Foundation Course 1 Human Rights‚ Gender & Environment Understanding Patriarchy Suranjita Ray• Subordination of women to men is prevalent in large parts of the world. We come across experiences where women are not only treated as subordinate to men but are also subject to discriminations‚ humiliations‚ exploitations‚ oppressions‚ control and violence. Women experience discrimination and unequal treatment in terms of basic right to food‚ health care‚ education‚ employment‚ control over
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to expose the continued oppression of "Dalits"‚ the "broken people" who suffer under a 4000-year-old religious system. The film introduces leading Benares scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits "have no right" to education‚ and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that no Dalit may sit in their presence‚ and that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities. The film captures many "firsts-on-film"‚ such as Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles
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THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION‚ URBANIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION ON TRIBALS: THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CHRISTIAN MISSION FOR CHURCH GROWTH IN SUCH SITUATION By T. Sonchung Koren Department of Missiology COTR Thelogical Seminary‚ Visakhapatnam 8thh September 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCATION CHAPTER ONE THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION ON TRIBALS 1.1. Definition of the term Industrialization
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Chapter V Struggle of Land Dispossessed in Gobindpura There are a number of cases dealing with land acquisition process in India‚ such as the case of Singur in West Bengal‚ Noida in Uttar Pradesh‚ and Kalinagr in Orissa etc. Dispossessed people in all these cases struggled a lot for compensating their loss or getting their land back. The case of Gobindpura village is not an exception to the norm. The present chapter deals with the struggle being faced by displaced people of village Gobindpura. As
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the proportions of Goliath and is threatening the very integrity of the nation. The society in India is rather divided on the basis of caste and not a single day passes without an incident where caste becomes the focal point. Recently in Maharashtra State a Dalit family of four was done to death by the upper caste Hindus and there was big riot and arson in the State. Similar incidents also take place in other State from time to time. Trains were burnt‚ shops were looted and life came to stand still
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religion‚ there are four castes i.e. Brahmin‚ Chettri‚ Baisya‚ Shudra. Dalit community belongs under Shudra caste.Dalits are discriminated against on the basis of caste and “untouchablity”.One of the survey shows that there are 33% Terai Dalit.These people are denied entry into temples and houses of higher caste people. The so called higher caste people do not drink water if it has been touched by a Dalit neither do they talk to them. Dalits are forced to work in the household and fields of their landlord
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Through ages‚ the patriarchal society has always referred to the woman as the weaker sex‚ the fairer sex‚ or the second sex. Simone de Beauvoir in the ‘Introduction’ to The Second Sex says‚ “…she is simply what men decree;… she is the incidental‚ the inessential as opposed to the essential.” (Beauvoir 16) In the Indian context‚ women as gendered subalterns have a very limited role to play within the society. They are mere objects of desire to men. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay “Can the
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Understanding the Exigency of Educating the Masses:The Inspirational Ideology of Jotiba Phule Poonam Singh‚ Assitant Professor‚ Satywati College (M)‚ University of Delhi. Abstract The traditional Indian system gave monopoly of educational resources to Brahmins. Anyone who tried to break the hegemonic encroachments of educational resourceswas severely punished by the Laws of Manu or by the preaching of Vedic scriptures such as Rig-Veda. For a very long-time Indians born in disparate Varnas could
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Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar was a great modern social thinker‚ a born fighter‚ a famous advocate and a humanist. Dr. Ambedkar took a leading role in promoting the welfare of the dalits and in elevating their status. He took many steps to reform the ways of the dalits. He fought against many of the injustices done to the untouchables by establishing a political party and a couple of organisations for the untouchables. He had made a detailed study of the problem of untouchability‚ its origin‚ development
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Telangana is a region in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has borders with states of Maharashtra on the north and north-west‚ Karnataka on the west‚ Chattisgarh on the north-east‚ Orissa and Coastal Andhra region on the east and Rayalseema region of Andhra Pradesh on the south. This region has an area of 1‚14‚840 square kilometres and a population of 3‚52‚86‚757 which is 41.6% of Andhra Pradesh state population. The Telangana region has 10 districts: Adilabad‚ Hyderabad‚ Khamam‚ Karimnagar
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