the 2024 General Elections in India. Even though the election results provided some reasons for optimism and hope, there seems to have been little change in the general servile attitudes of privileged and ‘middle class’ people in India (including the mainstream media), something…Continue reading...
Other articles where history of India is discussed: India: History of India: The Indian subcontinent, the great landmass of South Asia, is the home of one of the world’s oldest and most influential civilizations. In this article, the subcontinent, which
Indian National Congress is a broadly based political party of India. Formed in 1885, the Indian National Congress dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of ind
History is a major part of the general studies syllabus and every student is expected to be thorough in it. Interview questions too need a historical perspective at all times. We expect our students to read up these notes on the History of India and add their own points as they go. ...
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“stole” India’s premiership from Vallabhbhai Patel. The most popular variant of the myth suggests that Mahatma Gandhi manipulated the 1946 internal elections of Congress to install Nehru as its head, even though Patel was more popular within the party and the country. Of course, this claim ...
Seasoned journalist Rajdeep Sardesai's book ‘2014: The Election that Changed India' provides a perspective into how elections in India are now much more complex than the conventional tussle of ballots. The elections 2014, including some Assembly elections in states like Maharashtra and Haryana marke...
In the constitution, the ethnicities and leftists were appeased with the promise of holding direct elections based on adult franchise, while the fundamentalists were given the space to officially and constitutionally define Pakistan as an ‘Islamic Republic’. ...
1 2 Countries vary in history, culture, system and economic development level, but peoples of all countries uphold the shared human values of peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom.1 Peace and development are our common cause, equity and justice our common aspiration, and ...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field