History – Daily Answer Writing Challenge Day – 6
QUESTIONS: 25/10/2013 How did the East India company become the dejure power in India? (300 Words) Why did Vietnam go through thirty years of war after the second World War? (300 Words) ARCHIVE
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History – Daily Answer Writing Challenge Day – 5
QUESTIONS: 24/10/2013 “The announcement of the creation of People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949 by Mao Zedong ended the Civil War between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party (KMT).” Elaborate (300 Words/2012) “The Arab nationalism had a peculiar character. It stood for national independence of separate Arab states as well as …
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History – Daily Answer Writing Challenge Day – 4
QUESTIONS: 22/10/2013 (Paper-II, Topics: European business enterprise; Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas) “Plantations and mines, jute mills, banking, insurance, shipping and export-import concerns in India were run through a system of interlocking managing agencies.” Critically examine (150 Words) “The contact of the new Indian middle class with the West proved to be …
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Insights Daily Answer Writing Challenge (HISTORY) Day – 1
QUESTIONS: 18/10/2013 (Paper-II – History) “Though the Permanent Settlement had serious defects, it gave tranquility to the countryside and stability to the government.” Comment. (200 Words/2009) How did social legislation in the nineteenth century improve the condition of women in India? (300 Words/2009) “In all the long annals of imperialism, the partition of Africa is …
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British Bias
Nothing demonstrates more convincingly than the following two incidents from the history about the British atrocities and their hypocrisy On 30th January 1972, twenty-six unarmed civil rights protesters or bystanders were shot by the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, under Lt. Col. Derek Wilford, during a Northern …
Regionalism in India
On 15th of December 1953, when Potti Sriramulu succumbed to death not able to sustain 52 days of marathon fast that was undertaken to demand a separate state for Telugu speaking people, little did he realize that his death would become a launch pad for the dawn of Political Regionalism in India – that would …
American Aid to Pakistan: Ground Realities
The Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) and the North Western Frontier Provinces (NWFP) were always been the breeding grounds of Taliban under the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) and Pak military supervision.
In Support of the Nuclear Deal
By Vinay If, on 22nd July Mr.Manamohan Singh manages to win the vote of confidence, he will be remembered by the generations to come not because he staked his government for the deal but because he withstood the onslaught of naysayer and stuck to the conviction that the deal was good for India. If on …
QUOTES ON INDIA
§ So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. – Mark Twain (American writer) § We owe a lot to the Indians, who …
Tryst with History: World Awaits a New Global Order
By Vinay History does not repeat for those people who have never read the history and for those people who are buried in the past. The most advanced nations of the contemporary world are still buried deep in the past, in their perceptions of the world order and disorder. They are blinded by their misconceptions …
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Higher Education in India: Harsh Realities
Higher education in India needs urgent attention and massive reforms if India wants to become a Global leader tomorrow. National Knowledge Commission’s report must be implemented as soon as possible.
Tryst With Destiny
The speech that I love most from the pages of history is the one given by Jawaharlal Nehru addressing the first Constituent Assembly of sovereign India on 14th August, 1947. His speech is etched on the pages of world history as one of the best eloquence ever used. His magic words make me feel …
A Lesson For America, From Asia
By Vinay We are living in the Asian Age. World is all praise for Asia. China and India are touted as the next superpowers. And everyone knows this story. Other Asian countries, especially Tiger economies are also not lagging behind in the race. World’s focus is on Asia now. What is that makes world take …
