broader Indian subcontinent and influenced a part of Asia‚ known as Greater India. National consciousness in India India has been unified under many emperors and governments in history. Ancient texts mention India under emperor Bharata and Akhand Bharat‚ these regions roughly form the entities of modern day greater India. Mauryan Empire was the first to unite all of India‚ South Asia‚ and much of Persia. In addition‚ much of India has also been unified under a central government by empires‚ such
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The study of social movements is not an area for historians alone. Sociologists studying social structure‚ processes and change would logically be interested in social movements. It is a process through which a collective attempt is made at mobilisation for change or resistance. However‚ in the context of change it differs from evolutionary process of social mobility and change in the sense that movements are based on a perception of injustice or oppression of a certain section or sections
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sati-pratha-a practice in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself on the funeral pyre of her husband-was the prominent. His efforts were also instrumental in eradicating the purdah system and child marriage. In 1828‚ Ram Mohan Roy formed the Brahmo Samaj‚ a group of people‚ who had no faith in idol-worship and were against the caste restrictions. The title ’Raja’ was awarded to him by Mughal emperor Akbar‚ the second in 1831 when Roy visited England as an ambassador of the King to ensure that Bentick’s
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Minorities have to pay the price whenever instability is caused due to communal politics On December 6th 1992‚ about a million and a half men‚ ‘Kar Sevaks’‚ all members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)‚ the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS)‚ the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bajrang Dal‚ attacked the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya‚ Uttar Pradesh and reduced the historic mosque to rubble. The demolition was carried out under the supervision of the BJP government. In 1990‚ BJP leader‚ L. K. Advani
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Repressive Colonial Policies The British had conquered India to promote their own political interest so followed many repressive policies. These policies become major barrier to India’s development. Some of these policies‚ especially those followed by Lord Lytton gave birth to nationalism. Lord Lytton was Viceroy from 1876-1880. The resentment against the British rule increased because of repressive measures. 1. In 1877 he organised a Grand Delhi Durbar to proclaim Queen Victoria as the Empress
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discover his separate identity. All credit is due‚ for this transformation‚ to his philosopher and guide‚ Lolita.” (Ray 174) Lolita is a Brahmo girl and Binoy is an orthodox Hindu youth. As their determination grows stronger‚ they forget “that they were Hindu or Brahmo‚ and only remembered that they were two human souls.’’ (Tagore 306) and feel that:”If love is unable to acknowledge differences‚ then why there are differences anywhere in this world?” (Tagore 306) Binoy’s marriage is not a sacrifice
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they had a dedication‚ they had a faith. India won freedom in 1947‚ but the communal politics had begun to raise its head. The Muslim League and Jinnah could not accept anything less than a separate country — Pakistan as against Hindustan — that was Bharat. It is from here that rifts began to surface up on communal and caste lines. Mahatma
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“Hinduism and Modernity” The writings on Hinduism and modernity by David Smith are an interesting read due to the juxtaposition of two opposite (per the author) concepts filled with examples that are traditional and modern with a spirit of understanding that is the hallmark of modern times. The opening examples of the Ganesha idols drinking milk being ridiculed by a modern day press in India serves well to remind us that our thinking or “theorisation” has become rigidly scientific and we have developed
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Planning theory | Kathputli Colony | The Informal Story | | Disha Mendhekar Akanksha Laroiya | 4/6/2013 | “The mind‚ by seeking to normalize what it perceives‚ to make sense and resolve‚ is deceived‚ easily and constantly misdirected‚ and willing to be so for the sake of equilibrium. Our desire for order deludes us. I realize this not only at the magic show but while walking down Chowringhee. We dare not see what is really going on.” -Lee Siegel‚ Net of Magic (p. 426) |
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religious reform movements in India‚ was also the Morning Star of GullyBaba Publishing House modern social reform movement in the country. Social reform became integral part of religious reform in India and this was equally true of Brahm0 Samaj‚ Prarthana Samaj‚ Arya Samaj‚ Ramakrishna Mission‚ and Theosophical Society in Hinduism as also among the Muslims‚ the Parsis and the Sikhs. The social reform movement in India has aimed at uprooting social evils and inculcating in men and women the spirit of sacrifice
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