What are the features of Caste System in India?

Class and caste are two phenomena of social stratification which offer many features in common not only in their origin but also in their development and function. Both are agencies of social mobility and selection in as much as they decide…

Short Paragraph on Save Water

Introduction Water is the most precious gift of nature. It has no taste, no smell and no colour. It is found everywhere and the other name of it is life. We find it in tanks, ponds, wells, rivers and springs. Almost three-fourth of the…

Who wrote Shahnama?

Shahnama (also Shahnameh) is the “Book of Kings” in poetic form written by the poet Firdausi (also Ferdowsi). In Mahmud’s court there were many scholars, poets and artists but there was none that can be compared with Firdausi, whose name…

History of Fire Making

Fire Making Fire may be considered as one of the chief agents of human cultural progress. Indeed, no single material trait other than fire could lift man above the level of other animals. In the remote prehistoric past, human being…

Short Biography of Durgabai Deshmukh

Durgabai Deshmukh played an important role in our struggle for independence. Among the southern states, Andhra had the unique distinction of contributing the largest contingent of women Satyagrahis who, unmindful of the hardships, entered…

Mother Goddess in Indian Religion

Right from the days of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Mother Goddess is worshipped in India as the force behind productivity. But during the period between the Rig-Vedic age till the beginning of the Gupta age, aristocrats were not in…