philosophers or merely scions of the prosperous castes. They also came from the lower sections of society and worked for their living. Though sants like Meera, Chaitanya and Tulsidas were from the upper class, others like Kabir, Namdev, Nanak and Tukaram belonged to the lower communities. These saints taught that people could cast aside the heavy obligations of ritual and caste and the convolutions of philosophy, and simply express their supreme love for god. They believed that one could reach god
The senses are said to be superior to the body; the mind is superior to the senses; the intellect is superior to the mind; and what is superior to the intellect is Atman. “A thing subtle is always superior to another which is gross. The five senses excel the gross body. Mind dominates over the senses and hence is superior to them. Intellect comes above the mind in that it decides while the later merely feels. Atman supplies light to the intellect itself and therefore it is above all these instruments
CHAPTER ONE CONTEXTUALIZING AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN MAHARASHTRA Origin and Dimensions of ‘Autobiography’: Autobiography is an act of a conscious self that documents significant events through the active help of memory to construct historical facts rather than truth. It is a western phenomenon which has its root in the Greek literature. The Western autobiographical tradition has started long back in an ancient time while documenting military achievements or important lifespan of the worriers or the kings
Evolution of Indian Cinema The Indian cinema is one of the most prominent and well known cinemas in the world. Indian film industry also known as BOLLYWOOD has grown drastically in the last 100 years since its inception. The Indian cinema came into existence in 1913 but motion picture was first introduced in India way before that in July 1896 when Lumierre films which were made in Britain were screened in India in Bombay. This was the first time Indian audience was exposed to motion picture and
The rape laws found in India before 1983 were not stringent enough which used to lead to absurd judgements by the judges based on the laws available to them , many a times the accused were not held liable to commit any offence against the victim because of poor Evidence act and also the way rape was defined and also how the consent was taken into consideration in the announcement of the judgements , the age of consent kept could not get most of the victims any justice. The Mathura Rape case judgement
This paper concentrates on the study of the selected ‘bakhars’. The ‘bakhar’, means a Marathi prose historical narrative. Except Mahikavati bakhar, most of the ‘bakhars’ were written from the 17th century to early 19th century. These bakhars were written by Maratha officials on the directions from their masters or senior officials. Those officials were considered as ‘Mahitigar’ i.e. well-informed and knowledgeable persons. The word ‘bakhar’ derived from Arabic word ‘khabar’, which means news or information
Varna system or Vedic caste system which later deteriorated into the modern caste system due to colonialism and misinterpretation, was natural and necessary for the proper functioning of the society. In this article we see how it is very much different from the modern caste system and how it is very natural and we will also see some evidences from the scriptures which supports this. The Original Caste System or Vedic Caste System: Currently the caste system is all about some people feeling themselves
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW 2.0 Preliminaries The present chapter aims at offering a theoretical foundation to the present study. A light has been thrown on the concepts in Pragmatics such as implicature, co-operative principle, and politeness principle on which the present study is based. Moreover, it studies the concept of implicature, its types- conventional, conversational and the sub-types minutely. In addition to this, properties of implicature and problematic cases for conversational implicature