Download or read book Non Brahmin Manifesto written by Justice Party and published by DStock. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Conference took place in Madras on 20th November 1916. It was attended by several Non-Brahmin gentlemen of position and influence. They came from both Madras and from the mofussil. In that conference, it was resolved that measures be taken to start a company for publishing a newspaper advocating the cause of the Non-Brahmin community, and also that a political association be formed to advance, safeguard and protect the interests of the same community. In accordance with this, a Joint-Stock Company was started under the name of “South Indian People’s Association” for conducting a daily newspaper in English, Tamil and Telugu, respectively, and also a Political Association has been form d under the name of “The South Indian Liberal Federation”. On 20th December 1926, the Secretary of The South Indian People’s Association, Rao Bahadur P. Theagaraya Chettiar issued a Manifesto addressed to all the Non-Brahmin gentlemen throughout the presidency. The Manifesto spoke about various issues like Public Services, Public Institutions, Education, Need for an Organisation, Progressive Political Development, Self Governance based on Equal Devolution of Powers, duties of Non Brahmins The Manifesto is relevant even after 100 years, more so at present and that has prompted us to publish this booklet

Download or read book A Survey of Hinduism written by Klaus K. Klostermaier and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the classic text updates the information contained in the earlier editions, and includes new chapters on the origins of Hinduism; its history of relations with Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam; Hindu science; and Hindu measures of time. The chronology and the bibliography have been updated as well. A comprehensive survey of the Hindu tradition, the book deals with the history of Hinduism, the sacred writings of the Hindus, the Hindu worldview, and the specifics of the major branches of Hinduism—Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism. It also focuses on the geographical ties of Hinduism with the land of India, the social order created by Hinduism, and the various systems of Hindu thought. Klaus K. Klostermaier describes the development of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including present-day political Hinduism and the efforts to turn Hinduism into a modern world religion. A unique feature of the book is its treatment of Hinduism in a topical fashion, rather than by chronological description of the development of Hinduism or by summary of the literature. The complexities of Hindu life and thought are thus made real to the reader, and Hindus will recognize it as their own tradition.

Download or read book Modern South India written by Rajmohan Gandhi and published by Rupa. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South India story attempted here is of a peninsular region influenced by the oceans, not by the Himalayas. Yet it is more than that. It is a story of facets of four powerful culturesKannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, to name them in alphabetical orderand yet more than that, for Kodava, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya and Tulu cultures have also influenced it, as also other older and possibly more indigenous cultures often seen as tribal, as well as cultures originating in other parts of India and the world. With South Indias Malayalam region being (in modern times) the most balanced in terms of religion and also the most literate, its Kannada zone occupying South Indias geographical centre and containing the sites of the Vijayanagara kingdom and also the kingdom of Haidar and Tipu, its Telugu portion the largest in area and holding the most people, and its Tamil part the most Dravidian and possessing the oldest literature, the four principal cultures are, unsurprisingly, competitive. But they are also complementary. This is a Dravidian story, and also more than that. It is a story involving four centuries, the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, yet other periods intrude upon it...

Download or read book Towards a Non Brahmin Millennium written by Va Kītā and published by Bhatkal & Sen. This book was released on 1998 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revised Edition Of The History Of Non-Brahmin Assertion To Brahmin Hegemony In The Old Madras Presidency Argues That This Complex And Layered Pst Has To Be Critically Reclaimed For Our Times. An Analytical Study Of The Gestation Of The Movement, Of Its Forebears Like Lyothee Thass And His Contemporaries, The Book Also Provides An Incisive Discussion On The Contributions Of Periyar, E. V. Ramasami, The Pathbreaking Founder Of The Self-Respect Movement.

Download or read book How Solidarity Works for Welfare written by Prerna Singh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some places in the world characterized by better social service provision and welfare outcomes than others? In a world in which millions of people, particularly in developing countries, continue to lead lives plagued by illiteracy and ill-health, understanding the conditions that promote social welfare is of critical importance to political scientists and policy makers alike. Drawing on a multi-method study, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, of the stark variations in educational and health outcomes within a large, federal, multiethnic developing country - India - this book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare. Such an argument not only marks an important break from the dominant negative perceptions of identity politics but also presents a novel theoretical framework to understand welfare provision.

