with the idea of good karma and doing service to improve someone’s next life. There is also the lowest of the low‚ the Dalit‚ they are not even in a caste. They are not even considered people by the others. They do the jobs that are frowned upon by Hindu beliefs. The Dalits do things like clean the sewers and bury bodies. Dealing with death is a frowned upon thing in Hinduism. Dalits are usually abused and treated like animals by the other castes. They are also the most undocumented group‚ so it is
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Bandit Queen: Review By Ekta Srivastava The film ‘Bandit queen’ Runs through the Life of a Dalit Woman (we remember as Phoolan Devi)‚ the film dares to talk about the discrimination faced by them at every level of the structure that founds our Nation‚ we call India. And it is in Phoolan’s Character that not only the Dalits of the Indian society‚ but every one who has ever been oppressed‚ discriminated‚ victimized and vandalized find a connection. The Film dares to bring these issues to the forefront
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in election. Adequate power to be functionaries of panchayat structure. 4. Uniform period of Election: Duration of election is for 5 year 5. Recognition of the need for SC/ST or women to contribute for governance: there was reservation for dalits‚ tribals‚ women etc‚ functionaries are reserved.33% or 1/3rd reservation is there for them. This is shift from cumulative to dispersed inequality that is why we considered as paradigm shift. 6. Opportunity for new leadership: If we at pattern of
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Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar A Social Reformer Introduction “OURS IS A BATTLE FOR FREEDOM‚ OURS IS A BATTLE NOT JUST FOR ECONOMIC GAINS AND POLITICAL POWER‚ OURS IS A BATTLE FOR RECLAMATION OF HUMAN PERSONALITY WHICH HAS BEEN SUPPRESED AND MUTILATED BY THE HINDU SOCIAL ORDER AND CONTINUED TO BE SUPPRESED AND MUTILATED” These lines itself indicates that the speaker of these lines is a reformer‚ democratic leader and great orator. There have been a number of great people in the world who have
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One‚ they had a religious aspect to them‚ Egypt with the Pharaoh being a god and India with the Hinduism creator. Second‚ they had multiple classes with slaves like in Egypt‚ and Dalits or untouchables in India that were both at the bottom of society‚ and born into that position. Next they had a smaller group of people in the upper classes. Egypt had the Pharaoh and the upper class that was made up of royal family‚ and government
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A short essay outlining the origin and meaning of the caste system in India along with a critique on Stalin K.’s film – “India Untouched”. Is it a Façade that we subconsciously put on or is it the lack of knowledge about the prevailing evils that drives inaccurate judgement of our absolute surrounding? What in fact is “Untouchability”? Where does it occur? Who are the major victims of discrimination‚ caste or otherwise‚ in India? Does Stalin K. successfully strike a chord in the eyes of not
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Fay Weldon’s short story ‘Weekend’ is a strongly feministic and satirical fiction about a weekend of a wife and working-mother in the 70s. The story concerns a well-off English middle-class family‚ at their country cottage. The central focus is on Martha‚ and much of the writing represents her stream of consciousness as she struggles to ensure that her family and guests are properly looked after. The misleading title soon proves to be an ironic comment on the weekend that Martha has to endure rather
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is considered a hero by millions of India’s oppressed OBCs (Other Backward Castes or ‘lowered castes’) and Dalits. He was India’s 20th century crusader against the caste system. He was a statesman‚ national leader‚ and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts and writings still have significant influence on the masses of Indians working to free themselves from Brahmanism (the caste system‚ as validated by the religion called
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anything but cleaning and gardening. Henry gives Elisa little attention or care and Elisa has emptiness in her heart that that needs to be filled. When Elisa opens her door of acceptance to the Tinker man‚ she yearns for someone to understand her quest for adventure. Buried in the third world of individualism‚ behind her fenced flowers‚ she longs for escape. As the tinker counties to tell her his adventurous life and how he sleeps in his wagon says replies‚ “It must be very nice. I wish woman could
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The Victorian period marked the first traces of progress in the feminist movement‚ and poet Christina Rossetti embraced the advancement as her own long-established principles slowly became publicly acceptable. Her poem "Goblin Market" comments on the institutions in Victorian society that she and her feminist contemporaries wished to see altered‚ creating modern female heroines to carry out its messages. The goblins serve as malicious male figures to tempt the innocent heroines‚ sisters Laura and
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