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across different communities in Canada in addition to strengthening the Canadian identity. This is a 3-year project (with possibility of extension) and is facilitated with partners such as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada, Hindu Federation, World Sikh organization, Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia, and many more. • Other programs and initiatives include Canada Lecture, Lifetime Achievement Award, diverse projects with the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and…

upon by fellow Americans and being categorized alongside the 19 terrorists that attacked that day. Law-enforcement agencies as well as everyday Americans racially profiled Muslim Americans much more following post 9/11, specifically to Muslim and Sikhs (Khan). Muslim Americans were associated with radical Islamists and to be “terrorists” just for being of the same religion, culture or even looking like someone from the Middle East (Khan). The effect that 9/11 had on the Muslims in America is…

rights to the Dalits, who continued to suffer under the yoke of overbearing Hindu principles. To take the example of Sikhism, the institution of untouchability and differential treatment of the Dalit converts continues till date, with the Mazhabi Sikhs (caste chamars) being treated as inferiors by the Jat converts. Islam too served as…

Time flies really fast. A few weeks ago, I was taken towards an inward journey. I was trying to find out my strengths, my weaknesses, came to know about many new things like blind spots, which I have never heard about nor even told by anyone. And now I am in the last week winding up my classes, doing final assignments for this semester. A person can never measure what he/she has gained until unless it is put into practice. As I previously mentioned in my first assignment, I was not sure what I…

Name: Vrinda Datta Roll no : 60065 College: Hindu Professor: Dr Anil Aneja. M.A English fourth semester. The Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits 1) According to Hindu mythology, the valley of Kashmir is said to have been named after the ancient sage rishi Kashyapa. Kashmiri Pandits are said to be the original inhabitants of the valley. The term Kashmiri Pandits refer to the Hindu Brahmins who have a five thousand year old ancestry and culture . There roots can be…

Political Theory Term Paper “Islamophobia in Movies” Submitted to: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Department of International Relations By: Aditya Prakash Arya (M.A International Relations) South Asian University Introduction Phobia, as Oxford dictionary defines it, is an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Being phobic just adds to negativity towards a particular thing or a group. It is just the ignorance that leads a person to remain phobic and…

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…

In 1991 India adopted a pro market strategy that liberalised its internal regulatory framework, reduced tariffs, adopted appropriate exchange rate policies, and allowed foreign investors to play a significant role in the economy (kohli, 2006). Atul Kohli argues that the growth witnessed in 1990s is due to the reforms and policies taken in the 1980s and cannot be solely attributed to the 1991 reforms. Thus the neo liberal cum pro market interpretation of the growth in 1990s clearly ignores the…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

First off, the official language is Portuguese which makes up almost 100 percent of the population. Brazilians have a strong national ideology that their land is a “racial democracy”. As far as the Brazilian class system goes, people with darker skin tend to be economically and socially disadvantaged. Class is determined by economic status and skin color. Women make up forty percent of the workforce but are found with lower paying jobs than males such as teaching, nursing, and jobs with clerical…