Gora is one of the finest and complex books penned around Rabindranath Tagore. The novel "Gora" is exceptionally contemporary in its tending to of various issues material to our nation's current situation and is an impression of the complex differences of social life in frontier India. It could be recognized as an epic of our nation at the urgent time of battle for Independence. It portrays the social structure in the area of Bengal before freedom. Gora, a profound and political quandary, is the
The nineteenth century witnessed a cultural, religious and literary resurgence in India- the Indian Renaissance. It was a period of great social, cultural and political change. The Europeans, especially the British, who came to trade in India assumed the role of colonisers and greatly influenced the Indian life. Though the British rule caused much destruction to the wealth and culture of India it also brought forth a reawakening of the Indian spirit, with the introduction of the English language
Amachya Ayushyatil Kahi Athawani is a book of reminiscences by Ramabai Ranade, published in 1910 in Marathi and translated into English as Ranade : His Wife’s Reminiscences by Kusumvati Deshpande. Although she does speak a little about her childhood, a major portion of her autobiography deals with the life which began at the age of eleven when she got married to the well known scholar, jurist and social reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade. She was born on January 25, 1862 in the family of Kurlekars
but a "lower form of worship" (Kapoor 61). It shall be shown that philosophers such as Swami Dayananda Swami stood firmly against the act of idol worship and had tried to (and succeeded) in many ways to rekindle Vedic Hinduism in the form of the Arya Samaj. While other philosophers such as Sri Paramahamsa Ramkrishna was in no rejection to the act of idol worship and felt that all the spiritual texts led to only one God. From this essay, arguments from both Dayananda who had represented the Vedas
Introduction to the Caste System The famous social hierarchy of India, known as the caste system, played a large part in setting prejudices against and limitations for the people of India. Recent genetic studies find that the caste system originated nearly 2,000 years ago, not at the very beginning, but very close. First written records of this classification process and way of life were dated as early as 150 B.C. The caste system gave people the belief that their life was chosen for them the day
and Desh Bandhu Gupta Marg (ROW 30m) on the north side. It is based on a grid pattern with Saraswati Marg and Gurudwara road parallel to it and other roads like Padam Singh road, Arya Samaj road, Hardhyan Singh road and Bank Street intersecting it at right angles. The major through traffic is taken by Pusa road, Arya Samaj road and Desh Bandhu Gupta marg. FIG 4.2 ENTRANCE OF THE MARKET FIG 4.3 ON STREET PARKING ON AJMAL KHAN
One section of our society that has attracted the great attention of various scholars and activists during the last decade are the abased people who call themselves ‘Dalits’. The word ‘Dalit’ hails from Sanskrit language, meaning, suppressed, crushed, ground or broken to pieces. Gandhi Ji coined the word Harijans meaning ‘Children of God’ as a way of reverentially identifying the untouchables. The term ‘Scheduled Castes’ and Scheduled Tribes’ are the official terms used by Indian government documents
India amid 1940s.It presents the issues of an upper class urban Arya Samaj Punjabi family in Amritsar. The picture of women in Indian fiction has faced many changes in the midst of the recent four decades. Many of the Indian Women writers in English write their fiction, which revealed the original state of Indian culture and its impact on woman. Manju Kapur is one of the great writers, who deal the issues concerning women in the public. In her novels, Manju Kapur speaks through her female characters
Amrita Pritam (born 31 August 1919) is a household name in the Punjab, being the first most prominent woman Punjabi poet and fiction writer. After partition she made Delhi her second home. She was the first woman recipient of th Sahitya Akademi Award, the first Punjabi woman to receive the Padma Shree from the President of India in 1969. Though critical of the socialist camp, her works were translated in all the east European languages including French, Japanese and Danish. Mehfil, a quarterly from
Caste system has been the scourge of Indian civilization and culture. The battle against this oppressive and inhuman is older than even some of the great religions of the world. The first warrior to wage against this system was probably Gautam Buddha who waged the war against this inhuman system in 6th century B.C. No doubt, Buddha was able to put some dents in the system, but after the Nirvana of Buddha, the system once again rose like a phoenix and gained strength to crush humanity. In fact, the
V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas is a story of Indian Hindu migrants whose grand-parents have been migrated in Trinidad and Tobago as indentured labourers on the sugarcane estates and started living there permanently. Two families have been described particularly in the novel in the main plot. One is Mohun Biswas’s family and other one is Tulsi family in Arwacas. Hindu rituals, rites and customs have been criticized in the novel at many places. Mr. Biswas tragic Hindu life starts when he was