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Appu started his career as a member of the Bihar cadre of Indian Administrative Service in 1951. [2] In this state he served the Collector of Darbhanga, Saharsa, Finance Secretary and Chief Secretary. While on deputation from the state to the federal government, he served as the Land Reforms Commissioner in the Ministry of Agriculture and the ...
In 1878, 21-year-old Veeraraghavachariar and four of his friends, G. Subramania Iyer, T. Rangachari, P. V. Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu, who later became popular in history as the Triplicane Six, founded the English-language newspaper, The Hindu. [1]
Some IAS officers are also recruited from the state civil services, [3] and, in rare cases, selected from non-state civil service. [3] The ratio between direct recruits and promotees is fixed at 2:1. All IAS officers, regardless of the mode of entry, are appointed by the President of India. [18]
Krishna Kumar is an Indian intellectual and academician, noted for his writings on the sociology and history of education. [1] His academic oeuvre has drawn on multiple sources, including the school curriculum as a means of social inquiry.
Roy had consulted with her family and friends before resigning from the IAS but most of them discouraged her from doing so. In 1974, she took a six-month leave to join her husband at the Social Work Research Centre (commonly known as the Barefoot College) and witnessing a relation of equality between her husband and the people there, compared to the deferential treatment she had received as a ...
An example of this "Vedanticization" is Ramana Maharshi, who is regarded as one of the greatest Hindu-saints of modern times, [note 14], of whom Sharma notes that "among all the major figures of modern Hinduism [he] is the one person who is widely regarded as a jivanmukti". [98]
[3] [4] The book was published in 1923 while Savarkar was still in jail. [5] It was retitled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (with the second phrase as a subtitle) when reprinted in 1928. Savarkar's epigraph forms part of the canon of works published during British rule that later influenced post-independence contemporary Hindu nationalism. [6]
The passing of the Hindu Women's right to Property Act of 1937, also known as the Deshmukh bill, led to the formation of the B. N. Rau committee, which was set up to determine the necessity of common Hindu laws. The committee concluded that it was time of a uniform civil code, which would give equal rights to women keeping with the modern ...