A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. ... Best-selling books like Freedom at Midnight re-create the struggle of two great cultures, mighty opposites with a twinned destiny, as they set about trying to disentangle themselves and their feelings before the Partition of 1947. ... The Moguls, a band of intruders of Mongolian, Turkish and Persian origin, had formally established their empire in India in 1526; by the time the British arrived, they ruled most of northern India save for a few fiefdoms still controlled by tribu...

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Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. ... She considered it part of their culture to eat the meat there, so it was alright to be in that country and follow their culture. ...

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Schmidt (2003) has identified five major road blocks to merger and acquisition (M&A)success, three of which are human resource issues: Inability to sustain financial performance(64%), loss of productivity(62%), incompatible cultures(56%), loss of key talent(53%) and clash of managerial styles. ... M&A activity in India: The Indian landscape Top M&A Sectors in 2010 Sectors US$ mn % Value Telecom 14,616 29% Oil and Gas 11,273 23% Pharma,Healthcare & Biotech 6,244 13% Metals & Ores 4,099 8% Banking & Financial Services 3,640 7% Mining 1,974 4% Power & Energy 1,500 3% Real Estate & Infrastructure ...

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Located in the main political and commercial cities of India they maintain the highest standards in all the services they offer. ... Vibrant and progressive, they retain the warmth and spirit of India. ... The people world-over relate the word Taj with India. ... The brand may additionally represent a certain culture. The organisation's culture encompasses employees' values and assumptions, which also guide their behaviour, particularly in novel situations (Wilkins and Ouchi, 1...

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The most distinctive and the largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture was the doctrine of ahimsa. It has given a definite bias to the history of the country for the last three thousand years and over and it has not ceased to be a living force in the lives of India's millions even today (Payne 46). ... Its teaching has so far permeated people that an armed revolution has almost become an impossibility in India not because they as a race are physically weak, but because the tradition of ahimsa has struck deep root among the people (Nair 134). ... It is impossible for Hindu...

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Throughout history body piercing have been practiced by many cultures for many centuries; it is believed as long as five thousand years. ... In our culture we have brought to the mainstream some of these ancient and tribal practices. ... Nose piercing was bought to India in the 16th Century from the Middle East by the Moghul emperors. In India a stud (Phul) or a ring (Nath) is usually worn in the left nostril, It is sometimes joined to the ear by a chain, and in some places both nostrils are pierced. ... In the west nose piercing first appeared among the hippies who travelled to India in the L...

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Born and educated in India her personality has developed within the Indian cultural ethos. ... Thus, she has an inborn knowledge of Indian culture and society which explains the fact that Markandaya's heroines are well drilled in the tenets of Indian ethos. ... Throughout history, womanhood in all its aspects has been glorified in India. The woman in India has been the subject of reverence and devotion in the form of goddesses such as Sita, Durga or Kali. ... This image of virtuous goddesses devoted to their husbands is the ideal image of Indian womanhood and it has persisted in cultur...

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While living in India, Kipling wrote his best works. Looking closely, one sees that Kipling wrote about India all his life; almost exclusively in his youth, but many years after he returned to England for good, he was still looking back to India and reexamining the Imperial experience (Bauer xii). ... Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule ( College Term Papers). The time in which this story takes place is around the late nineteenth century in British India. ... He wants the rea...

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The sinhalese with the influence of the Buddhist teaching developed their own unique culture and civilization. ... The story begins with the Neolithic culture represented by the megalithic monuments found in the island, and runs through the fusion of this culture with an immigrant Indo-Aryan civilization from North India. ... Legends relating to the settlement in this Island, of a people of Indo-Aryan culture,, were prevalent in ancient India. ... About the time that bands of Indo-Aryans were making this Island their home. momentous events were taking place in North India. ... Repeated invasio...

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V P Menon was the Constitutional Adviser to the last three Viceroys during British rule in India. ... Menon's plan for the partition of India into two Dominions was the one which was eventually adopted. ... His two books on the 'Transfer of Power in India' and 'The Integration of Indian States' are quoted widely. ... When he left India, famine stalked portions of the countryside. ... These would then decide whether to join India, Pakistan or be independent. ...

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Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. ... The Parsis and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. ... Like its predecessor, A Fine Balance treats India both kindly and harshly. ... But why does Mistry depend on India as a metaphor when he has lived in Canada for nearly twenty-five years? ... It's a Canadian book about India. ...

