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| Size and diversity in India |
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India's Constitution states fourteen principal languages
Common Language is English
80% Hindu
12% Muslim
Rest are Sikhs |
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Used to be professions..
Brahmans
Rulers
Merchants
Farmers
Finally there were the untouchables
Have very specific restrictions within the caste |
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| Subcategories within the castes |
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India's average per capita GNP is a bit more than 3,000 per year.
Half of the babies born before 2010 died before reaching age five.
Diet does not meet minimal caloric intake for a healthy life. |
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First Stages were carried out by a private corporation: British East India Company.
August 2, 1858 British Parliament passed the Government of India Act: Transferred all company's powers to the British Crown.
Relied heavily on cooperation of Indian elite.
The secretary of stage was a member of the British cabinet. |
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Self Rule
Discussed by well-educated, upper caste Indians |
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Formed in December 1885
Advocated swaraj
Advocated boycotting
Always won overwhelming majorities in the Lok Sabha
Led by the Nehru family
Currently led by Sonia Nehru |
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| Milestones for India's independence |
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1885 Indian National Congress created
Gandhi 's personal integrity, simple life and political strategy brought the masses of the Indian population into the struggle for independence
Early 1930 Gandhi's salt march
August 15th 1947 India's independence |
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| British Colonialism on Indian Society |
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| Because the independence movement lasted so long there was a strong sense of national identity |
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Came from an upper caste and was educated in England.
Spent twenty years as a lawyer in South Africa
Was a devoted Hindu.
Rejected all forms of violence and advocated non-violent protests |
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Served as India's first Prime Minister
An extremely important part of the independence movement.
Was combining socialist ideas with satyagraha and ahimisa |
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Nehru's Daughter
Authoritarian leadership style
Heavy handed approach to politics
Found guilty of illegal campaign practices however refused to sit down.
Invoked emergency rule, threatening democracy.
Lost to the Janata party.
Assassinated by her own bodyguards.
Ended Congresses role as consensus builder
Centralized power within the party
Strong opposition party. |
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Roots lie with with Hindu Fundamentalism
Extreme positions and thinly veiled racist rhetoric
Strong nationalist streak
paramilitary organizations |
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| Remaining Political Parties |
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Remnants of traditional left: Extremely weak
Regional parties. |
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President:
Can dissolve Parliament
Find/appoint Prime minister if there is a problem with the vote
Veto parliamentary bills
Commander in chief
appoint supreme court justices
appoints governors
Largely ceremonial |
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Lok Sabha
543 members
First past the post, single member constituencies
There are laws against switching parties in India
Weaker than house of commons |
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Rajya Sabha
250 members
twelve are appointed by president to represent artistic and intellectual community
Rest is elected by state legislative assemblies. |
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| India's head of government |
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Head of the majority party or coalition in Lok Sabha
Appoints Council of Ministers
Must be Mps
Invite 12 to 18 to the council |
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