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Through the course of this paper, we seek to examine the journeys of two landmark writers, Sadat Hassan Manto and Ismat Chughtai with reference to their respective stories of Bu and Lihaaf. The paper seeks to scrutinize Manto’s Bu through the lens of Ismat and Lihaaf, in order to highlight that while Lihaaf (1942) and
Similar Narratives, Contrsating Ramifications: Lihaaf and Bu, Chughtai and Manto Read More »
Summary School exclusion can occur for different reasons that need to be clarified in the context of educational institutions, regardless of whether they are public or private, in the Brazilian and transnational historical profile, by the influence exerted by systems considered benchmarks in the urban context of Curitiba, where the broad community participation in the
Introduction The two-part article places a magnifying glass to analyze a historically unjust practice – that of manual scavenging. In the first part, an investigation into current laws would accompany an analysis of the ground-level situation and comparisons between the intentions of the law and their effects. Implementation of the law will be scrutinized and
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Introduction Panchayati Raj is a village-level form of governance in which each community is accountable for its own operations. The early days of the new Panchayati Raj system in India were seen as the most hopeful for Panchayati Raj Institutions. In 1964-65, according to the report of the Ministry of Community Development, a new doctrine
Entrenched Bureaucracy: Quagmire in the Functioning of Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRI) Read More »
Power-Washing away the Menace of Manual Scavenging 1. Small Scale Solutions to the Problem Manual scavenging, by its inherent nature, is necessary for the daily functioning of sewage and sanitation systems. Due to this reason, despite the best efforts of public and private players, manual scavenging can most irreversibly be eradicated if it is made redundant
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Caste system in India is established as a hierarchical institution based on inequality. Vincent A. Smith defines caste as “a group of families internally united by peculiar rules for the observance of ceremonial purity, especially in the matters of diet and marriage.”(Smith, 62) Each family follows certain caste-based rules that distinguishes it from other castes.
The purpose of this paper is to look into a controversial area of law in several countries across the globe- marital rape. The evidence available on marital violence is increasing by the day as more and more women are reporting incidents of being forced into having sexual relations with their husbands. As already known, marital
INTRODUCTION Harry Beran provides political philosophy’s first ‘liberal’ theory of secession.1 His theory is commonly attributed to the ‘Associative Group Theories’ with the likes of Wellman.2 In the ideal theory, the liberality of a state is determined by the voluntary relationship it shares with its subjects. Beran places weight on this voluntary relationship to develop his ‘Withdrawal
SECTION III: Argument from Territorial Integrity Buchanan criticizes the ‘Primary Right Theorists’ on the grounds of the territorial integrity of a just and liberal sovereign state.1 He argues that according to the morally progressive interpretation of international, only the territorial integrity of illegitimate states can be violated. He provides two conditions which would render a state
Sir Henry Maine[1], when he devised a hitherto movement of societies from status to contract, quoted that countries like India and China are locked in an unchanging world. They are burdened and bound by a fixed legal condition with prevailing family dependency, where law has a very limited application as it is binding upon families
Sir Henry Maine and the Customary Laws of Punjab : A Study Read More »
Introduction In Friction, Anna Tsing aims to provide a nuanced and richly argued ethnographic model for analyzing how forces of globalization and capitalism interact with those of the local cultures, at particular junctions known as the “zones of friction”.[1] Therefore, it displays the heterogeneous elements that exist and gets involved in the process of globalization, thereby causing
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