Sports
India participated in the winter Olympics for the first time ever during the year 1964, in Innsbruck Austria. The only athlete to represent India in the Olympics was Jeremy Bujakowski. Jeremy Bujakowski participated in the Men’s downhill event Alpine Skinning, yet failed to finish the competition due to injury. However he then participated again in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble France. He participated in 3 events in Alpine Skiing: Men’s Downhill, Men’s Slalom, Men’s Giant Slalom, and ranked 2nd in heat 2 of Men’s slalom.
Wars
The Sino-Indian War began in the year 1962. The Sino-Indian war was a war between India and China that lasted for 1 month. The war started due to disputes in the Himalayan border and because India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. The war itself took place on the border, particularly around Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. The War ended on November 20th 1962. In April 1965 another war took place, called the Indo-Pakistani War. The war was fought by India and Pakistan over the disputed land in Kashmir. Most of the war took place on the border and Kashmir. The war lasted 5 months and ended due to a United Nations mandated ceasefire.
Politics
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. On 27th May 1964, he died in office due to a heart attack. Lal Bahadur Shastri became the next Prime Minister of India, however he died two years later in 1966. Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru) then became the Prime Minister of India. Also during 1966, Indira Gandhi visited Washington D.C. and Moscow in order to strengthen relations. On 6th May 1967, Zakir Hussain becomes the first Muslim President of India. In 1969, a major political event took place. The Indian National Congress splits into two factions. Indira Gandhi leads one, while Morarji Desai (an Indian Independence Activist) leads the other.
Agriculture:
The green revolution was a revolution in agriculture that occurred in India. The green revolution began in 1968. The purpose for the green revolution was to find a way to increase crop production, due to increasing famines that occurred during the 1950’ s-1970’s. Some farming techniques that were adopted during those times were Irrigation, use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and most importantly use of High Yielding Variety seeds or HYV seeds. HYV seeds are seeds that are better quality than normal seeds, and also produce more crops.
In a generation focused on social justice and the elimination of prejudice from our society, there is still a use of offensive language and terminology in the area of professional sports. In “The Indian Wars” by S. L. Price, Price attempts to make the reader aware of sports teams that use derogatory terms as their team name and their mascot. He does this by highlighting football, and trying to determine whether Native-Americans are offended by team names in sports, or more specifically, the Redskins. Price’s essay is ineffective because although he raises good points, he doesn’t help the reader to form an opinion by adding historical context to the derogatory names used. He also uses inaccurate poll results to make assumptions about the feelings
Even tho the green revolution had stopped starvation in some of the world, it has also caused some. The green revolution was the use of new technology to grow food for the people of the world that started in the 1950’s. These new technology were such things as Gmo’s, pesticides, fertilizers. The main goal was to stop hunger and make second and third world countries better and not living in poverty. The green revolution Raised the amount of food in the world, made the world's population increase in a dangerous rate and harmed and damaged the earth and its people.
The Green Revolution refers to development in technology and initiatives used in agriculture in the 1930s to the 1960s. It increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in developing nations. The leader of this revolution is Norman Borlaug, otherwise known as “Father of the Green Revolution.” The Green Revolution had many causes and consequences from 1945 to the present. Some causes were the inadequate amount of food available and land degradation. However, there were also consequences both negative and positive such as the new conflicts emerging and increase food supply.
By implementing new farming techniques provided with the new technological advances in machines we can see abundant harvest in even the poorest third world countries. For example, the Green Revolution has already showed admirable progress in the northern part of India ever since it took start in 1950. By 1997, northern India increased its grain production by 37 percent. This has proven that traditional farming methods are being rendered obsolete. And because by the year 2000, there will be half the land per person in developing countries as there was in 1970, we need to apply ultra-efficient methods to sustain the growing need. Not only does the Green Revolution enhances food output, it also preserves the environment.
The Agricultural Revolution changes the society from eating a Paleolithic diet to eating cultivated foods.
The Vietnam war started in December of 1956, and lasted until April of 1975. The war was between the U.S., and Vietnam. This war was a very gruesome, and tragic war. In Vietnam their leader Ho Chi Minh came back after a 30 year trip to explore around the world. When he returned his country was occupied by two major countries, Japan and France. Ho Chi Minh had a plan to run them out of his country, but he needed the U.S. for it to work. U.S. was still in the Cold war with Russia and there was fear of communism there. So the U.S. decided not to help Vietnam and send military aid to help the French and Japanese forces, in order to stop communism. Thus begun The vietnam war!
