Introduction Zoroastrian, followers of Zoroaster, are popularly known in India as Parsis. They are the followers of the religious system taught by Zoroaster. Zoroastrianism is considered to be one of the oldest religions of the world. The other name of Zorastrianism is Mazdaism. The supreme … [Read more...]
Muslim Community in India
Introduction to Islam The word Islam means submission to the will of Allah. The followers of Islam called Muslims believe that Quran is the true word of Allah. They believe the Quran was revealed to mankind through the medium of his Prophet and messenger, Muhammed, Islam came into being in the … [Read more...]
Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India
Indian Constitution provides reservation for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes which are weaker sections of the population. The demands for a similar provision for castes other than the scheduled castes and tribes, which are educationally and socially backward, have been raised. However, … [Read more...]
What are the features of Caste System in India?
Class and caste are two phenomena of social stratification which offer many features in common not only in their origin but also in their development and function. Both are agencies of social mobility and selection in as much as they decide largely the position that a man occupies in society. The … [Read more...]
Problem of Alcoholism and its Treatment
Introduction For long in the history of mankind alcoholism was a moral problem, resulting from moral degradation and weakness of will power. Drinking Alcohol is just one of the several ways in which people wrongly react to stresses and strains which are too difficult for them to meet in the normal … [Read more...]
Social Mobility in India (and its different types)
What is Social Mobility? In spite of rigid caste structure social mobility was present in Indian society and is still prevalent. Human societies are divided into various social strata. These strata are arranged hierarchically and are considered superior or inferior to one another according to the … [Read more...]
Scheduled Castes in India and their problems
The term 'scheduled caste' was coined by the Simon Commission (1927). The expressions, 'Depressed Class,' 'Exterior Caste' and 'Untouchables' were commonly used for the scheduled castes during the colonial period. Gandhiji called them 'Harijans'. Generally they are referred to as Scheduled … [Read more...]
Summary of Our Casuarina Tree
Introduction Our Casuarina Tree by the women Poetess Toru Dutt, a romantic lyric, has an intimately personal association. The tree belonged to the big garden house at Rambagan where the poetess passed her girlhood and youth. She used to play, with her young mates, under the boughs of that vast tree … [Read more...]
Summary of Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel
Introduction The poem "Enterpirse" by Nissim Ezekiel, a modern neo-symbolist poet in Anglo-Indian poetry, treats a quite interesting enterprise, often hindered or hampered, to reach ultimately to no satisfactory goal. Investing the said "enterprise" with a symbolic suggestiveness, the poet sharply … [Read more...]
Short Biography of Toru Dutt (Indian Women English Poet)
Toru Dutt was the Indian women poet of the 19th century Bengali Renaissance. Her family happened to be one of the few converts to Christianity in Bengal at time of orthodox Hinduism. That was a well known family of Rambagan in North Calcutta. Taru Dutt was born in her ancestral residence in … [Read more...]
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