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Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
Ridership on India's suburban railways has risen from 1.2 million in 1970–71 to 4.4 million in 2012–13. The suburban railways of Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai occupy no more than 7.1% of the Indian Railways network, but account for 53.2% of all railway passengers. [122]
India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [2] [3] There are publications produced in each of the 22 scheduled languages of India and in many of the other languages spoken throughout the country.
He and Schwartz launched TeePublic in 2013 as an e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists could upload and sell their designs. The original business model required at least thirty people to commit to buying a shirt before a design went into production, [ 3 ] but today, designs are immediately manufactured and sold. [ 4 ]
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India has an Internet user base of about 690.0 million as of November 2023, about 40% of the population. [1] Despite being the second-largest user base in world, only behind China (1.079 billion, 48% of population), the penetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States (266 million, 84%), or France (54M, 81%), but is growing, adding around 6 million new entrants every ...
In India, a Chartered Accountant is a qualified accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.Chartered Accountants have knowledge of various subjects like accounting, auditing, corporate laws, costing and various aspects of direct and indirect taxation.
Water pollution is a major environmental issue in India. The largest source of water pollution in India is untreated sewage. [1] Other sources of pollution include agricultural runoff and unregulated small-scale industry. Most rivers, lakes and surface water in India are polluted due to industries, untreated sewage and solid wastes.