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Though Sikhs are mainly concentrated in Panjab after the Partition of India in 1947, Delhi has the distinction of having the largest population of Sikhs in any city – nearly one million. As the capital of India, Delhi has been associated with Sikhs since the inception of Sikhism. Five Sikh Gurus – Guru Nanak, Guru Hargobind, Guru Harkrishan, Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed under the orders of the contemporary Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, and Gurudwara Rakabganj, ...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1956 though it actually started functioning under an executive order on 28 December 1953. Its charter was to regulate and control all tertiary level institutions in the country and to determine standards of higher and professional education. From the time the UGC was set up, there has been an exponential growth in the number of higher academic institutions which today employ more ...
The partition of India in 1947 was supposed to be a panacea for the Hindu-Muslim divide which had engulfed India for the preceding 1,000 years. Those who thought so were native. The issue was not territorial dispute but assimilation. Oen belief system, new and aggressive, wanted to establish hegemony over the other and this led to confrontation. The Partition also put a question mark on the loyalty of those Muslims who chose to stay on in ...
This book is a one-man analysis of Indian education and the gaps in our education systemby Dr. Amrik Singh. It focuses on and examines the role of the state governments as the weakest link of Indian education system today. The dimensions of professional education and the mishandling of distance education are also discussed here. This book was released by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and hailed as a pioneering study.