Women in India

Women empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. Rabindranath Tagore has mentioned in his novel, The Home and the World,” For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” These powerful words of Rabindranath Tagore themselves explain the importance of women in our society. The wisdom of a woman in a family binds it with a feeling of…

Located on the continent of Asia, India is a place you might want to expand your knowledge on. For starters, the countries bordering India consist of Bangladesh, Nepal, China and Pakistan. To the south of India is the Indian Ocean. India covers 1,269,000 square miles making it about one-third the size of the United States. (MapFight) After World War I, a nationalist movement supporting civil disobedience was led by Mahatma Ghandi. Mahatma Ghandi fought injustice and defended his rights as an…

The term “cottage industry” is used when products are manufactured on a small scale. India is well known for its large number of traditional cottage industries. But with the advent of industrialization, cottage industries witnessed a sharp decline. However, the government has taken steps to revive cottage industries as they play an important part in contributing to the economy of the country. The top five Indian cottage industries are cotton weaving, silk weaving, carpet making, leather industry…

For the next 1,500 years, different parts of India were ruled by Middle kingdoms, among which the famous Gupta Empire stood out. This period witnessed an intellectual resurgence of the Hindu religion. It can be called the "Golden Age of India". During this time, aspects of culture and religion spread to a lot of Asia, while kingdoms in southern India had sea trade with the Roman Empire. During this time, the Indian cultural influence spread over large areas of Southeast Asia. This would lead…

2014. Rubaiha is an independent women, who loved to learn. Her appearance also describes her as a fashionable women, because of the constant makeup she puts on whenever she leaves the house. Rubaiha migrated from India for educational reasons. As a kid she decided to graduate high school in India, and move on to college in America. This way her studies would be advanced, because Asians are known to be faster and quicker at learning than most Americans. “Leaving India was not an easy task. This…

Also, India encounters difficulties in opening bank accounts and in growth of mobile banking, but closer to global average in borrowing from formal institutions. Hence, the need for opening of more bricks and mortars branches was felt. (Sharma & Kukreja, 2013) The financial inclusion has picked up in India in the last decade, but it is far from adequate, considering the vastness of the country. Banks and…

defeated in India in 1857 because of the riots in central and northern India but in spring of 1858 they came back into the game. This was called the Revolt of 1857 and because the British came back a lot of violence occurred from both sides leading equal amounts of counter-violence. Since the British executed the rebels, the rebels also killed white civilians like women and children without mercy. This led to the Kanpur massacre in June 27, 1857. The revolt ended the rule of the East India…

Before Her, the stark contrasts of modern and traditional India are shown through the eyes of young women. One world shows the lengthy, painful, and often vain process that leads to being a contestant in the Miss India pageant, the other shows the strict and disciplined life of a member of the Durga Vahini, Indian nationalist women’s camp. Both sides of India, traditional and modern, face different issues revolving around the role of women in society but in very different ways. Traditional…

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…

Although the British helped to modernized India, the British should apologize for the actions they took against the Indians during the Raj because the British killed and injured thousands of people, who were not fighting back, promote tensions between Hindu and Muslim that promoted violence, and did not care about what was best for the Indian population. A group of Indians were in an enclosed courtyard practicing peaceful protest, when a British military officer was told to shut the protest down…