Dec 1946Iran occupiesseparatist regions Dec 1946Outbreak of Indochina Warbetween Viet Minh & French Jun 1947British announce thatIndia will be partitioned 21 Jul–4 Aug 1947Dutch conduct policeaction in Indonesia 15 Aug 1947Junagadh declaresfor Pakistan 15 Aug 1947India gains independencefrom Britain...
This is a paradox that can be explained by the general failure of putative Hindutvadis to acquire an objective understanding of the processes that had led to Independence, Partition, and Pakistan’s creation. Roughly, their comprehension of these processes has been one which sees all Muslims ...
The rise of Hindutva forces is tearing India apart along caste and religious lines as the country celebrates 71 years of independence from the British colonial rule. Hindu mobs are lynching MuslimsandDalits. A recentPew Research reportconfirms that the level of hostility against religious minorities ...
The Government even after Independence from British saw the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as easy spot for exploitation. Large scale felling of trees were done for timber. The timber merchant even brought elephants to help in this. Later when the work stopped the merchant thought it would be too...
independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output...
After independence from the British, the executive has always looked upon the judiciary as a hostile branch of the State. This view gained more momentum and popularity when the bureaucracy degenerated into a system for personal and not public gains. Exploitation and corruption became inbuilt in the...
an easier and more predictable place to do business. The Vision 2047 document, expected to be formally unveiled this year, will lay out a path to elevate India’s economy from a gross domestic product of USD 3.4 trillion to USD 30 trillion by 2047, the centenary of India’s independence....
Neoliberal policies in emerging markets like India have spurred economic growth in last few decades. However, the gains from this rapid growth have been heavily skewed in favor of the rich. The rich have gotten richer while the poor have languished. The average per capita income in India has...
tricolours. Indian flag is designed-horizontally using three colour, wheel in the centre and Khadi clothe. The national flag was adopted on 22ndof July in 1947 in the wake of Indian independence from British rule. Indian Flag was designed and adopted as a symbol of the nationalism and ...
TMC MP Mahua Moitra criticized certain members of the higher judiciary, alleging compromise of judicial independence and The Times of India 13 Dec 2024 6:52 pm BJP's Ram temple counter to TMC's Babri Masjid proposal The BJP's Murshidabad unit in West Bengal announced plans to construct a...