Free Essays on Independence Day Of India

  1. Memories of Independence Day

    In the days leading up to yet another August 15, I found myself reminiscing about my favorite memories associated with the day. As a schoolgirl, I remember Independence Day as a festive occasion for one and all. There was something in the air that particular day that evoked a sense of pride at the sight...

  2. Independence

    really thinks that all Indians are your brothers and sisters “ The Republic of India celebrates its 67th Independence Day on 15 August 2013, commemorating another year of being the world’s most populous democracy! India became independent from two centuries of British rule on 15 August 1947. This new...

  3. Free India

    The country attained independence after hundreds of leaders including Gandhiji pledged their life and involved in various movements and the Quit India Movement held in 1942 forced the Britishers to quit the country. Today’s generation should understand the amount of patriotism involved in such movements...

  4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: the Indian Independence Movement

    | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1940s | Born | 2 October 1869(1869-10-02) Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, British India | Died | 30 January 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi, Union of India | Cause of death | Assassination | Resting place | Rajghat in New Delhi | Nationality | Indian | Other names...

  5. Anti-Colonial Nationalismi in British Colonial India

    Anti-Colonial Nationalism in British Colonial India Ian Andrews INTP248 ID#: 300141754 Word Count: 1755 A thorough analysis of India during the fight for freedom from colonial British rule must include three different aspects: the origins, the nature, and the scope of the conflict. The...

  6. Republic Day Parade

    Republic Day Parade An Agni-II intermediate range ballistic missile displayed at the Republic Day Parade in 2004.The Republic Day Parade is an annual military and cultural parade held in the Indian Capital of New Delhi on 26 January, the Republic Day of India. Republic Day is celebrated with the hoisting...

  7. The Effect of WWI on the Indian Independence Movement

    of the great powers involved. India provides a prime example of the anti-colonial rejection of the West during the 20th century. The “European Civil War” cracked the previously impenetrable British Empire, and had a direct effect on the independence movement within India. As Germany attempted to hurt...

  8. India in the Decades Post-Liberalization

    English 151 2010 The Awakening of a Sleeping Tiger: India in the Decades Post-Liberalization “It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.” Kofi Anan is attributed with this saying, one that succinctly summarizes globalization’s...

  9. Pak India Relatiion

    Pakistan India Relations As seen in “The Nation” newspaper. Link http://nation.com.pk/archives/May-20-2008 Pakistan-India relations since independence have been the victim of oscillations between short-lived periods of euphoria and raised expectations followed by long intervals marked by disappointment...

  10. India in the Last 60 and Next 60 

    “At the stroke of the midnight hour, whenthe world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” These were the historical words of our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of India's much awaited Independence Day. However, has India really woken up from its sleep of dreams and aspirations...

  11. India in Future

    [pic] Delhi, August 14 2005: President Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam's speech: My Dear Citizens of India,  On the eve of the 59th Independence Day, I extend to you my best wishes for your happiness and prosperity. My greetings to all our people at home and abroad. Let us resolve, on this occasion, to...

  12. Analysis of Terrorism in India

    Terrorism in India can be attributed to many low intensity conflicts within its borders. The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir,Mumbai, Central India (Naxalism) and Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the Punjab insurgency led to...

  13. Foreign Country Analysis Report - India

    the economic potential of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) is such that they may become the four most dominant economies by the year 2050. India is claimed to be the fastest growing country in Southeast Asia, even some people said that India will be the second China. In this project, we are...

  14. Presidential System of Government for India

    Presidential System of Government for India by Dr. Subhash Kapila India stands out as a shining symbol of democracy amongst the nations that emerged as independent states after the demise of colonial rule post-World War II. India’s founding fathers, and I stress the plural, opted for the Westminster...

  15. Archetypal Journey Towards Independence

    Jane Eyre’s Archetypal Journey towards Independence In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane’s archetypal journey toward independence is demonstrated through her call to adventure at Gateshead, her helpers at Lowood, her obstacles at Thornfield, her nadir at Moor house, and her return at Ferndean. At...

  16. Poltics in India

    West Bengal as to form new State called Gorkhaland. The demand for Gorkhaland as a constituent state within the Union of India has been the oldest demands in the history of modern India , till now its gain nothing rather remains as history creator of Indian Gorkha even after more than hundred years. Over...

  17. India Must Be a Willing Signatory of the Nuclear Deal

    energy. Day by day year by year our energy requirements are going up and fuel prices are spiraling. The parties shouting themselves hoarse about giving away India ’s sovereignty need to question the very basis of their argument, as No attempt has been made to strengthen India ’s independence in energy...

  18. Educational Reforms in India - 1

    Educational reforms in India since independence – Flaws & suggestions Education has been considered as one of the very important dominion in our national life. Education holds the important key for development and progress in every aspects of our existence, which starts from an integrated and synergic...

  19. Poverty in India

    Poverty in India Poverty is one of the major problems in India. It is the root cause of many socio-economic problems including population explosion, unemployment, and child labour and rising graph of crimes. Poverty...

