This article examines the impact of several socio-religious movement on the status of women in India. The status of women in India is a contradiction. Although a woman is respected and revered as a housewife and mother, there is general acceptance of her subordinate status relative to man at...
3. Bhakti Movement The Bhakti movement arose in medieval India as a devotional response to the rigidities of the caste system and institutionalized religion. It emphasized a personal relationship between the devotee and God, often through loving devotion to a specific deity. Saints and poets, such ...
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the person who took the baton of the reform movement in India is none other than Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. He was a Sanskrit scholar, and he took the position of the principal in the Sanskrit College. He was a human and Social activist and resol...
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The Gita's call for selfless action inspired many leaders of the Indian independence movement, including Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi referred to the Gita as his "spiritual dictionary." This is the second year in a row that the Haryana will be holding such a festival. KEY...
Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996); Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery, "Saffron Demography, Common Wisdom, Aspirations and Uneven Governmentalities," Economic and Political Weekly 40.5 (2005): 447-453; Peter van der Veer, ...
3.A set of actions that are conducted routinely in the same manner:My household chores have become a morning ritual. 4.ZoologyA set of actions that an animal performs in a fixed sequence, often as a means of communication:the greeting ritual in baboons. ...
This article argues that women's engagements with any religio‐political movement, although often de‐legitimised and silenced in hegemonic discourses and usually devoid of any reformist or feminist agenda, paradoxically, not only legitimise the movement and give it a mass base but also provide ...
aBut the democracy movement with its hope and euphoria and solidarity of purpose ended in the bloodbath that the world outside China watched with horror on television. In Beijing, the government took control of news coverage. On the night of the crackdown, people in our compound stood outside...
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