------------------------------------------------- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Gandhi" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Gandhi (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | | Born | 2 October 1869 Porbandar‚ Kathiawar Agency‚British Indian Empire[1] | Died | 30 January 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi‚ Dominion of India | Cause of death | Assassination by shooting | Resting place | Cremated at Rajghat‚ Delhi. 28.6415°N 77.2483°E | Nationality
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descending order‚ are: “Brahmin‚ the priests; Kshatriya‚ warriors and nobility; Vaisya‚ farmers‚ traders and artisans; and Shudra‚ tenant farmers and servants. Some people were born outside of (and below) the caste system. They were called ’untouchables.’ ’’(Szczepanski) There were actually thousands of castes‚ sub-castes‚ and communities within India’s society. These jati were the basis for social status‚ as well as‚ establishing a person’s occupation. Anyone who violated one of these
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amount involved. This could be a fraction of a cent‚ so as to avoid suspicion from the unsuspecting customer states Raj B Lon sane. The victims that take the fall for such acts are usually bank holders‚ and websites that store account information like PayPal. It can be quite scary to have amounts disappear in large portions at once‚ making it a onetime incident for the company. Raj B Lon sane states that the amount of money that is then lost cannot be replaced by the company‚ leading them to take
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B.R. Ambedkar was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1990. Dr.Bhimrao Ambedkar was born on April 14‚ 1891 in Mhow (presently in Madhya Pradesh). He was the fourteenth child of Ramji and Bhimabai Sakpal Ambavedkar. B.R. Ambedkar belonged to the "untouchable" Mahar Caste. His father and grandfather served in the British Army. In those days‚ the government ensured that all the army personnel and their children were educated and ran special schools for this purpose. This ensured good education for Bhimrao
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SOCIAL PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR 1. INTRODUCTION Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s philosophical contribution has in the areas of Humanism‚ realism and rationalism. He propounded a philosophy of humanism taking in account both theory and practice. For him philosophy is not purely theoretic matter but has practical potentialities. It has its roots in the problems of life and the theories that are propounded return back as a contribution for the reconstruction of the society
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never recall it without tears in my eyes. It was then for the first time that I learnt that a person who is an untouchable to a Hindu is also an untouchable to a Parsi".[5]Then after he tried to find ways to make a living for his growing family. He worked as private tutor‚ as an accountant‚ investment consulting business‚ but it failed when his clients learned that he was an untouchable. In 1918 he became Professor of Political Economy in the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Bombay.
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in her novel‚ The God of Small Things‚ and shows that something that may be the status quo isn’t always right. In Roy’s The God of Small Things‚ she criticizes the caste system in India by glorifying an Untouchable and degrading a Brahman. Velutha is a character who is considered an Untouchable‚ someone who is an outcast in society. Even though he can’t do anything about the title he’s given‚ when he gets a job at the pickle factory‚ nobody gets along because to the other Touchable factory workers
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These people are Untouchables because they donot fit in four category of society and they do dirty jobs for there living like sweeping‚ and scavenging (which sometimes involves handling dead bodies) Ilitteracy : (In Ancient time Satyug only Brahmans where allowed to Study‚ in Dwaparyug Kshatriya also were allowed to study in gurukul of Brahman‚ in Tretayug Vaishya were also allowed to Study in and in Kalyug Shudra and Untouchables were allowed to study but many of the Untouchables are still struggling
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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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