throughout India are approximately 500‚000 villages. The Census of India regards most settlements of fewer than 5‚000 as a village. These settlements range from tiny hamlets of thatched huts to larger settlements of tile-roofed stone and brick houses. Most Indian villages are small; nearly 80 percent have fewer than 1‚000 inhabitants‚ according to the 1991 census. Most are nucleated settlements‚ while others are more dispersed. It is in villages that India’s most basic business--agriculture--takes place. Here
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Subject: -History Annihilation of caste - Dr B R Ambedkar Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an ‘untouchable’ family. He was one of the most radical thinkers of India. He transformed the social‚ economic and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. The Annihilation of caste by Dr. B R Ambedkar is an undelivered speech written
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(1891-1956)‚ Nehru’s Law Minister‚ primary architect of the Indian Constitution‚ champion of the lower castes and the underprivileged. Relatively little-known‚ his struggles get no interest whatsoever‚ and his immense writings‚ most published posthumously because of poverty and therefore inability to pay the fee for publication‚ have been available till recently only in ancient editions gathering dust in long forgotten corners until
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HAS OVER TAKEN CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA NAME: ABHINAV KUMAR VERMA BBA LLB: 2ND SEMESTER DIV: B ROLL NO: 84 SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY "We divided ourselves among caste‚ creed‚ culture and countries but is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love." Class has over taken caste in contemporary India Introduction Earlier in India social system of Hindus was predominantly based on the caste system which had arisen in ancient times. The caste system was one of the most
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Manohar Lohia and his tackling of Caste issue This paper will study how and why caste became so crucial to Ram Manohar Lohia’s politics. This would be understood by tracing the different dimensions of some of his theoretical and political activities‚ specifically on caste and even otherwise. So‚ for example‚ how Lohia drew his own grand historical narrative through Wheel of History‚ that contextualised caste in a certain way‚ or how this understanding of caste also allowed him to incorporate other
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Good Governance in the Light of Upliftment of Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes Table of Contents Scope & Objective iii Research Methodology iv Review of Literature 5 Introduction 6 Chapter I: Rampant Atrocities on Dalit 7 Chapter II: Globalization and Status of Dalit 8 Chapter III: Background of the enactment of the Act
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“Caste” is defined as a rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born. The original caste system of India was formed when Aryan nomadic groups migrated from the north to India in approximately 1500 B.C. The system consisted of four distinct groups. They were the Brahmans (priests) Kshatriya (warriors and tribal chiefs)‚ Vaishyas (tradesmen)‚ and the Sudras (workers‚ peasants).
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Ambedkar born on 14 April 1891 and popularly known as Babasaheb was an Indian jurist‚ politician‚ philosopher‚ anthropologist‚ historian and economist. Born into a poor Mahar family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination‚ the Indian caste system. He converted to Buddhism. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna‚ India’s highest civilian award‚ in 1990. Ambedkar contributed a lot to our Indian constitution.Upon India’s Transfer of Power by British Government to
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principles which were dearest to Ambedkar’s heart and mind. He resorted to the means of ‘peace’ and ‘persuasion’ even before the constitution came into force. He adopted a ‘peaceful campaign’ to secure civil rights for the untouchables even before the Indian independence. To him‚ the campaign was legal and based on ‘legitimate rights’. It was peaceful as well as reasonable. It did not involve violence against those’ who denied the fundamental rights of life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness to
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Indian lit. in english paper The Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand‚ one of the most highly regarded Indian novelists writing in English‚ was born in Peshawar in 1905. He was educated at the universities of Lahore‚ London and Cambridge‚ and lived in England for many years‚ finally settling in a village in Western India after the war. His main concern has always been for "the creatures in the lower depths of Indian society who once were men and women: the rejected‚ who has no way to articulate
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