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    regulations of the said Act. Mother-tongue : Hindi Personal Information Name :akshata amreesh sharma Gender : Female Birth Date : 26-07-1993 Birth Place : MUMBAI Nationality : Indian Blood Group : A +ve Mobile No. : 9167764172 Religion : Hindu Caste : brahmin Caste Category : Open / General Candidate AADHAR :974674203034 Maritial Status :Unmarried SIgnature of the Student System ID In-House Yes Sindhi No MCVC Gap Reptr PNR No. Eligib Admit Family Information Father’s Name: amreesh Father’s Occupation

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    was the fourteenth and last child of Ramji Sankpal and Bhimabai Murbadkar Sankpal. The young Ambedkar had (for his caste‚ for his time and place) a relatively comfortable upbringing. But his mother died when he was only five‚ and his early childhood brought other painful experiences as well‚ as he began to experience the full degradation of his place in the sub-basement of the caste system. When Bhimrao’s father retired from his career with the British Army in 1894‚ he settled for a time in Dapoli

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    revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (then considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination‚ the system of Chaturvarna — the categorization of Hindu society into four varnas — and the Hindu caste system. He is also credited with providing a spark for the conversion of hundreds of thousands of untouchables to Theravada Buddhism. Dr. Ambedkar was posthumously

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    Any of us who has attended a prayer meeting at a Gandhian institute is likely to remember a chant beginning:-"Ahimsa Satya Asteya --." The two verses beginning with these words enumerate the eleven vows that Gandhiji considered almost mandatory for the inmates of his Ashram‚ in Sabarmati as well as in Sevagram. The eleven vows are: (1) Satya-Truth‚ (2) Ahimsa-Nonviolence‚ (3) Brahmacharya-Celibacy (4) Asteya-Non-stealing‚ (5) Aparigraha or Asangraha-Non-possession (6) Sharira-Shrama; Physicallabour

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    there is an interesting fact that needs to be seen‚ that is the inclusion of provisions of reservation in the Constitution of India based on caste in educational institutions was after the intervention of the Supreme Court in the case of State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan where the court struck down the classification for reservation being based on caste‚ race and religion for the purpose of admission to educational institutions as unconstitutional. How far has this reservation policy succeeded

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    is Hinduism. The caste system is also prevalent in India. In combination with the forces of industrialization‚ modernization and urbanization‚ there is some evidence that caste groups are now serving more as a way for people to assert their cultural identity rather than as a way of establishing their place in the social hierarchy. The family is the basic unit of India’s social order with designated roles for both men and women. Partners are usually found from within the same caste‚ religion‚ or social

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    the choices that she made‚ and her own selfish pride led to the injustices she received. Misrilal is a young Brahman who is captivated by a young Dusad widow. In the Indian culture‚ the Brahman caste is one of the highest castes‚ and the Dusads are one of the lowest. Because of the difference in castes‚ a relationship between the two is forbidden. Although Misrilal is aware of this‚ he nonetheless persists in pursuing Dhowli. Dhowli is tormented with his proclamations of love and wanton lust

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    Once‚ the Bodhisatta was born in a Chandala family by the name Matanga. Those days the caste-system was very rigid in ancient India and untouchability was rampant. One day‚ a pretty maiden Ditthamangalika‚ the daughter of a wealthy and the so-called ‘high-caste’ family was on her way to a park with her friends. Before‚ she could enter the park‚ she saw Matanga coming from the opposite direction. Considering his sight ‘inauspicious’‚ because he was a ‘Chandala’ and ‘untouchable’ according to the

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    revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination‚ the system of Chaturvarna – the categorisation of Hindu society into four varnas – and the Hindu caste system. He converted to Buddhism and is also credited with providing a spark for the transformation of hundreds of thousands of Dalits or untouchables to Theravada Buddhism

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    Mulk Raj Anand has fashioned with Untouchable a novel that articulates the abuses of an exploited class through sheer sympathy in the traditionalist manner of the realist novel He is‚ indeed‚ the "fiery voice" of those people who form the Untouchable caste. Yet if the goal of the writer‚ as Anand himself states‚ is to transform "words into prophecy‚" then the reader ’s struggle for meaning in the closing scenes of the novel become problematic and contestatory. It is reasonable to assume -- and as I would

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