HUMA 3481 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hindu Nationalism, Brahmin, Mahatma Gandhi

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16 Dec 2018
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10 questions- based on last chapter (2 marks ea) 12% essay question: utilizing information, ideas, and/or arguments from both chapter 1 (intro) and chapter 8, show how globalization has similarly affected at least 3 world religions in modern times. Must religions from east and west (2 west and 1 east or 1 west and 2 east) Never had trials of heresy in india. Sanatana dharma: sanskrit expression for dominant high-caste religion, signifies: truth, practice, duty, way of life, orthodox believers accept ways of the brahmin caste. Modernity: hindu challenges to india as a secular state. Hindu kings imposed laws that required respect for the orthodox elite = brahmin priest and ascetics. Despite christian colonialism, few hindus abandoned their indigenous faith. Important figures: ghandi and nehru: 1947: led south asia to independence subscribed to the prevailing norm in western political thought, insisting that for. India to be modern it should be secular democracy, formally favoring no religion.

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