Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Old & Ordinary. The world that has been carrying its burden of war around the sun has carried also the daily routines of the old and ordinary life of these plain people. Before the furnace heat of the Indian spring, in this pre-monsoon season, the 110,000,000 Indian farmers...
Warning. General Fuller is a military expert; his political remarks should be taken either with a grain of salt or several highballs. The general has been called an admirer of Fascism, was even photographed in the days before the war with the gentleman who has since become Lord Haw-Haw...
Two Faculty members provide the facts and the interpretation. Dr. Paul Sweezy '32 clears up the fog which has hindered American understanding of the issues involved in the Indian plea for independence. Except for a failure to consider the complex caste system, Dr. Sweezy's survey is a concise summary...
God was more important than the form. Himself a Brahman, who on the whole observed the complex code of this highest Hindu caste, just as Jesus observed Jewish law, Ramakrishna like Jesus never hesitated to break it when his common sense told him to.
These rites Ramakrishna himself practiced as a priest. In 1856 he became a priest of Kali, Hinduism's Divine Mother, in a vast new temple at Dakshineswar, on the Ganges, just north of Calcutta. The temple and its 20 acres of gardens had been built by a wealthy fourth...