1. Bishnoi Movement was the first environmental movement of India which was started by sage Sombaji around 1700 AD against deforestation.
2. The student’s scientific and historic society was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1848 as a discussion forum. This forum is considered as the beginning student movement in India.
3. Student Christian Movement of India (SCM) was started in 1912 against western colonialism with an aim to orient the students
with Christian Faith through social realities.
4. Dashauli Gram Swaraj Sangh (DGSS) under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt started a campaign at Gopeshwar for the jobs to the local men near their hometowns by setting up forest based small-scale industries in 1960.
5. Cyber activist student movement was started by the engineering students of NIIT Calicut against the monopoly of the Micro Soft corporations in the software industry. It is also known as ‘free software movement’. It was the creative resistance of the professional college students against globalization.
6. The beginning of Indian codified common law is traced back to 1726 when a Mayor’s Court in Madras, Bombay and Calcutta was established by the East India Company.
7. Warren Hasting established two courts for resolving disputes – civil disputes for District Diwani Adalat and criminal disputes for District Fauzdari Adalats.
8. The Government of India Act, 1935 changed the structure of the Indian Government from “unitary” to that of “federal” type. The distribution of powers between the Centre and the Provinces required the balance to avoid disputes, which would have arisen between
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