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Bhakti Movement: Meaning and Causes

Meaning of Bhakti Movement: The literal meaning of Bhakti is devotion. But the Bhakti movement implied the movement which emphasized intense devotion to God. This devotion was expressed by a devotee through the repetition of the name of Almighty. The mode of expression was usually singing and dancing in the praise of God. The saints of the Bhakti movement also [...]

By |2015-08-08T10:00:38+05:30November 29, 2014|History of India|Comments Off on Bhakti Movement: Meaning and Causes

Workers’ Movement in British Colonial India

In British colonial India, the unrest of the peasants and the workers was a well-established common feature, as the colonial set-up was interested in gaining maximum revenue from the cultivator and wanted to obtain maximum profit by paying meager wages to the workers. But by the time we come to the second decade of the 20th century, due to the [...]

By |2015-08-08T12:05:17+05:30July 31, 2014|History of India|Comments Off on Workers’ Movement in British Colonial India
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