of the caste system. Known typically as slaves and workers‚ their dharma was to do be slaves or do hard labor. They held no power although they represented a large portion of society. They were owned by the Kshatriya‚ but they were considered “untouchable” by both Brahmins and Kshatriyas because of the impure stigma placed upon the class by the Brahmins. This idea of impurity of the Sudras pervaded even throughout the class itself‚ and at the pinnacle of the caste system‚ there were divisions within
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seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics.[5][13] He graduated to his first short stories and dramas—and the aegis of his birth name—by 1877. As a humanist‚ universalist internationalist‚ and strident anti-nationalist he denounced the Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance‚ he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings‚ sketches and doodles‚ hundreds of texts‚ and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he
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MA in Sociology Paper II Perspectives of Indian Society-I DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE & CONTINUING EDUCATION UTKAL UNIVERSITY‚ Vani Vihar Bhubaneswar‚ India 1 UNIT-I INDOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE 1.1. Indology: Meaning and Definition Indology is known as the science of Indian Society. The Indological perspective claims to understand Indian Society through the concepts‚ theories and frameworks that are closely associated with Indian Civilization. It made a claim that Indian Society is unique in structure
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was born into a Sikh family. I myself am also Sikh. Our religion is very unique we are not allowed to cut our hair and we follow the Guru Granth Sahib. Bhagat Singh ’s family had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj‚ as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements. Bhagat Singh was a member of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and quickly rose through the ranks to become one of its main leaders. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)
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To what extent was the Britain’s rule over India a good thing for India? India was ruled over by the British Raj after the East India Company (EIC) started overruling the Indian natives for 300 years. India was conquered for the Empire not by the English themselves but by Indians under English leadership by taking advantage of Indian disputes. When the English‚ after the Portuguese‚ first landed in India‚ they were overwhelmed by the wealth and magnificence of the people whose friendship
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religious system. Gandhiji regarded this practice as “a leper wound in the whole body of Hindu politic”. He even considered it as “the hate fullest expression of caste.” It is very difficult to give a clear definition of untouchability. The word ‘untouchable’ applies to the despised and degraded section of the Hindu population. Untouchability is a mass phenomenon of group prejudices and discrimination affecting more than 80 million people of India. Untouchability refers to the solid inhibition of touch
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2013. Web. 25 September 2013 Sypnosis This article addresses Joaquin Guzman‚ a Mexican drug lord‚ and his affiliation with the state of the city of Chicago. Guzman has created an empire with “near-monopoly control” that is virtually untouchable by the law enforcers of the United States (Lippert‚ Cattan‚ and Parker 4). Even through all of the countless efforts from individuals who have worked with Guzman to help the United States get to him‚ he still remains in power over the streets of
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PROTECTIVE DISCRIMINATION INRTODUCTION---- Our society has always been full of inequalities. It was a caste ridden‚ stratified hierarchical society‚ and a particular segment of the society had been denied the bare human rights. Their education‚ wages‚ living conditions‚ social status was dictated by the whims of upper strata of society‚ reducing them to destitution. The economic backwardness brought social awkwardness which consequently made them downtrodden and thus depriving
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series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then‚ following union between England and Scotland in 1707‚ Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India. British India British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The term can also refer to the period of dominion. The region under British control‚ commonly called India in contemporary usage‚ included areas directly administered by the United
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