the Cherokee. In the 1830s, the Indian Removal Act was passed, giving President Andrew Jackson the freedom to force the Cherokee to be exiled beyond the state of Mississippi. During that time the Cherokee nation was violently forced from their homes and made to leave behind the only life they had ever known. Stricken by harsh weather, sickness, and surrounded by death and sadness, the Cherokee people made the long march from Georgia to Oklahoma. The Cherokee Indians should not have been forced to
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current Prime Minister of the Republic of India. He was born on Monday, 26 September 1932. He is the first Sikh to hold the post of Prime Minister in India. He is the first Indian Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. Manmohan Singh is also the 12th Prime Minister under an Indian National Congress Government. He was a hard working student who studied by candlelight, as his village did not have electricity. After the Partition of India, he migrated
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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is the fifth IIM, established in 1996 by the Government of India in collaboration with the Government of Kerala. With campus infrastructure fully operational now, it is fast emerging as an internationally reckoned, fully integrated, management institute of higher learning. The Institute seeks to inculcate a spirit of lifelong learning and aspires to strengthen the capabilities of integrating concepts with applications and values
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Outsmarted Congress redraws strategy Many feel Chavan, Raja were dumped in a hurry. But party prepares to brazen it out. Not keen to yield on court-monitored probe into tapes and JPC on 2G Harish Gupta NEW DELHI Did the Congress leadership commit a tactical blunder by sacking Maharashtra's former chief minister Ashok Chavan over the Adarsh housing society scandal and seeking the resignation of A Raja in the 2G spectrum scam? A section in the UPA government believes so. The move in both cases
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the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using the new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led
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The decline in the number of CAT-takers continued as this year saw around 1.85L students appearing for CAT 2011, a significant drop (Ref. graph) from CAT 2010. Put this in perspective, this number also includes the JMET applicants who would have applied for the IIT-SOMs. Looking at this trend I can’t help but think about the future of CAT and consequently about the applicants for IIMs. CAT has lost its claws – Like it or not! With the new format and the blunders of CAT 2009, all has been ensured
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Kanti Prasad Bajpai comes from an eminent family of Indian diplomats: his father, Uma Shankar Bajpai was a former Indian High Commissioner to Canada;[5] an uncle, K.S. Bajpai was a former Ambassador to United States; and his grandfather, Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, was Agent-General for India in the United States prior to India gaining independence.His all family enrolled to study at The Doon School. After leaving Doon in 1972, Bajpai obtained Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Master of Arts in Political
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A Precarious Experiment and Vision for a Nation These two programs cover the period immediately following the American Revolution. It starts with the Resignation of prime minister and ends with the resignation of American’s first president George Washington. After the previously mentioned prime minister resigns, Richard Oswald is sent to Paris to negotiate with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. Franklin and Jay had been told by congress to consult with the French government but instead ignored this
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about race and the difficulty of overcoming racial divides. Cooper suggests that interracial mixing is both a good thing and a bad thing. The Autor praises the strong longtime friendship between Hawkeye, who is white and Chingachgook, who is a Mohican Indian. Hawkeye and Chingachgook’s shared communion with nature that sees through race, enabling them to team up against their Huron enemies and to save white military leaders like Heyward. On the other hand, though, The Author shows that he feels interracial
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Politics from the past The great philosopher Aristotle stated the bare truth when he said centuries ago that man is "a political animal". He and his equally famous disciple Plato strongly denounced politics. Plato went so far as to say: "O, men of Athens, if I was engaged in politics, I would have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself." Since then, however, politics has pervaded every sphere of life, and the number of politicians has grown beyond measure. There is
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