Women and Independence
If early reformers had argued that women were the weaker sex, Mahatma Gandhi emphasized their nobility and self-sacrifice, and his […]
History, Online Resources, parties and poltics, Women Studies
History, Online Resources, Women Studies
History Feminist Associations of India
The primary goals of most women’s associations were to improve women’s literacy and health by abolishing child marriage, enforced widowhood,
History, Online Resources, Women Studies
Feminism and Indian nationalists
The platform of women’s rights was central to the nineteenth-century social reform movement, which crystallized both nationalist aspirations and feminist
BACTRIA
The region between the Hindu Kush Mountains and the river Amu Darya (Oxus) is called Bactria. Its old capital, Bactra,
History, Medieval India, Online Resources
BABUR Mughal Dynasty in India
BABUR (1483–1530), founding emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India. A Chaghtai Turk, Zahir-ud- Din Muhammad, known as Babur (“the
ABDUL KALAM, AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN (A. P. J.) (15 oct 1931–27th jul 2015),11th president of India (2002–2007).
Born in Tamil Nadu in 1931 to a poor working-class Muslim family, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam became India’s
Anthropology, Culture, Historical Communication, Online Resources
Children – Anthropology – Key concept
CHILDREN The child is, in many ways, the paradigmatic ‘other’: ‘the child’, its attributes and identity, is something that adults
Visualism – Key concept in Social and Cultural Anthropology
It is perhaps ironical that at the same time as there has been an anthropological desire to deconstruct the central
Expedition of Somnath
Somnath was famous then, as a great Shiva shrine described in detail in the Skanda Purana of the 9th century
Anthropology, Arts, Culture, Deprived Communities, Economics, Heritage, Human Rights, Online Resources
The Acchuvaru
Acchuvaru are Recorded, in the Madras Census Report, as ” Oriya-speaking carriers of grain, etc., on pack bullocks. Treated as