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  India Enciclopedia
La población india aumenta al año de cerca de 19 millones de individuos (consecuencia de una fecundidad de 3,1 niño por mujer por término medio - contra 1,7 para China).
La India, a causa de la naturaleza democrática de su régimen político, orienta su política sobre la responsabilidad individual (centros de información sobre la contracepción) más que sobre políticas vinculantes, contrariamente a China donde la política impuesta del niño único no ha variado desde su entrada en vigor (salvo adaptaciones para las poblaciones rurales).
India Sagrada Colección de artículos sobre literaturas, religiones y filosofías de la India, en Transoxiana 9, Diciembre 2004.
enciclopedia.cc /topic/India.html   (3157 words)

  
  Hardgrave article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Yet minority interests are typically expressed in terms of group identity, and political demands may call for the protection or promotion of language, religion, and culture, or of the "group" more generally, in ways that conflict not only with "the will of the majority," but with constitutional guarantees of individual rights and equal protection.
For India, the state--now divided by a "line of control"--is fully a part of the Indian union; with its 65-percent Muslim population, it stands as a symbolic rebuttal to the "two nation" theory that underlay the founding of Pakistan.
The growth of the BJP is reflected in its increase in seats in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament--from 2 seats won in 1984 (7.4 percent of the vote) to 85 seats (11.4 percent) in 1989, and, contesting twice as many seats as in earlier elections, 119 seats (21 percent) in t991.
asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/india/Hardgrave.html   (5865 words)

  
  Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Chittagong Hill Tribes have four of the factors that increase the likelihood of rebellion in the future: sporadic violent acts in the region in 1999 and 2000; territorial concentration; Bangladesh's limited history of democratic rule; and a history of lost autonomy.
The Chittagong Hill Tribes primarily reside in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of southeastern Bangladesh.
The tribes are substantially underrepresented in the political and economic arenas primarily due to historical neglect (POLDIS00, ECDIS00 = 1).
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/bangcht.htm   (1112 words)

  
 Minorities
All India Minorities Front All India Minorities Front is a political party in muslim minority.
Ethnic minorities in Iran The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.
Religious minorities in Iran The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/minorities.html   (119 words)

  
 Front
Front A front, in addition to its common, may specifically refer to: a boundary of two airmasses a conflict a Soviet A...
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Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy is a Djibouti.
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 Commanding Heights : India | on PBS
India becomes a republic in 1950, with a largely ceremonial president as head of state.
India acquires the former French settlement of Pondicherry and forcibly annexes the Portuguese enclaves of Goa and Daman and Diu.
India courts Southeast Asia with its "Look East" policy; it holds preliminary trade talks with the regional organization ASEAN, and free trade deals are in the works with Thailand and Singapore.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/in/in_full.html   (4829 words)

  
 India's Self Denial by F. Gautier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Firstly, that until the 18th century, in spite of the repeated Muslim invasions, India was known as one of the richest countries of the world, the land "of milk and honey".
The politicians of ancient India were princes and kings belonging to the kshatriya caste; their duty was to serve the nation and high ideals were held in front of them by the brahmins and rishis who advised them.
India will become the spiritual leader of the world : "It is this religion that I am raising-up before the world, it is this that I have perfected and developed through the Rishis, Saints, and Avatars, and now it is going forth to do my work among the nations.
www.hindu.org /publications/fgautier/selfdenial.html   (8912 words)

  
 people's front programme
India, despite its immense material and human resource potential, is plagued by backwardness and impoverishment of its vast majority of people.
Such a transformation is crucial to shape a modern vibrant India in the 21st century --- a transformation that needs to be guided by the unflinching commitment to strengthen the principles of secular democracy, federalism, social justice and self-reliance.
Such a front is based on a common minimum programme, which would provide the basis for giving the country a new direction and fulfil its immense potential.
www.cpim.org /documents/pf_programme.htm   (2577 words)

  
 Tribes
Tribes Tribes is a series of Starsiege, there are four games in the Tribes series:, released for 1998 2001, released f...
Tribes Hill, New York Tribes Hill is a community located in the Town of Mohawk in 2000 census, the area had a total popu...
Tribes of Galway The fourteen families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of Lynch family, in parti...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/tribes.html   (351 words)

  
 Kerala,Kerala Tourism,Kerala India Tours
Sandwiched between the Lakshwadeep Sea and the Western Ghats, Kerala is a bustling little green-and-silver, coconuts-and-water state on the west coast of India.
After Alexander's triumphant sweep over Asia Minor, the ports of Kerala became a link between the Middle East, the Mediterranean and China.
Therayattam festival is held to propitiate the gods and demons recognized by the pantheon of the Malayalis.
kerala.indiantravelportal.com   (670 words)

