How Government of India Act, 1935 helped in drafting the Constitution for Independent India?
QUES . It would have been difficult for the Constituent Assembly to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India in just three years,…
Gandhi and Dalits : Works, Impacts and Criticisms
Gandhi is known both as the leader of anti-colonial nationalism and also as champion of oppressed and marginalized people like Dalits in India. However, Gandhi’s engagement with…
Gandhi and Ambedkar : common goal of amelioration of the downtrodden
QUES . Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B R Ambedkar, despite having divergent approaches and strategies, had a common goal of amelioration of the downtrodden. Elucidate. UPSC MAINS…
Ambedkar vs Gandhi : Caste System and Untouchability
From the British era to the present, caste has been central to the socio-political narrative of mainland India. Two prominent figures who have significantly contributed to this…
How difficult would have been the achievement of Indian independence without Mahatma Gandhi?
QUES . How difficult would have been the achievement of Indian independence without Mahatma Gandhi? Discuss. UPSC MAINS 2015 GS PAPER I HINTS: The struggle for Indian…
Developments which Motivated Anti-colonial Struggle in India
QUES . What were the major political, economic and social developments in the world which motivated the anti-colonial struggle in India? UPSC 2014 G S MAINS PAPER…
MAGADHA – THE MOST POWERFUL MAHAJANAPADA
QUES . Why, of all the janapadas, did Magadha alone come into prominence and become the seat of a powerful monarchy? UPSC IES/ISS EXAM 2024 General Studies….
Religion in Chalcolithic Cultures
By the second millennium B.C. several regional cultures sprang up in different parts of the Indian subcontinent. These were non-urban, non-Harappan and were characterized by the use…
Agriculture, Trade and Commerce in Chalcolithic Cultures
The Chalcolithic cultures flourished during the third millennium and second millennium B.C. Some of these cultures were contemporary with the Harappan culture and other were decidedly later…
Chalcolithic Culture : Regions and Features
The end of the Neolithic period saw very different kind of developments in different areas. While in the Indus and Saraswati valleys there emerged, though slowly, a…