We believe that it is the incredible right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom to enjoy the fruits of their soil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities of growth. We believe also that if any government deprives a people of these and oppress them, the people have a further right to alter or abolish it. The British Government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based itself on the exploitation of the masses, and has ruined India must server the British connection and attain Purna Swaraj or complete independence.

India has been ruined economically. The revenue derived from our people is out of all proportion to our income. Our average income is seven pice per day, and of the heavy taxes we pay 20% are raised from the land revenue derived from the peasantry and 3% from the salt tax, which falls most heavily on the poor.

Village industries, such as hand spinning, have been destroyed, leaving the peasantry idle for at least four months in the year, and dulling their intellect for want of handicrafts, and nothing has been substituted, as in other countries, for the crafts thus destroyed.

Customs and currency have been so manipulated as to beep further burdens on the peasantry. British manufactured goods constitute the bulk of our imports. Customs duties betray partiality for British manufacturers, and revenue from them is not used to lessen the burden on the masses but for sustaining a highly extravagant administration. Still more arbitrary has been the manipulation of the exchange which has resulted in millions being drained away from the country.

Politically, India’s status has never been so reduced as under the British regime. No reforms have given real political power to the people. The tallest of us have to bend before the foreign authority. The rights of free expression of opinion and free association have been denied to us and many of our countrymen are compelled to live in exile abroad and cannot return to their homes. All administrative talent is killed and the masses have to be satisfied petty village offices and clerkships.

Currently, the system of education has torn us from our moorings and our training has made us bug the very chains that bind us.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think that we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defence against foreign aggression, or even defend our brothers and families from the attacks of thieves, robbers and miscreants.

We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country. We recognise, however, that the most effective way of getting our freedom is not through violence. We will therefore prepare ourselves by withdrawing, so far as we can, all voluntary association from British Government, and will prepare for civil disobedience, including non-payment of taxes. We are convinced that if we can but withdraw our voluntary help and stop payment of taxes without doing violence, even under provocation; the need of his inhuman rule is assured. We therefore hereby solemnly resolve to carry out the Congress instructions issued from time to time for the purpose of establishing Purna Swaraj.

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MEDICINE COLLEGES

• All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi (www.aiims.ac.in or www.aiims.edu)
• Manipal University, Manipal (www. manipal.edu) (also BDS)
• Armed Forces Medical College, Pune (www.afmc.nic.in)
• Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune (www.bvuniversity.in) (also BDS)
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha (www.mgims.ac.in)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry (www.jipmer.edu)
  Christian Medical College, Vellore (home.cmcvellore.ac.in) (also BDS)
• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh (pgimer.nic.in)
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (www.ipu.ac.in)
• Complete listing of medical colleges/ courses: Medical Council of India (www.mciindia.org)
• Complete listing of dental colleges/ courses: Dental Council of India (www.dciindia.org)

NURSING COLLEGES

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (www.aiims.ac.in)
• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh (pgimer.nic.in)
• West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) (www.thewbuhs.org)
• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (www.manipal.edu)
• Christian Medical College, Vellore (home.cmcvellore.ac.in)
• Christian Medical College, Ludhiana (www.cmcludhiana.org)
• Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (www.srmc.edu)
• Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi-110024
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (www.ipu.ac.in)
• Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune (www.bvuniversity.in)
• Army College of Nursing, Jalandhar (www.acn.co.in)
• College of Nursing, Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Sholapur Road, Pune-411040 (candidates have to sign a bond to serve in the Military Nursing Service for 5 years after completion of the course)
• Complete list of nursing colleges: Indian Nursing Council (www.indiannursingcouncil.org)

REHABILITATION COLLEGES

• All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mumbai (www.aiipmr.gov.in)
• Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Institute for the Physically Handicapped, New Delhi (www.iphnewdelhi.in)
• National Institute for the Orthopaedically Handicapped (NIOH), Kolkata (www.nioh.in)
• Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training & Research, Cuttack (www.nirtar.nic.in)
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi (www.ipu.ac.in)
• Manipal University, Manipal (www.admissions.manipal.edu)
• Hamdard University, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi (www.jamiahamdard.edu)
• All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore (www.aiishmysore.com)
• Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University, Chitrakoot (UP) (www.jrhu.com)
• Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped (http://ayjnihh.nic.in)
• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh (pgimer.nic.in)

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLLEGES

• National Centre for Disease Control (formerly, National Institute of Communicable Diseases), Delhi (www.ncdc.gov.in)
• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh (pgimer.nic.in)
• All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Kolkata under WBUHS (www.wbuhs.in)
• ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai (off campus courses of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram) (www.nie.gov.in)
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (www.tiss.edu),
  Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (www.bitsadmission.com/hd)
• University of Pune, Pune (www.unipune.ernet.in),
• Manipal University, Manipal (www.manipal.edu)
• Indian Institutes of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India (www.phfi.org/downloads/iiph.html)

