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    or someone of higher education standards. Since this is an ancient Indian poem, I feel that it has been interpreted in different ways to keep the poem alive in the culture. By producing a comic book and having detailed poems, it allows people of all ages to continue to keep aspects of their culture alive. Merely with this I feel that the comic book tends to “sugar-coat” a lot of the violent events that happen in this ancient Indian poem. Whereas the epic poem of Ayodhya it is recognized that…

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    Salutary neglect was a wonderful thing that allowed the colonies to truly flourish as a society, but following the French and Indian War, the British government made mistakes that took a good relationship where the colonials were proud to be part of the British Empire and spoiled it which eventually led to a Revolution. If Great Britain would have made superior decisions, the association between the two could have stayed healthy; a revolution possibly may not have taken place, and America may…

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    Nevertheless, Speck’s arrival in Indian River Hundred proved particularly fortuitous for the Nanticoke, who were at the time facing new challenges to their collective identity. Despite the 1881 law that established a tripartite school system, the county appointed a black teacher to work at the Warwick School in the 1910s and several black children were enrolled soon after. A group of Nanticoke responded unfavorably to these turn of events. After withdrawing their children from the Warwick…

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    the impact of the Hindu versus Muslim rivalry in Indian society as a source for the foundation of Muslim political identity. He also shows that the gendering of Muslim identity resulted in women becoming a symbol of Islam in the public domain. As a result, religion became a central point in Muslim identity. Robinson provides a strong argument that Muslim identity grew under British rule because he provided key examples of how British rule and Indian society affected Muslim identity. However,…

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    Hindu Adoption Case Study

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    stranger by birth to the privileges of a child by a legally recognised form of affiliation. Outside British India, in Goa, Daman and Diu the Portuguese incorporated basic rules of Hindu law of adoption in 1880. Indian Majority Act, 1875 exempted adoption from the purview of its provisions while Indian Succession Act, 1925 specifically recognised the Hindu usage of adoption. Adoption is not recognised in any other personal laws. There is no provision of adoption in Mohammedan law nor it is…

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    KHILAFAT MOVEMENT: This is also one of the period of Hindu and Muslims unity as they both fight against the British. Gandhi started Non cooperative Movement against British Black laws and Muslims started their Khilafat movement because of their sentiments towards Turkish Muslims. They Both put their movement by their own way against british. Reasons Of Khilafat Movement: Khilafat Movement was a religio-political Movement launched by the Muslims from the…

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    Dr B R Ambedkar, popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, was an Indian jurist, economist, political scientist, sociologist, anthropologist and social reformer who laid down the modern Buddhist movement and fought against the social discrimination of dalits, women and labour. Throughout his life, staunchly advocated for social justice and equality, which are bed rock of Indian constitution. He was first post independent India's law minister and played pivotal role to draft the constitution of…

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    Gadge Baba with Gandhiji Once,Mahatma Gandhi,along with Minister Babasaheb Kher, arrived at Sevagram in Wardha district. Mahatma Gandhi invited Gadge Baba to Sevagram render kirtan. Till the arrival of Gadge Baba at the kirtan place, a huge crowd gathered,waiting for him. The crowd was giving loud acclamation as Bharat Mata ki jay, Jai Hind, Mahatma Gandhi ki jay, Gadge Baba ki Jay. Such acclamations went acrossand reverberatedthe horizon.Gadge Baba arrived and started kirtan. Baba started with,…

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    during the french and indian war and follows the main character, Hawkeye, who is a white man that was adopted by a native american man and raised by him from the age of two years old. The book is about Hawkeye, his father, and his brother helping a soldier transport two women to a fort after they were attacked by an indian tribe and all of their men were killed. The book shows how Hawkeye, a white man raised by indians, could live in society as either a white man or an indian. Hawkeye is also…

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    England, France and Spain had massive colonies in the New World in the 1700’s, however by the start of the 1800’s, these European powers had little or no control in this section of the world. Multiple factors contributed to the individual downfalls of the European rule in the New World. Multifarious wars became the epicenter for the political, social and economic turbulence that brought about the rebellions that we see lead to the eventual loss of the colonial empires that the European powers…

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