Introduction Casteism has been prevalent in the Indian society since the times immemorial. Ill-treatment at the hands of the people belonging to the upper caste was a common practice for the people belonging to the lower castes. The decisions in various issues were made by the upper castes mostly in favour of their own caste. The punishment for a crime was much more severe for the individual of a lower caste as compared to the punishment awarded for the same crime to the individual of a higher caste
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PROJECT ON: CLASS HAS OVER TAKEN CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA NAME: ABHINAV KUMAR VERMA BBA LLB: 2ND SEMESTER DIV: B ROLL NO: 84 SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY "We divided ourselves among caste‚ creed‚ culture and countries but is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love." Class has over taken caste in contemporary India Introduction Earlier in India social system of Hindus was predominantly based on the caste system which had arisen in ancient times. The caste system
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Interpreting Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is not rejection of the liberative contribution of modernity. Rather his effort can be interpreted as an attempt to integrate these positive elements with a liberating re-interpretation of tradition. With his critique from within the tradition‚ Gandhi becomes the great synthesizer of contraries within and across traditions. GANDHI’s Hind Swaraj (HS) is surely a foundational text for any understanding of the man and his mission. In dialogue
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the loss of hope that she feels from life and those happy ending stories. The audience gets these emotions from her writing in a very strong and raw way‚ she’s not afraid to speak the truth and take everyone reading her poems down with her. Her feministic ways come across her words like swords‚ and anyone who reads any of her poems will blatantly get this idea of her. Furthermore‚ from the day a girl can read‚ she’s read some sort of fairytale and dreams of having a life just like that‚ without
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ON THE FRONT LINES THE GROWTH OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA History of the Christian Church II May 6‚ 2013 The growth of Contemporary Christianity in India is a vast and complicated topic. India is a web of culture and religion and oppression. “India has been the home of many and different civilizations.” It is vast and tangled in adaption and inclusion of cultures. “India is a huge‚ sprawling‚ chaotic‚ colorful and energetic country. With more than 1.2 billion people‚ it is the
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peasants- the Shudras‚ who were born to be servants to the other three castes. People could not change their caste. They had to marry and socialise with people from their own caste. Another group in India’s caste system were the untouchables- the Dalits. The untouchables are the people that have been thrown out of their caste because of something that they did wrong. The children of these people were also untouchables. They did the most despicable jobs in society like burning animals. For thousands
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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. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna‚ India’s highest civilian award‚ in 1990.[5] Overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles‚ Ambedkar became one of the first Dalit (untouchable) to obtain a college education in India. Eventually earning law degree and doctorates for his study and research in law‚
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life‚ death and afterlife. The story is a first-person narrative of the ghost of a young pulaya girl‚ the already dead protagonist of the story. The story is set-up in Kerala‚ and C. Ayappan‚ a Dalit short-story writer‚ poet‚ lyricist and a playwright from Kerala‚ uses an upper-caste Christian and Dalit-Christian setting for it. Ayappan proclaims‚ “Earlier I did not think I could write about my experiences. My writing is not realist; in fact‚ you could call its mode fantasy. Yet I write about a
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The caste system is the societal map of Hinduism‚ and it dictates every part of the Hindus’ lives. Hinduism teaches that all followers are born into the caste system‚ and their actions from previous lives are what determine the caste level into which they are born. The caste system is separated into five different social classes. These classes are what determine a person’s social standing. This also affects what they eat‚ what type of job they may hold‚ where they are to live‚ and even dictates who
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go for private institutions. Among those 80 % who study in public institutions‚ in which 52% of them are Dalits‚ Muslims and students from other backward communities‚ hence Dalits‚ Muslims and Other backward communities become the major chunk using this service. As per the market research‚ by the Year 2020. 40% of the students will use the private education system and 52% will be among dalits‚ Muslims and other backward communities‚ using public education and the rest 85 from the poor and bankrupted
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