July 24, 2021
As there was no response to the eleven point ultimatum, the movement of civil disobedience was launched based on the issue of salt. Salt was an item of basic necessity for all and any taxation on it would affect the poorest of the poor, thus salt became the symbol of the deprivation and oppression of the Indian people.
Read more ...July 24, 2021
The electrical resistance is the tendency to resist the flow of electric current. A wire having a desired resistance for use in an electric circuit is called a resistor.
Read more ...July 23, 2021
Amidst this reformulation and resurgence of the revolutionary movement and the subdued state of the mainstream movement was announced the Simon Commission to formulate further constitutional reforms for India. The all-white commission did not include any Indian and thus it was clear that the forthcoming reforms, if any, would not fulfill the aspirations of the Indian people.
Read more ...July 23, 2021
Matter is made up of protons, electrons and neutrons. Protons carry positive charge, electrons carry negative charge and neutrons do not carry any charge. An atom is electrically neutral but if a body carries excess of protons than the electrons, the body gets positively charge. If the body has excess of electrons than the protons, body gets negatively charged.
Read more ...July 22, 2021
The spontaneous upsurge of the non-cooperation movement released the great force of India’s youth that were determined to wrest freedom. The youth of the country had responded eagerly to the call of Gandhi and had participated in the non-cooperation movement.
Read more ...July 22, 2021
All electrical appliances like a bulb or a heater's coil are based on the movement of charges. Like flowing water constitute water current in rivers, similarly electric charge flowing through a conductor or a metallic wire constitutes electric current - the quantity of charge flowing per unit time.
Read more ...July 21, 2021
Martial law was imposed in Punjab after the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. Inhuman treatment was meted out to Indians e.g. men were made to crawl on their bellies in the bylane where a European woman had been attacked. Although the Rowlatt satyagraha had been withdrawn, the feeling of resentment toward British rule grew even more bitter.
Read more ...July 21, 2021
Consider a charge q is placed at a point. Let B and C be two points where point B is closer to q than C. If a charge q is brought from infinity to C or from infinity to B work done respectively be WC and WB.
Read more ...July 20, 2021
The British Government introduced the next set of constitutional reforms in 1919 (The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms). Although these reforms claimed to have brought forth local self-government and considerable autonomy to Indians, they kept the real powers firmly in British hands.
Read more ...July 20, 2021
Consider an uncharged body like a glass rod which is given a certain charge (say a positive charge), the body acquires that charge. Now if you add more charge of the same nature on it, the charge will experience a force of repulsion due to already existing charge on it.
Read more ...July 19, 2021
Balgangadhar Tilak who served a jail sentence from 1908-1914, returned to the Congress which had now become more open to him after the disappointment of the Council elections under the Morley Minto reforms.
Read more ...July 19, 2021
The Coulomb’s Law governs the force between the charged particles. It was first studied by a French physicist Charles Augustine de Coulomb. Coulomb presented the inference of his experiments in the form of a law which is called Coulomb's law.
Read more ...July 18, 2021
The rift between the moderates and extemists grew wider and wider within the Congress. The Extremists were in favour of boycott of the assembly elections to be conducted under the constitutional reforms introduced by the colonial government.
Read more ...July 18, 2021
A plastic comb when brought near a piece of paper does not pick up small pieces of a paper. But if you comb your dry hair and bring the comb close to a small piece of paper, you will notice that the bits of paper are attracted towards the comb.
Read more ...July 17, 2021
The phase between 1885-1905 is known as the period of the moderates. In 1905 Lord Curzon, the then Governor general announced the partition of Bengal. The province of Bengal at that time comprised of the present states of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand, Orissa and Assam.
Read more ...July 17, 2021
In eye, a convex lens forms real, inverted and diminished image at the retina. The lens can changes its convexity to form a suitable image as the distance between eye lens and retina fixed.
Read more ...July 16, 2021
The Indian National Congress was formed in December 1885 by a group of 72 politically conscious educated Indians. Mr. A.O. Hume a retired English Indian Civil Service officer played a significant role in its formation.
Read more ...July 15, 2021
There came into being, in the second half of the 19th century, a thinking on Indian nationalism which was based on religion. It was leaders like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Dayanand Saraswati, Vivekanand, and Arbindo Ghosh who made Hindu religion and its ideas the motivating force behind Indian nationalism.
Read more ...July 15, 2021
A prism is a transparent medium bounded by any number of surfaces in such a way that the surface on which light is incident and the surface from which light emerges are plane and non-parallel. Generally equilateral, right angled isosceles or right angled prisms are used.
Read more ...July 14, 2021
The origins of economic nationalism can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century when Indian leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade and Romesh Chandra Dutt among others began realizing that the British rule was economically exploiting India and that it was largely responsible for keeping India under extreme poverty.
Read more ...July 14, 2021
In case of spherical lenses, there are some rules for sign convention.
Read more ...July 13, 2021
It was in the field of culture that the ideas of nationalism was expressed first.
Read more ...July 13, 2021
In order to draw the image formed by any lens, only two rays are required.
Read more ...July 12, 2021
The history of this idea is not more than 200 years old. Nationalism, in the sense in which we use it today, did not exist in India before the 19th century. The roots (origins) of this idea do not lie in the Indian history but in the history of Modern Europe.
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