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Free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of fourteen is a Constitutional commitment in India. At the time of adoption of the Constitution in 1950, the aim was to achieve the goal of Universal Elementary Education (UEE) within the next ten years. Keeping in view the educational facilities available in the country, at that time, the goal was far too ambitious to be achieved within a short span of ten years. Hence, the target date has to be shifted a number of times.
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Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis—a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village ba...
Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan.
Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan.
The Indian freedom movement since 1920s showed awareness of the need of special measures to ensure due representation to religious minorities and Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC & ST) in legislatures. In keeping with this consociational-affirmative model, the framers of the Constitution provided for population based quota of seats for minorities and SC& ST under joint electorate, in August 1947. However, lingering apprehensions about such provisions for religious minorities, caused by the Partition led to their scrapping in May 1949. While dispensing with the special provision for minorities, Nehru and Patel, among others, gave firm assurance to them, especially to Muslims, that even without Constitutional safeguard the majority community would not only be fair but generous of them, ensuring their due representation in legislatures.