Maharashtra changing clothing styles Vast diversity can be observed throughout Maharashtra in respect of ethnic attire and dressing styles. Traditional maharashtrian dresses are generally considered synonymous with the dresses worn by the people on the eastern side of western ghats. Traditional maharashtrian sari is nauvari sari‚ a nine-yards sari.Traditional maharashtrian male dress consists of a shirt‚ lungi or pyjama‚ and a topi. However‚ nowadays with the advent of modern and cosmopolitan
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Politics of Maharashtra After India’s independence‚ most of Maharashtra’s political history was dominated by the Indian National Congress party. Maharashtra became a bastion of the Congress party producing stalwarts such as Yashwantrao Chavan‚ Vasantdada Patil‚ Shankarrao Chavan‚ Vasantrao Naik‚ Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sharad Pawar. The party enjoyed near unchallenged dominance of the political landscape until 1995 when the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured an overwhelming
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Hindi Dalit literature’s moment has arrived. After years of obscurity and unflattering comparisons to the maturity and expressiveness of Dalit literature in languages such as Marathi and Tamil‚ creative Dalit writing in Hindi is finally reaching a more visible level of popular recognition. Hindi Dalit novels‚ autobiographies‚ short-story and poetry anthologies‚ as well as volumes of literary criticism‚ are today being regularly published by Delhi’s top Hindi-language publishing houses‚ Rajkamal and
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Dalit Empowerment in India: Dalits movement for empowerment started way back during second half of the nineteenth century with reformatory efforts to uplift the backward groups of Indian society‚ especially ‘Dalits’. Later on‚ it turned into seeking state intervention and generating the idea of paying special attention to Dalits/untouchables. Dalits/Untouchables have been described as “The oppressed of the oppressed and lowest of the low”‚ who have not been benefited from the opening up of modern
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Lila Tong AP World History Miss. Averitt 2014/11/18 2006 Free-Response Questions The increased production and flow of silver during the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century caused many social and economic effects all around the world. It caused social class distinction in China‚ and caused negative social and economic effects in Spain. First‚ Document 1‚ 3‚ 5 and 7 should be grouped together because they were all written by Chinese during the Ming dynasty. Document 1 was written
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MAHARASHTRA DROUGHT- A MANMADE TRAGEDY BY DILIP KUMAR ROY Maharashtra experienced severe and successive years of drought in 1970-74 and 2000 – 04. One-third of Maharashtra has now been affected by drought‚ which officials and activists fear could be worse than the one in 1972‚ the worst Maharashtra has ever known. Successive dry spells in the past two years have induced severe drought in parts of Maharasthra such as Vidarbha and Marathwada‚ where availability of drinking water
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Beed (Maharashtra): India’s national bird‚ the peacock‚ is under severe threat from nature’s vagaries at one of the largest peacock national parks in the country at Naigaon here. The threat is not from its natural predators or humans‚ but from the extreme heat wave conditions in the Marathwada region‚ around 400 km east of Mumbai‚ that virtually suffocate and even kill the magnificent bird. | | According to local conservationists‚ nearly 13 adult peafowl have reportedly perished this summer
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INTRODUCTION Chawls are a quintessentially Mumbai phenomenon‚ whose rise is inseparably linked to the rise of the textile mills. The textile mills were the next big industrial step that Mumbai took after the spurt in cotton trading and the shifting of the ports. The mills flourished in the mid-19th century and the people who worked there were labourers mainly from the Konkan coast and ghats. Often one of the workers is sent back to the villages to recruit more people. These workers are
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Dalit Consciousness in Limbale’s Outcast Submitted to MAHATHMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY Ajith P.C SAAA10159974 CMS COLLEGE KOTTAYAM FEBRUARY 2013 Declaration I hereby declare that the thesis entitled “Limbale’s Outcaste as an awakening dalit consciousness” submitted to the Mahatma Gandhi University is an original bonafide record of the research work carried out by me at the department of English‚ C.M.S college Kottayam‚ under the supervision of Dr. Sobhana
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now Pune‚ Banaresis now Varanasi.But in Bombay’scase‚ there is much more at stake in changing the name to Mumbai than the simple recoveryof a name repressedunder colonial rule. In I960‚ Bombay was made capital of the newly createdstate of Maharashtra. n I 1966‚ the radicallypro-Maharashtrian arty‚ p the Shiv Sena‚ w;asfounded by a former newspapercartoonist‚ Bal Thackeray.The
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