MASTER OF HEALTH / HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT/ ADMINISTRATION COLLEGES

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (www.tiss.edu)
• Administrative Staff College of India, Centre for Management Education, Hyderabad (www.asci.org.in)
• Deccan School of Management (www.deccancollege.com), Hyderabad
• Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration (www.apolloiha.ac.in)
• Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Pune (www.sihspune.org)
• Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur (www.iihmr.org)
• International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi (www.iihmrdelhi.org)
• Manipal Institute of Management, Manipal (www.manipal.edu)
• Deccan School of Management, Hyderabad (www.dshm.co.in)
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Top Medical Universities in North India

• * All Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi
• * University college of Medical Science , Delhi
• * Lucknow University , Lucknow
• * Maharishi Dayanand University , Rohtak
• * JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University , Udaipur
• * Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
• * Aligarh Muslim University , Aligarh
• * BundelKand University , Jhansi
• * MJP Rohil Khand University , Bareily
• * Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot

Top Medical Universities in South India

• * Manipal University , Manipal
• * Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
• * Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
• * Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
• * SRM University , Chennai
• * University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad
• * Mahatma Gandhi University , Kottayam

Top Medical Universities in East India

• * Dibrugarh University , Dibrugarh
• * L N Mithila University, Darbhanga

Top Medical Universities in West India

• * Barkatullah University , Bhopal
• * Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik
• * Bharathi Vidyapeeth University , Mumbai
• * North Maharashtra University , Jalgaon
• * Jiwaji University , Gwalior
• * Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni

Top Government Medical Universities in India

• * All Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi
• * University college of Medical Science , Delhi
• * Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
• * Barkatullah University , Bhopal
• * Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
• * Lucknow University , Lucknow
• * University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad
• * Maharishi Dayanand University , Rohtak
• * Mahatma Gandhi University , Kottayam
• * Dibrugarh University , Dibrugarh

Top Private Medical Universities in India

• * Manipal University , Manipal
• * Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
• * SRM University , Chennai
• * Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik
• * Bharathi Vidyapeeth University , Mumbai
• * Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni

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In the days gone by, long queues for admissions, incomplete information and travel costs were huge pain points on way to charting an ideal career path. But today, the Indian education system has taken a digital leap with the help of the effective use of the Internet.

The availability of downloadable forms, online gateways to pay admission fees and submit forms, have helped the students to concentrate on the most important task at hand – studying for the exams, thereby reducing physical, mental and financial burden on them and their parents. The introduction of centralised online counselling is also one of the most significant steps taken by the Indian Government towards making things easier for the student community.

What are the objectives?

The objectives of online counselling can be enumerated as follows:

• to streamline the admission to professional and technical courses in the country;
• to solve problems of overlaps and reduce physical, mental and financial burden on students and their parents due to multiplicity of entrance examinations;
• availability of results on the web;
• to allow a candidate to exercise choices for a branch and institutions several times during off-campus online counselling;
• online display of vacancy and allotted position to enable more transparency in the admission process;
• allotment of institution and branch as per the merit of the candidates.

What is centralised online counselling?

The Ministry of Human Resource Development , Government of India took a policy decision in 2002 to conduct an All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)  annually, eliminating many of the large number of entrance examinations that were being conducted till then by various institutes in the country for admission to undergraduate degree programmes in the disciplines of Engineering/Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture – an initiative that has been widely accepted and appreciated.

A Central Counselling Board (CCB) -  constituted by the Government coordinates admissions to UG degree programmes in the disciplines mentioned above in respect of select institutions.

CCB‘s counselling process

On the basis of performance in AIEEE 2010 – , separate rank lists are prepared for B.E./B.Tech. and B.Arch/B.Planning. Score Card indicating All India Rank and State Rank with total marks shall be sent to all candidates who appeared in AIEEE.

Candidates scoring above a certain cut-off percentage of marks are called for counselling. The All India/State ranks and marks are released on the AIEEE website. All successful candidates are to be called for central counselling as per the schedule (2.70 MB) - published by the Central Counselling Board (CCB). The decision of seat matrix etc. will also be taken by the CCB. The required information will be displayed on CCB‘s website -.

The complete information brochure for CCB 2010 can be accessed here (2.70 MB) -  .

For regular updates on the counselling process, please check here – .

Things to be kept in mind:

• The Central Counselling Board -  shall send by post the Information Brochure for counselling only to the candidates eligible for counselling.
• Verification of documents regarding identification, age, qualifying examination, state of eligibility and category of the candidate, would be done at the time of counselling/admission. On failing to establish of any of the documents, the candidates will not be considered for admission.
• SC, ST, OBC and PH candidates will be required to produce original certificates issued by the competent authority at the time of counselling.

