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Chittorgarh remains replete with historic associations and holds a very special place in the hearts of Rajputs, as it was a bastion of the clan at a time when every other stronghold had succumbed to invasion. It is often called as the "Bhakti aur Shakti ki nagari" (land of devotion and strength). The first, Meera Bai, is the most famous female Hindu spiritual poet, whose compositions are still popular throughout North India. The saga of Rani Padmini and ...
Maj Gen M Z Kiani was officer in 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment under Britishers. He won Sword of Honour and Gold Medal for the most outstanding Cadet in 1935 from Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. But he left all to join I.N.A under Netaji. He was Chief of General Staff under General Mohan Singh of I.N.A. He chose to move over in Pakistan after Partition in 1947 and wrote this book from there. This was published after his death through Maj. Gen. Chand ...
This book tries to bring to public domain an analysis of the role of Planning commission when continuation of same is under stake and preparation of fasten the same has already been under process. At the time when government is talking about cooperative federalism and state participation, this book helps students to understand development strategy adopted by India and the methodology followed to implement the same. It is pertinent to study same before adopting ...
This book attempts to examine the important issues concerning human rights of the adopted girl child in India. Providing insight into the socio-economic status of adoptive couples, it presents a critical assessment of the procedure of adoption and the role of adoption agencies in completing the socio-legal formalities of adoption.
Exploring the psychological, social and legal factors related to the adoption of girl child in India, it tries to find out the ...
America, with its nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the world several times over, could not defend itself against the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, that paralyzed the nation. The erstwhile Soviet Union, another superpower with equal quantity of nuclear weapons, could not survive the crisis that splintered it into several countries. India, instead of becoming more powerful by declaring itself a nuclear weapon state after the 1998 tests, has been ...
The tactical, strategic and ultimate objectives of the terrorist groups are achieved either by conventional or unconventional form of terrorism or violence. Terrorists or terrorist-outfits have now started shifting from conventional to mass destruction violence or unconventional form of terrorism, which includes the use of chemical, nuclear or/and biological weapons, the most heinous type of werfare. The perpetrators of violence seem to have assumed that ...
It is not often that one comes across an international mystery thriller at the highest level of world leaders, a sort of super-who-dunnit in this case featuring, President Soekarno of Indonesia Prime Minister Nehru of India and Chou-en Lai of Communist China in the dastardly act of mass murder. The incident is the act of sabotage that caused the crash of the chartered Air-India International Super-Constellation, the Kashmir Princes, carrying a party of Communist ...
Gandhian phase of national movement offered to the people a number of constructive programmes and political movements. The success of these programmes and movements depended on politicization and mobilization of the masses. In communicating and propagating the political ideas of the nationalist leaders to the masses the nationalist intelligentsia of Andhra played an effective and remarkable role. They were influenced by the Gandhian ideology and political ...
Can war be taught? Does its nature allow it to be taught? Are basic questions which all those engaged in the profession of wars have to ponder. With the exception of the common denominator: the man, no two wars have been the same. Inspite of its variable nature war schools have flourished. Foch then a lieutenant colonel discussed some theorms or principles of war in a series of lectures at the French Staff College in the early years of the present century. These ...
The Indian epic Ramayana contains the description of an aircraft known as "Pushpak Vimana" in which Lord Rama returned to his Kingdom at Ayodhya by travelling by air from Lanka, after winning the war and destroying the demon King Ravana. This may be a myth but a myth is a result of the human thought fossils because they teach us in allegories and symbols the story of cultures and civilisations that preceded ours. Apparently, the present day aviation is ...
Agrarian relations in Kerala have displayed a number of interesting features for a long time. Studies on how the institutional structure actually affects agrarian relations are relatively scarce in India. Agrarian relation not only refers to a pattern of relationship in which men are related to land merely by ownership of tenancy basis, but also it refers to the entire frame of work of relations in the historically designed land system with its subsequent changes ...
The present study is an in-depth, micro-level anthropological demographic study of a 'tribal group' namely the Chenchus, a fast transforming hunting and food gathering peoples inhabiting South India. Using ethnographic approach, the author describes the fertility bheaviour of the Chenchus by blending quantitative demographic information and qualitative socio-cultural information. The process of reproduction, conceptually conceived under four consecutive stages, ...