2.2 English in India: 2.2.1 Pre-Independence Period: Jawalge‚ (2014) stated that English language was widely exposed to our country due to the British conquest. It was started to accept by the people when the British first came to India after the incorporation of the East India Company in 1600‚ and gained roots especially by the educational policies of a Governor-general Lord Macaulay. Timothy (2004) explained the growth of English in India in the following words: “Since the days of the British
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History of the Indian caste system From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Indian society has consisted of thousands of endogamous clans and groups called jatis since ancient times. The Brahminical scriptures and texts tried to bring this diversity under a comprehensible scheme which hypothesised four idealised meta groups called varna. The first mention of the formal varna Indian caste system is in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda‚ although it is the only mention
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essential that the history of Kerala and its democratical approach towards renaissance should be re-examined. The period of history termed the Renaissance of India does not yield to prejudicial assessment. The leaders of Indian Renaissance like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dayananda Saraswathy stood against the Brahmin Supremacy in even aspect. Yet the Mahatma Jyothi Baphula‚ E. V. Rama Swami Naikar and Dr. Ambedkar belonged to another layer on level. This shows the conflicting nature
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Social Work Meaning Social work is recent branch of knowledge which is deals with the scientific solution and treatment of the psychosocial problems. Its main aim is to increase human happiness in general. Therefore‚ it is oriented toward the attainment of two ends‚ first‚ the creation those conditions which help to make a more satisfying way of life possible‚ and second‚ the development within the individual and the community as well as of capacities which help to live that life more adequately
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To educate a woman is to educate a nation Let her use skill in estimation Let her learn what is real; not hallucination Give her a chance to get that that salutation Which men do get because of education SOMEONE HAS RIGHTLY SAID THAT IF YOU EDUCATE A MAN YOU EDUCATE HIM BUT IF YOU EDUCATE A WOMAN YOU EDUCATE THE WHOLE GENRATION. IF A WOMEN IS EDUCATED SHE UNDERSTAND THE NEED OF EDUCATION AND THUS ARGUES HER CHILDEREN TO BE MORE EDUCATED THEN HER IN RETURN HER CHILDEREN UNDERSTAND THE NEED
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Honor Killing in India Honor killing can be defined as the death sentenced by family or society members to a man or woman for marrying against parent’s wish‚ having extra-marital or pre-marital affair‚ marrying outside one’s caste or within same gotra etc.‚ in order to protect the social status and honor of the family. The dishonor perceived in this kind of killings may be a result of behaviors as trivial as dressing in a manner unacceptable to the family or community‚ or having a non-sexual
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Colonization of any geographic area was usually due to the policy of imperialism‚ especially as the world entered a period of growth in the late eighteenth century. With Imperialism‚ a more powerful country attempts to take control of another country‚ or a land they previously had not had under their control. Most of this interest in taking control was for economic reasons‚ driven by the rising industrialism in the western world. With industry on the rise‚ production of material goods was also on
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Women were considered inferior to men in practical life. But in scriptures they were given high position. Thus in past‚ the status of women in India was not clear. It was theoretically high but practically low. Women were prohibited to take part in domestic as well as in external matter. They were under the influence of their parents before marriage and their husbands after marriage. Thus‚ the position of women in ancient India was inferior. The position became worse even during the Moghul rule
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Ramabai Ranade The late Smt. Ramabai Ranade - whose birth centenary was celebrated in India on January 25‚ 1962 - was born in January 1862 in a small village in Sangli District near Pune. Her father had not imparted education to her. Educating Girls was a taboo in those days. As a little girl of 11 years she was married to Shri Mahadev Govind Ranade‚ a pioneer in the social reform movement. He devoted all his apparel time to educate her in face of all opposition of the women in the house and helped
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coming of Raja Rao‚ R.K. Narayan‚ Mulk Raj Anand‚ the journey of Indian English Novel began. The early Indian novels which were merely patriotic gained a rather contemporary touch with the coming of Mulk Raj Anand‚ Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan. The social disparity of India which was aptly described by Mulk Raj Anand in his "Coolie"‚ the imaginary village life with its entire unedited realities in R.K. Narayan`s "Malgudi Days" and last but not the least the aura of Gandhism depicted by Raja Rao in his
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