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The purpose of the new education system introduced by Macaulay was to create “a class of persons, Indian in Blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. “The ultimate goal of such an education system was best expressed by Max Mueller in his letter to the Duke of Argyll written on 16th December 1868. Max Mueller wrote, “India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered again, and the second conquest should be a ...
Dr. Ambedkar is an exception among his contemporary thinkers and political leaders as he never compromised with anyone for creating a secular, equitable and just society. He unequivocally opposed the politics of Muslim minority which was based on religious fundamentalism and secessionism as he was straight forward in his fearless attack on the orthodoxy and customary evils of the Hindu society. He, is his book Thoughts on Pakistan written under the backdrop of ...
The 'modern' 'secular' Constitution, on which the Constitutional India functions, is based on the Anglo-Saxon experiences. This Anglo-Saxon constitutional instrumentality that free India had adopted to institute a modern nation-state to govern this ancient nation contained seeds of ideological tensions and conflicts between 'traditional' India and the ‘modern’ India-here ‘modern means what is essentially Western.
This is more than a work of non-fiction. It is a tour de force of Democracy as it gradually transforms from an empowering tool to a millstone around the neck of India’s poorest millions. Nowhere is the phenomenon more distinct than the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. A political formation led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has managed to stay in power there since 1977 without losing an election, whether to the national Parliament or the local ...
This volume presents a collection of some important rulings of the Supreme Court of India on the concepts, thoughts and institutions linked to ancient India and Indian civilization. These rulings bring out the endeavours of constitutionalism in India to acknowledge, understand and recognize the legitimate, yet hidden and unexpressed, urges of ‘traditional’ India. And that is precisely the reason why these rulings of the highest judiciary have been compiled, ...
The Business of Intelligence conjures up images of mysterious, perilous activity, shrouded in secrecy, deception and high politics. But only a few can lay claim to knowing its inner workings or dangers. Fewer yet are aware of the back-breaking monotony of sifting through masses of reports to unearth that one vital clue that makes the tapestry of an analysis invaluable to policy makers, diplomats, political leaders, scientists, the media and hundreds of other ...