(1869-1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. In India, he is recognized as the Father of the Nation. A British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community s struggle for civil ...
Badalkar, it opens with a foreword by independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and presents a state sanctioned narrative of Gandhi's life and role in the Indian struggle for independence. This articles examines how the creators of The Gandhi Story drew upon both textual and...
10. India’s Struggle For Independence India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra is one of the most rich and diverse book on this subject. It covers Indian struggle for Independence right from Mangal Pandey’s mutiny and includes the smallest of details. Needles to say this book on ...
However, a selective reading of Rajiv Ahir’s Brief History of Modern India, Bipin Chandra’s India’s Struggle for Independence and AL Basham’s The Wonder That was India can also be immensely helpful for UPSC history preparation. Q2 Q 2. Which book is better for UPSC history? Ans. ...
20th Century political and intellectual leadership may have grossly failed to comprehend critical world events in a realistic manner, specifically Vladimir Ulyanov’s German-assisted Bolshevik coup d’etat, the Kuomintang and Maoist takeovers in China, as well as India’s own struggle for Independence...
Books: Love in the Time of Struggle New Fiction: The English Problem: A review of former book editor Beena Kamlani’s debut novel, which is set in India and England before Indian independence. Read more » Food & Dining: Romancing with Food On this Valentine’s Day, create a homemade...
20th Century political and intellectual leadership may have grossly failed to comprehend critical world events in a realistic manner, specifically Vladimir Ulyanov’s German-assisted Bolshevik coup d’etat, the Kuomintang and Maoist takeovers in China, as well as India’s own struggle for Independence...
The date of 26th January was important to the Indian struggle for independence. In 1930, the Indian National Congress had declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ or complete independence on this day, by hoisting the Indian flag on the banks of the Ravi river. ...
For Chinese officials to speak of “life and death” struggle against the Dalai Lama sitting in Dharamsala is astounding; if they are serious, it signals a deep long-term insecurity felt in Beijing. How can enormous, wealthy, strong China feel any existential threat at all from unarmed poor ...
Initially, after the independence of India, 14 languages were included in the constitution of India. The official language act 1963 provides languages that may be used for the official purpose of the Union of India for the transaction of business in parliament for Central and state acts and for...