States and territories of India

Islam has played an important role in the creation and continued survival of Pakistan as a sovereign state. As Pakistan started off, the use of the two-nation theory and a united Muslim front was a useful identity to an otherwise splintered nation, too similar to it’s much larger Hindu counterpart. As Pakistan grew from a theory into an actualized nation, it was proved that this wasn’t a solid foundation for a country as Bangladesh won independence, disregarding Muslim unity in exchange for…

The United States’ rise as a global power lead to the liquidation of the African British Empire. As Nazi Germany began to take expand in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to declare their war aims. The Atlantic Charter ended being more or less a press release for public relations versus actual policy for the public. When working at the works from Wm. Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson one can see how the Atlantic Charter grew and was enacted. In the second part…

fundamental concepts must first be defined. For example, the state has multiple views. There are contractarian views defended by Hobbes, Locke, and Rouseau as well as the liberal view of the state. Defined by Weber, the state is “…a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory” (Weber 1958). There are three components in creating a state. First there is the nation state, which is a group of people that share a…

In Salman Rushdie’s story Midnight’s Children, offers an overview of events in India immediately following the nation gaining independence in 1947. Within the context of the novel, The Midnight Children are the inheritors of India’s lasting promise, and the evidence of its lasting strength. They each have an unusual power, which not only provides them protection, but more broadly signals India’s ability to rise, in a post-colonial era. It is their magic, that becomes the strongest thread for…

POLITICAL SITUATION OF INDIA DURING ANGLO-FRENCH WAR The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb died in 1707. Bahadur Shah I succeeded him. However, there was a significant decline in the central control over the empire during the tenure of Jahandar Shah and later emperors. In the mean time, Nizam-ul-Mulk established Hyderabad as an independent kingdom. After his death, his son: Nasir Jung and his grandson: Muzaffar Jung started to fight against each other for the throne, which gave an opportunity to French…

locations all over the world, especially in Asia. How countries have gotten they way they have to this day has been through trade, human movement and political and cultural influences that spread out in a span of over hundreds of years. The creations of states and countries are created through cultural differences and political influences; however there are many arguments over how those paths are created through either trade or unnecessary force. Tina Harris’s (2013, 4) book main point is that…

foreign territory. Throughout the campaign of current President Trump, his slogan was “To Make America Great Again!” One of the ways in which President Trump intended on making America great again was to reform the immigration system in the States by kicking out illegals and make another country pay for a wall that benefits the United States. Trump’s intentions for this wall is to keep illegals out and implement better security…

sugar, and tobacco, and gave rise to the Empire’s infamous terra nullius doctrine. This stated that it was a human right to take territory not being “properly utilised” by its inhabitants. It was the ideological justification behind the colonisation of North America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand by the British; the indigenous populations of these territories did not participate in what the British believed to be society or civilisation, and they did not understand their use of the…

Religious difference was the core of two nation theory.Muslims needed a state where they can practice their religion without other forces trying to create problems for them . Two nation theory origin started when first muslim came in subcontinent .Muslims follow islam and Hindus follow Hinduism. These two religions are not different side of same coin instead they are different coins . The religion of Muslims (Islam) follows tauheed means they believe in One God (Allah) while hindus believe in…

of the continent. The English were located along the east coast, in Georgia, the Carolinas and the northeastern United States. The French controlled Louisiana in the south and far north, Acadia and northeastern Canada. The French wanted to form a settlement along the Mississippi to enclose the British along the coast. On the contrary, the British wanted to increase their territory by extending it west through the Mississippi; with this they would be able to separate the French settlements…