Although the Indian government has been stepping up efforts to protect tigers, poaching continues to haunt the country. Before India’s independence, many British nobles considered tiger hunting a form of entertainment. After independence,...
India is a country born 1947 which discriminates its own minorities e.g. the Dalits, and the Muslims on religious lines. India’s born Muslims and the Dalits appear that they have no place in their own country and the fanatic Hindus trained by the Hindutva gang under...
In the 200-year reign of theGupta Empire, starting in the fourth century A.D., arts, crafts, and sciences flourished. During this time, the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta determined that the Earth revolved around the sun. This was long before the Western world accepted the theory. ...
1947, India declared independence and became a dominion. On January 26, 1950, the Republic of India was founded, but it remained a member state of the “Commonwealth of Nations.”
1947, was a triumph and a landmark moment in the returning of dignity to the peoples ofAsiafollowing the colonial period. The movement was more than political; it was a renaissance, and an inspiration for oppressed nations around the world. Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 14...
India - Diversity, Culture, Religion: India is a diverse multiethnic country that is home to thousands of small ethnic and tribal groups. That complexity developed from a lengthy and involved process of migration and intermarriage. The great urban cultur
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On the night before Holi, under the full moon, effigies of the demoness are burned in large bonfires to celebrate her defeat. The next day, the entire country heads to the streets for a giant colored-powder-and-water "fight". The color fight is meant to represent the pure joy of ...
When Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, as part of his nationalisation policy, called on the Indian population to leave the country, only a few members were able to go to India, since most did not hold Indian citizenship. A low point for the Indian diaspora was the 1972 expulsion from ...
Research to date has not explored that the role of entrepreneurship has a key driver of China’s economic growth and how the nature of entrepreneurshi