  20. A Review of Edward Luce’s in Spite of the Gods: the Strange Rise of Modern India

    Rise of Modern India Lant Pritchett* India poses a development puzzle on a grand scale. Sixty years of electoral democracy, thirty years of rapid growth, and a number of world class institutions (such as the Institutes of Technology or Election Commission) have led to talk of India as a superpower...

  21. Health Care in India

    Health Care in India In the writing “India”, author Perri Klass offers a powerful argument for the economic social determinants of health and the need to help the poor, vulnerable populations of the world. In her article, she describes a situation where she was unable to diagnose a case of tuberculosis...

  22. The Brave New World: India- a Nation in Transition.

    THE BRAVE NEW WORLD: INDIA- A NATION IN TRANSITION. One of the most influential doctrines in Western Europe since the late eighteenth century is that all humans are divided into groups called ‘nations’. India is one such nation where multifarious ethnicities converge into a unified psychological consciousness...

  23. Democracy in India

    | |To find answers, we must go way back. Christianity came to India a few decades into its birth and remained undisturbed in the | |subcontinent till about 500 years back. It's the arrival of the missionaries—in the...

  24. Unesco-Higher Education in India-Vision N Action.Doc

    Higher Education in India Vision and Action Country Paper UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century Paris, 5-9 October 1998 Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO October 1998 This paper has been brought out by Indian National Commission...

  25. Doing Business in India

    INDIA – DOING BUSINESS IN INDIA ITUL DAN-CATALIN India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the largest democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south...

  26. Judicial Activism in India: a Necessary Evil

    JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN INDIA: A NECESSARY EVIL Arpita Saha National Law University, Jodhpur, India ABSTRACT Judicial activism has always been a source of heated debate, especially in the light of recent developments in this regard. Over the last few years with various controversial decisions, judges of...

  27. Reasons on Taking the India-Us Nuclear Deal

    about 1 2 3 Agreement between India & USA and it almost led to the topple of Central Government. Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement is the name commonly attributed to a bilateral agreement on nuclear cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of India. The framework for this agreement...

  28. China and India a Political comparison

    China and India a Political Comparison Thomas Hendricks POL353: Comparative Politics Instructor: Pamela Hunter 11/2/14 Introduction India and China are two very interesting and fascinating countries when one discusses their political systems, political cultures...

  29. Doing Business in India - Essay

    Canada’s Tomorrow No. 10 Doing Business in India: Success, Failure and the Prospects for Canada Douglas Goold November 2010 Canadian International Council www.onlinecic.org Conseil international du Canada www.cicenligne.org Doing Business in India: Success, Failure and the Prospects for Canada ...

  30. The Progress of School Education in India

    An ESRC Research Group The progress of school education in India GPRG-WPS-071 Geeta Gandhi Kingdon Global Poverty Research Group Website: http://www.gprg.org/ The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is gratefully acknowledged. The work was part of the programme of...

  31. Jet Airway in India

    JETAIRWAYS IN INDIA INTRODUCTION: In July 2008, magazine ranked Jet Airways as the world's best long-haul airline after Singapore Airlines.[1] In a poll conducted by SmartTravelAsia.com in September 2008, it was voted as the world's seventh best airline overall.Jet Airways has also won a survey...

  32. United Nations India Pak

    Earthquake prone zones in the world: - Japan Chile San Francisco Istanbul Tokyo Los Angeles Indonesia Recent Earthquakes: - Himachal Pradesh, India 2013 Kobe, Japan 2011 Haiti 2010 Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 2012 These are some of the very many earthquakes that have occurred over the past...

  33. Is China a Threat to India

    military power in Asia. The anti-secession law passed by China in March 2005, authorising military invasion in the case of Taiwan ever announcing independence, frightened some into believing that war might be on the cards. The Kuomintang (KMT), the ruling party in Taiwan from 1949 (when it fled there from...

  34. India and Britain

    The British started to gain power over India during the eighteenth century their influence began when the East India Company established commercial interests in India. The British were able to take control of India mainly because instead of uniting as a whole they were a bunch of separate states. The...

  35. India: a Republic Consisting of 28 States

    India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean...

  36. Health Insurance in India Is in Its Infancy

    Health Insurance in India is in its Infancy Health is a human right, which has also been accepted in the constitution. Health care has always been a problem area for India. Before independence the health structure was in dismal condition with a high morbidity and high mortalities, and prevalence...

  37. Passage to India

    1. Introduction 1.1 The Questions to be Discussed The protagonists of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992) question their identities. Frantz Fanon claims that they go through different phases in order to become something (1993:40-41). This inevitable...

  38. History of Education in India

    attended by students representative of all classes of society. Printed books were introduced in India by 1579.[1] Pre-British schools and colleges were maintained by grants of revenue-free land. The East India Company, with its policy of maximizing land revenue, stopped this and thus starved the Indian...

