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WOMEN: The Emergence of Women's Status from Ancient to Modern India, Role of Women and Women's Organization

Historical data signified that women have had many roles in civilization since ancient times and these roles are changing over the period. In a society, the status of people can be assessed by the importance of women in that culture. Many factors that rationalize the magnitude of India's ancient culture is the respectable place granted to women. In ancient culture, women had to suffer from unequal conditions, but as time passed, females had enhanced their status to get equality to the men. Earlier, women were only allowed for doing domestic activity and their contribution in public was very restricted.      The status of women in India has been subjected to many great changes over the past decades. From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been exciting.    However, women in India generally are still exposed to numerous soci...

POPULATION: India's population problems and Associated Issues

Population Growth can be defined as the change in population over time and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population as "per unit time". In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. The World is facing a major challenge of a rapid increase in the human population since the last many decades. The world population was estimated to have reached 7.8 billion in April 2020. In various parts of the globe, there is unparalleled rapid demographic change and the most noticeable example of this change is the vast expansion of humans. Statistical reports indicated that China and India are nations with the largest population in the world. Due to massive land and lack of contraception , the population is mounting at a rapid rate within these countries. India has the second-largest population in the world and will soon exceed China.  Population explosion in developing countries such as India is a matter of...

COMMUNISM: Failure of Communism in India, Pros and Cons of Communism, Difference between Socialism and Communism

Communism is an economic system where the group owns the factors of production. Communism, a political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism —a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. German philosopher Karl Marx developed the theory of communism.      For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and little dissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a command economy in which the state-controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals.      The inefficiency o...