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Abolition of untouchability and the Reservation Policy was another important feature of the Indian constitution. The Constitution offered special privileges for the poorest and most disadvantaged Indians. The practic...
Universal adult franchise is the right or privilege of voting. The Indian Constitution adopted universal adult franchise. All Indians above the age of 21 would be allowed to vote in state and national elections. This...
The Constituent Assembly was set up to draft out the constitution of India. The Constituent Assembly met numerous times while the Indian constitution was being written. The writing of the constitution took almost thre...
A vast majority of people had to be lifted above the poverty line and to achieve this agricultural productivity had to be increased to feed the enormous population. Industries had to be set up to provide jobs for the...
A majority of Indians lived in villages and development of villages was the need of the hour. Agriculture had to be improved as farmers and peasants depended on the monsoon for their survival. Barbers, carpenters, we...
The whole scenario changed as women became actively involved in reforms. They wrote books and started schools. They started training centres, and set up women’s associations. Women formed political pressure groups to...
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a Bengali scholar and a pillar of the Bengal Renaissance. He was an academic, philosopher, educator, printer, entrepreneur, writer, translator, reformer and philanthropist. His efforts to...
Raja Rammohun Roy was a social reformer. He started the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta. Rammohun Roy strongly felt that unjust practices against women had to end. He also felt that there were many changes that were necessa...
Awareness was created among women and the society in general as people started reading more and more. People started reading books, newspapers, magazines, leaflets and pamphlets as they were much cheaper now. There we...
Four main castes were prevalent in India in those days- Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Shudras. Brahmans and Kshatriyas considered themselves as “upper castes”. Traders and moneylenders were called Vaisyas. Peasan...
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