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    the great Indian warrior, Bajirao Ballal Balaji Bhat, and I wanted to be just like him. Bajirao is considered one of the greatest general to fight for any empire in Indian history. He fought for the Maratha Empire which inhabited most of northern India, and is one of the largest Indian empires in history. He served as the peshwa for the Marathas in the early 19th century under Chhatrapati Shahu. The Marathas were extremely lucky to have Bajirao man their army, as he did many great things.…

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    The Maharaja opted for a temporary accession with India and as such many cases of treasons were filed against the Shiekh Abdullah for his Quit Kashmir movement by the Govt. of India. With the help of Mahatma Gandhi & Jawaharlal Nehru, all the cases were withdrawn for which Sheikh Abdullah supported the accession of Kashmir with India. Pakistan, with the help of Qabailie Jihadies, sent its troops in 1948 to Kashmir and annexed 3/4th of its territory. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru took the matter to…

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    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…

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    sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units . Federalism is a system based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial/state governments, creating what is often called a federation. The term federalist describes several political beliefs around the world. Also, it may refer to the concept of parties; its members or supporters called themselves Federalists. In a…

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    Multi-party System vi. Universal Franchise vii. Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), etc. 2. Industrialization and urbanization are linked processes. Discuss. Ans- • The urban population of India is expanding much more rapidly after in¬dependence. For the teeming millions, the city is where they come looking for jobs. In the 1901 census, only 10.8 per cent of the total popu¬lation (or 25.6 million out of 238 million) lived in cities. In 1991…

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    After Britain lost its longtime ally, France, they were left standing alone in the Middle East as the last defense against Nazi and Italian fascism, and struggled to prevent the takeover of the Suez Canal in Egypt and a loss of access to British India as a result. Italy in Libya Since 1911, Italy had been in possession of Northern Libya, a place where the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini desired to begin the establishment of an Italian Empire in the Middle East. Mussolini called the…

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    sculpture. Bittiga's grandson, Vira Ballala II (reigned 1173-1220) extended Hoysala control N of Mysore and made the dynasty the most powerful in S India. The Hoysalas later came into conflict with the empire of Vijayanagar and the Muslim sultans of Delhi, and the last Hoysala rule was overthrown in 1346. At its height the dynasty ruled over parts of the modern states of Mysore, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.…

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    The company’s regime in India eventually came to an end in 1857, when there was an outbreak of an anti-British rebellion. The introduction of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle was the main cause of the rebellion. The cartridges that contained the gunpowder were greased with animal fat. While Muslim soldiers were prohibited to eat pork, it was forbidden for many Hindu soldiers to eat beef. Due to these religious views, a colossal uproar was caused. Thereby, many Indian soldiers refused to use…

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    Peaceful resistance to laws has a positive impact on society. When people find that laws are unjust to the point that people must do something the first option should always be peaceful. The people should have the right to protest peacefully. Throughout history, there are many instances where a peaceful civil disobedience and resistance have been more powerful than those born of violence. These include the civil rights movement, Gandhi’s salt march, and the start of our own revolution…

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    economy. The Spanish, captured the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and built in its remains Mexico City. The Jewish people, who were offered the state of Israel by The United Nations, took on the Palestinian Arabs in four separate wars. In the late 1700’s, British merchants began making profits from the Chinese by selling the Chinese opium, a drug grown in India. Silver, which was a Chinese form of payment, flowed out of China in exchange for opium, disrupting the economy. The Chinese…

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