bureaucrats is to be receptive to both the citizens and the master and help the latter in the process. More than being receptive to the master‚ he is supposed to follow the orders and carry out the activities in the redressal system. In ancient India‚ the Brahmin advisors were shrewd and advised the kings on how the bureaucrats could best serve the people. This pattern helped conduct the administration smoothly to ensure equitable distribution of resources‚ welfare and justice to
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Understanding the Exigency of Educating the Masses:The Inspirational Ideology of Jotiba Phule Poonam Singh‚ Assitant Professor‚ Satywati College (M)‚ University of Delhi. Abstract The traditional Indian system gave monopoly of educational resources to Brahmins. Anyone who tried to break the hegemonic encroachments of educational resourceswas severely punished by the Laws of Manu or by the preaching of Vedic scriptures such as Rig-Veda. For a very long-time Indians born in disparate Varnas could not even
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Introduction: The term ‘Gotra’ has been procured from Rigveda which means ‘Group or Community’. The term also adverts to ‘Family’ and ‘Lineage Kin’. In Scientific terms‚ Gotra procures the origin of a community having similar features and behaviours. In Sanskrit ‘Go’ means Cow and ‘Gotra’ means Cow Pen where as in Hindu Society the term ‘Gotra’ symbolises clan and it broadly implies the descendants in a ceaseless male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines ‘Gotra’ for grammatical purposes
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during the next reincarnation.2 The caste system consisted of four main classes: 1. The highest level of caste being the Brahmins; they are “priests and philosophers‚ specialists in the life of the spirit”1. Dharma is the responsibilities and duties of a Hindu according to the caste he is born into; this is done to control the social‚ moral and cosmic order.2 The Dharma of a Brahmin was to study the Vedas and perform the religious rituals‚ and maintain high customary standards of ritual purity.3 2
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Indian poet from around the 16th or 17th century‚ known as the father of the Malayalam language—which is the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala‚ spoken by 36 million people in the world.[1] In his era‚ Vattezhuttu‚ an old script originally used to write Tamil‚ was generally used in Kerala to write this language. However‚ he wrote his Malayalam poems in Arya-ezhuttu‚ a Grantha-based script originally used to write Sanskrit‚ so that he could accurately transliterate Sanskrit words into
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story of a Brahmin village community‚ an agrahara‚ and the revered Brahmin man Praneshacharya who lives there. Central to the novel is its namesake‚ the concept of samskara. Adjacent to the title page‚ the author supplies the many definitions of the samskara‚ including: “making perfect”‚ “refinement”‚ “the realizing of past perceptions”‚ and “any rite or ceremony” just to name a few. Throughout the novel‚ these various understandings of samskara play into the lives of the Brahmins living in the
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Task 1 The kshātriyas in the Mahābhārata possessed all of the heroic traditions by displaying the glorification and idealization of power through violent means by individual warriors‚ or a class of warriors (such as the warrior class of kshātriya‚ specifically) in their pursuit of re-gaining their kingdom through violent and heroic battle. Arjuna‚ who belongs to the kshātriya caste (the warrior caste) and third of the Pandavas (the “good” side‚ the protagonists) displays his unparalleled ability
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Bride burning in the Hindu religion is a hideous custom enforced by the Brahmin priests to eradicate non-Brahmin women‚ in order to destroy the non-Brahmin races. Other methods used are wife-burning‚ sati or widow-burning‚ jauhar‚ and witch burning. Most of these murders are passed off or regarded as kitchen fires and are never brought to justice. This is a result of the low status of women in India who are viewed more as personnel property that can be disposed of at anytime. About eighty percent
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their own people over defeated Dravidians‚ Aryans establish a rigid social order based on division according to skin color‚ social position‚ wealth‚ activity and religion. According to that established system‚ society was divided into: - Brahmins or priests‚ who were on the top and their job was to interpret faiths‚ texts and conduct ceremonies. Their high education allowed them engagement in legislature and judiciary‚ and by time they lead all the important jobs in the country. -
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possible. Coming from a Brahmin family‚ Ramanujan grew up with tremendous religious influence in his life. Brahmins are the highest in the caste structure in India. They are the priestly caste‚ and in essence‚ are the leaders of spiritual nourishment and education in Hinduism. His mother‚ being particularly religious‚ sang at one of the local temples and carried him with her. He was participant in the poojas (worship) at home and was well instructed‚ as any good Brahmin boy should‚ in all the Hindu
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