Search Results for brahmanization

... Dalit Sikhs Dalit history Sikhism Brahmanization untouchability ...

... Growing out of a powerful anti-Brahmanical heterodox tradition in northern India in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Sikh sect of Guru Nanak and his successors gradually evolved into an organized religious movement in Punjab. It became a rallying point for untouchables and members...

... transformed the country’s political and intellectual landscape, especially anticolonial nationalism. Unlike in other parts of India, in Hyderabad the Dalits relied on caste Hindu reformers, especially Brahmans, for political support and articulated Hindu reformist ideas for the emancipation of their brethren...

... on caste Hindu reformers, especially Brahmans, for political support and articulated Hindu reformist ideas for the emancipation of their brethren. Thus the chapter argues that the ideological influence of reformist Hindus in the Telugu public sphere helped the Dalits secure a space in the mainstream...

... in Brahmanism. The essay examines the discussion over the demand for subdivision, the inequalities reproduced by the policy of quotas, and the objectives of the concept of social justice. Reservations social justice scheduled castes equality proportional representation ...

... on the ideas that were to be found in the original principles of the reservation system, while the Malas’ groups based their arguments against categorization on the ideas found in Brahmanism. The essay examines the discussion over the demand for subdivision, the inequalities reproduced by the policy of quotas...