Women in India

Economic liberalization and globalization have introduced Indian society to the global market in which India has developed a transnational labour force in technology call centers and an increasing consumer market within major urban areas. Furthermore, through globalization India has experienced large-scale diasporic emigration to European, South East Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American countries. Globalization has drastically altered manner in which labour is organized worldwide. This…

INTRODUCTION: In India, the backward castes had been denied all kinds of social and economic endowments. Hence, they had been lagging behind in the process of development. The social and economic deprivation among Scheduled Castes had been most common during pre and post-Independence. Therefore, there was a need of number of special safeguard policies. One of that is, ‘Reservation Policy’. People of depressed classes were considered as untouchables and in 1919, the British Government granted…

Gandhi was born in Porbondar India but moved to Rajkot at the age of seven, and was the youngest of his four other siblings. Gandhi’s childhood consisted of strict beliefs and complete order. However, it was relatively easy considering he grew up in the Bania caste. At that time the only people that lived there where at a high status in wealth. His father was the prime minister of small city states in India and his mother was known as a “devout religious women who always attended the temple”.…

in South Asia around 2000 BCE, during a time of hunting and gathering and the start of rice cultivation, the process of envisioning a faith and establishing a solid following proved to be difficult. The Indus River Valley civilization in northern India was populated by a diverse community, one group being Indo-European peoples known as the Aryans, who of which founded Hinduism. Acknowledging the large variety of people and beliefs, Hinduism’s characteristics, like the caste system and Hinduistic…

form of papers which are based various police records from the year 1815- 1829. Again, sati has been attacked by the kind of phenomenon which gradually effects the industrial development, and then sati has came across the different cities of western India like Shabad which officially declared the coming of the widows. Therefore due to some issues related to documentary, there was no clear evidence or have been a lesser facts related to administrative services. After that during the period of…

The film revolves around two main characters, Danny and Peachy, that were both ex soldiers in India at the time of the British rule. The country, according to them is too small to house them; so they end up traveling to Kafiristan where they would then become kings in their rights. Rudyard Kipling, the author of the entire film, is regarded as a character that was present at the very beginning up to and until the end of the whole movie. The film tells the story of the above mentioned charming…

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 modern India. Annihilation of Caste is a prolific work by Babasaheb and some social scientist opined that his book, occupies a…

RRDS Govt. Degree College, Bhimavaram & Prof. K. Ratna Shiela Mani, Dept. of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. Abstract The paper is an attempt to explore how Shashi Deshpande portrays the ambivalent attitude of the educated, Indian women through Jaya, the central character in That Long Silence. Jaya’s journey from ‘self’ to ‘society’ and from ‘society’ to ‘self’ records the traumatic experiences she has undergone in patriarchal society. Though brought up in a traditional Indian…

innocent mind. Later in 1919, when a curfew was declared in Amritsar, Anand went out to see that curfew. But he was arrested, flogged and detained in the police station overnight. In the same year he witnessed another tragedy wherein nearly three hundred women were shot dead by the British regiment as a punishment for their disobedience. All these incidents of colonial violence left such an indelible impression on Anand’s psyche. Colonial authority was not the only structure of hierarchy that…

Divakaruni’s ‘Clothes’ emphasizes the clash of cultures and finding one’s true identity. Near the end of Sumita’s transition through American cultures, the colors that she wears in America become dull and colorless compared to the traditional colors in India that are rich and beautiful. To begin with, the author uses symbolism to convey the emotional changes that Sumita experiences and Divakaruni does this to keep Sumita grounded with her Indian beliefs during her transition. The saris that…