Tag: history

Indian wanted to establish an economy based on social justice through planning. For this, the National Planning Commission was established that would coordinate development through the policy of Five Year Plans.

The Narasimha Rao Government started economic reforms from 1991. These economic reforms are called as economic liberalisation. The Indian economy flourished as a result of the implementation of this policy.

Any country which have nuclear weapons can declare them as nuclear power. India conducted a number of nuclear tests in 1998 and declared herself as an atomic power. 

Dr M.S. Swaminathan is known as the father of the Green Revolution. He implemented new scientific agricultural techniques and increased the production of foodgrains.

In the Lok Sabha elections, held in 1977, Mrs. Gandhi and Sanjay both lost their Lok Sabha seats, as did all the Congress Candidates in Northern states such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Many Congress Party loyalists deserted Mrs. Gandhi. The Congress was reduced to just 153 seats, 92 of which were from four of the southern states. The Janata Party's 298 seats and its allies' 47 seats (of a total 542) gave it a massive majority.

• Medhatithi disapproved the custom of Sati .
• He considered sati system identical to suicide, which was forbidden by the Vedas according to which one shall not die before the span of one’s life is run out.

The cuneiform script was wedge-shaped because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet.