India Becoming By Akash Kapur

This book shows that if the Indian culture is one of the oldest and richest cultures, it has a long shaped history and an ancient heritage. However, is now being impacted by westernization and everything is slowly changing and is becoming western example goods, festivals, dressings, foods etc., it is impacting on the Indian culture in many ways. The western culture is that it is replacing itself with the Indian

India is the world's most populous nation. It has over a billion and a half people. India's fastest growing state is, Arunachal Pradesh. Its population is 177 million, is crammed into an area the size of colorado. Every 3 years its numbers go up by another 3 million. Its fertility has gone from an average of 6 children per woman to 3. It offers hope that

India’s path to the modern world differed from that of most countries. They had a much harder time reaching the democratic positions of countries such as Britain and Japan for multiple reasons. These reasons included the traditional frame of mind which persisted into the 19th century, and to a degree still persists nowadays. Another difference between India’s path and Britain or Japan’s path to the modern world is the role imperialism has played in India’s economics and politics. The final aspect that separates India from Britain and Japan is the role that the peasants played in this transition. All of these aspects played a part in India’s road to the modern world, and each one plays a role in the type of modern society which India has today.

In this essay I will be discussing the impact that the rule of the British Empire had on India’s development as a nation. I will be looking at how British imperial rule both benefitted and hindered the growth of India economically, socially, and culturally. To do this I will be looking at the beginning of the British Empire’s involvement in India, right up until India gained its independence from Britain on the 15th of August 1947. The purpose of this essay is to examine the long lasting effects of the British Empire on the Indian nation. India, like all colonies, was affected in many ways by the age of imperialism, and those effects are still evident today. The essay will look at both sides of the argument, allowing for positive and negative effects before finally concluding with a summary and re iteration of the points and arguments made throughout the essay. The essay will avoid taking sides, but rather the aim is to merely give an account of the positive and negative effects of British imperialism in India. The essay as previously mentioned will focus on the economic, cultural, and social effects.

China and India share many identities. They are two of the oldest civilizations. Both countries have a complicated relationship with the West because of imperialism. Currently, China has the largest population at around 1.4 billion people. India’s population is likely to succeed China in the coming future. The enormous labor force of China and India has allowed them to

First of all, this followed a period of more indirect political control from the British East India Company that was established progressively, starting in Bengal around 1757. (Banerjee, A., & Iyer, L.2005)For the period of this time, the Indian subcontinent experienced an amount of momentous structural changes to its economic and political schemes. Even though many of these procedures were legitimately transported to an end upon independence in August 1947, it is apparent that the prolonged period of overseas control had influences that insist in contemporary India. The effects of the British raj are methodically recognized and their legacies for India’s growth. As India was divided into a number of states after independence, the focus will be on what is now the

Rare are the moments in history when a nation suddenly captures the imagination of the world. For India, those rare moments have arrived. The country is achieving a high economic growth of over 8 per cent of its GDP annually, on a consistent basis.

In addition to being one of the most populous nations in the world, India is one of the

Indian culture and society experienced drastic changes during the middle of the twentieth century. The country experienced rapid development of its urban centers, agrarian lifestyles were replaced by commercialized industries, and old social norms were replaced by new, British-influenced values. Many of those changes are depicted in Kamala Markandaya’s 1954 novel, Nectar in a Sieve. Written only seven years after India achieved independence, Markandaya’s novel chronicles the life of Rukmani, the book’s narrator. Rukmani recounts the story of her marriage, the lives of her children, and the hardships she endures in life, which include the death of her husband and the deaths of several of her children. This essay will discuss the impacts of modernity on Indian culture and society in the middle of the twentieth century, and it will show how these impacts were depicted in Markandaya’s novel. Ultimately, Markandaya’s novel shows how rapid changes in Indian culture and society caused serious challenges for many Indians and forced many Indians to abandon traditional lifestyles.

The Indian society is divided into three classes: lower class, middle class and upper class (Driver and Driver, 1987). According to Beteille (2001, cited in Mawdsley, 2004), the economy driver, as well as the major consumer group in India is the middle class, which is driving the economy towards success and development. Furthermore, referred to Misra (1961), the number of the middle class has been increased explosively during the last decade and the characteristic in India is its diversity in terms of language, religion and caste. In other words, India has the most diversity of middle class in the world through calculation (ibid). To the constraints on growth and distribution of wealthy part, firstly, the faster agricultural development can raise the overall rate of growth. Secondly, the distribution of income in industry and agriculture can affect the growth rate through its effect on demand and consequent have effect on industrial investment (Dutt and Rao, 1996).

Highlight and assess Gandhi’s critique of “modern civilization” and relate it to the debate about the nature and practice of development that surfaced with Gandhi’s 1945 exchange with Nehru [in Sudhir Chandra’s essay] and continue into the post-independence era is with us today.

India is a very fast developing country in the world, one of the fastest. India also has the fastest growing economy in the world (Beck). But at the same time there are several problems yet today in Modern India which is affecting the development and growth of the country. The social problems in India today have their roots in the diversity of religion, language, and culture. There were many people to have huge attachment to one’s region, language, religion and when these attachments grow to an crazy extreme level they create intolerance for other religions, languages, problems are bound to rise. So many cases of tragedy such as peaceful protests, riots and poverty has shaped the outcome of what India has become today.

The country of India has been home to some of the brightest and most influential people to ever walk this planet. However, they are still an ever evolving and developing country finding its footing in establishing themselves as a global power as well as developing internally. Many domestic problem exist, having grown and evolved from the foundation of India. Their issues consist of gender inequality, religious intolerance, economics, international relations, as well as corruption. Those are only some of the many problems which they face. As with many developing countries, India has a predominant issue when it comes to poverty. In August of 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, wrote the national document, “A Tryst with Destiny”. In the document he states, “The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavor?...to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity...which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.” To put the idea in perspective, it was written sixty-eight years ago at a transitional point in the countries history when they were granted freedom and independence from the oppressive rule of Great Britain. In this address, Nehru set forth his rule with many lofty goals that have yet to come to fruition. While it can’t have been expected that all these goal would be fulfilled, Nehru showed the country where they need to go in order to prosper into a great nation. This was

The "Beginnings" and "The Power of Ideas" are the first two episodes of the video series produced by Michael Wood in the story of India. The first episode "Beginnings" video series traces those who are rich and the diversity of the peoples, culture as well as landscapes while the second episode "The Power of Ideas" tries to look at the power of ideas related to Indian history that includes Buddhism. In the first episode, we can see Michael Wood travelling across the subcontinent while tracing for the richness and diversity of its peoples, culture and also landscapes.

Our Indian society is far better than the rest of the universe from the point of view of culture as well as conventions and ways of living but on the other side, if we glance into our society, it has many social and political and economical evils such as bride burning, dowry system and dowry death, corruption in educational system, problem of illiteracy in India, domestic violence, communalism, injustice, crime against children, unemployment in India, suppression of human rights, poverty. Some of the problems have been cast off from its core by the social propaganda and social awareness and education and there are still such unanswerable problems