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  • India's Caste System
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    A Class vs. a Caste System In any country's history, a high stage of social development is reached only when the main social divisions are formed. "The caste system penetrates the Hindu society to a level unknown elsewhere. It plays some part in other civilizations but in India it has invaded the whole. It is in this sense that we may speak of the caste system as a phenomenon peculiar to India" (Pocock 27). The class system of the United States and the caste system of India share common characte...
  • Gandhi's Preachings Of Non Violence And Riots
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    Gandhi On October 2, 1869, the "little brown saint" was brought into the world; during this time India was under the British monarchy. During his early years he did not show the signs of developing into the great leader that he eventually became but nevertheless Gandhi aspired to be a lawyer, follow in the footsteps of his father and become a respected member of the community. Throughout his life Gandhi fought against colour prejudice, promoted religious harmony and toiled laboriously to gain in...
  • Sarojini Naidu
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    Sarojini Naidu was one of the most prominent leaders of India's freedom struggle. Born on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad, Sarojini was the eldest daughter of Varasundari and Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, who was a scientist and founder-principal of Nizam College of Hyderabad. Her mother Varasundari was a Bengali poetess. Sarojini's father aspired for her to become a mathematician or scientist, but young Sarojini was drawn towards poetry from a very early age. Seeing her flair for poetry, her fat...
  • Dowry And Position Of Women In India
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    Dowry Culture is the enduring behavior ideas attitudes and tradition shared by a large group of people and transmit it to one generation to the next. India is one of those countries that has strong influence by culture. The custom of dowry, long entrenched in India's male dominant society, has attained alarming proportions during the last few decades. There is hardly a day when the cries of dowry victims are not echoed by the media. One day we read that the bride was burned to death as she faile...
  • Disinvestment Of Public Sector Undertakings In India
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    DISINVESTMENT OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS IN INDIA TODAY THE RUSSIAN ECONOMIC MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT CONNOTED THROUGH THE RUSSIAN FUR DOES NOT EXIST. TODAY THE CHINESE ECONOMIC MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT CONNOTED THROUGH THE MAO SUIT DOES NOT EXIST. Margaret Thatcher disrobed them. The concept of the GOLDEN STRAIGHT JACKET is avowed, to whether it were the Democrats or the Republicans, the Conservatives or the Laborites, the BJP or the Congress. The concept of the golden straight jacket has been embra...
  • Costs To Your Company's Investment In India
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    We believe the single greatest risk of doing business in India is its bureaucracy. The Indian bureaucracy is often referred to as "babu dom". An Indian bureaucrat is often referred to as a "babu". Today, babu may also mean "Sir" or "Mr". The babu dom was formed after India gained independence from Britain. It employs many more people than necessary and it is highly unproductive. Each geographic region of the babu dom requires specific government permissions and taxes. Making progress in the babu...
  • South West Monsoon
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    I would like to present to you the country of India. A country one-third the area of the United States (total land mass is 2,973,190 sq. kilometers) borders China on the northeast, Pakistan on the west, Nepal and Blut an to the north, and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. It is divided into three categorical geographic regions: the Gangetic Plain, the plateau region in the south, the Himalayan region in the north, which contains some of the highest mountains in the world and a central part. Indi...
  • India Pakistan Cross Border Terrorism
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    India's foreign minister said Wednesday that Pakistan must take urgent steps to halt cross-border terrorism and rein in Islamic insurgents in Kashmir. Jas want Singh said that Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had been given enough time to fulfill his pledges to halt terrorism by militants operating from Pakistani soil. ' It is vital that he recognizes the urgency of the situation,' Singh told reporters at a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. 'India has wait...
  • 1502 Vasco Da Gama
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    Vasco da Gama was born in Portugal in 1469. Vasco de Gama is famous for his achievement of the first all water trade way between Europe and India. On July 8, 1497 he and his crew planned and equipped four ships. Da Gama set out from Lisbon, Portugal, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed north. Da Gama made various stops along the coast of Africa and from Malinda, he was accompanied the rest of the way to India by Indian Muslim's famous pilot. Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, India on May 2...
  • Forster's A Passage To India
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    A Passage to India - Hindu Influence Several different literary elements work in tandem to produce the magic seen in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Because this novel was presented to the world less than a decade after World War I, the fantastic and exotic stories of India seized the attention of the relatively provincial society of the day, and the novel's detailed presentation of Hinduism certainly excited the imaginations of thousands of readers. Benita Parry supports this assertion when ...
  • Air Deccan's Inaugural Flight
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    But a year later, at the age of 52, Gopinath began service in south India with a leased 48-s eater, $10 million in investment and a conviction that India's burgeoning middle class, which was already buying color TVs and cell phones, would buy air tickets. Barely two years into its operation the no-frills airline, Air Deccan, has grown from one aircraft to 19 and from one daily flight to 123. It has placed a $1.1 billion order with Airbus and will get an aircraft a month for the next 64 months. I...
  • Third Largest Religion In India
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    India has a great number of different people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. As a result of this, India's religions are just as numerous. Besides having nearly all the world's great religions represented, India was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism (Finlay et al. 1993). The ratio of the religions in India are: five in six Indians practice Hinduism, one in nine practice Islam, one in forty practice Christianity, one in fifty practice Sikhism, one in one hundred forty five practic...
  • Foreign Outsourcing Company
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    As the United States is continually seeing a sluggish economy, many corporations are seeking ways to help the bottom line. Within the software development industry, many companies are taking advantage of the world economy and the emergence of highly technical third world countries like India and Pakistan. At this time, outsourcing in India has become the rage of the industry and many of the U.S. based software companies. According to Cyber India Online Limited, companies like IBM, Dell, GE and M...
  • India Enron
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    Why do you think Enron was willing to shoulder the risk of making such a significant investment in India? What long run benefits did the company forse e? Do you think these benefits compensated for the risks involved? India is a developing country with an underdeveloped economy. Since independence in 1947 India had a number of restrictions on foreign investments and it imposed number of trade barriers in the form of high import duties. However by the 90's India opened its doors to foreign invest...
  • Political Environment Of International Marketing
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    Introduction Liberi sation in India provides enormous opportunities for western firms. India has a relatively well-developed infrastructure, distribution channels and a well-trained and educated workforce "After decades of isolation and restrictions on FDI, in 1991, India opened its economy to foreign firms and investors. The government and local businessmen were convinced that the Indian economy must be integrated into the rest of the world" (Cavusgil, Ghauri, Agarwal, 2002) This assignment is ...
  • Market Leader In India Reliance
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    RELIANCE India's No. 1 Business Group Founded as a textile mill in 1966 by Dhirubhai H. Ambani, the Chairman of the Reliance group, Reliance continued to be a textile company until early 1980's. However, seizing the opportunities emanating from the growing Indian economy as well as the opening up of the regulation-driven sectors of the economy such as petrochemicals, plastics etc., Reliance pursued the policy of backward integration from textiles as well as diversification from the early 1980's ...
  • Independence Of India From The British
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    Describe the different approaches used by M.K. Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh to rid their respective countries from the political control of Western nations. Explain how and why each was motivated to follow very different paths to the same goal. Mohandas Gandhi, born in 1869, was a man who saw himself as a moral teacher in the quest for religiosity and truth. He led the independence of India from the British. The British had controlled India politically and economically for nearly 200 years. Gandhi was...
  • Large Obstacle For The Indian Constitution
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    A constitution introduces the rules of politics and government in order to try and guarantee fair competition. It establishes the framework under which a country is governed by specifying the organisation of government, the limits to how much power the state holds, and introduces basic laws for the country. Essentially, a constitution attempts to strike a balance between the authority of the state and the freedom of it's citizens. India struggled to gain independence for a long period and the lo...
  • India Without Majority Ownership By Indian Citizens
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    INDIA IS A LAND of ancient civilization, with cities and villages, cultivated fields, and great works of art dating back 4,000 years. India's high population density and variety of social, economic, and cultural configurations are the products of a long process of regional expansion. In the last decade of the twentieth century, such expansion has led to the rapid erosion of India's forest and wilderness areas in the face of ever-increasing demands for resources and gigantic population pressures ...
  • Ronny Moore As A Symbol Of England
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    E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is a foreshadowing of the needed changes that are about to take over pre-liberation India. The social climate is tense, and Forster depicts the precarious political environments by using pivotal characters to represent the individual parties. If pre-liberation India is the society, then Ronny Moore represents colonial England, Dr. Aziz is India and Mrs. Moore is the salt of the Earth. Ronny Moore illustrates the problematic Colonialist in pre-liberation India. T...

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