Caste system in India

Can the tradition of arranged marriages survive through the 21st century? The article “Love and Arranged Marriage in India Today: Negotiating Adulthood” by Nancy S. Netting discusses the current state of arranged marriage in an increasingly westernized society. The author uses two sociological theories to address this topic, Modernization theory and Neo-traditionalism. The article produces valid points to prove the estimates of both theories . The modern view on arranged marriage is that…

sinification or syncretism. Parts of of Chinese culture and societal structure were implemented into their own. Around the fourth century, the Chinese system of writing was introduced into Japan, this led to development of a bureaucracy, a better form of centralized government. The development of such a system made it possible to recreate legal codes, landholding systems, as well as peasant armies in a very similar fashion to China’s. In a similar fashion, religion also became a heavy influence…

prevalent among the socioeconomic marginalised groups; the poorest of the poor, illiterates, Scheduled Tribes and Castes, where they migrate from the rural area to urban areas. The micro survey of the Migration Policy Institute suggests that most internal migrants are between the age of 16 and 40 whose duration of stay is between 60 days and a year. Here the marginalised, scheduled tribes and castes are overrepresented in the short-term migration (Migration Policy Institute, 2014). Many findings…

the women and the society of South Asia and theories regarding origin of patriarchy in India, as the author born on 24th of April 1946 is an Indian development feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist.…

communication between the people of different nations. One person out of every four on earth can be reached through English… In India, English continues to be the medium of instruction in school, colleges and universities, and is also the language of administration. These words written by C.Paul verghese successfully express the palce and importance of English, not only in india but of all the world. Now English is universally accepted as world language. It is also considered as passpart…

Death is inevitable, it is a universal experience that everyone is guaranteed to experience. How we cope with death is different based on our religion, spiritual beliefs, as well as the influence of our culture. Some see death as fearful because it is the end of life in the material world. For others it can be a bit easier, some believe that it is not just the end of life, but the start to a new existence, the soul is reincarnated and the journey of a new life begins. Hinduism is a religion…

use in many realms around the world together with supreme European countries, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Presently India; The Aadhar Project was sold to the public based on the claim that enrolment was “Controlled”. This basically meant that there was no legitimate obligation to enrol. The government and the Unique Identification Authority of India, however, worked, overtime to create a practical compulsion to enrol: National ID card was made mandatory for an ever-widening…

compass, the iron-chain suspension bridge, paper, and porcelain was also of Chinese origin, and that’s only naming a few. Meanwhile, India initiated the crystallization of sugar and developed methods for making cotton textile. Rome, lastly, engineered numerous infrastructural accomplishments that can still be seen today. Relative to measurements and weighing systems, the Indus valley civilization developed standardized weights and measures which continued to be used by second-wave empires. To…

humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj attempted to colonize India in an organized fashion utilizing India’s luxury, wealth and pleasure. Unfortunately, that plan was far…

Long ago in a small village of the state of Gujurat, India during the height of British imperialism of the 18th century, the impoverished villagers struggled to make end meet with the prolonged drought and the impossibly high taxes brought about by the British officers in the state. Of course, the officers thought, the entire village must resent them. But, they reasoned with themselves; what could a village of weak Indians do anything about it? The officers were right; the villagers absolutely…