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    Indian Railways

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    Indian Railways (Hindi: भारतीय रेल Bhāratīya Rail), abbreviated as IR (Hindi: भा.रे.), is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has more than 64,015 kilometres (39,777 mi)[5] of track and 6,909 stations. It has the world's fourth largest railway network after that of the United States, Russia and China.[5] The railways traverse the length and breadth

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    The paper presents the current situation of the people of Kashmir. It is the study ofShahnaz Bashir’s- The Half Mother. The novels satirize the political and bureaucratic system, India’s tyrannical role and the Military oppression in Kashmir. The title of the paper is The Sufferings and Struggle of a Mother (Haleema) for her Disappeared Son (Imran) - In Shahnaz Bashir’s- Half Mother. Kashmir is a very beautiful place and was a princely state up to 1953 with its own prime minister. It is why Kashmir

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    Valeriya Borissova A level Essay Compare and Contrast Southwest Asia & South Asia Southwest Asia and South Asia in some ways there similar and in some different. I compare this places. Physical Geography. Southwest Asia includes Arabian Peninsula , Syrian-Palestinian mountains, plains of Mesopotamia. The peculiarity of the geological structure African platform. Red Sea and Syrian graben deeply lowered the northern section of the

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    MAHĀBHĀRATA: The Epic of India

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    in English, vernacular, or any other language are the dominant literary medium mostly in Mainstream Culture to know about Mahābhārata – and one might add with this the medium of scholarly writings on Mahābhārata too. As such, firsthand approach to Indian tradition is lacking at large, and the idea of tradition being through the media of interpretative tradition has engendered the danger of a distorted view of tradition. The distortion often swings between two extremes – either in viewing tradition

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    with the rest of the world * Indian government auto policy aimed at promoting an integrated, phased and conductive growth of the Indian automobile industry. * Allowing automatic approval for foreign equity investment up to 100% with no minimum investment criteria. * Establish an international hub for manufacturing small, affordable passenger cars as well as tractor and two wheelers. * Ensure a balanced transition to open trade at minimal risk to the Indian economy and local industry.

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    Melting Pot Of India

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    Hindu. It is located on the southern subcontinent of Asia. India shares borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, and Bangladesh. India has not always been on the greatest terms with some of the neighboring countries which have led to four different armed conflicts. It has a population of approximately 1.34 billion people. One-third of the land mass that makes up India is coastline. 1858 would mark both a political and economic unification of the subcontinent by the British. The Indo-Pakistan

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    Indian Writing in English

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    Introduction Indian writing in English has a comparatively short but highly stimulating history. In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote conceivably the first book by an Indian in English, called The ‘Travels of Dean Mahomed’. However, most early Indian writing in English was non-fictional work, such as biographies and political essays. This began to change in the late 1800s, when famous Indian authors who wrote mostly in their mother tongue, began to try

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    CULTURE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Name Class Date This paper posits to discuss in detail the impact of Gandhi and his style of mobilization on the policies and culture of the Indian Subcontinent. Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India. His father was an administrator in Porbandar, while his mother was a devout religious personality. Mahatma Gandhi is generally regarded to be the Father of the modern Indian nation, on account

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    Mahatma Gandhi

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    .THE IMPACT OF GANDHI AND HIS STYLE OF MOBILIZATION ON THE POLICIES AND CULTURE OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Shanice Crawford December 20, 2017 This paper posits to discuss in detail the impact of Gandhi and his style of mobilization on the policies and culture of the Indian Subcontinent. Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India. His father was an administrator in Porbandar, while his mother was a devout religious

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    Mahatma Gandhi Swadeshi

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    culture of the Indian Subcontinent. Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948), was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India. His father was an administrator in Porbandar, while his mother was a devout religious personality. Mahatma Gandhi is generally regarded to be the Father of the modern Indian nation, on account of his role in shaping its modern history. Gandhi, an accomplished lawyer and human rights campaigner, initially in South Africa, made his debut into the Indian political

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