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Nehru And His Conception Of Liberty, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Nov 2015

Nehru And His Conception Of Liberty, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Pt. Nehru , the first PM of India laid the basis of modern India. the present paper explores evolution of his ideas of liberty. these ideas he implemented successfully in the country. The india of today has liberty available to all, Pt. Nehru's ideas are instrumental in its implementation. the initial age ideas of any leader needs to be explored to find out the later age policy decisions of the political leader.


How Modern India Looks At Its Premodernity, Ananya Vajpeyi Jul 2015

How Modern India Looks At Its Premodernity, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


A Conquering Race: The Birth Of Social Darwinism In Pre-War Germany, Andrew T. Murphree Apr 2015

A Conquering Race: The Birth Of Social Darwinism In Pre-War Germany, Andrew T. Murphree

Andrew T Murphree

Popular opinion suggests that certain political and military leaders throughout history are the primary agents for change in civilization; however, such a conclusion represents a serious oversight regarding the powerful potential of emerging worldviews to dictate epochal moments throughout mankind. Certainly, dynamic figures rise to prominence to lead movements of conservatism, progression, and moderation, but the conduit of ideas serves as the essential catalytic force that ignites and sustains these patterns. The Great War of the twentieth century was a complex global conflict of immense proportions, unlike anything the world had ever known. Historians perhaps express the greatest perplexity in …


Mooknayak: The Mute Protagonist, Ananya Vajpeyi Apr 2015

Mooknayak: The Mute Protagonist, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


A Leader For Every Generation, Ananya Vajpeyi Apr 2015

A Leader For Every Generation, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Why Daghestan Is Good To Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, And Global Islamic History”, Rebecca Ruth Gould Jan 2015

Why Daghestan Is Good To Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, And Global Islamic History”, Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Gould

During the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to revise regnant paradigms concerning language, law, and the circulation of culture within contemporary Islamic Studies. I concentrate on the potential of Daghestan’s Islamic archives to contribute to the study of linguistic and legal modernity, transregional Arabic in its interface with the vernacular, and the multiplicity of Islamic modernities. …