  39. This Day

    took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement; grey-haired, wearing shorts and a dirty shirt, EXPLANATION: Picture = photo. Bombay = a city in India. The whole poem is about the photo that he took. It starts with him looking at it. A beggar = a bergie, a poor person who lives on the street. Grey-haired...

  40. India

    The economic development in India followed socialist-inspired policies for most of its independent history, including state-ownership of many sectors; India's per capita income increased at only around 1% annualised rate in the three decades after Independence.[1] Since the mid-1980s, India has slowly opened up...

  41. Essays

    here today on the occasion of India's Republic Day. A short while ago, we have heard the speech from our honorable Chief Guest after hoisting the national flag of India. We also got an opportunity to meet and hear the chief guest's speech on the Republic Day topic. We also heard the speech from our School...

  42. Republic

    Republic Day Two events are associated with India’s freedom from colonial rule. One is Independence Day(15th August) and the other, Republic Day (26th January). The former is a historical even when India gained independence in 1947 and freed herself from the foreign yoke after a protracted campaign...

  43. Development During Teenage Years

    The Republic Day of India (Gantantra Divas)is a national holiday of India to mark the transition of India from a British Dominion to a republic on January 26,1950. This is not to be confused with the Independence Day (India)on August 15th. Although India obtained its independence on August 15, 1947...

  44. Characterize the Process of the American Independence [Late Xviii Century]

    Boston dumped tea cargo overboard which led to a punishment in order to demonstrate the Parliament’s supremacy. This act was meant to favor the East India Co. as the Americans were forced to buy from them. Boston [capital of Massachusetts] was punished in order to show the Parliament’s supremacy. When...

  45. india

    India is an agricultural country. About seventy percent of our population depends on agriculture. One-third of our National income comes from agriculture. Our economy is based on agriculture. The development of agriculture has much to do with the economic welfare of our country.Our agriculture remained...

  46. Renaisance in India

    RENAISSANCE IN INDIA’ Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for education and in 1890 went up to King's College, Cambridge. Here he stood in the first class and also passed the final examination for the Indian Civil Service. Returning to India in 1893...

  47. Kavita

    kavita. Although India obtained its independence on August 15, 1947, the Constitution of India came into effect only on January 26, 1950. During the transition period from 1947 to 1950, King George VI was the head of country. C. Rajagopalachari served as the Governor-General of India during this period...

  48. Freedom at Midnight

    is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. It describes the events in the Indian independence movement in 1947-48, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. The authors having interviewed...

  49. the economic of india

    The economy of India is the tenth-largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).he country is one of the G-20 major economies, a member of BRICS and a developing economy that is among the top 20 global traders according to the WTO.[30] India was the 19th-largest...

  50. gandhi

    Gandhi leads civil disobedience On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or...

  51. Speech on Jawaharlal Nehru

    Nehru was born on November 14, 1889 in Allahabad, central India. His father Motilal Nehru was a prominent advocate and early leader of the Indian independence movement. The younger Nehru graduated from Cambridge University, and returned to India in 1912. Over the next thirty years, he rose to become the...

  52. Corruption in India

    Corruption in India Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society since ancient times. History reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan period. Great scholar Kautilya mentions the...

  53. enterprise

    pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience—a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence—Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights...

  54. Is India Really Shining ?

    Is India really shining? In the face of the worldwide economic downturn of 2008, the Indian economy stood strong. Over the period when the old world economic giants like U.S and U.K were struggling to get their economies back on track the demand for consumer goods in India actually went up. The word...

  55. Gandhi the Hero

    Gandhi to stand up for his people and fight for their right, which he was very successful in. By using his non-violent resistance he brought India into independence. Mahatma Gandhi's recognition as a hero can be put forward through the following investigation on the historical context, his contributions...

  56. Subash Chandra Bose

    Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose Born 23 January 1897 Cuttack, Bengal Presidency, British India Died unknown Nationality India Alma mater University of Calcutta Known for Prominent Figure of Indian independence movement Title Head of Azad Hind Political party Indian National Congress, Forward Bloc Religion...

  57. How Did the British Establish Hegemony in India?

    were an Indian living in the 1700’s and heard that an entity by the name of the East India Trading Company was coming to your country would you be suspicious? Of course not, and neither was anybody who lived in India at the time. Little did they know that that very company would go on to rule their country...

  58. China and India Political and Economical Structures

    The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India: Comparing and Contrasting Political and Economic Structures I. Introduction: In a political perspective “The People’s Republic of China” and the “Republic of India” are from diverse dimensions in which China is mostly dominated by the...

  59. Terrorism

    TERRORISM Terrorism is just a word in English, but it is a hazard for mankind. India faces the problems of poverty, population, hunger and literacy. But spread of terrorism is the most frightening of all. Be it in the small countries like Ireland and Israel, or in the big ones life Russia and USA, terrorism...

  60. Hero

    Republic day is a national day. It is observed on 26th January every year, because India, after being an independent country, became a Republic on 26th January 1950. We got political independence in August 1947. But there was no Constitution of India at that time. It took more than two years to frame...