Social Studies
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From 1936-1939, the federal government interviewed 2,300 ex-slaves in 17 states. 2/3 were over 80. By 1936, it had been 71 years since emancipation, so most had been young when th...
[THE STORY OF CASTE - 3: THE HARAPPANS] For this discussion, Harappan serves as an adjective for the entire Indus Valley Civilization and not just the city of Harappa. With that o...
How industrialization has led to assimilation and homogenization in Botswana: a long-belated ninth thread on my new book Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Ch...
The 48 Laws of Power — Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous Key Points: (Thread🧵) https://t.co/yIL8j0Ktty
What was Ukraine’s experience under the Russian rule? Looking at it through non-human actors can bring striking insights into the tsarist society’s racial stereotypes and their leg...
A History of The Marranos - - - https://t.co/E1AEjuWvgF https://t.co/l3HG5mozUs
The Mamluks kept alive the tradition seen across the Islamic world of treating their slaves with kindness & dignity. The career/education opportunities and living standards of a ma...
1) Why Sakas aren’t the source of steppe ancestry in Indians as suggested here, a thread. https://t.co/oBD5P2X6xQ
World Ideologies (Thread Series) Episode 1 : Right Wing and Left Wing The French Revolution In this thread, U will know: - What is Conservative n What is Liberal ideology - What...
🧵CASE STUDY: RAJPUTISATION OF TRIBALS IN THE COLONIAL TIMES In this thread, we will see how a family of Bhuiyan tribal chiefs from Jharkhand successfully acquired Rathore Rajput s...
In the screenshot from Manusmṛti 2.31, it has been told what kind of names should the people of four varṇas get. Note that the Śūdra is assigned 'jugupsita', for which Medhātithi...
Thread on mixed origins of the highest purest V1 Bπ∆hman caste. We know from Vishnu Puran, Book IV, Chapter 19, that from the great Kshatriya king Puru, sprang four different Bπ∆...
Here is an important statistic that will be useful for the #UPSC Mains Exam! TRIBES in #INDIA : In the Oxford Dictionary of sociology, a ‘tribe’ is defined as a social group bou...
1. COURTSHIP💕💕CUSTOMS OF THE NDEBELE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼 Umnxeba 🧵 In the ancient days, Ndebele men practiced elaborate processes to court lovers. The proposals and courting of...
It’s genuinely so easy to write social studies work on India. I shit you not, you can pull anything negative out your ass and it sticks.
I'm interested in researching slavery between African tribes. Did Africa tribes keep slaves? The starting point, there's a word shared by the Luhya and Luo "musumba/misumba" - it m...
@UnamPillai @sankrant 1) No Arthashastra and MBH do not refer to slavery, at any rate nothing like its form in kerala.The word translated as "slave" is Dasa. Dasas in Arthashastra...
