#indian polity

[the-sound-ofrain]

The Indian Constitution Framers were quite an entertainer.

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[academicblogindia]

this website provides online notes of NCERT social science books for school boards , colleges and competitive exams .

[teamattorneylex]

21st National Online Quiz Competition on Indian Polity & Constitutional Law: Register by 8th September

Team Attorneylex is organising its 21st National Online Quiz Competition on Indian Polity & Constitutional Law, scheduled on 9th September 2023.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Team Attorneylex is a Student-run organisation; it is an online platform for law students where they can contribute their legal knowledge and get recognized for their contribution.  Along with the other activities, the endeavour is to deliver legal help to the sectors of society that cannot access existing legal services due to illiteracy and poor economic…

[smartclass]

"Fundamental Rights Of The Indian Constitution" . Fundamental rights are the basic human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India which are guaranteed to all citizens.

[divinewarp]

There's something about my desk's lighting that only gives good photos occasionally. But I have to remind myself that I'm more here to keep myself motivated and record my own journey with this exam. The aesthetics will follow later if I make it.

You know! Indian polity's really fun! It might be heavy but you can see how debate and discussion quite literally made our country what it is today. The subject somehow makes me feel optimistic about India’s future!

[chatteringstory]

Silent features of Indian constitution.

Discuss the silent features of Indian constitution. Abstract A strong dedication to secularism, federalism, democratic government, and fundamental rights is embodied in the Indian Constitution. Its key characteristics guarantee inclusive, responsive, and legally-based governance, which embodies the country’s goals for unity in diversity. The Constitution upholds individual liberty, advances…

[easynotes4u]

Higher Education System Marathon | Indian Polity & Governance Marathon | UGC NET Paper 1 Marathon

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[iasguidance]

Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal

Context: The Supreme Court has ordered the government of Punjab to complete the construction of the SYL project. What is a Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal? Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal running about 121 km in Punjab and 90 km in Haryana aims to provide 3.45 MAF out of 3.5 MAF of Haryana’s average annual share of surplus Ravi-Beas waters (as per 1981 agreement).  It will irrigate an area of…

[sreehari28]

Indian democracy has faced various challenges throughout its history, and it is important to have an open and informed discussion about its current state. It is worth noting that the phrase "Indian democracy is under attack" can be interpreted in different ways, depending on the context and the specific concerns being raised. It is important to recognize that these points do not present a comprehensive assessment of the situation and that opinions may differ. As with any democratic society, addressing these challenges requires open discussions, engagement, and collective efforts from all stakeholders, including citizens, civil society organizations, the government, and the media, to uphold and strengthen the principles of democracy.

[governmentjobsworld]

யூனியன் பப்ளிக் சர்வீஸ் கமிஷனில் பின் வரும் Archivist (General) பணிகள் நிரப்புவதற்கான அறிவிப்பு வெளியாகியுள்ளன

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யூனியன் பப்ளிக் சர்வீஸ் கமிஷனில் பின் வரும் Archivist (General) பணிகள் நிரப்புவதற்கான அறிவிப்பு வெளியாகியுள்ளன. மத்திய அரசு இந்த அதிகாரப்பூர்வ அறிவிப்பினை  வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. யூனியன் பப்ளிக் சர்வீஸ் கமிஷன் பணிக்கு விண்ணப்பிக்க ஆர்வமுள்ளவர்கள் 10/12/2022 முதல் 29/12/2022க்குல் என்ற இனையத்தில் மூலமாக ஆன்லைன் மூலமாக விண்ணப்பிக்கவும். இப்பணிக்கு விண்ணப்பிக்கும் நபர்கள் விண்ணப்பிக்கும் முன்பு கீழ்க்கண்ட…

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19th National Online Quiz Competition on Indian Polity & Constitutional Law: Register by 21st June

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Team Attorneylex is a Student-run organisation; it is an online platform for law students where they can contribute their legal knowledge and get recognized for their contribution.  Along with the other activities, the endeavour is to deliver legal help to the sectors of society that cannot access existing legal services due to illiteracy and poor economic…

[probablyasocialecologist]

