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    Cited: Chakrabarty‚ Bidyut. Communal identity in India. New Delhi: OUP‚ 2003. Das‚ K.K.S. Dalit Prathyaya Sasthram (malayalam). thiruvanamthapuram: the state institute of language‚ 2011. Hutton‚ J.H. Caste in India: its nature‚ function and origins. bombay: oxford university press‚ 1983. Limbale‚ Sharan Kumar. The Outcaste akkarmashi. New Delhi: oxford university press‚ 2003. Limbale

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    Annihilation of Caste. This introduction allows the readers to understand the history that caused the production of the speech Annihilation of Caste‚ which was prepared by Ambedkar for The Annual Conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore‚ but never delivered due to the cancellation of the Conference by the Reception Committee. This reading is about the debate between two men‚ B.R. Ambedkar‚ a Dalit or Untouchable‚ and Mahatma Gandhi‚ a Vaishya born to a family of privileged caste Hindus. These

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    Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in India in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes with liberation theology‚ which arose two decades earlier‚ including a self-identity as a people undergoing Exodus.[1] Dalit theology sees hope in the "Nazareth Manifesto" of Luke 4‚[2] where Jesus speaks of preaching "good news to the poor ... freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind" and of releasing "the oppressed."[3] Development A

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    jajamani system in our economy‚ the early works in terms of reports‚ articles‚ and books decline its existence. From the studies done earlier‚ it is noticed that a majority of the literatures on drum beatings are based on locations and techniques of drum beating. Hardly

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    Dictionary Caste is defined as “one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with members of other castes. It is also a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status‚ endogamy and social barriers sanctioned by custom‚ law‚ or religion.” (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary‚ 2016).Caste is one of the forms of social stratification; a person is born in certain caste according to the family caste she/he is

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    Mumbai‚ India; we see the violence‚ poverty and religious conflicts unfold as they maneuver through life. The main characters a young Jamal and Salim Malik‚ are two brothers growing up in the slums of Mumbai. Forced to grow up at a very young age‚ their life changed when an attack was carried out on their small village which resulted in the loss of their mother. Orphaned the two brothers were made to grow up in a society which oppressed them for reasons they could not grasp. The Hindu caste system

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    Creation Of The System And Steps Taken To Control It By Our Government. Introduction The phenomenon of bonded labour is a “vicious circle”1 where each factor is responsible for further subjugation and apathy of the bonded labourers. The system of bonded labour is an outcome of certain categories of indebtedness which have been prevailing for a long time involving certain economically‚ exploited‚ helpless and weaker sections of the society. The bonded or forced labour system was known by different

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    CASTE SYSTEM AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN INDIA1 “I have no colour prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being‚ and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” INTRODUCTION:The Castes are hereditary endogamous group with fixed traditional occupations‚ observing commensal prohibition and social restrictions on interaction. It is believed that there are about 3‚000 castes in the country. These castes are grouped as upper castes (like Brahmins

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    world extends into a universal one with its sensitive depiction of perennial conflicts and offers suitable fodder for its international readers. It has as it backdrops a social construction characterized by compulsions of a pervasive caste system.The oppressive system legitimizing social segregation and mutual exclusion has not been inverted by Marxism and Christianity. The very shape of the fictitioustale enlisting kid’s linguistic idiosyncrasies through a brief recreation of their perspectives as

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    Sociology http://soc.sagepub.com/ The Embodiment of Caste : Oppression‚ Protest and Change Hugo Gorringe and Irene Rafanell Sociology 2007 41: 97 DOI: 10.1177/0038038507074721 The online version of this article can be found at: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/41/1/97 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: British Sociological Association Additional services and information for Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:

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