Questions

Stimulus diffusion is a type of expansion diffusion in which the idea is acceptable or adopted but not in its original form and expanded to culturally acceptable.

For example :

1. Mc. Donalds is also in India but not in beef. Indians culture will not accept beef and so it is with different forms like veg, non veg but the idea is same.

2. Yoga is an idea where in different regions use yoga for different reasons but the idea is same.

Tashkent Agreement was signed by India’s Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri & Pakistan’s President Ayub Khan on 10 January in 1966 that resolved the Indo-Pak War of 1965. Shastri died in Tashkent, the day after signing the Tashkent Declaration.

In 1887 Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to public demand that railroad operations be regulated.

Railroads discriminated in the prices they charged to passengers and shippers in different localities by providing rebates to large shippers or buyers. These practices were especially harmful to American farmers, who lacked the shipment volume necessary to obtain more favorable rates.