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Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra gives a vivid picture of the life of a nagaraka or city-bred wealthy man of fashion. He lived in a harmya or prasada with a pleasure-garden attached to it. Various kinds of flowers and vegetables were grown in the garden under the care of the nagaraka’s wife.

The term ‘welfare state’ describes collectively a range of social policies that aim to provide basis services such as health and education, according to the need and normally, free of charge through state funding….

The following factors contributed to the emergence of Indian national consciousness. 1. Development of Means of Communication and Transport 2. Impact of Western Education : 3. Economic Exploitation of India : 4. Socio-Religious Reform Movements: 5. Emergence of Modern Press and Nationalist Literature : 6. Racial arrogance of the British:

Since the Second World War, economic planning has been adopted by the UDCs the world over as an instrument of economic development. As Samuelson observes, “Today all over the underdeveloped world…

Liberalism is too dynamic and flexible a concept to be contained in a precise definition. Right from its inception, it has been continuously changing, adding something and discarding the other. As Alblaster writes….

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), founded by a dozen countries in 1989,has become a forum of twenty-one countries that address economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. This diverse group includes the US, Canada, China, Taiwan…

The terms of the Treaty were very harsh, severe, disgraceful and humiliating. The terms of Treaty were dictated by the victors on Germany. Germany was compelled to sign it by threat of invasion…

One of the important reasons for growth of socialist Ideas has been the great depression of 1930 which had shattered the faith of people in Capitalism. U.S.S.R. had already completed its two economic Plans successfully…

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization in the world with 55 participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North America. It is active in early warning, conflict prevention…

Causes of the Russian Revolution are the condition of the farmers and workers in Russia had become very miserable and pathetic. The autocratic rule of Czar Nicholas II had become inefficient…

The Revolutionaries carried the message of nationalism in and outside the country.Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose orga­nized Azad Hind Fauj and gave us the slogan ‘Give me blood, I will give you me freedom….

In January 1994, Canada, the United States and Mexico launched the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and formed the world’s largest free trade area. Designed to foster increased trade and investment among the partners….

The British Rule in India ruined Indian industry and trade. With the growth of cotton industry in England following the Industrial Revolution and with growing restrictions on imports into Europe, the British Government followed a policy…

The European Union (EU) is a unique, treaty-based institutional framework that defines and manages economic and political cooperation among its fifteen European member countries. The Union is the latest stage in a process of integration begun in the 1950s …

Imperialism became the fashion of the age. Writers and speakers in England, France and Germany opened institutions to promote the idea of imperialism, and took great pride in calling their territories empires….

He was the first Indian to take the lead in the direction of social reform and has been rightly called the father of modern India. All the efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy were devoted to modern knowledge and to modernisation of Indian society…