Introduction: The present village Panchayat is a kind of local self-Government. The system has three objects. One is to make the villagers better habituated with the exercise of franchise.The second is to relieve the Government from the details of the local affairs. The third is to let the people manage their own affairs. Old system of the Village Panchayat and it decay: In the pretty old time there were village Panchayats in India. They were very powerful organizations. They were
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5 FAIR PLA Y PLAY (Justice1 knows neither friendship nor enmity. Jumman Sheikh and Algu Chowdhary act as head men on two occasions. How do they maintain the dignity2 of their role as judges? Read and find out.) Jumman Sheikh and Algu Chowdhary were good friends. So strong was their bond3 of friendship that when either of them went away from the village‚ the other looked after his family. Both were greatly respected in the village. Jumman had an old aunt who had some property. This she transferred
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Mulk Raj Anand was a distinguished writer‚ critic‚ editor‚ journalist and political activist. Born into the Kshatriya (warrior) caste in the Punjabi city of Peshawar‚ he was educated at cantonment schools before completing a degree at the University of Punjab‚ Amritsar‚ where his involvement in the 1921 Civil Disobedience campaign against the British resulted in a short period of imprisonment. He was just nineteen years old when he left India for England on a scholarship to mark the silver wedding
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right use it to show that the Congress has been anti-national from the beginning All agree that the manner of its birth affected the basic character and future work of the Congress in a crucial manner Young India by Extremist leader Lala Lajpat Raj * Used ‘safety valve’ theory to attack the Moderates in the Congress * Suggested Congress ‘was a product of Lord Dufferin’s brain’ * Argued that ‘the Congress was started more with the object of saving the British Empire from danger than
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The British Raj was the rule of the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. Raj is the term used when the British government stopped the Sepoy Rebellion and took control of India during the reign of Queen Victoria. Back then India wasn’t a nation it was divided into various parts which where governed by different kingdoms and different rulers‚ even if they had the same language. But just some of the kingdoms where actually powerful‚ and the ones that had it where excelled
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CONTRIBUTION OF MULK RAJ ANAND. “If Indo-Anglian novel as secured a place of prestige‚ it is mainly the result of the of the contribution of the leading writers like Anand‚ Narayan and Raja Rao. Each of them has contributed in his own way to the rich thought and technique of the poem. If Raja Rao has virtually ‘indianized’ English in his narrative‚ Narayan forte is his genial ironic comedy‚ whereas Anand’s strength lies in the pathos of the lives of his characters.” Mulk Raj Anand was born in
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Did the Indian Mutiny of 1857 create the British Raj? The Indian Rebellion of 1857‚ which was also called the Indian Mutiny‚ or the War of Independence was a turning point in the history of Britain in India. However‚ whether this lead to the formation of the British Raj‚ will be explicitly explored in this essay. The East India Company traded in cotton‚ silk‚ tea and opium. They won over Bengal after gaining victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757‚ under Robert Clive. The East India Company
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Critical Analysis The story ‘The Lost Child’ is very emotional. The author Mulk Raj Anand has brought before us the bustling and fervent movements during the festive season in a village. The setting is a village street where the seasonal fair was going on during spring with groves and flowering mustard field near the street. The story dates back sometime before the contemporary period. There were people riding on horses on roads and others sitting and carried in the bamboo and bullock carts.
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INTRODUCTION The present village Panchayat is a kind of local self-Government. The system has three objects. One is to make the villagers better habituated with the exercise of franchise. The second is to relieve the Government from the details of the local affairs. The third is to let the people manage their own affairs. The Panchayat system has been integral part of the Indian village system through ages. A village is self contained microcosm‚ a composite peasant society representing different
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ikB&11 foæksg vkSj jkt 1857 dk vkanksyu vkSj mlds O;k[;ku Rebels and the Raj (1857 revolt and its Representation) 1. Why did the Indian think during British period that their religion was in danger? Ans. (i) Conservative Indians were angered by the various social reforms initiated by the British. The abolition of sati‚ legalizing of widow remarriages were regarded as unwanted interference in Indian Social. 2. (ii) Indian sentiments were also hurt by the Christian Missionaries. (iii) In 1850
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