  
 Address by the President KR Narayanan to Parliament - October 25, 1999
I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country in whose making they have an effective voice; an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people; an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony...
India seeks to further deepen and broaden her relations with the United States of America, on the basis of the values and ideals we both share.
India highly values her cordial and steadily growing relations with the countries of Central Asia, West Asia, East and South-East Asia and the Pacific, as well as Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
www.indianembassy.org /special/cabinet/president/address_parliament_Oct_25_1999.htm   (4585 words)

  
 India: Hindu Nationalism and Orissa: Minorities As Other
Ethnic, minority and marginalised groups are subject to the political and economic violence of Brahminism via which they are forced to frame their political and cultural aspirations.
Legitimation of adivasi and dalit rights has been a process laden with inequities, and the notification and denotification of tribes is often used as a political tool to undermine adivasi self determination by not recognising their status, claims and rights vis-Ã -vis the state.
India Development Relief Fund is one such organisation that, post cyclone, raised $90,660 for Sookruti, $23,255 for Orissa Cyclone Rehabilitation Foundation, and $37,560 for Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti, as documented in the report 'Foreign Exchange of Hate' in 2002.
www.minesandcommunities.org /Country/india14.htm   (5180 words)

  
 Hindutva, Religious and Ethnocultural Minorities, and Indian-Christian Theology
Minorities, such as Dalit and Adivasi communities who experience and assert their cardinal differences from the Hindutva ideology, are particularly equipped and obliged to project and promote worldviews that are more amiable to plurality and thus less hostile to difference.
One significant activity of God in India, I argue, is revealed in the resistive-liberative efforts of the Dalit, Adivasi, and Christian communities to counter the colonizing propensities of hinduizing forces and to contribute their human resources for life in all its related fullness.
Minorities safeguard their particularities in the religio-cultural realm, which is under threat through the homogenizing tendency of Hindutva.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2443   (12400 words)

  
 South Asian Media Net
Constitution of India stipulates that India be a federal polity with a central government in New Delhi, and state governments for the various states and Union territories.
India are classified as national and state (regi onal) parties based on their realms of influence.
The National Front coalition that was formed consisted of the Janata Dal and a few smaller parties in the government, and had outside support from the BJP and the Communists.
www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm   (2451 words)

  
 The Baloch National Question | India Defence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
India, which had played a supportive and later interventionist role in creating Bangladesh, was keen to carry forward the process of Pakistan’s break-up, and thus offered the Balochis some assistance.
Entire tribes were driven out of their homes, crops and orchards were burnt, livestock was stolen, and examples were made of the young leaders of the revolt.
The problems of these tribes, particularly the alleged suppression of their culture, are some cause of heartburn among the Baloch across the border.
www.india-defence.com /print/31   (5497 words)

  
 Asia Society: Publications - The Twelfth Election of India's Lok Sabha
India's internal market was considered by the first generation of leaders and economists to be large enough to make international trade virtually irrelevant, and central planning was deemed superior to reliance on markets for economic development.
India is looking for what may be called a mature friendship--a friendship that emphasizes, even celebrates, what is common between the two nations, but can also survive their differences.
India is widely recognized among political scientists to be the greatest exception to liberal democratic theory.
www.asiasociety.org /publications/update_indian_elections.html   (9873 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage
So the Congress will never tolerate harassment of minorities in the name of detection and deportation of illegal infiltrators from Assam,” the Congress chief said.
Sonia repeated the Congress’ “commitment” to ensure socio-economic development of the minorities and informed that a minority cell had been formed to look into the grievances of the community in Assam.
Gogoi targeted the AGP and the newly formed Assam United Democratic Front.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060407/asp/frontpage/story_6069142.asp   (367 words)

  
 INDIA 50 - Prime Minister's Speech on this occassion
I want to reiterate that India is willing to offer a number of concessions to the neighbouring countries for their economic prosperity but there can be no compromise on the issues of sovereignty, terrorism and secular unity.
India is about to enter this new edifice of greatness which is waiting for us.
We shall make a country, a country of equals; a country which is socially just; a country where woman gets her status, where the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and minorities occupy a place of primacy.
www.india50.com /speecH6.html   (1577 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : Two Commissions for minorities: Manmohan
Calling upon the participants to come up with ideas that could enable the Government to increase the educational attainment of the minorities across the country so that they were empowered socially and economically, he said the need was to go beyond providing education to examine issues pertaining to employment.
"I am distressed by the low representation of the minorities in many walks of life, both in the public and the private sectors,'' he said drawing attention to the gravity of the problem in creating an inclusive and tolerant society, where the benefits of economic development were shared by all.
Suggesting the possibility of integration of community efforts and governmental initiatives for the uplift of the minority groups, Dr. Singh said that community-based educational institutions could be effectively used as a means to promoting other important social objectives such as primary health care and family welfare.
www.hinduonnet.com /2004/07/04/stories/2004070400800100.htm   (442 words)

