It is unclear to what extent MGR may have mentored Jayalalitha politically, but she joined the AIADMK in 1982 and quickly rose through the party ranks. In 1983 she was made thepropagandasecretary of the party, and a year later she won a seat in theRajya Sabha(upper chamber of the India...
Earlier, many able persons from the lower classes had been able to rise to the ranks of nobility, thus infusing fresh blood into it. Later, the existing families of nobles began to monopolies all offices, barring the way to fresh comers. Not all the nobles, however, bad become weak and ...
Commoners were only to serve in the ranks and hope to become Sergeant as the ultimate professional ceiling. If a British aristocrat officer was not allowing even a British commoner to enter the elite officer club, how he could allow an Indian? After First World War, changes in English and ...
“The Hindus, for example, believe in the caste system according to which some human beings are born superior to others and cannot have any social relations with those in the lower castes or with those who are not Hindus. They cannot marry them or eat with them or even touch them without...
and to who ever wields power. Serfs doffed their hats to the squire and the "gentry," and all bowed to the prince. To this day the military enforces a caste system, where officers are "gentlemen" and their wives are "ladies," while the ranks are referred to as enlisted men and the...
"I am old now and I get tired. It's hard for me to drive all the time but what can I do? My sons don't help," she said. "If I had a chance I would have become a doctor." Just as she said that to me, a passing taxi driver stopped his car and got out to reverentially...
India ranks at 94 in the top 100 countries of single-use plastic waste generation as 9.46 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated every year, out of which 43% is single use plastic.How are other countries tackling with single-use plastic?In...
In contrast, ranks of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh become worse when we move from the uniform MDER to the state-adjusted MDER. Thus, the measure of PoU aligns better with the realities of everyday life across Indian states. In the Pursuit of an Appropriate Calorie ...
Similarly, they transferred the canonical status of the Vedas to the caste system by linking the varnas to these texts; thus, the Brahmins’ position of privilege was sanctioned by sacred scriptures. In this way, their normative hierarchy was inscribed into the natural order and presented as ...
enfranchisement, regardless of the beliefs and traditions of the communities composing the population of this Continent.” Minto’s wife wrote in her diary that the effect was “nothing less than the pulling back of sixty two millions of (Muslims) from joining the ranks of the seditious ...