Caste system in India

ARUNDHATI ROY’S “THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS” 1. Introduction Arundhati Roy was born on November 24, 1961, in Shillong Meghalaya, in Bengal, North Eastern India. Her father was a Hindu tea planter, and her mother was a Christian teacher and social activist. Roy began her education at "Corpus Christi," a school founded by her mother in Aymanam, India. This school was very informal. As a result, Roy developed a way of thinking and writing. From the beginning of her education, Roy wanted to be a…

The problem of caste system as racism can be traced in his short story “The Laboratory”. Nandkishore, an intelligent and brilliant engineer got a project of constructing buildings and he worked very hard to accomplish them. Suddenly he had to go on a business trip to Punjab…

history throughout time. The most evolutionary times of these civilizations were between 600 B.C. and A.D. 1200 when they began to organize institutions and characteristics. These “defining and long lasting civilization patterns shaped by belief systems, including philosophies and religions, can be understood as classicism.” The base of classicism can also be seen as the expansion of societies into civilizations. There are five classical civilizations that are majorly preserved - classical Greek…

Hindu is a pagan religion espoused by the people of India and Nepal, was formed through a long march from the fifth century BC to the present. It is a religion of spiritual and moral values as well as legal and regulatory principles taken several gods, according to related works, for every area of the god, and every act or phenomenon there a God for it. There is no specific founder for Hindu religion and most of their books they don’t know who the authors, the religion as well as the books have…

A theory often associated with the Utilitarian view of Asian civilizations was that of Oriental Despotism. James Mill, a European scholar, who wrote about India, was critical of Indian culture. In his book, “History of British India”, Mill divided India into three periods-Hindu, Muslim and British. He argued that Hindu Civilization was ‘irrational, backward and unchanging’ and that Muslim civilization must be marginally better. British administration…

grateful for what you have and who you are”. Later on, we asked her if there was one person is history you would want to meet who would it be? Without any hesitation or thought, she immediately said Mahatma Gandhi. She felt that not only did he liberate India, but also he shed light on an era of peace. I remember her specifically saying, “Gandhi taught us how to love with an open heart”. My story that I encountered with the Indian lady opened my eyes to the reality of life. Ignorant…

rules to govern all people irrespective of their gender, caste, religion and tribe. The Uniform Civil Code mainly deals with issues related to acquisition and administration of property, marriage, divorce and adoption. An attempt to establish a Uniform Civil Code has also been made in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the Constitution of India. 2. ARTICLE 44 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA The Article 44 of the Constitution of India, 1949 states that “the state shall endeavor to secure…

lasted for almost 140 years and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He ruled from 324 B.C till 297 B.C when he voluntary retired and abdicated in favor of his son, Bindusara. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination. Assisted by his political and administrative advisor, Kautalya, he established the first territorial empire in ancient India, covering most of the Indian sub-continent. Origin: Chandragupta…

The philosophy of karma and rebirth explains the most important dissimilarity between Western religious views and the great Indian religious perceptions. Western philosophy also makes use of a retributive description of evil in which a person’s suffering is recorded for by his earlier misconduct. But mentioned the properly wrong correlation between suffering and sin in a person’ lifetime, Western religions have supported other definitions of suffering. Though, Indian views merges this view with…

The beginning of this religion does not seem like a religion to me. My perception is that it was more like a very special person found the fundamental truth parts of life, and teaching it to people who needed his teaching. Siddhartha (Gautama) probably had a hard time to be teaching what he had learned by himself for at least six years. Who would have believed in what he had to say after failing so many tries and disappointed his followers. Since many people are following his teaching in today's…