Essays Tagged: "India"

India and it's economy

Overall view of India's economy Great overall objective look. Must get more descriptive within the Industry.Around 2 ... Must get more descriptive within the Industry.Around 2000 B.C. people called Aryan started invading India. This process continued to approximately 1000 B.C. Aryan tribes were led by kings. The Aryans ... pulation, intermarried with it and settled in peasant villages.The Aryans brought their religion to India. The various sacrifices of the Aryan cults were accompanied by chanted hymns. These hymns comp ...

(3 pages) 1221 41 4.1 Oct/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Hinduism

HinduismIntroductionHinduism is a religion that originated in India and is still practiced by most of the Natives as well as the people who have migrated from Ind ... er parts of the world. Statistically there are over seven hundred million Hindus, mainly in Bharat, India and Nepal. Eighty five percent of the population in India is Hindu.The word Hindu comes from a ... s from an ancient Sanskrit term meaning 'dwellers by the Indus River,' referring to the location of India's earliest know civilization, the Pakistan. There is not much organization and hierarchy is no ...

(5 pages) 516 2 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Hinduism

Taoism

ame time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion, Buddhism,came to China from India around the second century of the common era. Together, these threefaiths have shaped Chinese l ...

(8 pages) 271 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Healthcare in India

cience. In fact, it is very much a hit-and-miss situation. Taking into account these above factors, India seems to be on a destructive trend regarding their level of health care. Ever since private me ... imately 1800 cases (15% of the total number of cases) have been filed. As Dr. Dipak Banerjee of the Indian Medical Association puts it: "It's degenerating into a kind of witch-hunt."For years the comm ...

(4 pages) 67 0 4.3 Mar/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Mt Everest-

Bang! 50 million years ago India collided with Eurasia. The land buckled and crunched upward - the birth of the mighty Himalaya ... upward - the birth of the mighty Himalaya. 100 million years ago, a vast sea seperated Eurasia and India. Then, India started drifting north ward at a rate of 4 inches a year. In geological time that ... y as the highest point on Earth was, however, not recognized until 1852. The governmental Survey of India established that fact. The currently reported height figure is 29,035 feet was calculated by a ...

(1 pages) 86 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan

In Malgudi Days, although R.K. Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness, he means to reflect the triu ... iness, he means to reflect the triumph of the human spirit over the cruel circumstances of life. In India, poverty and the lack of education are prejudiced against and people are discriminated against ...

(3 pages) 59 0 2.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

My experience of moving to India

d her arms and, in a tone that I knew could not be argued with, stated, 'We have decided to move to India permanently.'I was awestruck. My family is Indian, but I had never so much as considered l ... street that had the brightest green maple trees and fields of radiant yellow and orange marigolds. India was nothing more than an old family story to me, not a place to live.Over the next couple o ...

(3 pages) 82 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Ghandi

ether, Ashimsa, and his own Satyagraha. He was very persistent in his fight to win independence for India and he would stop at nothing.All of Gandhi's methods were called 'Ashimsa.' This word means no ... ritish. One very effective 'Ashimsa' was Gandhi's Nationwide day of prayer and fasting. With all of India praying and fasting there was nobody to run the shops or the telegraph system so India was vir ...

(3 pages) 106 1 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Sea Routes to Asia

East was unbearable. Practiclly every European in Europe was trying tofind ways to get to Asia and India to trade for the riches of the East. Marco Polo had traveled toAsia by land, and this took tim ... od Hope and then headed north along the eastern coast of Africa. Then da Gamasailed east across the Indian Ocean until he reached India.Finally the Portuguese had found an all-water route to Asia. As ...

(9 pages) 92 1 4.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 - India

"mutiny" and "war of independence". Why did the British prefer the term mutiny? Why did the certain Indians prefer to see the incident as a war of independence? What were the consequences of the uphea ... avel?As with any conflict or controversy there are always two sides to the debate, and the events inIndia during 1857 are certainly no exception. Given the situation in India during the nineteenthcent ...

