After reading and thoroughly analyzing both sides of the Taking Sides Issue‚ “Does the Modern University have Islamic Roots in the Islamic World?” I agree with the professor of history and philosophy of education Medhi Nakosteen; he touches the roots of the modern university to the Golden Age of Islamic Culture (750-1150 C.E). Medhi also states that Muslim scholars adapted the best of traditional scholarship and established both the experimental method and the university system‚ which they handed
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Movie Review - Lagaan The movie Lagaan ( English: Land Tax) is a 2001 Indian epic musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film set is in the Victorian period of India’s colonial British raj and revolves around the peasants from barren village who are oppressed by high taxes imposed by their rulers. They attempt to persuade the British officers to reduce the taxes because of poor agricultural production due to drought season. Instead‚ a wager is offered: If their
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Retrieved August 16‚ 2011 from Ono‚ K. (2009). Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past‚ pp 12. New York‚ USA: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Rupkatha‚ R. (2009). Finding the Voice of the Peasant: Agriculture‚ Neocolonialism and Mulk Raj Anand ’s Punjab Trilogy Parcelle‚ J. (2009). Encyclopedia Series OF Conflict‚ War‚ and Peace : History OF Colonization and Colonialism
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their prejudices‚ and to control their destiny in a way they were not able to do before. The level of emancipation achieved‚ of course‚ is very limited; what is patent‚ however‚ is that these women who initially banded themselves together to battle the Raj succeed in initiating a movement which is imbued with its own dynamic ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature‚ 2 3 : 4 ‚ October 1992 100 SENATH W. PERERA and rationale—a movement that could be thwarted but not destroyed. It is now
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and Two Goats ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ is a masterpiece of literature by R. K. Narayan (1906 - 2001). The writer is a brightly shining star in the galaxy of the leading literary Indian fiction writers‚ particularly who wrote in English including Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. Narayan is given credit for bringing the Indian Literature in English to show the whole world. For this great service to the Indian literary world‚ he is rendered as the greatest Indian novelist and short story writer. The setting
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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Who are the Dalits? Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as untouchable. Dalits are a mixed population‚ consisting of numerous social groups from all over India; they speak a variety of languages and practice a multitude of religions. There are many different names proposed for defining this group of people‚ including Panchamas ("fifth varna")‚ and Asprushya ("untouchables"). Dalits are outcastes falling outside the traditional four-fold caste system consisting of
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Divakaruni‚ Kiran Desai‚ Smita Tiwari‚ Chandramoni Narayanswamy‚ and Charmayne D’Souza. There is also one article that makes a comparative study of world women poets. Linda Lowen and Jaydeep Sarangi interview respectively Sarojini Sahoo and Rizio Yohanan Raj. V. Ramesh has three and Sudhir Arora two articles in this anthology. Besides‚ there is also a ‘Preface’ by the editor‚ Prof. Dominic‚ doctorate on the fiction of RK Narayan‚ is‚ himself‚ a poet and critic of wide renown. The editor‚ in his ‘Preface’ to
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political science and sociology comprises of a number of monumental books‚ the most famous of which are; Al-Ahkam al-Sultania w’al-Wilayat al-Diniyya (The Ordinances of Government) Qanun al-Wazarah (Laws regarding the Ministers) Kitab Nasihat al-Mulk (The Book of Sincere Advice to Rulers) Kitab Aadab al-Dunya w’al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World) Kitab Aadab al-Dunya wa al-Di BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BOOKS: The books discuss the principles of political science‚ with special reference
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Separate Electorates are that type of elections in which minorities select their own representatives separately‚ as opposed to Joint Electorates where people are selected collectively. When minorities fear that they would not get representation in state affairs and government then they demand separate electorates. Same was the case with the Indian Muslims. They were very large in number‚ but in case of combined elections they would not get due representation. When the British implemented the system
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