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Rajendra Prasad   (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian   independence   activist, lawyer, scholar and subsequently, the first   president of India , in office from 1950 to 1962.   He was an Indian political leader & he joined the   Indian National Congress   during the   Indian Independence Movement   and became a major leader from the region of   Bihar   and   Maharashtra . A supporter of   Mahatma Gandhi , Prasad was imprisoned by   British   authorities during the   Salt Satyagraha   of 1931 and the   Quit India movement   of 1942. After the constituent assembly   1946 elections , Prasad served as Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government. Upon independence in 1947, Prasad was elected as President of the   Constituent Assembly of India , which prepared the   Constitution of India   and served as its provisional   Parliament . ...

  First Prime Minister of India was Jawahar Lal Nehru , But we have already covered a topic on him . Story of Shastri  : Lal Bahadur Shastri (18 July 1897 – 11 August 1966) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian independence movement, who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1962 until his death. He is widely known for having started the ""Swadeshi"" (self-reliance) campaign and headed the first non-Congress Indian government in independent India. Shastri was born in 1900 in Kheralu, Gaya district, Bihar, British India (presently India). After attending Almora in Oudh in 1907, he moved to Gaya, where he completed his matriculation. His elder brother Purna Chandra Shastri served as the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1957.  Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was Shastri's political mentor. The younger brother of both of them, Jayaprakash Narayan, was also a prominent politician. The dispute over...

  Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in   Gah ,   Punjab ,   British India , into a   Sikh   family.   He lost his mother when he was very young and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close. After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he studied at Hindu College, Amritsar. He attended Panjab University, then in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, studying Economics and got his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1952 and 1954, respectively, standing first throughout his academic career. He completed his Economics Tripos at University of Cambridge as he was a member of St John's College in 1957. In a 2005 interview with the British journalist Mark Tully, Singh said about his Cambridge days: I first became conscious of the creative role of politics in shaping human affairs, and I owe that mostly to my teachers Joan Robinson...

 The Legend never dies : Early Life  :  Virbhadra Singh was born on 23 June 1934 at Sarahan, Shimla district in the royal Rajput family of the erstwhile princely state of Bushahr. He was the 122nd titular Raja of Bushahr from 1947 until 1971, when, by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India, the privy purses of the princes were abolished and official recognition of their titles came to an end. Singh was educated at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun, St. Edward's School, Shimla and Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and later obtained a BA Honours degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He was married to Ratna Kumari, princess of Jubbal in May 1954. They had four daughters including Abhilasha Kumari a former judge who served on the High Court of Gujarat from 2006 to 2018. Ratna Kumari died in 1983 after prolonged ...

    The   Indian Army   is the   land-based branch   and the largest component of the   Indian Armed Forces . The   President of India   is the   Supreme Commander   of the Indian Army,   and its professional head is the   Chief of Army Staff   (COAS), who is a   four-star   general . Two officers have been conferred with the rank of   field marshal , a   five-star rank , which is a ceremonial position of great honour. The Indian Army originated from the armies of the   East India Company , which eventually became the   British Indian Army , and the armies of the princely states, which were merged into the national army after   independence . The units and regiments of the Indian Army have diverse histories and have participated in a number of battles and campaigns around the world, earning many   battle and theatre honours   before and after Independence. The primary mis...

Early Life : Born and raised in a   Hindu   family in coastal   Gujarat , Gandhi trained in law at the   Inner Temple , London, and was   called to the bar   at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. It was in South Africa that Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India. He set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the   Indian National Congress   in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending   untouchability , and above all for achieving   swaraj   or self-rule. ...

  Nehru : The legend  The son of  Swarup Rani  and  Motilal Nehru , a prominent lawyer and  nationalist  statesman, Nehru was a graduate of  Trinity College, Cambridge  and the  Inner Temple , where he trained to be a  barrister . Upon his return to India, he enrolled at the  Allahabad High Court  and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. A committed nationalist since his teenage years, he became a rising figure in Indian politics during the upheavals of the 1910s. He became the prominent leader of the left-wing factions of the  Indian National Congress  during the 1920s, and eventually of the entire Congress, with the tacit approval of his mentor,  Mahatma Gandhi . As  Congress President  in 1929, Nehru called for  complete independence  from the  British Raj  and instigated the Congress's decisive shift towards the left. Nehru in ...

  Constitution of India :   The Indian Constitution is unique in both spirit and content. Notwithstanding the fact that several features of the constitution have been borrowed from other constitutions from all around the world, it is really a unique piece of work. The original constitution have been considerably changed by the various amendments that have been brought forth such as the 7th, 42nd, 44th, 73rd and 74th Amendments. Constitution of India – Preamble:  The first constitution to start with a preamble was the American Constitution. The Indian constitution also starts with one. The Preamble is basically the introduction or preface to the constitution. It sums up the essence of the constitution. N A Palkhivala, a constitutional expert, referred to the Preamble as the ‘Identity card of the Constitution’. The Preamble is based on Pandit Nehru’s Objective Resolution that he moved and was adopted by the  Constituent Assembly . The Preamble has been amended in 1976 ...

 Reservation in India : India is known for its unity and diversity . In India there are different Religions . But the Hindu religion is divided into different castes & these castes are Bhramin , Kashtriya , Shudra & vaishya . Apart from this our government has divided this system into four different cetegories and these cetegories are General , Scheduled Caste (S.T.) , Scheduled Tribe (S.T.) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) .  Problem against Reservation :   The people who belongs from General caste did not have any problem from people of ST/SC but they have problem from reservation because the this is increasing discrimination in India .  Politicians are getting more chances to do politics over Castes to gain more votes .  People from General castes are getting problem in getting of jobs due to reservation system in india . Bad effect of reservation : Slow development of the country In India, communities who are economically, socially and mentally b...

  Politics In eighties : The decade proved to be ostrich-like. It saw old verities vanish and new ones raise their heads, as Congress hegemony ended and religious fundamentalism began.  The 1980s fundamentally altered India's political landscape and also planted the seeds of an economic revolution. This ostrich-like decade saw the old verities vanish and new ones raise their heads, some quite unwholesome and others hugely promising. Two political developments of the decade stood out for their long-run significance: the end of Congress hegemony in politics and the emergence of, what Amartya Sen has called, "illusion of singular identity", which meant the obsessive identification of human beings with their religious selves. Looking back, the disappearance of Congress hegemony was a great surprise. It was a decade of resounding victories for the Congress party right until the very end. In January 1981, Indira Gandhi triumphantly returned to power, a mere three and a half yea...