Poverty in India

in Mahar caste which was considered to be untouchable, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is today well known to the world as an intellectual revolutionary, who became the ultimate ray of hope for the depressed and discriminated human beings in India. He was the greatest son born to India. A True “Bharat Ratna”, who liberated millions of people who were denied basic human rights, kept oppressed and who were generation to generation exploited in the name of caste-based hierarchy, religion and treated as outcaste.…

“India, the country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 29 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own affairs; 6 less fully empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital territory, which includes New Delhi, India’s capital. With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most-populous country, after China” (Schwartzberg). India can be a shock to some when it comes to their…

Research Project Born on October 2,1866, Mahatma Gandhi a religious leader taught and preached non- violence. Gandhi was born in North West India. His father's was a minister of Porbandar and his mother was a religious leader(Mahatma). In Gandhi’s life time he went through many difficult times that made him famous to this day. At the beginning of his career in 1893 Gandhi went on a trip to the capital of Transversal after accepting an offer from Moslems to represent them. On his journey a…

Polanski and starring Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson and lastly the movie slumdog millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle,written by Simon Beaufoy, and was produced by Christian Colson. Set and filmed in India, it is a loose adaptation of the novel 2005 by the Indian author and a diplomat Vikas Swarup, this tells the story of Jamal Malik who was 18 years of age from the Juhu slums which is located in Mumbai. The books shows comparative characteristics…

Britain to India. The mutiny led to class differences and mostly benefited the upper-class citizens. This also marked the growth of middle class in India and a the birth of nationalism among the mutineers. The religious conflicts among the three major religions of India, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, contributed to the causes of Sepoy Mutiny. Although some changes were beneficial and moral, Indians did not like any sort of inconsistency which can still be reflected in present-day India.…

Mother India or Tyrant Indira Gandhi leaves a divided legacy. To the poor she is a hero. She is Mother India, who helped the underprivileged with her social welfare programs and the mother of the Green Revolution, which helped make India self-sufficient in grain productions. For others she is the architect of the Emergency, a dark period in India’s history when democracy was suppressed and political enemies we put down or jailed. Under her rule India won a war against Pakistan…

According to the 2011 census, Dalits make up 16.6% of India's population. Scheduled Castes (the official term for Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits) population in India is around 201 million. However, The total number of Dalits is probably much higher as Muslim and Christian Dalits are not included in these figures. Making up such a significant part of Indian society, the improvement of Dalits would certainly contribute a lot to the improvement of the whole society. This improvement, we say,…

This article focuses on the 19th century India in the social, historical, religious, political and cultural contexts.The pre-renaissance period can be marked as the background to welcome the Renaissance in India with a special reference to the advent of the British in India as an external influence on the internal, as the influence of the West on the East.India as an identity rests not only on the history of discrete people but also on cultures given its socio-political, socio-religious and…

Part A. British Imperialism in India began as a trade venture, Britain’s lack of resources sent them to far lands in search of items such as fabrics, indigo, saltpetre, rice and sugar cane, to expand wealth and therefore power. The rise of Imperialism in India occurred over several decades starting around the mid 1700’s as British factories or trading post were developed on the coast of India. The trading post were managed under the direction of the East India Company (EIC) and their role in…

push to get started. In this case, the man does not need the pushing, but his tricycle needs a push to get to his destination. This photo has no title but Narinder Nanu/ Agence France-Press/ Getty Images photographed it. It was taken in Amritsar, India and I found this photo when I was looking on “The Week in Photos” from Wall Street Journal and it was published onto this webpage on May 29, 2015. The Indian man is pushing his tricycle full of ice to his destination. The photo contains an…