Donald Grinde is the author of The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation, one of the earliest books to argue for an Indian influence on the formation of the American democracy. Since Grinde’s publication and Bruce Johansen’s a year later, there has been a great deal of debate over this issue. Many of the most prominent opponents of the influence thesis have failed to distinguish between the arguments of more extreme authors, such as Gregory Schaaf, who claim that the Iroquois Gayanashagowa was copied by the U.S. Constitution, and those with a more moderate stance, like Johansen and Grinde, who simply point to a clear influence (Johansen, 1998). This paper intends to argue along the lines of these latter authors. Our founding fathers did not copy the Gayanashagowa or Great Law of Peace, but our Constitution was written with reflection upon the Iroquoian government with the goal of synthesizing this model into a form that could satisfy the needs of the American people. Given the evidence presented by Grinde and Johansen, it is clear that Native Americans influenced early U. S. political minds—if not directly, then at least indirectly.
Imperialism in India lasted 190 years, from 1757 to 1947. India was taken over by the British for their interests in the potential for power and goods that were available there. However, the British were pressured to take India by some of Europe, including the French and Dutch, because they all wanted to share the resources that could be removed. The overall effects on the British imperializing India were negative.
Nationalism proved to be very effective for the colonized people as it sparked up, in India, with the start of World War 1, and in Southeast Asia with the growth of Western political and economic interest. We hear about nationalism all the time, but I feel like not a lot of people know what it means. Britannica defines it as “An ideology based on the premise that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.” (Kohn). Nationalism helps a group of people form a sense of unity with each other, however, I think that nationalism could be a possible pathway to war and violence. Nationalism played a large part amongst the colonized people in India and Southeast Asia, and I hope to explore its impact on the freedom of their homelands.
Then the Opium war took place, this is when the British started selling Opium tea which was bad because Opium was a type of drug. Then the Chinese tried to stop the trade, so the British declared the war which the won. This forced the Chinese to sell Opium and to open treaty ports which gave new privileges to the British. Later on, China was divided into different economic influences due to the “spheres of influence”. Afterwards, the Taiping Rebellion start which was major revolts against Manchu Ruler which were put down with European help. Millions of Chinese died during the uprising. Then the Sino-Japanese War started when the Japanese went to war with the weakened China and defeated them. Then annexed Korea and create its own Sphere of Influence in China. The United States wanted some of the profitable trade. So they made the open door policy which was equal trading rights with China and with other nations. The Chinese formed a group known as “Boxers” which rebelled against western influence in
Technology, since the close environment and low-level of life quality. The native American usually had the life which obviously did not follow the corresponding time trend, they did not have the extensive eyesight compared with those white immigrants. Therefore, as the consequence, the native American did not have the advanced technology to develop the careers and improve their life standard. They lived with the way of originality.
The Transformation of the “Indian Problem”. In this paper, I plan to examine the marked transformation and the history of the so-called “Indian Problem.” The idea of an “Indian Problem” began with the arrival of white settlers in North America, and for them, it was a problem of safety, security, and land acquisition. Around 1890, the “Indian Problem” became an issue of how to help the Indians go extinct humanely, or to assimilate into white culture.
Imperialism in India British imperialism in India had many positive and negative effects on both the mother country, Britain and the colony, India. Many people would argue which effects were more prominent in these countries, and some would agree that they were equal. But in both cases, there were actually both. In India, the British colonization had more positive effects than negative. For instance, when the British colonized India they built 40,000 miles of railroad and 70,000 miles of paved roadway.
success of the green revolution that began in 1975, India has also become self-sufficient in food grains.
The Importance of Religion in Indian Politics India is the largest democratic country in the world, in the last fifty years it has travelled and been influenced by multiple social and economic changes in the future. Its independence from Britain in 1947. partition creating Pakistan and the Pakistan/ Indian debate over Kashmir has been a fundamental political movement within the past few years. As Y.B.Damle states, “Politics is concerned with goal-attainment and politics is the art of possibility”, the political process cannot. function without the structural features.