Revolutionary movements outside India During this period, revolutionary activities and propaganda were conducted Indians settled in abroad especially in the United Kingdom, the USA, France, Afghanistan and Germany. The Indian home rule society, one of the earliest revolutionary societies outside India, was founded by Shyamji Krishna Varma who had settled in London in […]
Read More »Indo-Pak Relations The Mantle of implementing the Tashkent Agreement fell on Prime Minister Indra Gandhi. She took several steps to normalize relations with Pakistan. On 15 August 1968, she offered to sign a “No-War” Pact with Pakistan. She also proposed the creation of a Joint-Machinery for going into the outstanding issues between the two countries. […]
Read More »Shastri’s Successor After the unexpected death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, on 10 Jan, 1966, the search for new successor started. There were 7 aspirants for the post of 2rd Prime Minister – Desai, Indira, Nanda, Chavan, S.K.Patil, Sanjiv Reddy and Kamaraj. Kamaraj for reasons better known to himself he withdrew from the contest. Desai insisted […]
Read More »Prime Ministers in India Narendra Modi – 2014 till date Manmohan Singh – 2004-14 Atal Bihari Vajpayee – 1998-2004 IK Gujral – 1997-98 HD Deve Gowda – 1996-97 AB Vajpayee – 1996 PV Narasimha Rao – 1991-96 Chandra Shekhar – 1990-91 VP Singh – 1989-90 Rajiv Gandhi – 1984-89 Indira Gandhi – 1980-84 Charan Singh […]
Read More »A British civil servant in India, who after his retirement from service in 1822 worked for India’s political claims and is known as the “ Father and Founder” of the INC. Hume was the guiding spirit in the starting years of the INC. He had studied medicine and surgery and was a great naturalist and […]
Read More »Famous Arya Samajist and Extremist leader from the Punjab popularly known as ‘Punjab Kesari’. He started his political carrier by attending the Congress session at Allahabad. He is one of the three pillars of Extremism in India, the other two being B.C.Pal and B.G.Tilak. In 1907, he organised and led a massive Agrarian Movement in […]
Read More »One of the famous trio- Lal, Bal and Pal. B.C.Pal is popularly known as the father of revolutionary thought in India. He started his political career by joining the INC in 1886 and published ‘Paridarsak’, a weekly, and later worked as an assistant editor of the Bengal Public Opinion and The Tribune. Pal was a […]
Read More »Introduction Allan Octavian Hume (A.O.Hume), a restricted British member of Indian Civil Service who had settled at Simla, founded the Indian National Union, the forerunner of Indian Nation Congress in 1884. After touring Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, Hume announced that a conference of the Indian Nationl Union would be held at Pune in December, which […]
Read More »Introduction (Roots of Planning) The roots of planning in India may be traced to Karachi congress resolution (1950), Visvesvaraya Plan (1934), all India National Planning Committee, headed by J.Nehru (1938), the Bombay Plan (1943), People Plan, Gandhian Plan, Advisory Planning Board, chaired by K.C.Neogy and Economic Programme Committee, appointed By AICC (1947). The Planning Commision, […]
Read More »Meaning, ‘Panch Sheel’ was first enunciated in the Sino-Indian treaty on Tibet in April 1954. The Sanskrit term Panch Sheel means ‘five codes of conduct‘. It stands for the following five principles. 1) Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty 2) Mutual non-aggression 3) Mutual non – interference in each other’s internal affairs. […]
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