Nayar of India Ashford University ANT 101: Introduction to Anthropology Jeri Myers 29 November 2010 The Nayar of India that I focused on is known as the Nayar of Kerala. They live in the southern tip of India and have a very unique society and culture. The Nayar or Nair culture is an agricultural state and a warrior caste and a matrilineal society. The Nayar also believe that they come from a supernatural beginning‚ and are of a royal lineage and are a high class as they enforced laws‚
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Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very widely read‚ and the songs he composed reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughout
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SUBJECT: Social behavior and personal space of India DATE: July 16‚ 2005 MESSAGE: In doing research‚ I found the following information to be of great value when doing business in India. Personal space in not a concept that the Indians have thoroughly developed in their country (Moxon‚ 1998). They are very curious people and will start a conversation with you the moment they see you. They will ask many questions including questions of a personal nature (Mathew‚ 1996). Indians
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CIP71 – Constitution of India and Professional Ethics QUESTION BANK Constitution of India Important Cases Case 1 Maneka Gandhi vs. Union of India (1978) The fact situation in this case was as follows: Section 10(3)(c) of the Passport Act authorizes the Passport authority to impound a Passport if it deems it necessary to do so in the in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India‚ the security of India‚ friendly relations of India with any foreign country
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Festivals in India are characterized by color‚ gaiety‚ enthusiasm‚ prayers and rituals. The word festival means feast day‚ festive celebration. As kids‚ when there used to be festivals the only thing that came to our minds was holidays and sweets that in turn meant lots of fun. India being a society of may religions there are a lot many festivals. For the Hindus there is diwali‚ for the Muslims there is id‚ for the Christians its Christmas and for the Parsis it’s the New Year and apart from all these
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India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009 A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
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Corruption In India “Corruption is Social Evil” “Power tends to corrupt‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In its simplest sense‚ corruption may be defined as an act of bribery or misuse of public position or power for the fulfillment of selfish motives or to gain personal gratifications. It has also been defined as "Misuse of authority as a result of consideration of personal gain which need not be monetary". In recent Centuries India has earned a place among the THREE most corrupt
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opportunity to realize our dream of India Shining? There has been a lot of talk about the opportunity divide in India. This Opportunity Divide is that by the year 2022‚ 800 million people will be in the working age group but out of these only 200 million will be graduates while the remaining will be in the unskilled group. According to research done by NSDC‚ between the year 2008 and 2022‚ 347 million jobs will be created across 22 different high growth sectors in India. For example‚ the jobs available
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The Power of Superstition in Public Life in India Why are superstitions a part of public life in India? The modern mechanisms for risk-management or “disciplines” ranging from statistics to modern medicine exist side-by-side with superstitions in the country. The answer to why these disciplines have not penetrated into the pores of Indian society lies in the history of political power in India. It is difficult to use the word “superstition” without imagining quotation marks around it. For‚
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COMMENTARY Corruption in India A Quantitative Analysis Vani K Borooah This article represents one of the first attempts at quantifying the level of corruption in India. This has been made possible by the unique website ipaidabribe.com which invites people who paid a bribe to record their experience. By choosing a specific issue – identity verification by a police officer prior to issuing a passport – it was able to focus on a “harassment” bribe‚ that is a bribe paid for something a person was
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