Social History
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1. There is a long train that got us here. Men and women used to participate together in a “household,” either a farm or a small shop of some sort. The household used to be the b...
No. It's a lie The truth is that breast tax had nothing to do with any caste and was not imposed by upper caste women on lower caste women. In fact, both Nair and Nambuthiri women...
🧵CASE STUDY: RAJPUTISATION OF DALITS IN THE COLONIAL TIMES Today we will study an interesting case of the Rajputisation of a Dalit Pasi family in Awadh during the 19th century wh...
Thread on Impnt Political and Social Association in Modern Indian History #UPSCPrelims2023 Athmiya Sabha Calcutta Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1815 Brahmo Samaj by Raja Ram Mohan Roy...
Did you know that Akbar had made a rule that those women roaming in public space without a veil be made a prostitute?
How would intellectual history, cultural history, social history etc answer (2)
List of high value topics for UPSC Prelims 2021 General Studies paper 1 specific. The 20% topics that have 80% impact. = Thread =
They are responsible. They ensured wives to subalt with their overt caste system thus allowing them to breed, & did not put them in meatgrinder of warfare or engineered famines li...
Mandal Commission on Hindu society. This is basically how the Indian state looks at the Hindu society. Note how they are concerned about the "ritual ranking". For these social hist...
Social history of a Lutyens' Liberal (a thread): Your great grand uncle was a protégé of Motilal Nehru and even went to jail in 1923. Your grandfather, however, joined the ICS. The...
A thread on how the greater Assamese society came to be via perspective of immigration of the 4 main groups in Axom. •Tibeto-Burman •Tai-Kadai •Austroasiatic •Indo-Aryan https://t...
