What is Lok Sabha or The House of People ? The Lok Sabha or The House of People is the Lower House of Indian Parliament. The members are directly elected to the House. Under the Constitution, the maximum strength Read More ……
Category: UPSC Prelims
Swaraj Party and No Changers
Swaraj Party and No Changers After Gandhi’s arrest (March 1922) and suspension of the non-cooperation movement (After the Chauri Chaura incident ), there was disintegration, disorganisation and demoralisation among nationalists and debate started among Congressmen on what to do during the transition Read More ……
Bombay Plan
Bombay Plan The Bombay Plan is the name commonly given to a World War II-era set of proposals the development of the post-independence economy of India. The plan, published in 1944/1945 by eight leading Indian industrialists, Proposed state intervention in the economic development of the nation after independence. Read More ……
Aryabhatta
Aryabhatta Aryabhatta was a fifth century mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and physicist. He was also a pioneer in the field of mathematics. He wrote Aryabhattiya, which is a summary of mathematics of his time. It has four sections. In the first section he describes Read More ……
Peasant Movements in India -Notes
Peasant Movements in India-Notes Under colonialism, Indian peasantry was impoverished and suffered from variety of problems like high rents, arbitrary evictions, illegal tax levies and unpaid labour in zamindari regions. Eventually, the peasants started to resist this exploitation Read More ……
Tebhaga Movement
Tebhaga Movement Tebhaga literally means ‘three shares’ of harvests. The Tebhaga movement was the sharecroppers (tenants)‘ movement Tenants were demanding two thirds of the produce from land for themselves and one third for the landlords. Basically from this principle demand the Read More ……
Butler Committee or Indian States Committee
Butler Committee or Indian States Committee During the British Rule in the 1930’s extent of sovereignty of the Paramount power were not yet settled properly, so, relations between Indian Princes and the crown were not well defined. which resulted Read More ……
Mangroves in India
Mangroves in India The word “Mangrove” is considered to be a combination of the Portuguese word “Mangue” and the English word “grove”. Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants of tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the world. The specific regions Read More ……
Cripps Mission
Cripps Mission The Cripps Mission was an attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior left-wing politician and government Read More ……
Fuel Cell
Fuel Cell A fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction of positively charged hydrogen ions with oxygen or another oxidizing agent. Hydrogen is the basic fuel, but fuel cells also require Read More ……