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NCERT textbook controversies. The National Council of Educational Research and Training ( NCERT) is an apex resource organisation set up by the Government of India to assist and advise the central and state governments on academic matters related to school education. The model textbooks published by the council for adoption by school systems ...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. [1] [2] The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. [1] A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017.
The prime minister ranks third in the order of precedence . Top left: Jawaharlal Nehru was the first and the longest-serving prime minister in Indian history. Top center: Indira Gandhi was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister. Top right: Morarji Desai was the first non- Congress prime minister.
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end in 1947 ...
In 1933, it was banned by the British colonial government. [6] 1936. The Face of Mother India. Katherine Mayo. It cannot be imported into India. [3] In 1927, Gandhi wrote a review of the book titled "Drain Inspector Report" which was published in the Young India. [9] 1936.
The Discovery of India was written by the Indian freedom fighter Jawaharlal Nehru (later India's first Prime Minister) during his incarceration in 1942–1945 at Ahmednagar Fort in present-day Indian state of Maharashtra by British colonial authorities before the independence of India. [1] The book was written in 1944 but published in 1946.
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics. Widows of Vidarbha. Categories: Books about India. Books about politics by country. Works about Indian politics. Indian non-fiction books.
e. The Government of India ( IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India [1] and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. The government is led by the prime ...