BOLLYWOOD Selling Indian Movies in the West INTRODUCTION India’s most prominent movie industry is known by the name of Bollywood. It recently became the largest movie industry in the world (Jones‚ Arora‚ Mishra and Lefort‚ 2005; Srinivas‚ 2002). The name Bollywood is a reference to Hollywood‚ in which the “B” stands for Bombai‚ the city in which Bollywood originated. Bollywood is making thousands of movies every year with one of the world’s largest audiences. Bollywood has always exported their
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The idea of a caste system originated in India and has become popular in regions around the world over the course of history. Two of these areas include the Mesoamerican/Andes cultures in present day South America and Europe during the middle ages. The actual classes‚ or estates‚ differed for these two regions‚ but religion played a role in both social structures‚ and the system affected Mesoamerican as well as European women. Most cultures of the Mesoamerican region held four different classes
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to Boya Caste. She won the Indian general election‚ 2014 being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate. She won by a huge margin. Her husband Butta Neelakantam is a leader of Telugu Desam Party. She is one of the richest Parliamentarians with total assests of more than
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Considerations on Caste Madhusudan Subedi Abstract Caste as a system of social stratification was an encompassing system in the past. There was reciprocal system of exchange goods and services. With time‚ occupation and mode of generation of livelihood of various caste groups changed‚ and the traditional form of jajmani system fizzled out. This paper provides an account of changing perspectives of caste relations in social science writing and political discourse. The discourse of caste has been
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development of human rights affect the caste system in India? The caste system in India is a powerful foundation consisting of many different classes and influences resulting in social segregation which has shaped Indian society for thousands of years. In India the caste system is a strict division between power and poverty‚ it is thought to be a part of ancient Hindu life‚ though some argue it was empowered by British imperialism. The caste system has several theories concerning its
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Is India a ‘Caste Democracy’? Introduction: Caste based politics in India Though the idea that caste is a part of a natural and moral order of things‚ that it is a hereditary quality which once for all defines ones position and occupational affiliation and which is associated with a particular law of conduct is rejected both by intellectuals and political leaders‚ caste is in Indian post independence politics continually used and abused in different ways. State politics in India has been particularly
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CASTE AND CENSUS: IMPLICATIONS TO SOCIETY Dr. Afonso Botelho Associate Professor‚ Department of Sociology Rosary College of Commerce and Arts‚ Navelim – Goa ____________________________________________________________________ Abstract: The proposal to reintroduce caste as a category in the 2011 census sparked off considerable discussion among sociologists‚ anthropologists and others. This paper attempts to analyze the pros and cons of the idea to reintroduce the variable of caste‚ a distinctive
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Law and Caste in Modern India Author(s): Marc Galanter Source: Asian Survey‚ Vol. 3‚ No. 11‚ (Nov.‚ 1963)‚ pp. 544-559 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3023430 Accessed: 19/05/2008 17:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you have obtained prior
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Caste: Social and Gender Hierarchies The fundamental issues of caste not only affect the privileged and the working peoples‚ ethnic and racial minorities‚ and religious piety‚ but also the roles of men and women within the framework of gender relations. Through male domination of the public sphere‚ specific female roles were constructed. The primary concept of caste supported depictions of oppressed and subordinate women‚ which can be examined through the early literature of India. Women were no
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Exploration of Caste‚ Class and Gender : "Lived experiences" under scrutiny. One of the approaches taken up by feminism has been to retrieve the"subjective experience"or"lived realities" of women or any marginalised section of society. The cause of marginalisation in most cases is difficult to be identified because it could range from structural (patriarchy) to socio-political (pro-bourgeoisie policies) etc. Most often under the garb of traditions‚ conventions‚ culture etc. ’personal experiences’
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