India Essay

“ India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” India is located on the South Asian. India is next to Myanmar, where I came from.It’s a small country compared to other countries. India is one of the busiest country in the world. They have a lot of traffic, population, small villages, and cities. As a result of the huge population most of Indian people are…

inapplicability in many democratising countries today. To address this tension, this essay will outline the theoretical foundations of modernisation theory and subsequently offer an institutionalist and voluntarist approach in revealing its inapplicability in India. To conclude, this essay will explore the implications of India’s democratic success on the present state of modernisation theory. I) MODERNISATION THEORY Modernisation theory is concisely summarised by Lipset’s famous adage “the…

INTRODUCTION India, a collaboration of 29 states and 7 union territories and is known for its great unity in diversity. But that unity bears certain loop holes in maintaining the same in reality. Each state in India has a uniqueness of its own whether it is in culture, geographic pattern, community settlements, economic or natural resources. There is indeed a wide disparity in development which makes rich more rich & poor becomes poorer. As such, people living in rural part (poor regions) of…

The film 1-800-India: Importing a White- Collar Economy provides an inside view of the impact call centers are having culture in India. These call centers are being built by companies that are outsourcing this service from other countries and in return saving up to 50% on labor cost. The United Stated, Australia, and Britain have provided 17,000 jobs to this growing market. The local economy has soared since this development and provided new opportunities but it has also challenge social norms…

The bench who made these observations included Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, who in less than two weeks time will be the Chief Justice of India. The leader of a major political party making such a serious accusation against the Prime Minister would under normal circumstance be no laughing matter, however, in light of the circumstances, it has resulted in nothing more than making the accuser…

The Partition of India was the process of dividing the sub-continent along sectarian lines, which took place in 1947 as India gained its independence from British Empire. The northern part predominantly Muslim, became nation of Pakistan and the southern predominantly Hindu became the Republic of India, the partition however devastated both India and Pakistan as the process claimed many lives in riots, rapes, murders and looting. The two countries began their independence with ruined economics…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

In 1944, India started a nuclear program for the purpose of creating nuclear power. But in the 1954 they switched the direction of program into making nuclear weapons. The Indian government reach out to the United States’ government and Canada’s government to help get the supplies and components for a nuclear research reactor. The United States and Canada agreed to the Indian under the idea that they was going to use the reactor for peaceful purposes only. The project was moving steadily forward…

Day of Deliverance. 5. The Lahore Resolution. 6. The Cripp’s Mission. 7. The Quit India Movement. 1. Enforcement of Government of India Act 1935:- Following the Simon Commission and Round Table Conference, the British Government passed the Government of India Act in 1935. This was the last major legislation by the British Government in respect of India prior to independence in 1947. The Act was divided into parts which would take effect in stages by 1947. • The main…

The British in A Passage to India believed that they “were necessary to India; there would certainly be bloodshed without them” (Forster 103). The Indians, on the other hand, did not feel the same way; they were being oppressed in their own country and they could do very little about improving their lack of power. The English’s strong control is epitomized when two English visitors go on a trip to the Marabar Caves with Doctor Aziz, the main character. One of the English visitors is allegedly…