TWO SOCIAL REFORMERS IN INDIA AND SRI LANKA WHO CONFRONTED BRITISH IMPERIALISMM.A.S.R. Sanjeevi Manthrirathne
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Since 1978 the picture is more complicated. In some respects the rural-urban cleavage has been weakened and reduced, while in others it has widened still further.[iv]What is clear, at least, is that the extraordinary status gulf between rural and urban residents...
The central tenet they ended up embracing is, in layman’s terms, that there is no such thing as a “big picture”, and that it is perfectly valid to analyze individual elements separately – and in a separate, but ultimately equally damaging turn, that the observer is a critical part of...
Like all agents for social change, . . . social reformers [such as] Martin Luther King, Jr., [a sociology major] under- stood the basic point of sociology—that is, to look for the connections between people's everyday personal problems and the larger trends in society. Things...
In many cases, it took generations and decades of effort to end the practice of child labour – in the developed world, at least. some of the children who grew up as child-labourers became social reformers and campaginers in the 1900s, and fought for the right of children not to be ...
In October 1956, Dr. Ambedkar embraced Buddhism along with thousands of his followers. This great son of India passed away on December 6, 1956, three days after completing his final manuscript of “The Buddha and his Dhamma”. He was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1990 posthumously. ...
that companies destroy jobs, while government policy creates them. Globalisation is destructive, if not catastrophic. Business is a zero-sum game. If this is the belief system within which most students develop intellectually, is it any wonder French and German reformers are so easily shouted down...
AlthoughCharlesDarwinnevervisitedChina,hisideaslandedherewithforce.DarwinismwasthefirstgreatWesterntheorytomakeanimpactontheChineseand,from1895untilatleast1921,whenMarxismgainedaformalfoothold,itwasthedominantWestern"ism"influencingChinesepoliticsandthought.TheauthorityofDarwin,sometimesmisiniterpreted,influencedreformers...
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