In order of their rank‚ the Brahmins were the powerful priests‚ whilst the Kshatriya were the rulers and the kings‚ the Vaishya were the merchants including farmers and lastly‚ the Shudra were known as the peasants or regular people. However‚ in Francis Xavier’s report‚ he specifically addresses the Brahmins. Brahmanism religion is polytheistic‚ which means they believe in multiple Gods; this is one of the reasons why
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journey as a Brahmin‚ a Samana‚ being rich and greedy‚ and living in the hut as a river man brought him great wisdom and helped him achieve total enlightenment. Siddhartha spent his teenage years as a Brahmin living in a small Indian town. Townspeople in Siddhartha’s community all believed he would reach enlightenment in his life. Siddhartha however wasn’t happy as a Brahmin “Siddhartha felt that he had learned all the elders and teachers had to offer to him.” (pg. 4) The young Brahmin had been taught
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young man searching for enlightenment. Through his journey‚ Siddhartha follows several Buddhist and Hindu paths to achieve his ultimate goal of enlightenment. Siddhartha follows the path of the Brahmin‚ the Samana‚ the materialistic gambler‚ and eventually the Buddhist middle path. Being the son of a Brahmin‚ Siddhartha leads a privileged life‚ but this isn’t enough for him. Siddhartha had an insatiable appetite for knowledge‚ and after a time‚ he leaves his father to find his own path to Nirvana.
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BIOGRAPHY OF MAHATMA PHULE by Dr. Y. D. Phadke. for the bo... http://www.dalitstan.org/books/slavery/slavry_b.html 1 of 6 6/23/2005 1:02 PM ------- O ------- Slavery by Mahatma Phule ------- O ------- Biography of Mahatma Phule Dr.Y.D. Phadke. [This brief Life Sketch of Mahatma Jotirao Phule is written by the noted the scholar Dr.Y.D. Phadke. He is the editor of the Collected Words of Mahatma Phule in Marathi. He is also an eminent scholar of Mahatma Phule and the Satyashodhak Movement
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The caste system of India is one of the main dimensions where people in India socially differentiated through religion‚ class‚ tribe‚ region‚ gender and language. The Indian caste system is considered a closed system of stratification‚ which means that a person’s social status is obligated to which caste they were born into. Caste is a social status determined by a system in society based on one’s position in that position could be low and high depending on the importance attached with that position
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curiosity‚ determination‚ adventurous‚ cleverness‚ Brahmins background and independence. Siddhartha was very slender and very good looking. Hermann Hesse states in the book Siddhartha that “Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmins’ daughter when Siddhartha walked through the streets of the town‚ with his lofty brow‚ his king-like eyes and his slim figure”(Hesse2).This means that Siddhartha was very handsome and all the Brahmins daughters crazy were about him. “The sun browned his
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he pushed his daughter out of his house to marry Matanga. When Ditthamangalika’s pride ebbed away‚ Matanga decided to honour her. He‚ therefore‚ asked her to invite all her kinsmen and make a public announcement that her husband was the ‘Greatest Brahmin’ by way of his righteous karma. When the people assembled to examine the truth‚ Matanga miraculously appeared before them by breaking the moon’s disc. This restored the honour of his wife and since then she was no longer treated as a pariah or an
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First Question: Describe each of the five major groups of people within the caste system? There was five major groups within the caste system. The first major groups was the Brahmins. The Brahmins were priests and religious scholars. They were very rich. The second major group of the caste system was the Kshatriyas. They were the warriors and rulers. The third major group was the Vaishiyas. They were the herders and merchants‚ which also meant that they farmers‚ artisans‚ craftsmen‚ and more. The
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Dialect Variation in Tamil Tamil is one of the ancient languages of the world with records inthe language dating back over two millennia. Its origins are notprecisely known‚ but it developed and flourished in India as a language with a rich literature. With an estimated 30‚000inscriptions‚ Tamil has the largest number of inscriptions in South Asia. Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages‚a family of around twenty-six languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is
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pertaining to fertility and mortality among the four Varnas of Lucknow population.The highest value of Crow’s index is observed in Kshartiya (0.494934) where as lowest in Brahmins (0.365809). Johnston and Kensinger index varies from 0.3866 among Brahmins to 0.5294 among Kshtiya. The total index of opportunity (Crow’s) is in the order Brahmin > Vaishya > Shudra > Kshtirya. However the mortality component is more in Kshtirya and Vaishyas reflecting
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