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  2. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.

  3. A Conflict of Visions - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A Conflict of Visions is a book by Thomas Sowell. It was originally published in 1987; a revised edition appeared in 2007. [1] Sowell's opening chapter attempts to answer the question of why the same people tend to be political adversaries in issue after issue, when the issues vary enormously in subject matter and sometimes hardly seem ...

  4. Corruption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Corruption in the United States is the act of government officials abusing their political powers for private gain, typically through bribery or other methods, in the United States government. Corruption in the United States has been a perennial political issue, peaking in the Jacksonian era and the Gilded Age before declining with the ...

  5. Arundhati Roy - Wikipedia

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    Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, [8] to Mary Roy, a Malayali Jacobite Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala and Rajib Roy, a Bengali Brahmo Samaji [9] tea plantation manager from Kolkata. [10] She has denied false rumors about her being a Brahmin by caste. [9]

  6. Democracy in America - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. De la démocratie en Amérique ( French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic ...

  7. List of political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A National Convention of the great Presidential year of 1924 was held in Manhattan. Before the Convention, the name of the Party was the Single Tax Party. After the Convention it was the Commonwealth Land Party. But the change was only a change of name. ^ Saloutos, Theodore (1946).

  8. Nativism in United States politics - Wikipedia

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    Is opposition to an internal minority on the basis of its supposed “un-American” foundation. Historian Tyler Anbinder defines a nativist as:. someone who fears and resents immigrants and their impact on the United States, and wants to take some action against them, be it through violence, immigration restriction, or placing limits on the rights of newcomers already in the United States.

  9. Americanism (ideology) - Wikipedia

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    Americanism, also referred to as American patriotism, is a set of nationalist values which aim to create a collective American identity for the United States that can be defined as "an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning". [ 1]