Free Essays on India Before Independence

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Poltics in India

    far. It was only a change in the Colonial masters – from the British to the Bengal Raj – where exploitation and subjugation was many-fold worse than before. Which result the series of demand varies from time to time. Protest of different forms and dimension has been witnessed throughout the 20th century...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. Democracy in India

    | |are the facts? Were relations between the church and locals all hunky-dory before the arrival of the Bajrang Dal a few decades | |back? Will the problem disappear if the Sangh is exiled from the country? Are the allegations against...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. Cripps in India

    Cripps mission to India was maybe predestined to failure from many directions. As R. J. Moore in his post mortem of the Cripps mission concludes, ‘the mission was crushed by the monolithic millstones of Churchillian Conservatism and Congress nationalism’ [16]. The mission was to bring India and her resources...

  18. 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...

  19. Space Program and Business in India

    Space Program and Business in India – Legal Perspectives Shashi Sharma* Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..1 I. The National Space Program of India………………………………………………. 2 A. Background …………………………………………………………………… 2 B. International treaties and agreements applicability...

  20. 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 ...

  21. 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...

  22. 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...

  23. Forestry in India

    Forestry in India is a significant rural industry and a major environmental issue. Dense forests once covered India. As of 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates world's forest cover to be about 68 dollar area, or about 20 % of the continent's area. In quantity terms...

  24. 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...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. 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...

  30. 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...

  31. Memories of Independence Day

    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 of the tricolor...

  32. 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...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  35. 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...

  36. 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...

  37. 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...

  38. 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...

  39. Essays

    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 / College...

  40. 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...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. Republic

    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 for freedom, whereas the latter bestowed historicity on the day when India became...

  47. 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...

  48. 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...

  49. The Objective Resolutions 1949

    Assignment No.3 Fall 2008(Total Marks 10) Deadline Your Assignment must be uploaded / submitted before or on 2nd January, 2009 (STUDENTS ARE STRICLY DIRECTED TO SUBMIT THEIR ASSIGNMENTS BEFORE OR BY DUE DATE. NO ASSIGNMENT AFTER DUE DATE WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA E.MAIL). Uploading instructions ...

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

    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 generation finding viable altenatives. Whereas Countries like Brazil are...

  51. NJAC bill- Executive Vs Judiciary

    (NJAC) Proposed NJAC Bill The NJAC will replace the Collegium system. The NJAC will consist of 6 members: Chief Justice of India, two Supreme Court Judges, Law Minister of India, two eminent persons. • The two eminent persons will be appointed by CJI, Prime Minister and the leader of Opposition. (One...

  52. 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 of the national flag, and parades by the armed forces and school children all over the country. The largest...

  53. Gandi

    approach to British rule won independence for India, he was then assassinated by a religious fanatic. He studied law at University College in London. Students weren't very fond of him just because he was Indian. Gandhi declared that he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law...

  54. Yuis7Yuahrt7Uy

    far. It was only a change in the Colonial masters – from the British to the Bengal Raj – where exploitation and subjugation was many-fold worse than before. Which result the series of demand varies from time to time. Protest of different forms and dimension has been witnessed throughout the 20th century...

  55. How Does the India of 2025 Look Like: Socially, Politically, and Economically 

    How does the India of 2025 look like: Socially, Politically, and Economically  Political – India has seen coalition governments in past 2 decades and this trend will more or less continue in 2025 also. Being such a diverse country, regional parties are bound to get strong and the difference between...

  56. Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

    Muhammad Ali Jinnah Urdu: محمد علی جناح (help·info) (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was a Pakistani politician and leader of the All India Muslim League who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General. He is officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam (Urdu: قائد اعظم — "Great...

  57. mr xxx

    early 1900s until independence in 1960s. During the World War I, KAR’s expansion saw their unit strength being brought to the same number as British and Indian Army Imperial Service units. Indian Army Did you know that the Indian Army initially originated from the armies of East India Company, which...

  58. The Defining Force of Life

    western education and was trained in the law. Before political life became his primary concern, Jinnah served as a barrister in Bombay, and had a successful law practice in London. Before 1937, Jinnah opposed the idea of partition in favor of a unified India. The provincial elections of 1937 and the...

  59. Greenpeace

    Letters to Editor Unnatural disaster Sir — Though many parts of India are hit by devastating floods every year, nothing worthwhile is done to prevent such periodic occurrences. Given the fact that neighbouring states like West Bengal and Orissa suffer floods regularly, the Bihar government should...

  60. English Studies in India

    ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA: THE CRITICAL MOMENTS Rekha Pappu The investigation of the scope of English Studies within the matrix of a larger crisis that of higher education and the question- How English studies in India understands itself in such a situation is posed by the author Rekha Pappu....