parties mainly based in Punjab founded/headed by different people. The modern-day Akali Dal is made up of several break away factions that were once part of the same intellect, a proper unified Akali Dal, of times of Master Tara Singh and Sant Fateh Singh. Then for political/non-political reasons, some chose to break away and establish their own Akali Dals and thus how Akali Dal entered into factionalism. The basic philosophy of Akali Dal is to give political voice to Sikh issues (Panthic cause) and it believes that religion and politics go hand in hand.

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Ambedkar, B.R

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He was also the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of Indian Constitution.[

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Ayodhya

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ancient city of India, the old capital of Awadh, in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh

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Bangalore

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the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise.[5] Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city[6] and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration

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Bangladesh

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a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar) to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south. Together with the Indian state of West Bengal, it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. The name Bangladesh means "Country of Bengal" in the official Bengali language.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

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Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party. The Bharatiya Janata Party traditionally has supported Indian Nationalism and strongly advocates conservative social policies, self-reliance, free market capitalistic policy, foreign policy driven by a nationalist agenda, and strong national defense.[2] The party's platform is generally considered right of center in the Indian political spectrum.[1]

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Bollywood

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Indian version of hollywood

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British East India Company

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was an early English joint-stock company[3] that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China.

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Congress Party

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the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world.[3][4][5] The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian political spectrum.

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dowry deaths

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deaths of young women who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture by husbands and in-laws in an effort to extort an increased dowry

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Emergency

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indira ghandi-idea of crisis in her time do declare marshal law, etc

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Gandhi, Indira

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third Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. India's only female prime minister to date, she remains the world's longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2011 and noted as a charismatic politician.[1] She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared an emergency in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding the office.

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Gandhi, Mohandas

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pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resistance to tyranny through mass civil resistance - a term which Gandhi used in many of his statements and writings.[1] His philosophy was firmly founded upon ahimsa (nonviolence

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Harijans

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a term used by Gandhi for Dalits. Gandhi said it was wrong to call people 'untouchable', and called them Harijans, which means children of God.

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Hindutva Movement

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term used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. Members of the movement are called Hindutvavādis

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Indian National Congress

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It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world.[3][4][5] The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian political spectrum.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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an Indian statesman who was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of India, from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement, Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1952. As one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement, he was also an important figure in the international politics of the post-war era.

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Khalistan

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a global political movement to create a separate Sikh state,[1][2][3][4][5][6] [7] called Khālistān (Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ, Hindi: ख़ालिस्तान "The Land of the Pure"), consisting of the Punjab region from parts of India and Pakistan, depending on definition.[8] [9] Harking back to the 18th century Sikh Empire, the envisioned Sikh state would include all Punjabi-speaking areas in Greater Punjab.

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Mandal Commission

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established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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20th century lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: قائد اعظم — "Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum (بابائے قوم) ("Father of the Nation").

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Muslim League

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All India Muslim League, political party founded in 1906 which, under Muhammad Ali Jinnah, led the demand for the partition of India
Unionist Muslim League, the autonomous Punjab unit of the All India Muslim League, under the leadership of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
Indian Union Muslim League, the successor to the All India Muslim League, which ceased to exist after the partition of India in 1947

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Operation Bluestar

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an Indian military operation, ordered by Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India,[4] under the pretext of removing Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The activists, led by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, were accused of amassing weapons in the Sikh temple

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Partition

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the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation on 15 August 1947 of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India).

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Rao, P.V. Narasimha

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the ninth Prime Minister of India, serving from 1991 to 1996.[1] He led an important administration, overseeing a major economic transformation and several home incidents affecting national security of India.[2] Rao accelerated the dismantling of the Licence Raj, work that originally initiated under the government of Rajiv Gandhi. Rao, also called the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms" by some,[3] is best remembered for employing Dr. Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister.

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Roy, Rommohan

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an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu culture and indicated the lines of progress for Indian society under British rule. He is sometimes called the father of modern India

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satyagraha

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Soul Force,"[1] "truth force," or is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance

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scheduled caste

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Indian population groupings that are explicitly recognized by the Constitution of India, previously called the "depressed classes" by the British.

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Sepoy Mutiny

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

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Singh, Manmohan

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Singh previously carried out economic reforms in India in 1991, during his tenure as the Finance Minister, under the leadership of P. V. Narasimha Rao, from 1991 to 1996. These reforms resulted in the end of the Licence Raj system, helping to open the Indian economy to greater international trade and investment.[2]

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Sikhs

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a disciple of the Guru.

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Tharoor, Shashi

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author of book, india from millennium, india intellectual

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Vivekananda

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famous for his role as hindu reformer