Critical Quest
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The crucial point in this explanation, for the purpose on hand is this: that what came to be viewed and valorized as nationalism (that is, anti-colonialism) here, arose at the very juncture of the Imperialists attempts at larger inclusion (for whatever reason) in response to the demand; of the hitherto excluded/subalternised masses.Unless this root force in all its complex dimensions, is researched, recognized, related, resisted and finally resolved, the ...
Another thing that has equally surprised observers is the inability of the BCs to unite and defend their rights. Muralidhar Rao estimated their number as 52 per cent of the population.That non-recognition goes with the appropriation the material wealth produced by them. If a democratic revolution had properly taken place in India, and if modern science and technology had grown out of the knowledge the working people possess, perhaps we would have broken ...
The choice of such defining characteristics is however, far from being “value-free”, although on the surface it seems to express a self-evident truth: namely that capitalism and the investment of private capital are linked together.This is why it becomes possible for a Keynes in the challenging circumstances of the General Crisis and in its aftermath, to produce some partial scientific results within the boundaries of his overall approach, ...
In life and preservation of life consists the religion of the savage. What is however true of the religion of the savage is true of all religions wherever they are found for the simple reason that constitutes the essence of religion.These are some of the factors which determine the place and status of a caste in this Hindu hierarchical system of castes. This hierarchical organization of the caste system is responsible for producing a social psychology which is ...
Hindu missionary organizations, such as those attached to the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the RSS and the Vishva Hindu Parishad, taking their cue from Christian missionaries are active among the adivasis , mainly Scheduled Castes and tribes. They are converting these latter groups to Hinduism as defined by the upper caste movements of the last two centuriesBut the significance of dharma was that it demarcated sharply between the upper castes the dvija or ...
Ishvardatt Medharthi, 1900-1971, social reformer from Kanpur, India.His belief in religious universalism was strong, he believed that all religions preached non-violence, brotherhood, equality and compassion…The most interesting time in Medharthi’s life was his engagement as Ambedkar’s Pali teacher, but his biographer, Bhoj Dev Mudit, who was the favourite of Medhrthi’s five disciples, remembers very vividly how they used to go to ...
The parallel and often counter mobilizations of the countless number of colonially subalternised and Sanskritic-Brahminically excluded social groups had been slow, attenuated and sporadic. As suggested above, these latter the majority had hoped for and initially made significant efforts towards egalitarian merger into a larger socio-political identity, but soon enough learned that a new sociality, there was not going to be, and the call by the ...