Download or read book Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity written by Joshua Fishman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contexts involved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in the cases of Bavarian, Ebonics, and Scots (considered to be dialects of German, American English, and British English, respectively). Other factors have to do with government policy, as in the cases of Basque and Navajo. Still other factors are historical, such as the way Canaanite was supplanted in present-day Israel by another classical language-Hebrew. Although the volume offers considerable sophistication in the treatment of language, ethnicity and identity, it has been written for the non-specialized reader, whether student or layperson. The contributors are an international group of well-known scholars in a range of fields. Fishman and García provide a detailed introduction that addresses the difficulty of assessing the success or failure of a language. They also present a conclusion that integrates the data presented in the volume.

Download or read book Changing Identities written by Joachim Heidrich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed series ZMO-Studien publishes monographs and edited volumes which mirror the interdisciplinary research programme and approach of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.

Download or read book The Dravidian Movement written by Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundations of politics in Tamil Nadu today are rooted in the rising consciousness and various organizations of what may be broadly termed "the Dravidian Movement" of the late nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the emergence of a new awareness of Tamil identity though a range of organizations for Dravidian uplift such as the Non-Brahmin Movement, the South Indian Liberal Federation (popularly known as the Justice Party), the Self-Respect Movement, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), and its dynamic off-shoot, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). The most prominent leaders of the Dravidian Movement were E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker, known as Periyar, "Great Sage," and C. N. Annadurai—Anna—who in 1967 was to become Chief Minister of Madras State. Today there are many books on Tamil politics, but until the 1960s no book had addressed the movement that was to become the dominant force in the political life of Tamil Nadu today. It was a young American, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., in 1960 who took up the project to portray the Dravidian Movement. With several months in Madras, he met leaders of the DMK and attended a number of conferences, and he collected all the pamphlets and papers he could find on the movement, many going back to the 1930s. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, he brought this together for his Master’s degree thesis, completed in 1962. It was published as a book, The Dravidian Movement, in Bombay in 1965. Long out-of-print, the pioneering volume is again available in this new reprint edition.

Download or read book Philosophy in Indian Politics written by Rabindranath Mukherji and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caste Matters in Public Policy written by Rahul Choragudi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline, castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance. This book critically engages with the changing notions of caste and its intersection with public policy in India. It discusses key issues such as social security, internal reservation, the idea of Most Backward Classes, caste issues among non-Hindu religious communities, caste in census, caste in market, and service castes and urban planning. Drawing on in-depth case studies from states including Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and West Bengal, the volume explores the cyclical process of how caste drives policies, and how policies in turn shape the reality of caste in India. It looks at the impact of factors like protective discrimination, adult franchise and democratic decentralisation, horizontal and vertical mobilisation, land reforms, and religious conversion on social mobility, and traditional hierarchy in India. Empirically rich and analytically rigorous, this book will be an excellent reference for scholars and researchers of public policy, public administration, sociology, exclusion studies, social work, law, history, economics, political science, development studies, social anthropology, and political sociology. It will also be of interest to public policy and development practitioners.

Download or read book Politics and Social Conflict in South India written by Eugene F. Irschick and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anna written by R Kannan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT OF THE DMK AND ITS CHARISMATIC FOUNDER In 1967, C.N. Annadurai became the chief minister of Madras state, when his party, the DMK, swept to power for the first time. In this definitive biography, R. Kannan traces the growth of Annadurai—from a young protégé of the radical thinker Periyar E.V. Ramasamy into a revered leader known as Anna, or elder brother. Kannan draws on Anna’s considerable body of writing, and the memoirs of other leaders and authors in Tamil, to candidly examine Anna’s complex relationship with Periyar and his disillusionment with the corruption he witnessed when in power. Featuring luminaries like Rajagopalachari and Kamaraj, K. Karunanidhi and MGR, among many others, Anna offers a warm and rounded portrait of a man who showed the way for the democratic expression of regional aspirations within a united India.

