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  Rajaji :: Indian Leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rajaji was born in Thorapalli village of Salem district on 10th of December 1878.
Rajaji led a mass movement in south which is a replica of the Dandi March.
Rajaji was arrested as he resigned from his office due to the declaration of Quit India Movement.
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  C. Rajagopalachari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rajaji was perhaps the earliest Congress leader in the 1940s to admit to the likelihood of the Partition.
Rajaji was known to be a fierce defender of his political ideals, and did not hesitate to contradict his closest aides and friends in public, whenever he sensed a threat to them.
Swami was visiting a student hostel where Rajaji was staying, and he drew the attention of the inmates of the hostel to a painting of Lord Vishnu hanging over the wall and asked them as to why Vishnu' in all his images, was always depicted as blue.
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 Chakravarti Rajgopalachari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rajaji was a fierce opponent of untouchability, caste discrimination, alcoholism and the oppression of women, and his efforts and leadership were the pivotal force behind the nationalist movement in Tamil Nadu and South India in general.
Rajaji became the undisputed choice of Premier for the Madras Presidency, and served from 1934 to 1938 in that capacity.
Rajaji was the senior-most South Indian leader in the freedom struggle, and his prestige and leadership in Tamil Nadu enjoyed an unquestionable status.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chakravarti_Rajgopalachari   (910 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rajaji thought that the making of atom bombs was the product of hubris, with modern man believing he “had the rights and privileges of the sun or even of the Lord God himself”.
Rajaji’s campaign against nuclear arms culminated in a journey he made to the United Kingdom and the United States of America in 1962, at the head of a three-member delegation travelling under the auspices of the Gandhi Peace Foundation.
When Rajaji spoke at the council of foreign relations, the leader of the American delegation to the UN disarmament conference in Geneva told Shiva Rao: “Why don’t you send this man to represent India at Geneva?” Altogether, Rajaji had made “a deep impression on all the persons he saw in the USA and England”.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030513/asp/opinion/story_1960198.asp   (1143 words)

  
 Royal Carpet Carnatic Composers: C. RajagOpalachari (Rajaji)
Rajaji was born on December 8, 1878 in Thorapalli Village near Hosur in Salem District of Tamilnadu.
Rajaji eventually gave up his law practice for the sake of the country.
Once when an ancestor of Rajaji was bathing in the river near their village, he saw a dead body come floating down the river.
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 C. Rajagopalachari -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Since then, many political critics have reappraised Rajaji as a visionary whose intellect was under-utilized and neglected for political reasons.
Rajaji became a member of (Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964)) Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet, first without portfolio, then as Minister for Home Affairs.
Rajaji also composed a hymn " " which was sung in 1966 at the United Nations by M.S. Subbulakshmi, again.
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 Rajaji Foundation inaugurated - Sify.com
Inaugurating the Rajaji Foundation, former chief election commissioner J M Lyngdoh highlighted Rajaji''s ability in governance and recalled his efforts in bringing to an end the communal flare-up in West Bengal when he was Governor of that state.
Rajaji, he said, was "the most outstanding statesman, progressive in his social reforms, a writer, witty and humorous".
Rajaji was also the first person to recognise that the future would be an era of coalition governments, he said.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chilla, Motichur and Rajaji sanctuaries lie in the Pauri Garhwal, Dehra Dun and Saharanpur districts, respectively.
Motichur and Rajaji wildlife sanctuaries lie to the north and south of this ridge, respectively.
Rajaji and Motichur sanctuaries are dissected by many ravines which descend gently from the main ridge, becoming broad and full of boulders and pebbles.
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 Rajaji National Park,Rajaji Wildlife National Park in Uttranchal,Rajaji National Park Tour
Rajaji National Park in the state of Uttranchal is situated along the hills and foothills of Shivalik ranges in the Himalayan foothills and exhibits the Shivalik ecosystem.
Rajaji is one of northern India’s major wildlife reserves - and one of the best places to see the fauna and flora of the terai region.
Rajaji National Park is a paradise for nature lovers and wildlife enthusiasts, the ecosystem of the park is adorned with elephants, tigers, leopards, deer and ghorals as its best known life forms This area is the North Western Limit of Asian elephants.
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 Rajaji National Park, Rajaji tigers sanctuary, Rajaji wildlife sanctuary, Rajaji Tiger tours, Tigers tour in Rajaji, ...
Rajaji National Park is situated along the hills and foothills of Shiwalik ranges in the Himalayan foothills and represents the Shiwalik eco-system.
Rajaji National Park is distinct for its pristine scenic beauty and rich bio- diversity.
The Rajaji National Park is rich in faunal wealth because of the varied types of ecological niches existing in the reserve.
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 The Hindu : Rajaji's unknown collaborator
When a future President, R. Venkataraman met Rajaji to condole with the septuagenarian at Devadas's going, Rajaji told RV it was not a great thing to live a great age, "One has to bear the sorrows of the next generation".
If Rajaji had an intellectual difficulty in capturing the metaphysical totality of the Lord and His Consort at Tiruchanoor, he was in the company of a man who had difficulty in accessing the physicality of the deities.
Rajaji, with surpassing humility, holds his apprehension of Reality as limited by his own mental confines, but he accepts what he is given and does not claim more.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2002/12/22/stories/2002122200220100.htm   (1701 words)

