I. INTRODUCTION Are you really what you eat? Why are people born with certain unique tendencies? Are matter and spirit separate, or the same? Although seemingly unrelated, these questions are unified by the subject under consideration in this paper: the Hindu caste system. The caste system itself is unified by the concern of ritual purity. According to the Encyclop?dia Britannica: the caste system ... purity and impurity, as sattvagun may be equated with the former and tamogun with the later, with rajogun functioning as a "material mode that activates the other two gun" (Davis 9). According t...

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... satyagraha, or "soul force," helped seek social justice through passive resistance. He also embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence (ahimsa) (B & Z, pg. 1027). In response to an Indian group that favored to remove the British by violent means, he published, "Hind Swaraj," or "Home Rule" to explain his theory of nonresistance. Gandhi makes a very strong argument for the utilization of passive resistance by ... Indians. In South Africa, he was infuriated at the presence of laws that exploited and discriminated against Indians. These forces were sent there to suppress anti-...

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Land Reforms and Its Effects Introduction Land reforms include regulation of ownership, operation, leasing, sales & inheritance of land. In an agrarian economy like India where there ... Bill, 2013: This bill replaces the land acquisition bill 1984.The process for land acquisition involves Social Impact Assessment Survey, preliminary notification and rehabilitation and resettlement to the people affected. Compensation would be 4 times of market value in rural areas and 2 times in urban area. The provision of this bill will ... life of land-owners and tenants. While the system of permanent set...

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