(10 pages) 96 1 2.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The effects of the economy on enviroment.

mic wealth of that country. By looking at the 1990 table we can see that the poorest countries were India, with 1,399, and Indonesia, with 1,887 compared to the richest countries like the United State ...

(7 pages) 336 0 3.5 Jul/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

A Continuous Decline in India, Without Modernization

A Continuous Decline in India, Without ModernizationHypothesis: Modernization is the Key to economic growth for India. If mo ... ation is the Key to economic growth for India. If modernization occurs, then the economic status of India will increase tremendously, even if the price India has to pay is a change in culture, and tra ... ill increase tremendously, even if the price India has to pay is a change in culture, and tradition.India has remained financially stagnant since its beginnings. One may argue that non-modernization h ...

(4 pages) 143 0 4.7 May/1994

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India

ion to International RelationsProfessor BondThe Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India(15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)More than thirty years have passed since the dramatic cling ... thirty years have passed since the dramatic cling of arm in the remote Himalayan region of the Sino-Indian border. This Time gap seems to be appropriate for a correct reexamination of the conflict. Th ...

(11 pages) 103 0 3.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Qualities that shape an empire

chieving the recognition of obtaining the ultimate goal of becoming an empire.The British Empire in India was one of the most successful European to Asian conquests. Britain took over most of what is ... ne of the most successful European to Asian conquests. Britain took over most of what is now called India and populated it with armies and settlers. European imperialism, the race of European countrie ...

(3 pages) 101 1 3.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

"The Genius That was China" This essay is about the wonderful technological developments of Ancient China and how they influenced the development of the West.

confident horsemen to the west. While other similar, yet lackluster, devices were found earlier in India the precursor for the European version was created independently in China. Originally it was u ...

(7 pages) 240 1 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Cultural leftovers from our past civilizations. Alexander the Great. Greece's influence on today's architecture and education.

nd Macedonians Alexander managed to conquer and create his own empire from Greece to the borders of India. While on his journey he came up with the idea of getting on a horse from the left side. He fo ...

(6 pages) 105 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Mahatma Ghandi: Man of Many Mysteries" This essay telkls of Ghandi's trials and tribulations, as he attemted to liberate India from British rule.

ntains" with hiswords. In his life he accomplished many things, one of them being the liberation of India.He showed great self-composure in everything that he did, with his "motto" being: do notretali ... gs. The first time he was put in jailwas because he organized a protest to burn the papers that the Indians, and blacks wererequired to carry on them during the Apartheid in South Africa. By doing thi ...

(4 pages) 109 1 3.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Population Control in India This essay explores the negative impacts of population control and how alternative measures can be set up to prevent this.

excellent example of a third-world country with the serious concern for its population increase is India. Earlier this year, February 26th 2002, the Indian Minster for Health and Family Welfare C.P. ... wo-child maximum population control policy. Thakur stated later that this would ensure stability in India. The entire population of the world is about six billion people and India has a staggering pop ...

(5 pages) 119 0 2.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

A comparison between coke and pepsi in foreign markets

mportant markets for Coca-Cola and Pepsi. However, Eastern Europe, Mexico, China, Saudi Arabia, and India have become the new "hot spots." Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi are forming joint bottling ventures ... trying to fight off the Coca-Cola onslaught, has responded with deep discounting.Coke and Pepsi in India:Coca-Cola controlled the Indian market until 1977, when the Janata Party beat the Congress Par ...

(19 pages) 1103 7 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

The history of Malaysia

world's major crossroads, Malaysia has always been pivotal to trade routes from Europe, the Orient, India and China. Its warm tropical climate and abundant natural blessings made it a congenial destin ... the use of metals.Around the first century BC, strong trading links were established with China and India, and these had a major impact on the culture, language and social customs of the country. Evid ...

(2 pages) 59 0 0.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History