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Ilya Repin, portrait of Pavel Tretyakov, 1901. The contemporary economics of culture most often takes as its starting point Baumol and Bowen's [1] seminal work on the performing arts, which argues that reflection on the arts has been part of the history of economic thought since the birth of modern economics in the seventeenth century.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan became an inspiration for the Pakistan Movement.. Very few Muslim families had their children sent to English universities. On the other hand, the effects of the Bengali Renaissance made the Hindu population more educated and enabled them to gain lucrative positions at the Indian Civil Service; many ascended to the influential posts in the British government.
Khusrau's adulation-filled narrative poetry has been used as a source of Khalji dynasty history, but this is a disputed source. [79] Three historical sources, composed 30 to 115 years after the end of Khalji dynasty, are considered more independent but also questioned given the gap in time.
The history of southern India covers a span of over four thousand years during which the region saw the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. Location of South India The period of known history of southern India begins with the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE–200 BCE), Sangam period (c. 600 BCE–300 CE) and Medieval southern India until ...
Number of Questions Time allotted Exam Weight Section I, Part A: Multiple Choice Questions: 55 questions: 55 minutes: 40% Section I, Part B: Short-Answer Questions: 3 questions (2 required questions + 1 chosen from 2 others) 40 minutes: 20% Section II Part A: Document-Based Question: 1 question: recommended 60 minutes (includes 15-minute ...
The Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent or Indo-Muslim period [1] is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [2] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.
The 7.7 M w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured. July: Vajpayee meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the first summit between the two neighbours in more than two years. The meeting ends without a breakthrough or even a joint ...
[2]: 20 The war ultimately resulted in Nagabhata II, King of the Gurjaras, winning the crown of Kannauj in 816, [3] [4] [5] and proclaiming himself King of Kannauj. In the eighth century, the two major powers of Aryavarta (northern India) were the Pratiharas who ruled the Gurjara Kingdom and the Palas who ruled the Kingdom of Gauda (Bengal).