He believed that Islam was essential for politics, and that it was necessary to institute sharia and preserve Islamic culture from what he viewed as the evils of secularism, nationalism and socialism, which he understood to be the influence of Western imperialism.He was the founder of the ...
The criteria presently followed for specification of a community as a Scheduled Tribe are: indications of primitive traits; distinctive culture; geographical isolation; shyness of contact with the community at large; and backwardness. However, these criteria are not spelt out in the Constitution....
new struc-tures, hopefully, universal in character, transcending competitive differentiations.Ever since the modern west came in contact with India, the scholars in this areahave been copious and have produced a vast amount of literature on the Indianculture and traditions. Even a cursory survey ...
(e.g., theTelugu Desam PartyinAndhra Pradesh). By the early 21st century, however, Congress’s influence in state politics had declined to the point where it controlled only a minority of state governments. The party has tended to do better in the northeastern and northern states and poorly...
Bollywood has been a major factor in shaping Indian popular culture: dialogue from various films (especially those starring Bachchan and the Khans) is commonly quoted; Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi influenced fashion trends of their day, as did several other female stars thereafter; and Bollywood ...
Then, the essay scrutinizes three relevant and interrelated contexts: the eighteenth-century Indian diplomatic culture of owning and exchanging scriptural translations; the social position of Muslims and Jews as ‘guests’ and diplomatic brokers; and the rise of Muslim military power in Malabar. On ...