  
 Kamat's Potpourri: Famous Indians -- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Rajaji was born in Thorapalli village of Salem District, Tamilnadu on 10th of December 1878.
Rajaji himself had his schooling in Hosur and higher education in Central College of Bangalore of Karnataka.
Rajaji by then had moved to Madras to practice at High Court and had built up a lucrative practice in no time.
www.kamat.com /kalranga/people/famous/rajaji.htm   (981 words)

  
 Philosophical Ramblings: Rajaji Speaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rajaji says this in the context of Vali's death, which Kishkinda mourned for a while, and then returned to revelry with Sugreeva's coronation.
Mandodari's dolorous lament is similarly moving, while she exclaims that she was once wife of the ruler of Lanka, and mother of Indrajit the conqueror of the Gods, while now she stands hapless and with only laments.
Rajaji develops Ravana well as a character, and that provides justification for the events of the story all the more.
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 Tehelka.com
Rajaji and Mountbatten: The Mountbattens got engaged in 1922 in room 13 of the viceregal lodge in Simla.
Rajaji told Gandhiji “it is not salt but disobedience you are manufacturing”.
Rajaji always kept this picture by his bed.
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 Rajaji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rajaji era conocido para ser un defensor feroz de sus ideales políticos, y no vaciló contradecir sus ayudantes más cercanos y los amigos en público, siempre que él detectara una amenaza a ellos.
Rajaji sintió bien a un miembro del gabinete de Jawaharlal Nehru, primero sin lista, entonces como ministro para los asuntos caseros.
Rajaji también compuso un himno "aquí debajo de esta azotea de unión" que fue cantada en 1966 en los Naciones Unidas por M.S. Subbulakshmi, otra vez.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ra/Rajaji.htm   (999 words)

  
 C. Rajagopalachari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After serving time in British prisons for his work in the independence movement, he became a member of the in 1946.
Some of his poetry was set to music and sung by Carnatic music's dominant personality M S Subbulakshmi at several occasions of importance, and once at the Kurai Onrum illai (http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c1296.html) (meaning - I have no unfulfilled desires left, oh!
Rajaji also composed a hymn "Here under this Uniting Roof (http://www.switzerinstrument.com/Rajaji-Original/here_under_this_uniting_roof.htm)" which was sung in 1966 at the United Nations, again by M.S. Subbulakshmi.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rajaji   (941 words)

  
 Make My Trip:: Rajaji National Park
Rajaji National Park is known for its immaculate scenic beauty and rich biodiversity.
A haven for nature lovers and wildlife enthusiasts, the wildlife of the park is blessed with elephants, tigers, leopards and deer as its best known life forms.
The wildlife here includes elephant, tiger, panther, bear, chital, sambar, wild boar, kakar, python, monitor lizard and a large variety of avian fauna.
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 Tribals Return To Rajaji Park
RAJAJI PARK (Uttaranchal): The Government's plan to relocate a tribal community away from a protected animal reserve in Uttaranchal seems to have come unstuck with the targeted groups returning to their forest homes.
Forest officials now fear that the park's greenery may once again be depleted as tribals fell trees indiscriminately for fuel and graze their cattle in the forest areas.
Spread over an area of 820 sq km and ensconced in the Shivalik hills, the Rajaji National Park was declared a protected zone in 1983 to save animals like elephants, tigers and deer from poaching.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It is 13km south-east of Dehra Dun, 9km from Hardwar and Rishikesh and 200km north of Delhi.
The national park includes three erstwhile sanctuaries: Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla which were originally established on 8 October 1948, 1935 and 25 January 1977, respectively.
The former Motichur and Rajaji sanctuaries are contiguous with each other, but separated from the erstwhile Chilla Sanctuary to the south-east by the Ganges River, Chilla River and agricultural and settled land, which are included within the park.
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 Human Conflicts in Wild Life Conservation: A Case Study of Rajaji National Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Rajaji National Park is amongst the 75 National Parks and 421 Wild Life Sanctuaries in India.
Rajaji is an interesting habitat on account of its location at the meeting point of the Lesser Himalayan foothills and the beginning of the vast Indo-Gangetic plains.
This restriction has led to a two pronged resistance in Rajaji National Park from the Gujjars and the residents of the 57 villages on the periphery of the declared Park.
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 Tourism in Rajaji National Park, Rajaji National Park Tourism India, Tourism of Rajaji National Park, India Tourism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Rajaji National Park is named after the first Indian Governor General of India and well-known freedom fighter, C. Rajagopalachari or Rajaji, as he was popularly known.
The park was established in 1983 after amalgamating three wildlife sanctuaries, namely, Rajaji, Motichur, and Chilla in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.
Rajaji National Park is located in the Western Himalayan state of Uttaranchal.
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 rajaji national park,nanda devi sanctaury, valley of flowers
Rajaji National Park, spread in an area of about 820 Sq.Kms., is one of the latest additions to the list of national Parks in the country.
Nestled in the Shiwalik Hills and Lying between the Lower Himalayas and the Upper Gangetic Plains, it is the northwestern most habitat of the Asian Elephant.
In keeping with this lack of outside influence, the villagers in the area are still traditional in habit and revere the landscape and nature that surrounds them as sacred.
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 Rediff On The NeT, Movies: The Rajaji review
The storyline has Govinda playing a brat (Rajaji) who thinks being rich is his destiny and who has no qualms about filching a grand from his dad's pockets.
Rajaji decides to go to Bombay to earn pots of money, being under the impression that the city's roads are paved with gold.
Meanwhile, Rajaji is so eager to marry the girl that he doesn't entertain the thought that his swain could be poor.
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 Interview with Raghavan Rajaji, Manugistics Group: TWST
Rajaji: The company is nearly 20-plus years old, and it was one of the original companies to recognize the benefits of using operations research to solve day-to-day business problems.
Rajaji: In order to become the leader in our space, we consciously and very strategically decided to go and invest in a pricing and revenue optimization solution, which really differentiates us from our competition in terms of the footprint.
Rajaji: As I just said before, one of the things that we really are very bullish on is the pricing and revenue optimization.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/naa253.html   (1142 words)

