Search results for "Caste system in India" - New World Encyclopedia
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- spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating Hinduism for ... Swami Vivekananda was born to Bengali Kayastha (in Bengal the Kayastha ...10 KB (1,573 words) - 15:56, 18 June 2022
- niichi zaat (low caste). The Muslim Caste system in India was analyzed by Ambedkar ... Pakistan has been compared to the caste system in India. The society is rigidly ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... to the strict interpretation of the caste system, all priests must ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- independent of the person's actions. In contrast to other schools of ... doctrine comes from fragments preserved in Buddhist and Jain sources, ...6 KB (943 words) - 05:13, 30 April 2021
- poet whose compositions are popular throughout India. The extant versions of her poems are in a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 18:54, 9 November 2022
- most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was ... On the one hand, he was more interested in India's past than he was ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following ... Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning ... of life" for a twice-born man laid out in the Manusmrti and later Classical ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- Vedic thought. Vyasatirtha's genius lay in his clear understanding and ... Vyasatirtha was extremely influential in the Vijayanagar Empire. He ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- of the most famous Hindu mystics of modern India, who claimed that all religions ... Ramakrishna was born into a poor Brahmin family in Karampukur village ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. he spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- in the village of Rāi Bhōi dī Talvaṇḍī, now called Nankana ... Sahib), also wrote about Nanak's life in his vārs. However, these too ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 00:15, 5 March 2024
- and included all his baptized disciples in the Amrit Sanchar ceremony ... Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa to inspire the Sikh community ...20 KB (3,030 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- from the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in South India, who follow Syriac ... such as covering their heads while in worship and holding their ritual ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth ... that human action has consequences not only in this life, but in future lives ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a bridge ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Lingayatism, also known as Veerashaivism, began as a reform movement ... The term derives from Lingavantha in Kannada. Legend relates that ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- 1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice ... )Charlotte Vaudeville, "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- often referred to as the Golden Age of India. Chandragupta had been the ... In addition to military prowess, Chandragupta II elevated culture ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
