Vincent M Social Science

A TOUR TO MALAYSIA On the eve of 12 th January 2017, I started my maiden trip to Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country from my hometown Thiruvananthapuram. I reported at the airport 3 hours before and after the clearance, I got a window seat in the Malindo Airlines. After putting my handbag inside the cabin, I occupied my seat and looked around the airbus, the passengers and the airhostess who were showing the seats to others. The airhostesses were giving instruction to each one to wear the seat belt and to switch off the mobile phones as the journey was about to start. The airbus started to move sharp at 11.00 p.m. Though I was a little bit scared of, a person who was sitting near to me gave me a good company. We had a good talk with each other and I came to know that his daughter and his son-in-law were settling there. I preferred a non-vegetarian food along with a mango juice which was provided by the airlines after 20 minutes of its departure. I arrived at Kuala Lumpur, the cap...

Chapter 3 Nationalism in India  Nationalism It involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e., a nation.    Modern nationalism was associated with the formation of nation-states.    In India, as in many other colonies, the growth of nationalism is connected to the anti-colonial movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.  The First World War, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement The war played an important role in shaping India’s freedom struggle.    Increase in defence expenditure due to the war led to the increase in taxes, custom duties, prices and the introduction of war loans.    Extreme hardships, poverty and forced recruitments in the army made people hostile to the British rule.    During 1918–19 and 1920–21 , food shortages due to the fai...