Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1906, Gandhi “organized his first mass civil-disobedience campaign” and after years of protest as well as imprisonment, a compromise was made (Mahatma Gandhi). The government then recognized Hindu marriages and abolished poll tax for Indians. In 1919, the British authorities enacted the Rowlatt Act which allowed imprisonment “of those suspected of sedition without trial” (Mahatma Gandhi). The Massacre of Amritsar occurred in April 1919 in which British troops killed 400 demonstrators. Gandhi…

Chapter III A Name without a Face Geeta Abraham Jose’s By The River Pampa I Stood (Time - Early part of the twentieth century) Keralam (the State of Kerala was formed in September 1956) became the site of progressive ideals as early as the nineteenth century with the arrival of missionaries from England and other parts of Europe to Malabar, Kochi and Tiruvitamkoor. Missionaries criticized various practices like untouchability, unapproachability, sexual immorality, hierarchies based on caste,…

The Bhagavad-Gita is an ancient Hindu text depicting the qualms of a prince during a war against his own kin. Despite the text coming into existence many centuries ago, the teachings are still relevant to this day. Although the characters and lessons are derived from Hinduism and the culture, the Gita is still applicable to day to day life even for one not of the Hindu faith. The lessons are taught from a deity under the guise of a lowly charioteer accompanying Prince Arjuna. Sri Krishna is the…

Khushwant Singh (1915- ) was born in a village called Handali ( now in Pakistan). He pursued education from the Government College, Lahore followed by at King’s College, Cambridge University and at the Inner Temple in London. He initially chose to be a lawyer by profession and had practiced at the Lahore High Court for years. Later on he joined the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in 1947. He even left this job and started an illustrious career as a journalist with the All India Radio in…

A Dalit writer and activist, Kancha Ilaiah, is issued a "fatwa' for writing about centuries of upper caste atrocities committed against the Dalits, in his book, Post- Hindu India: Discourse on Dalit Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009), and another book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) by an Adivasi writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, is banned by Jharkhand state government on the charge of 'misrepresenting" the Adivasi, indigenous, people. Indian Independence "liberated" the…

Nationalism means that we carry in our hearts, respect, love and gratitude for our motherland. Although this sense is bestowed on us naturally, but due to some external causes, or may be due to a little ignorance or vicious propaganda, there have been movements espousing anti-national feelings such as the ones witnessed in Kashmir or North-East India. But thanks to the unwavering sense of nationalism in its citizens, India has stood firm as one nation, foiling the designs of separatist forces.…

Mahatma Gandhi brought freedom to India by introducing his own politics thoughts that he has once created. Throughout his beloved speech, Gandhi established many responses to the British government for the freedom that India deserves. Gandhi quickly became a spiritual and political leader in the late 20th century. He then expanded and supported his own political party of the nonviolence movement that many Indians participated in. His movement was strongly affected by the British government,…

INTRODUCTION The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 codifies the law of adoption and maintenance. Adoption is the admission of a 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…

preserve his caste and safeguard the racial purity then how Hindu’s accommodate and cultivate sense of fellow human being feeling! However Nehru's Panchsheel for Tribal Development was an effort to integrate the tribes into main stream India. A reply to Gandhi by…

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,…