  
 India
The ineffective investigation and prosecution of attacks on religious minorities could be seen by some extremists as a signal that such violence may be committed with impunity.
Religious minorities in the northern area of the country are concerned that attacks on religious minorities no longer appear to be confined to Gujarat and Orissa.
The February 2001 incident was the first attack against the Kashmir Valley's minority Sikh population since the March 2000 killing of 35 Sikh men in the village of Chatti Singhpora in south Kashmir.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24470.htm   (10968 words)

  
 Asia 5
In January 1999, when Pakistan's cricket team was set to travel to India for a series of test matches, members of the Shiv Sena dug up the pitch at a New Delhi stadium that was to host the first match and ransacked the headquarters of the Board of Control for Cricket in Bombay.
Gita Hariharan's application for financial bonds in the name of her minor child had been rejected by the Reserve Bank of India on the basis of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act of 1956, which regards the father, and only after him the mother, as the natural guardian of a minor.
In response to India's nuclear tests in May 1998, Japan halted all new grant aid (with the exception of emergency and humanitarian aid and grant assistance for grassroots projects) and all new yen loans in accordance with Japan's Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Charter.
www.hrw.org /wr2k/Asia-04.htm   (3271 words)

  
 Kaumudi Online - Offline Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mukherjee said India has told Chinese authorities that the comments that "the entire Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory" should not have come from its envoy particularly on the eve of President Hu Jintao's visit to India earlier this week.
All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) chief M S Bitta told a joint news conference with family members of the slain security personnel that he would move the court to seek reopening of case against S A R Geelani, whom he accused of defending Afzal after his own acquittal in the same case.
On the Secondary Education front, the report said that the 11th Plan must aim to progressively raise the minimum level of education to high school or Class X level.
www.kaumudi.com /news/112506/x_headlines.stm   (14097 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: India
In general religious minorities in the northern area of the country are concerned that attacks on religious minorities no longer appear to be confined to Gujarat and Orissa.
There were no reports of the forced religious conversion of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
The Bishop of the Evangelical Church of India, a small Protestant denomination, was refused an audience with the Chief Minister of Gujarat to discuss this case.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/14023.htm   (9405 words)

  
 Aspects of India's Economy No. 38
India must shine in the cities and the villages." His finance minister began his Budget speech by declaring that the election had been "a vote for change".
India is not currently in any IMF structural adjustment programme, yet the UPA government behaves as if it is in one: such is the coercive political hold of imperialism over the Indian State.
India and Mauritius have concluded a treaty whereby a company from one country will not be taxed in the other country, on the argument that this would be 'double taxation', ie the company would be paying taxes in both countries.
www.rupe-india.org /38/budget.html   (9401 words)

  
 Prime Minister of India
The Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, the Minorities, Women, children, the disabled, senior citizens, people living in the far reaches of this vast land, in Jammu and Kashmir, in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, in Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
The “New Deal for Rural India” that we have promised will be based on a new programme of rural development that we have called “Bharat Nirman”.
India’s dialogue with the G-8 is an important recognition of our place in the world.
pmindia.nic.in /lspeech.asp?id=128   (2353 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : Two Commissions for minorities: Manmohan
Calling upon the participants to come up with ideas that could enable the Government to increase the educational attainment of the minorities across the country so that they were empowered socially and economically, he said the need was to go beyond providing education to examine issues pertaining to employment.
"I am distressed by the low representation of the minorities in many walks of life, both in the public and the private sectors,'' he said drawing attention to the gravity of the problem in creating an inclusive and tolerant society, where the benefits of economic development were shared by all.
Suggesting the possibility of integration of community efforts and governmental initiatives for the uplift of the minority groups, Dr. Singh said that community-based educational institutions could be effectively used as a means to promoting other important social objectives such as primary health care and family welfare.
www.hindu.com /2004/07/04/stories/2004070400800100.htm   (442 words)

  
 The South Asian: India Archives
With economists, bureaucrats, policy-makers, industrialists, and even the media jumping on to the bandwagon, with “Brand India” becoming the ethos of the upwardly mobile middle class, it is imperative that the implications of such branding be critically analyzed.
India has one of the poorest sex ratios in the world and among the most skewed literacy rates.
The UNDP Development Indices for India presented a large gender divide in India forcing us to acknowledge that in times of increased economic growth, women in modern India continue to face systemic discrimination and are disempowered.
www.thesouthasian.org /archives/cat_india.html   (2622 words)

  
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