Banks of India

Since its independence, India has come a long way in terms of its democratic journey. It has faced many challenges and has its own set of unique problems. Today, about 80 percent of the Indian population is Hindu, and the recent political and social trends show that there is a rise of a Hindu Nationalism in India. There are many factors like, the decreasing popularity and power of Congress over the years, party fragmentation and rise in leadership and popularity of the BJP that are responsible…

Alberuni’s India, it discusses in depth many important aspects of the classic Indian culture. Some aspects of what classic Indian culture include varna (caste systems) and also the different gender roles. When you compare the aspects of India to The Tales of Ancient India, we can pick out several differences between these two texts. With that, in this paper I will talk about what I consider to be realistic when referring to the two texts, how gender roles differ between The Tales of Ancient…

sub-continent. India has Bay of Bengal in the East, Arabian Sea in the West and Indian Ocean in the South. India has four regions comprising of mountain zone, Ganga and Indus, desert, and southern peninsula. India is constituted of 29 states and 7 union territories. The prime focus of hazardous waste management is to ensure safe, effective and economic way of collection, to transport, treating the waste and disposing off the hazardous waste. The industrial sector has rapidly grown in India…

etc. The reason I decided to change form of protest I was using is because the British empire was watching passively what was happening in India with their arms crossed so a new method was needed to take this revolution forward. I lead a lot of important atarahaya movements in South Africa but I knew If I wanted to make a big impact I needed to go back to India. And that is what I did, In 1915 returned back to…

irrespective of caste, creed & religion. But do we find any of them in India, or in that case in all other countries? No, we don’t. Instead we find Hindus and Muslims waging war against each other and many other activities which are against nationalism. Nationalism is of immense importance and this project deals with the same. People keep talking about nationalism but then no one follows it in true sense. It is said that India is developing, India is shining but my question is that if we Indian…

Art through India The excitement had been growing as I landed at the airport in Mumbai, India. I would to get see new sights, experience new culture and learn where my roots had originated. As I left the airport I was culture shocked by what I was witnessing. The sceneries, the people, the environment was so different from what I had been use too. The architecture had been ancient and had so much meaning. The temples or known as mandir’s carried sacred meaning. My experience with the different…

Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film directed by Richard Attenborough. It follows the struggle for Indian Independence through the eyes - and only through the eyes - of eminent leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi. The film is prejudiced. It brings about the idea that Independence was achieved by Gandhi alone, while undermining the roles of others who, it could be argued, played far greater roles in achieving Indian autonomy. The film’s narrow-minded focus on Gandhi and his beliefs also meant that those of…

Chapter 23 Margin Notes- Independence and Development in the Global South 1) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? Europe’s African and Aisian empires were distinctive compared to other cases of imperial disintegration, because no other empire had been so centralized on the ideology of mobilization of masses. None of the other empires had been an excess of nation-states, each claiming an equal place in the…

and truly wanted to see both Hindu, Muslims and other religions to flourish together in harmony, in the same environment. Octavio Paz tells us of how music was quite a large success in bringing the two religions together. He claims that the music of India greatly influenced southeast Asia and the Arab world. In order to bring peace and draw an alliance between Hindus and Muslims he married Jodhaa who was a Rajput Princess (This was more or less a political marriage). That being…

While often deemed highly similar, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism differ greatly in many of their core values and practices. The most significant differences lie in their stances on whether or not an all-powerful god is in existence. While the Hindu faith consists of millions of gods, most Hindus focus their worship on one all-encompassing god or objective Oneness, therefore making the religion henotheistic. However, because Hinduism is so internally diverse, some groups are atheistic in their…