consequences felt by the Indian population outweigh any good that they may have done. While the British resided in India‚ they established a social ranking complex called a caste system. The caste system divided Indian society into different sections‚ Brahmins (priests)‚ Kshatriyas (warriors and rulers)‚ Vaisyas (traders‚ merchants‚ and minor officials)‚ Sudras (unskilled workers)‚ and the Harijans or “untouchables”‚ deciding power and wealth depending on which level a person belonged to (British Impact)
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ESSAY on Buddhism Four Noble Truths: 1. Life is suffering (dukkha) 2. Suffering comes from desire (tanha) 3. Getting rid of desire 4. Right behavior through 8 fold path THEREAVADE SOUTHEAST ASIA Teacher ideal : Arhat MAHAYANA largest JAPAN AND CHINA Savior Ideal: the boddhisattva Hinduism: Yoga- an action to form of bonding with God. Types- Karma – yoga of action/ work Jhana- yoga of knowledge Bahkji- yoga of devotion most important Raja- highest form of yoga Vedism:
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Philosophical Contributions of Gandhi’s Ideas Introduction A lack of an interdisciplinary approach to peace and non-violence that fails to include philosophy and education exists in part because the issue of non-violence considered as a philosophical and educational concept is under-explored. Ideas of non-violence often emerge from action‚ and therefore it is often thought that non-violence demands a need for action- a demand that many believe is not met by philosophy. These explanations are
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observances which were binding‚ and violation of the same was expiated by the rituals of penance (prayaschitta). The Brahmins‚ the priestly class‚ helped the wrongdoers in performing those rituals. Those rules of conduct were called dharma and included duties and obligations. In course of time it became the dharma of the king to compel the people to observe their rules of conduct and the Brahmins‚ as the repository of knowledge of those rules‚ advised the king in administering the same. Legal obligations
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different varnas are to be dictated by the King. 3. Brahmans are to be treated as a god. “Even a hundred-year old Kshatriya is to treat a ten year old Brahmin as his father” (Olivelle‚ 2004). 4. Women are to be treated unequally. They are to treat their husbands as gods 5. The legal consequences between each Varna are unequal. “For example if a Brahmin is awarded a death sentence‚ it is sufficient to shave his head‚ but Kshatriya‚ Vaishya and Shudra are to actually die.” 6. One can only marry within
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography Born: December 22‚ 1887 Died: April 26‚ 1920 Achievements: Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss‚ Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. Ramanujan’s own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic. His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer n into summands. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence. He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician
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I am above and find my way. The novel probes and studies the penetrable truth that lies behind this epigraph by taking the lives of three sisters born in an affluent traditional‚ Bengali – Brahmin family. The concept of identity and self – acknowledge is found in the three sisters in varying degrees. Padma‚ Parvathi and Taralata are the three desirable daughters of the novel – good looking‚ educated‚ born and brought up in a traditional post
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business persons as influencing their perception of life. As for me‚ the most influential person in my life is a historical figure and he died many decades ago. The person is Mahatma Gandhi. Born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi into a strict vegetarian Brahmin family‚ Mr Gandhi has always been my role model despite the vast generation gap between us. Mr Gandhi’s passion and commitment to uplift the conditions of the poor in India as well as heal the animosity between the Muslims and Hindus in India are
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Literary elements in Siddhartha In part one of Siddhartha herman hesse employs the idea of birth as an extended metaphor to add clarity on how Siddhartha views himself and the amount of knowledge has and has yet to learn. Siddhartha believes that he is‚ “just as far removed from wisdom‚ from salvation‚ as a child in the mothers womb..” when Siddhartha tells Govinda that he feels this way‚ it reveals how though to some he may seem practically perfect he does not believe this himself. Herman hesse
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“America‚” which to me is the stage for the drama of self-transformation. Pg.51‚ My identity was viscerally connected with my ancestral soil and genealogy. I was who I was because I was Dr. Sudhir Lal Mukhejee’s daughter‚ because I was a Hindu Brahmin‚ because I was Bengali-speaking‚ and because my desh – the Bengali word for homeland – was an East Bengal village called Faridpur. Pg. 51‚ 52 The years in Canada were particularly harsh. Canada is a country that officially‚ and proudly‚ resists
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