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Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. ... The Parsis and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. ... Like its predecessor, A Fine Balance treats India both kindly and harshly. ... But why does Mistry depend on India as a metaphor when he has lived in Canada for nearly twenty-five years? ... It's a Canadian book about India. ...

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In most sectors in India, branded commodities seem to be fighting the unbranded commodities for a slice of the market, rather than branded competitors. ... When this begins to happen, we will see a revolution in Branded Commodities in India. ... Business culture cheerleaders like author Tom Peters act unconcerned as brands rush into a corporate vacuum devoid of moral or philosophical underpinnings and create a razor-thin religious and social hybrid. ...

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History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... These measures could also be influenced by factors such as culture person lives in and one's past experience. ... In India first objects to represent feminine were terracotta figures. ... These figures had big hips, breasts and supple legs and were believed to stand for productiveness and fertility in India( Dhavalikat 178). ... The culture, be uniqueness and their heritage. ...

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Is it a disbelief that many Africans think African-Americans are lazy, ghetto, wild, careless, untrustworthy, devious, and they are continuously complaining about racism when everything has been given to them? For an African-American this question may be insulting but at the same time it is unfortun...

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One loose way of dividing modern Judaism is into four groups: Orthodox Jews maintain strict adherence to traditional customs; Reform or Liberal Jews attempt to apply broadly Judaic notions to customary culture in a humanistic manner; Conservative Jews are somewhere between the previous two; and Hasidic Jews are largely mystical in practice. ... The practice of Hinduism varies widely throughout India. ... Scholars believe he lived around 500 BC, and was...

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Four planes: Idea of "education" becomes an "aid to life" - a natural process all children undertake spontaneously, guided through ever evolving stages of development. Montessori had a profound respect for the child. She marveled at the constructive possibilities within the child, and hope for humankind that resided within each little person. She regarded children as fellow human beings, not as inferiors, and this freed her from the typical adult prejudices towards young children still commonly held today. Eventually, this open-minded and humble attitude allowed her to d...

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It is governed by the Registered Society of the Congregation of the Apostolic Carmel, India. The School prepares students for the All India Secondary School Examination (AISSE/Class 10) and All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE/Class 12). ...

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He becomes more self-assured and confident in whom he is and accepts his culture, country, color, and all the rest. ... The author refers to postmodernism as a form of contemporary culture and postmodernity as alluding to a specific historical period. ... Postmodernism is "a style of culture which reflects something of this epochal change, in a depthless, decentred, ungrounded, self-reflexive, playful, derivative, eclectic, pluralistic art which blurs the boundaries between "high" and "popular" culture, as well as between art and every day experience." ... Chapter 14: Globalizing Mass Cul...

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For example, in India in 1879, when it was under the British rule, many of the Hindu widows, lower caste women and children were sold by their parents during times of famine in Calcutta "red light area in India (Sleightholme and I. ... As Michel Foucault states, discourse' is a power of knowledge, one's culture, and belief in what is taught to be the norm in society. ...

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Over the history of the world, yoga has evolved from a religious practiced by holy men in India and Asia, to become part of mainstream fitness all over the world. ... It has been working its way through Western society ever since with the big boom happening in 1960's pop culture. ...

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However, in India, as in many other countries, there has been no understanding of the extent, magnitude and trends of the problem. The growing complexities of life and the dramatic changes brought about by socio-economic transitions in India have played a major role in increasing the vulnerability of children to various and newer forms of abuse. ... CHILD ABUSE – LOCAL STATISTICS (As per the Study on Child Abuse India 2007 by Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India) India is home to almost 19 percent of the world's children. ... In a country like India with its mult...

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Alexander the Great Alexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never struck without careful planning. The youthful, headstrong Alexander liked to settle problems by immediate action. Making decisions with great speed, he took extraordinary risks; his success was achieved by the amount of sheer force and drive to overcome these risks. Alexander was educated as a student by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. The philosopher imbued Alexander with a love of Greek art and poetry, and instilled in him a lasting interest in Philosophy and science. ...

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This lack of interest in Africa did not include The Cape Colony though, which the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade route to India. ...

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With its 110 million customers worldwide, a total of 16.5 million     In this paper, the organizational structure of HSBC will be analyzed with key details in the organizational structure, environment, strategies, technology, control, power, culture and effectiveness. ... In 2004, the Bank of Bermuda joined the Group and minority stakes were acquired in India's UTI  Bank and China's  Bank  of Communications Ltd. ... Organizational Strategies HSBC  aims to become the world's leading financial services company, seeking to increase rate of revenue growth by building a worl...

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