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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India.
The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. The book's focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers.
The syllabus of Social Sciences, which covers History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics, had 24 chapters in Class IX as compared to 15 each in Science and Mathematics. Similarly, Class X Social Sciences had 28 chapters as compared to 16 each in Science and Mathematics.
First edition (publ. The Macmillan Company) The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, consisting of a collection of essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid-1960s. It followed the publication of the highly successful book The Guns of August (published in Britain as August 1914). Each chapter deals with a ...
"Beginning on July 28, 1914, The Guns of August plays out the cataclysm of events that lead to a continental war, as well as the strategies behind the war which would lead to inevitable stalemate." The book actually starts before that, and the latter half of the sentance should be rephrased as a separate sentance.
Violence and Civil Disturbances in Northern Ireland in 1969: Report of Tribunal of Inquiry Archived 27 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. SBN 337 10566 9. British Government tribunal of inquiry into the riots. Stetler, Russell (1970). The Battle of Bogside: The Politics of Violence in Northern Ireland. London and Sydney: Sheed and Ward.
The Rajya Sabha passed the bill on 20 July 2009 [10] and the Lok Sabha on 4 August 2009. [11] It received Presidential assent and was notified as law on 26 August 2009 [12] as The Children's Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act. [13] The law came into effect in the whole of India except the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1 April 2010.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar [a] (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) pronunciation ⓘ was an Indian politician, activist and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922.