Click on the following links to see the list of institutions participating in CCB 2010 – :

• National Institutes of Technology (60.5 KB) 
• IIITs/ Central Funded/State funded/ Self financed Institutes (63.8 KB) 

Here is a list of currently operational NITs and their corresponding websites:

The Ministry of Human Resource Development -  has also announced the setting up of 10 new NITs (109 KB) -  , under the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007, at Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Pudducherry, Sikkim and Uttarakhand.

While the CCB  conducts online counselling for institutions participating in AIEEE, viz. NITs and deemed universities, with assistance from the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) admit students by conducting their own counselling.

IITs go the online way

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have decided to abandon a tense counselling session that all students till now had to attend to gain admission. From now on, students will be asked to pick their preferred IIT and course through an online facility prepared by the institutes, which will be based on the candidates’ ranks in the Joint Entrance Examination. This will allow all general category students to submit their preferences online. However, all other candidates will have to travel to the nearest IIT campus for the same as they have to submit their certificates.

For more updates on the IITs’ counselling procedure, click here .

Online counselling at state level: Some states like Haryana , Uttar Pradesh  , Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Orissa that conduct their own entrance examinations also provide online counselling to students on the basis of marks scored in the relevant examinations. Panjab University (PU)  has also launched a website for centralised online admissions in the session 2010-2011 in the B. Com. Course.

Counselling for admission to Medical/Dental Colleges: The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) conducts the counselling for admission to undergraduate medical courses, on the basis of marks scored by candidates in the All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination (AIPMT) , conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) . This year, the counselling will be held by personal appearance through Video-Conferencing. Details of the counselling procedure can be accessed here (90.3 KB) - .

The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for the entrance examination system and counselling sessions is aimed at standardising the admission process and making it more professional. The Indian Government’s initiative to facilitate the use of Internet for the benefit of the student community is a commendable effort and it is hoped that this endeavour will help India maintain its lead in producing the best-trained brains in the world.

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1. The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru (nonfiction).
2. India Unbound, by Gurcharan Das (nonfiction).
3. The Devil’s Wind, by Manohar Malgaonkar (fiction).
4. Freedom at Midnight, by Dominic Lapierre and Larry Collins (nonfiction).
5. On the Grand Trunk Road, by Steve Coll (nonfiction).
6. May You be the Mother of a Thousand Sons, by Elizabeth Bumiller (nonfiction).
7. Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, by Jonah Blank (nonfiction).
8. Motiba’s Tatoos, by Mira Kamdar (nonfiction).
9. An Area of Darkness, by V. S. Naipaul (nonfiction).
10. India After Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha (nonfiction).

And, 11, “Mother India India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi,” by Pranay Gupte (nonfiction).

In addition to above list:

1. “We are like that Only” by Rama Bijapurkar (Penguin) – on marketing in today’s India
2. “The Indians” by Sudhir & Katharina Kakar (Penguin) – social psychology
3. “Branding India-An Incredible Story” by Amitabh Kant (Collins Business) – a case study on “Incredible India” campaign
4. “Handmade in India” by Aditi & MP Ranjan (Cohands & Mapin) – an encyclopaedic tome on India’s craft tradition
5. “The Earthen Drum” by Pupul Jayakar on India’s crafts
6. “Chasing the monsoon: A modern pilgrimage through India” by Alexander Frater
7.”Butter chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India” (Travelogue) by Pankaj Mishra
8. “Temptations of the West: How to be modern in India, Pakistan….” (Travelogue) By Pankaj Mishra
9. “Autobiography of an Unknown Indian” by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

One of the best collection of novels on India is the Gandhi Quartet by a much celebrated but not too well known writer, Chamana Nahal. These include:

1) Azadi (Freedom). New Delhi, Arnold-Heinemann, and Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1975; London, Deutsch, 1977.

2)The Crown and the Loincloth. New Delhi, Vikas, 1981.

3)The Salt of Life. New Delhi, Allied, 1990.

4)The Triumph of the Tricolour. New Delhi, Allied, 1993.

Also,

V. S. Naipaul’s Books on India on India (India-an area of darkness, India a Million Mutinies)are confront the grim realities of India, no romanticizing…
Will Durant A Case for India (banned at one time by the British)
Count Keyserling The travel Diary of a Philosopher (has a part on India as well as China, Japan and US)
Kitab-e-Yamini –a shocking tale of how Turks came into India
Francois Bernier–Travels in the Mogul Court–eyewitness account of Frenchman shows how the court lead to the poverty of India–no schools, no Universities, high taxation of peasants just built palaces for themselves
Andre Wink–exposes the truth about Islam in India without holding an ideological bias
Arun Shourie Eminent Historians
Al Beruni’s India–displays Muslim bias but you can learn a lot from his book as he was a great scholar
Books by Tagore–although much is lost in Engligh translation
Kalhan–History of Kashmir–first Indian historian on India. Tanslated by Aurel Stein

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