In place of blanks on the map, we’re now able to see highly cultivated landscapes with massive infrastructure stretching back to the early centuries BCE. Road networks, terraces, ceremonial earthworks, planned residential neighbourhoods, and regional settlement systems ordered into patterns of geometrical precision can be traced across Amazonia, from Brazil to Bolivia, as far as the eastern foothills of the Andes. In certain parts of Amazonia, the forest itself turns out to be a product of past human interaction with the soil. Over time, this generated the rich ‘anthropogenic’ earths called terra preta de índio (‘black earth of the Indians’), with levels of fertility far in excess of ordinary tropical soils. Scientists now believe that between 10,000 and 20,000 large-scale sites remain to be discovered across Amazonia. Similarly startling finds are emerging from Southeast Asia, and we might reasonably expect them from the forested parts of the African continent too. Of course, the same procedures are changing our picture of tropical landscapes that did witness the rise and fall of great kingdoms, and even empires. Archaeologists now believe that in the year 500 CE, between 10 and 15 million people lived in the Maya lowlands of Yucatán and northern Guatemala. For comparison, the Atlas offers a figure of just 2 million for all of Mexico in the same era, including the Indigenous cities of the Altiplano (at least some of which, we now know, were organised not as empires or even kingdoms, but fiercely autonomous republics, long before the Spanish conquest). It is easy, encouraged by works such as the Atlas, to imagine ancient history as a chequerboard of kingdoms and empires. But it is also very misleading. Ancient polities in the Maya lowlands and Southeast Asia had porous boundaries, constantly shifting, and open to contestation. Authority waned with distance from the centre. Warfare and tribute were largely seasonal affairs, after which coercive power shrank back behind the walls of the capital. As the archaeologist Monica Smith points out, only the most naive historian would assume that the claims inscribed on imperial monuments are a simple reflection of political reality on the ground. Of course ancient rulers loved to present themselves as ‘sovereigns of the four quarters’, ‘masters of the known world’, and so on. Yet no ancient world emperor could even have imagined powers of surveillance, such as those now enjoyed by any minor dictator or oligarch. On a global scale, we are witnessing a revolution in our understanding of ancient demography. To ignore it, these days, is to indulge in a cruel sort of intellectual prank, by which the genocide of Indigenous populations – a direct consequence of the planetary revolt against freedom, in the past 500 years – is naturalised as a perennial absence of people. Nor can we just assume that if we want to understand the prospects for our modern world, the only ‘big’ stories worth telling are those of empire.

5 July 2024

[divinewarp]

Polity makes me cry.

🎵: Genshin Impact Lofi

[arkipelagic]

A lot of those who insist that Filipinos are Pacific Islander instead of (or, in addition to) Asian often rely on loose interpretations of the term Pacific Islander and the fact that the Philippines was used as a stepping stone in the Austronesian expansion to the east. What they ignore or may not know is that (1) the superficial similarities between Pacific Islanders and Filipinos are not unique to Pacific Islanders and Filipinos but with Austronesian-speaking peoples in general, including Austronesian-speaking Southeast Asians and (2) we Filipinos simply did not have as regular and as vigorous a contact with the Pacific Islands - if any - compared to the Asian continent. We still don’t.

Think about it: the earliest known trade network in the Philippines included what is now Taiwan and Southeast Asia, i.e., the Philippine jade culture which dates as far back as 2000 BC and lasted for 3,000 years. Nephrite jade from Taiwan was manufactured in the Philippines and distributed elsewhere in the nearby region. After that were the Sa Huỳnh-Kalanay Interaction Sphere from 500 BC through AD 100 and of course the so-called Maritime Silk Road during historical times. What followed was then the very familiar colonial era of Iberian, Dutch, and British presence in Asia.

The earliest Filipino artifact with a given calendar date is the Laguna Copperplate Inscription which was written in the year AD 900 using a Brahmic script in a combination of Sanskrit, Old Malay, Old Tagalog and/or Javanese. Upon the arrival of Magellan six hundred years later in 1521, it was a man titled rajah who greeted him in Cebu. Half a century later, the aged grandson of the sultan of Brunei was ruling Manila. To this day, among the lesser Hispanicized and Americanized ethnic groups across the Philippines, the Ivatan of Batanes speak a family of languages shared with the Tao of Orchid Island, Taiwan and the people of Bangsamoro have more in common with Bruneians, Indonesians, and Malaysians than they do with the Māori, Kanaka Maoli, or Fijians. Indigenous Borneans are closely related to Filipinos.

As for myself, I was raised in Davao where you’ll find Cebuano, Ilonggo, Kagan, Maguindanaon, Maranao, Mansaka, Mandaya, Manobo, Bagobo, Chinese Hoklo, Japanese, and Indian people live; no one local I’ve ever met has identified as Pacific Islander and there was never a question as to whether I was Asian or not because I was surrounded by fellow Asians. It’s certainly hard to deny it when your country of origin is one of the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, attempted to make a Malaysian-Filipino-Indonesian confederation happen, and contains the title “Pearl of the Orient” as a lyric in the national anthem.

Does this look like an archipelago that kept close touch with polities and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for thousands of years? Does this look like a society that is more Pacific Islander than Asian?

[armandofnowhere]

okay i’ve changed my mind about armand’s origin story AGAIN.

above screenshots are from Hindus Beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade by Scott C. Levi

so the talamasca notes his origins as “delhi” which is corroborated by armand’s earliest memory (“i’m being ran down by slavers in delhi.”) this would have been when he was a child, let’s say under 12 years old. this makes the year no later than 1520. the portuguese had already established trade links with india through vasco de gama in the previous century but through calicut. calicut is nowhere near delhi as the former is a coastal polity whereas the latter is further up north.

if he was abducted north to south, in order for armand to have been trafficked from delhi to venice, he would have been captured by locals for domestic service → eventually made his way to coastal settlements where european traders were → given to europeans and taken on a ship → eventually landed in venice.

if he was abducted further north before going back south, he could have been abducted for international trade (i.e. central asia) and may have actually spent some time there for an uzbek/chagatai turkic-speaking household (hence “asr namozi” instead of “salat al asr”) before making his way somehow back into the subcontinent - he escaped? he got sold again? he accompanied a party making way down south? cue european traders taking him for their own commodity and the long voyage to the mediterranean. it’s possible his parents’ relative poverty had prevented them from paying taxes to the sultan, rendering them disloyal to the eyes of the aristocracy, and were deemed free game for enslavement.