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August 15, 1947 is the day engraved in gold in the history of India. It is the day when India attained its freedom from the clutches of a long slavery of over 200 years of the British Rule. It was a long and hard struggle in which many freedom fighters and great men laid their lives for our beloved motherland. Mahatma Gandhi led the great non-violence movement against which the Britishers had to finally succumb. The country produced great leaders and patriots like pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Subash Chandra Bose, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Lala Lajpat Rai, Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and Chandra Shekhar Azad. The struggle for Independence was such a moving force that it united all the people belonging to…

This sample essay will help you to write your own essay on the Importance of Land Reforms in India.6 Important points to remember: Essay Introduction Meaning of Land Reforms Need for Land Reforms Measures adopted under Land Reforms Success and Failure of Land Reforms Conclusion Essay Introduction:Though agriculture is the main occupation in India, yet it is backward. Agricultural productivity in India is still low. On the eve of independence the agrarian society was governed by semi-feudal principles. There was unjust system of land tenure which deprives a large number of cultivators, the ownership right. There was Zamindari System in India. The farmers own small pieces of land. Image Source: moneylife.in ADVERTISEMENTS: The problems of fragmentation and uneconomic holdings also cause low productivity. The institutional factors like-the feudal structure of…

Subhash Chandra Bose was one of the greatest freedom fighters of India. He was born on January 23, 1897 at Cuttack in Orissa. His father, Jankinath Bose was a renowned lawyer of the area. His mother, Prabhavati, was a highly learned religiously-minded lady. Subhash Chandra imbibed many of his religious views from her. Some other persons who influenced him greatly were his teacher Beni Prasad Madho, C.R. Das and Swami Vivekananda. He was a very intelligent, precocious, patriotic child with revolutionary ideas in his mind from the very beginning. He did his graduation from the Presidency College in 1919. Later, he appeared and passed the ICS examination only to please his father. But actually his heart was framed for serving his motherland and getting it liberated from the foreign rule.…

The constitution of India says all Indians are equal. Unfortunately reality is contrary to the same.Indian society is inequitable; Discrimination exists within religion, castes and sex. Certain sections of our society are the deprived sections, this cannot be denied by anyone, least by the Government, which is the Apex Body for making policies and can remove disparities ADVERTISEMENTS: At the time of Independence, the makers of the Constitution had rightly envisioned that the deprived section of society needed to be improved through education and employment opportunities.Reservation to the backward classes, scheduled tribes, and scheduled castes was essential in order to bring them at par with the others. It was an attempt to create equality and equity in educational, economic and social areas. However, this affirmative action was to be in…

Essay on Migration to Cities by the Villagers – Culture is another factor. A young man who moves to the city for education would not like to retire to the rural setting to lead a rough and coarse life. Thus, the educated concentrate in the cities only.No temptation from the government regarding higher salaries or other facilities leads the doctor, belonging to a rural family, back to his hearth. For a technocrat there is no option but to be in a city.As there is a craze among the city dwellers to go abroad there is equally great a passion among the rural people to visit cities and live there. In many cases the peaceful tenure of the villages has been lost with increasing insecurity for the rich and perennial feuds…

Begging is prohibited by law in India. But surprisingly, still our country is full of beggars whom we meet wherever we go. We find beggars in streets, outside railway stations, at bus stands, outside temples and other religious places, etc. These beggars may be seen mostly in groups.Sometimes individual men, women and children may also be seen begging. Some beggars are blind or they suffer from some other disability. Now, some efforts are being made by the government to reserve seats for the disabled for employment purposes and to give them other facilities, so that they do not become a burden on society and have not to beg.It is, however, the Indian sentiment of compassion and mercy which keeps many beggars in the dubious profession. People give them alms liberally,…

Eve teasing is a typical social crime. It is the sexual harassment or molestation of women by men.It is prevalent almost everywhere, but in India, especially in the cities; you can’t be a woman and not have been its victim at some point in your life. It ranges in severity from sexually evocative remarks to out-and-out groping.Wherever you go in India, be it the mall, the bus stand, the railway station, the theatre, colleges, schools, if you are a woman you can’t escape it. ADVERTISEMENTS: Many believe that it is the clothing of women that elicits such uncouth behaviour, but the sad truth is that even conservatively dressed Moslem women who wear a burqa over their clothes leaving only the eyes and feet visible are subjected to it.There are different…

In India, the question of independence of the judiciary has been a subject of heated national debate over the last many years. It has exercised the minds of legislators, jurists, politicians and the laymen. Both the supporters and the opponents have cogent arguments in support of their views. This question assumes great importance whenever the Supreme Court holds a particular Act or particular Clause of an Act passed by Parliament ultra virus of the Constitution or whenever Government supersedes any person while making appointments of judges of the High Courts or the Supreme Court.The supporters of absolute independence of the judiciary argue that in the absence of an independent judiciary, democracy cannot succeed. They point out that only an independent judiciary can safeguard the rights of the people as enshrined…

Trains and buses are the main modes of public transport in India. India’s rail network is the longest in the world.All rail operations in India are run by the state- owned company called Indian Railways. For over a century and a half, the Indian Railways has worked hard to make inroads into remote areas in an effort to provide communication.Indian Railways is one of India’s most effective networks which keeps the social, economical, political and cultural labyrinth of the country together. Individual states have their state run buses that help people commute. These buses connect major cities and towns. ADVERTISEMENTS: After the trains, buses are the next choice for travellers. Buses carry more than 90 percent of public transport in Indian cities.Most cities in India have minimal rail transport and…

There is nothing in common between a single-party system and a plural-party system except the name. In democracies the party is a very different thing from the one in a totalitarian State.In the former, the distinction between society and the State remains though “they are kept in connection and interaction”. ADVERTISEMENTS: In the latter, the distinction between the two is blurred or confused by the party, which controls them both alike.In democracies there is a distinction within the State, and the different organs of government are allotted their own spheres of jurisdiction and powers. Democratic parties are an extra-constitutional growth and they are informal and non-governmental organizations. Image Source: letuspublish.comThe political party in a dictatorship is the body of the faithful dedicated to the maintaining of one truth which its…