the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination‚ the system of Chaturvarna – the categorisation of Hindu society into four varnas – and the Hindu caste system. He converted to Buddhism and is also credited with providing a spark for the transformation of hundreds of thousands ofDalits or untouchables to Theravada Buddhism. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded theBharat Ratna‚ India’s highest
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hereditary profession” and that “prohibition of intermarriage” between people of different varnas was “necessary for a rapid evolution of the soul.” But later he gradually became “a social revolu-tionist‚” advocating intermarriage between Brahmins and Untouchables in order to dismantle the caste system “root and branch‚” and acknowledging that “When all become casteless‚ monopoly of occupations would go.” The changes were duein part to the influence of two opponents of the caste system whose integrity he
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“Gandhi was a good man who used his Hindu and religious beliefs in a brilliant way” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Gandhi was never known as just a bad person. He always had the reputation/view of being either all good – or some good some bad. He was a major asset to the struggle of independence in India. And had inspired many other speeches today. All in all‚ I think the father of four born in the second of October 1869‚ Gandhi... was a good man – however has a lot behind the
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the city of Trivandrum in Kerala. That afternoon I was to speak at a school‚ what would be the equivalent of what we call a high school in this country. This particular school was attended by and large by students who were the children of former untouchables’. "The
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The conclusion of the novel is that the touchable (Ammu) and the untouchable (Velutha) cannot be together. The Big god‚ who is the society‚ doesn¡¦t allow people of different caste to associate with one another. Small god‚ on the other hand‚ wants to gain individual happiness with the love affair even though he knows that there will be consequences. The love affair of Ammu and Velutha‚ Velutha being beaten up‚ the betrayal of Estha on Velutha and the incest committed by Estha and Rahel are a few
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TOPIC 1: MARKET STRUCTURE AND MARKET POWER 1.1. Competitors Anyone that produces a substitute for a firm’s product. - Cross price elasticity: Measures the substitution degree of a product for another. P.E.>1 – The demand is elastic‚ a change in price is reflected as an even major change in demand. The extent of the variation is higher as higher is the substitution degree of a product for another. We can say two firms are competing when a price increase by one firm‚ drives its customers to the other
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APJ Abdul Kalam: ’A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure’ Abdul kalam following qualities to be of utmost importance for a creative leader. Leaders cannot go back to a dictatorial style. Who is that creative leader? You have to ask yourself? What are the qualities of the creative leader? The creative leadership‚ I define‚ ‘The creative leadership isexercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach‚ manager to mentor‚ from director to delegator‚ and from one he demands
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Reading novel can be a study on certain society in certain time and place. It is because a novel is not born from inanition‚ it has some phenomena‚ worldviews and reasons that become the background of its present. This idea is the main supporter of studying the extrinsic elements of the novel. And one of the ways for doing it‚ is by applying the sociological approach in analyzing the novel. Arundhaty Roy’s The God of Small Things is the novel that captures many social values of Indian society
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castes could become impure even if a shadow of an untouchable person touches him and to re-gain his purity he had to take a dip into holy waters of the Ganga. Who Are Untouchables? According to traditional Hindu ‘Varna System’‚ a person is born into one of the four castes based on karma and ‘purity’. Those born as Brahmans are priests and teachers; Kshatriyas are rulers and soldiers; Vaisyas are merchants and traders; and Sudras are laborers. Untouchables are literally outcastes. They do not directly
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Dalit Consciousness in Limbale’s Outcast Submitted to MAHATHMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY Ajith P.C SAAA10159974 CMS COLLEGE KOTTAYAM FEBRUARY 2013 Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis entitled “Limbale’s Outcaste as an awakening dalit consciousness” submitted to the Mahatma Gandhi University is an original bonafide record of the research work carried out by me at the department of English‚ C.M.S college Kottayam‚ under the supervision of Dr. Sobhana
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