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Visitors to Russia who insist on saying "Spasibo" ("Thank you") for services rendered reveal themselves to knowing Russians not only as foreigners but as class enemies. The good Soviet citizen avoids such courtesies. In Russia's October Revolution and the bloody civil war, the Bolsheviks learned that one way...
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an untouchable, reared in the Hindu teaching that even his shadow would pollute a high-caste Indian. Like every other good Hindu, he was enjoined for his soul's good to accept with resignation the life to which he was born. But even as a...
But the caste system is still part of Hindu life; during Gandhi's lifetime Bhimrao had many struggles with the Hindu Mahatma. Though Gandhi insisted on abolishing untouchability, he favored keeping the caste system in a purified form. For several years Ambedkar has talked of trying to lead India...
"There is an intimation at the women's colleges that a counter-reformation which could become the hope of the Republic may be under way," Author Bernard De-Voto (Across the Wide Missouri) observed in Harper's. "Jeans are no longer universal wear and no one now loses...
Early this year the Bonn government shoved through a law restoring the old caste system, its provisions guaranteed to keep the snug, smug bureaucrat happy. Samples: civil servants may not be dismissed for incompetence; vacancies need not be made public and opened to competition. The Allied High Commissioners, in vetoing...