Moreover, Dowry a tradition that undermines women, leaving them as the inferior element within a marriage, 'refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the bridegroom, his parents, or his relatives as a condition of the marriage'.5 This injustice is in particular worth noting, due to the wider burden it has on the entire family. ... Initially, Gandhi included no women in his original group of 70 satyagraha and this drew considerable resentment throughout many of the 'now' blossoming female freedom fighters. 14 Na...

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The gér comprise the nobles and all freemen with no manual profession other than agriculture, considered a sacred activity. ... We can understand from this why there were no revolutions in Africa against the regime, but only against those who administered it poorly, i.e., unworthy princes. ... Their consciences could in no way be bearers of the seeds of revolution: being the principal beneficiaries of the monarchical regime, they defend it up to this day, or regret its passing. ... The slave of the father's household, by contrast, considering his anonymous position (our father is e...

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Baudrillard argues that we have reached a stage of simulation where there is a liquidation of all referentials and the real is being substituted by the signs of the real producing a mere chain of signs with no signified (Baudrillard 1995). ... Mayawati's brand of politics has been criticized by many scholars are being opportunistic and therefore no longer a movement of and for the dalits (Teltumbde 2007). ...

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