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...lk Page shall be given, for the interested reader to understand the context of the writings. It may be mentioned in passing that I do not have any caste feelings. I do not vouch for the on-going caste based reservations being doled out to the various groups, each competing on claims of antique inferiority. The need of the hour is to appreciate quality, and not mediocrit...

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...y.” Humayun Kabir (at the inaugural of IIT Madras, 1959). This essay seeks to highlight segregation as the keynote of traditional Indian life and caste as the key to the evolution of segregation. Caste in India could, over the centuries, unfold a truly pluralist polity, though each caste in itself was quite monolithic. The coexistence without coalescence of numerous ca...

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...nipluralism: Introductory III. Hinduism and Buddhist Protestantism IV. The Impersonal Individual V. Hindutva: A Theological Figment VI. Nature of Caste Pluralism VII. Royal Government and Caste Plurarchy Afterword Notes...

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...Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg t...

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...ity and structural economy of the grand discourse. What is worse, to the chagrin of the majority of the Hindus, some of these legitimize the inimical caste system while upholding the priestly perks and prejudices. This rendition seeks to restore to the Gita, its original character by ridding it of hundred and ten interpolations, which tend to keep the skeptics away from it...

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...ity and structural economy of the grand discourse. What is worse, to the chagrin of the majority of the Hindus, some of these legitimize the inimical caste system while upholding the priestly perks and prejudices....

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...as master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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...thy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry... ...ead of the supper-table to hear our healths drunk. Sewis spoke like a half-caste oblivious of his training, and of the subjects he was at liberty to t... ...with it; pro- posed a Charity to be established on behalf of decayed half- castes, insisting that servants’ money could never be appro- priated to the...

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...e as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informed Jim Crow laws; and unflinchingly revisits the most brutal of terror tactics, mob lynchings. (Introduction by James K. White)...

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...l social order were their henchmen from the other backward classes. Moreover, given the British political pragmatism of an indifference to the Indian caste conundrum the downtrodden dalits had nowhere to run for cover. ...

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...loquial lingua franca of South Central Travancore, which may have been systematised by the Christian Missionaries, when they converted a lot of lower caste communities into Christians. The language of Malabar, which was also called Malayalam literally was wiped out in the last 30 and odd years. This language also did show extreme potentialities to bring out fascinating lit...

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...oo. This Novel is an action and adventure based fiction and an attempt to make this world as joint peaceful global village free of discriminations of caste and racial and Islamic and non Islamic likes and dislikes. Author seems to stress upon the fact that discriminations of this sort are very fatal for the restoration of world peace. Unless this discrimination is not c...

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...hrough a legacy of slavery and Reconstruction—how members of the “old dominion” desperately struggled to breath life into the corpse of an antebellum caste system that no longer defined the path and direction in which this country was headed. (Introduction by James K. White)....

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...BSS founder, Swami Pranavananda, is a tale right out of India's heroic history, replete with struggles for independence from Britain and clashes with caste and untouchability. Today the 500 monks of the BSS guide thousands of volunteers in reaching deeply into the tribal communities to provide education, food, training and counsel. Debate in Guyana Ever wonder how Hi...

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...Utkal Brahmins : Research & Encyclopedia Utkal means that are best in art and those who were Brahman by caste and best in art were known as Utkala Brahman. Now UtkalaBrahmans are found in odisha and its neighboring states borderlike, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhandand other part of India and abroad utkal...

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...omania Schizophrenia The international dealings Chapter 10 The social affects of a feudal language An introduction Illustration Formation of castes A driver ’s experience The debate The Barber Society as a giant Computer Vulnerability of the Black Sheep Untouchables The Blacks in the USA Exploitation Bridging the Class divide Parks and Seaside Democracy...

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...of a world, Ill, 177. 'Abd ed Dar, as chief of the Kaaba, Abhisal.'ta, JU Caste (e). 6, xvii sq. Abhisheka, He Anointment, alltl 'Abd el 'Hareth, n... ...4 sq.; Ut Bath, and Purification. Abortion, procuring a., causes loss of caste, 2, 74, 28 I; 14, 133; laws about destroying embryos, and mis­ carri... ..., 217. (b) IN CIVIL LAW. A. defined, 25, 316; the cause of confusion of castes, 25, 3 15, 407; law about a., 2, 164-7; 25, 253, 3 15-2 I ; 33, 17... ... persons addicted to a., inadmissible witnesses, 33, 303; causes loss of caste, 2, 74; a cause of divorce, 33, 183; the adulterer one of the seven...

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...its spiritual message is common to all and makes no distinction about any caste, colour, creed, gender, profession, region, religion or status whet... ..., west) but also open to all persons whether belonging to the Hindus’ four castes or adherents of other faiths. But for entering this most sacred Sh... ...ith the True Lord, instead of finding out details about someone’s birth or caste. But the real caste and status of a person is known by his actions... ... but keep your mind attuned to God. God will not ask the person to what caste or race they belong, but He will question what good actions they ha... ...king the food. The “Guru kaa Langar” is open to everyone regardless of caste, colour, creed or gender. Often, it is the men who serve the food t... ...es and headscarf for Kaur females; (7) Observance of equality without any caste, class, colour, creed, gender, profession, race, region or status ...

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...of them belonging to the Valmeeki Nadu community, a Telugu speaking backward caste. Besides Varamanagunda the practice is also rampant in nearby ha... ...s study women mean not only their gender problem, it is dependent so much on caste and also on their economic condition. To be very precise in Ind... ...mic condition. To be very precise in India as per the Aryans there are five castes: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras and Chandalas or untouc... ...tion still he is not recognized as an intellectual but more recognized by his caste says this expert. So the women who have some role to play in Ind... .... So the women who have some role to play in India are only from the Brahmin castes and the upper castes. Dalit women are easy victims of all atroc... ...and the upper castes. Dalit women are easy victims of all atrocities by high caste men. So what role can they play in this society? More so is the ... ...of Indian women or representation of women society in India is just the high caste socially and economically very well off women who just form some... ...otect animals! Another point to be kept in mind is that even if rich and high caste women are affected with HIV/AIDS, it would not come in open and ... ... is the opinion of the expert which he wanted to put on record. Rich and high caste women run most of the women organizations/ associations in India...

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...e people were as diverse as those in the countries of Europe, but with even greater variations of caste, creeds and ethnic backgrounds, all living t... ...he even felt a Audrey Blankenhagen 100 little sorry for Isabel de Silva. The little dark, half-caste must have been overwhelmed by the attentions... ...of this Audrey Blankenhagen 226 ancient land with its long history and its vast differences of castes and creeds. I despise the protocol and prej... ... supply. ‘I am afraid, Doctor French, even in this mainly Muslim state, the Hindus observe their caste system. The houses you see across the river b... ...ross the river belong to the ‘Untouchables’, who by circumstances of their birth, must always be casteless.’ ‘Yes, said Helen, ‘I am always surpris... ...ns alone were divisive:- Hindus believing in Karma and Dharma and adhering to their unchangeable caste system; the Muslims’ belief in their own spir... ...s. Campbell turned his attention to Oudh, which was the home of a large proportion of the high- caste sepoys recruited by the British Army. These ...

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...ves instead of having different levels of human dignity according to their caste. Gandhi changed the course of spirituality as well as its meaning,... ...English and their truth, but also the Hindu religion, which considered the caste system a necessity and the exploitation of the untouchables a sacre...