Download or read book India s Silent Revolution written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaffrelot argues that the trend towards lower-caste representation in national politics constitutes a genuine "democratization" of India and that the social and economic effects of this "silent revolution" are bound to multiply in the years to come.

Download or read book Socio Economic Conditions of the Socio Religious Groups in India An Assessment written by Dr. Major. Zahid Husain and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book D M K and Social Justice written by K.S. Radhakrishnan and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am extremely happy that on that occasion of the Birth Centenary celebrations of Perarignar Anna at Kanchipuram, this fine and useful booklet entitled, "D.M.K. - Social Justice", written by Thiru K.S.Radhakrishnan, my dear brother and advocate, is being released. The entire country has accepted that the concept of Social Justice originated from Tamil Nadu. "Social Justice" is an elixir propounded by the Dravidian Movement for the advancement of the downtrodden and oppressed population of Tamil Nadu belonging to Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes. Eminent leaders like Pitty Theagarayar, Dr.T.M.Nair, Dr.Natesanar, Thiru.Muthiah Mudaliar, Thanthai Periyar and Perarignar Anna had to wage a relentless war to achieve the objectives of Social Justice and finally they won the battle. This war is presently being continued by the D.M.K. Thiru K.S.Radhakrishnan has lucidly compiled and collated the efforts so far taken to achieve Social Justice. I, whole-heartedly, congratulate him. I commend this book to the younger generation, as it delineates the evolution of Social Justice. I am sure that this book will awaken the mind of the youth.

Download or read book Dalits Through the Ages written by Er. Bharat Singh Tippal and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalits, the downtrodden sections of our society are a unique Indian entity that we do not find in any other country or nation in the world. The Dalits are a part and parcel of our social fabric and the nation can not really progress unless this vast section develops along with others. Dalits in India, as a social group, have their own identity. In fact, as a community, they are still to have been discovered and explored. This community deserves fair conduct from the nation, polity and society. The word, Dalit, as per Oxford Dictionary means, a member of the lowest caste, however, it is now used as a term for the Scheduled Castes in our country. Dalit is relatively a new term, while Scheduled Caste is a statutory term, used for those castes, which have been included in a particular schedule in our Constitution. The Government has special plans and schemes for the upliftment of the Dalits and various non-governmental voluntary organizations are also committed to serving them. But, it is a long journey and every sane and responsible citizen has to contribute his or her bit. This comprehensive, compact and authentic book is an asset for all social activists, anthropologists, other scholars, researchers and general readers. Table of Contents Preface v 1. Origin of Dalit System 1 Shudra, as a Term • Supremacy of Religion • Religious Impact • Role of Language • Ambedkar on Scene • Social Change 2. Historical Backdrop 17 Puranas’ Tradition • Ancient Times • Medieval Period • British Period • Inter-caste Relationship • Victimisation of the Downtrodden • Case for Reservation • New Trends • Dalits, through Times 3. Earlier Dalit Movements 47 Bhakti Movement • Eknath’s Movement • Phule’s Movement • Mahar Movement 4. Later Dalit Movements 119 Major Division • Early Efforts • Political Organisations • Ambedkar’s Movement • Role of Mahatma Gandhi • Movements after Independence 5. Dalit Education 245 Position in the Past • Lack of Education • Literacy Movement • Difficulties in Education • Role of Education in Society • Unemployment Problem • Scope for Employment • Effect on Economy 6. Social Change 275 Change in Society • Different Approaches • Social Issues • New Social Trends • Mobility for Better • Social Drawbacks • Social Welfare • Social Liberty 7. Statutory Protection 309 The Backdrop • Fundamental Rights • Social Justice • Right of Equality • Protection by Law Bibliography 329 Index 339

Download or read book Politics and Social Conflict in South India written by Eugene F. Irschick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: