The League of Nations
What is League of Nations? The League of Nations was an international organization founded after World War I in order to promote...
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The Economic Drain in India
Introduction Economic drain was a term used during British rule in India to describe the loss of wealth from India to Britain. This was...
Rise of Nationalism In India
Introduction Nationalism in India during the colonial period was a political and cultural movement that sought to promote a sense of...
Commercialisation of Agriculture: Colonial Period
Introduction During the colonial period, the commercialization of Indian agriculture was driven primarily by the needs and interests of...
Non Cooperation Movement
Introduction Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good -Mahatma Gandhi The Non-Cooperation Movement was...
The New Imperialism
Introduction From the second half of the 19th century to the start of World War I in 1914, there was a time of increased imperialistic...
Revolutionary Nationalism
Introduction The ultimate object of the revolutionaries is not terrorism but revolution and the purpose of the revolution is to install a...
Plague-Black Death
Introduction Plague is a contagious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. This is a zoonotic bacteria, which means it can be...
Wahhabi Movement
Introduction Saiyid Ahmad of Rai Bareilly was founder of Wahabi Movement in India.He was influenced by the teaching of Abdul Wahab of...
Syed Ahmed Khan
Introduction Syed Ahmed Khan's political ideas can be split into two phases: the first phase, which lasted until 1887, and the second...
Bhoodan Movement: Bloodless Revolution
Introduction Acharya Vinoba Bhave had been seeing the disintegration of India's economy, the precarious status of the country's...
Gram Nyayalyas
In its 114th Report, the Law Commission of India proposed the establishment of Gram Nyayalayas to provide citizens with inexpensive and...
What is Sarvodaya?
“The good of the individual is contained in the welfare of all.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi Introduction Sarvodaya is a Sanskrit phrase that means...
Gandhi's idea of Trusteeship
Introduction Gandhi believed that God is the owner of all wealth and the material universe. According to him, wealth does not 'belong' to...
Social and Cultural Policy of British in India
Introduction Until 1813, the British maintained a policy of non-interference in the country's social, religious, and cultural life....
Sri Aurobindo
“What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice, and opinion.” ― Sri Aurobindo Introduction Sri...
Socio-Religious Movement
At the turn of the nineteenth century, some enlightened parts of Indian society gave birth to a new vision—a modern vision. This...
Indian Renaissance and Women
Introduction The reformers faced formidable obstacles. Women were historically granted a low standing and were viewed as inferior to men,...
Quit India Movement
Introduction: The Quit India Movement has rightly been described as the most massive anti-imperialist struggle. In 1942, the year that...
Women and Indian Freedom Struggle
Indian society represented a conflicting position of women vacillating between patriarchal and matriarchal extremes. While Sati - the...
Extremists
Indian freedom struggle can be subdivided into three phases. The first phase is the moderate phase which as the name suggests was...
The Moderates
History & Background The Moderates, also known as 'Early Nationalists,' were a group of political figures that initiated India's first...
Popular Uprisings During British India
The Sanyasi Rebellion, 1763-1800 In the second half of the eighteenth century, the East India Company's official correspondence...
Theosophical Society
Introduction The Theosophical Society was founded in late 1875 in New York City by a Russian noblewoman, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and...
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