  
 Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Rajaji
Rajaji is not as good the recently released Anari No. 1.
However there are moments in Rajaji which are hilarious, for example the scene where Govinda is getting ready to go to work while waiting at the bus stop.
Rajaji can only be recommended as a time-pass fillum and nothing more.
www.planetbollywood.com /film/rajaji.html   (446 words)

  
 Rajaji National Park,rajaji national park tour,wildlife in uttranchal,rajaji national park travel,uttranchal wildlife ...
Rajaji National Park is distinct for its pristine scenic beauty and rich biodiversity.
Three sanctuaries in the Dehradun Shivaliks- Rajaji National Park, Motichur and Chilla were amalgamated into a large protected area and named Rajaji National Park in the year 1983 after the famous freedom fighter Late Sri C. Rajgopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji.
Spread over an area of 820.42 sq kms., Rajaji is a magnificent ecosystem nestled in the Shivalik ranges and the beginning of the vast Indo-Gangetic plains, thus representing vegetation of several distinct zones and forest types like riverine, broad-leaf mixed forests, Chirpine forests, scrubland and grassy pasturelands.
www.wildlifeinindia.com /rajaji-national-park.html   (495 words)

  
 Asia Pacific Financial Review - Remember Rajaji?  When cows go non-veg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Rajaji was disinclined to make cow a non-vegetarian.
The story of how Rajaji dealt with the bone-meal project was related to reporters years ago by the late T.A.Pai, former union minister and Syndicate Bank Chairman.
Rajaji might not have any presentiment about the raging mad cow disease.
www.thefinancialreview.com /290103/rajaji.htm   (464 words)

  
 Rajaji National Park India, Information about Rajaji National Park Uttaranchal
The Rajaji National Park is rich in faunal wealth because of the varied types of ecological niches existing in the reserve.
The main groups occur are mammals, birds, reptiles (snakes and lizards), amphibians (frogs and toads) butterflies and fishes, and chiefly the invertebrate groups are, the Scorpions, Centipedes, Odonata (dragon and damselflies), Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, etc.) Isoptera (termites) and Lepidoptera which comprises more than 60 species.
The butterfly fauna of the Park is very rich and repersented by as many as 60 species under eight families, out of the known nine families of the Butterflies known from the adjoining ares chiefly Garhwal And Kumaon hills of the Himalaya.
www.cultureholidays.com /wildlife/rajaji-national-park.htm   (752 words)

  
 Rajaji Park beefs up security to save its tiger population:- - India News - Webindia123.com
Spread over an area of 820 square kilometres and ensconced in the Shivalik Hills, the Rajaji National Park was declared a protected zone in 1983 to save animals like elephants, tigers and deer from poaching.Authorities in Rajaji park have increased patrolling and the number of guards in and around the park.
Right now except for one range we have made effort to rehabilitate most of the tribals but their actual movement out of the park will take a few more months so the security situation is still very sensitive," he said.
Forest tribals, known as Van Gujjars, were the traditional inhabitants of the Rajaji National Park, but over the years increasing population and modernisation of their lifestyles has led to massive deforestation and poaching of rare animals.
www.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=76033&cat=India   (568 words)

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