CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS An Italian traveller. He served under the Spanish king as a commander. He discovered America in 1492. America was named as the ‘New World ‘. PARIS TREATY,1763 A proclamation introduced by King George III after the defeat of French by the English. It assured British occupancy over the 13 colonies of America. It […]
Read More »In 1841, Thomas Cook began running a special excursion train from Leicester to Loughborough in England, a trip of 12 miles. On July 5th Cook’s train carried 570 passengers at a round trip price of 1 shilling per passenger. This is believed to be the first publicly advertised excursion train. Thus Cook can rightfully be recognized […]
Read More »Definitions of Tourism In 1941, Hunziker and Krapf defined tourism as “the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel and stay of nonresidents, insofar as they do not lead to permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity.” In 1976, the Tourism Society of England’s definition was “Tourism is the […]
Read More »India is an agricultural country and one third population depends on the agricultural sector directly or indirectly. Agriculture remains as the main stray of the Indian economy since times immemorial. Indian agriculture contribution to the national gross domestic product (GDP) is about 25 per cent. With food being the crowning need of mankind, much emphasis […]
Read More »Agricultural Production –its growth and stagnation The present level of agricultural production is far from satisfactory, for the present as also for the future requirements. The large imports of food grains only till recently and that of non-food grains like edible oils, cotton, etc., at present, pin point not only the need for raising domestic […]
Read More »PEASANT AGITATION IN TANJORE DISTRICT, 1958: Owing to 10 per cent price hike, the peasants of Anaithandavapuram in Mayawaram taluk revolted against mirasdars for higher wages during harvest. The mirasdars conceded to the demands and provided 1¼ marakkals of paddy per kalam35. However, some mirasdars of Tanjore district violated the terms of Tanjore legislation and […]
Read More »The course of events that led to the Telangana peasant struggle can be described as under: The Telangana peasant movement was engineered by Communist party of India (CPI). It is said to be a revolution committed by Communist. The Communist Party started working in Telengana in 1936. Professor N.G. Ranga had laid down the regional […]
Read More »The Santhals were subdued to an extent that they decided to rise against the jamindars, moneylenders and traders. In the beginning, following Permanent Land Settlement, the Santhals in Bihar did not resist much. They even took to limits of retreat and moved towards the borders of the plains of the Ganga at the rents were […]
Read More »Some of the causes of Moplah peasant movement are given below The oeasants of moplah were muslims pesants. Their landlords who were called Jenmis were mostly hindus. the relations between the jenmis and the moplas were historicaaly quite unfriendly. In other words the realtions were both economically and religiously antagonistic. Since 1835 the hindu land […]
Read More »PEASANT AGITATION IN TANJORE DISTRICT, 1958: Tanjore, a district of Madras falls in the Southern-Eastern of India was divided wholly into three broad sets of castes such as Brahman, Non-Brahman, and Adi-Dravida. Among them Brahman secured the highest status. Initially, they were self sufficient with their economic condition. However, some mirasdars of Tanjore district violated […]
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