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Item Appropriation of Modren Indian History for Hindu India(Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, 2012-08) Thakur, Hemanta KumarThis dissertation relates itself to the investigation of Indian history’s dominant historiography modes which favorably analyze Gandhian nationalism, which is tilted towards Hindu nationalism. The dissertation is interested in seeing how this tilt deals with history of subaltern, especially tribal groups. In order to understand the position of tribal groups, Gandhian nationalism and its subscription to Hinduism have been explored through an analysis of historical discourse of modern Indian history. While the first chapter lays out the background for the dissertation, the second examines the materialist nationalist history, especially of Bipin Chandra who shares with nationalist historians a set of positive assumptions about the nationalist movement, which rests on a notion of hegemony. The third chapter is devoted to the Subaltern Studies Collective which has studied the history of the subaltern groups in India in order to show that neither the colonial state nor the elite Indian bourgeoisie which initiated the nationalist movement was able to achieve hegemony. The fourth chapter examines alternative subaltern historiography of David Hardiman who looks at the tribal groups of Gujrat in India, and their assertions against not only Brahmanical privilege, but also against others who exerted economic pressure on them. His work brings out the potential of a critical, material perspective on Hinduism/Brahmanism and caste during the colonial period. His ethnographically endeavors shows how a discourse from the margins can provide critical insight to dominant discourses of Hinduism. Thus, the dissertation makes the point that the politics of hindutva in recent past has sought to collapse together an amorphous and diverse India under a politically motivated and constructed notion of Hindu identity.Item Dalit girl's perception towards discrimination(Master of Philosophy in Education., 2008-01) Awasthi, LalitaThe study deals with Dalit women’s perception regarding discrimination, especially, in Hindu society. The broad objective of the study was to find out the perception of Dalit girls that affect their participation in education. The overarching research question of this study was, “How has discriminatory practices influenced Dalit girls’ access to education? I, as a researcher, reviewed the literature related to Women under Hinduism, Cultural perspective and Educational perspective. I used hermeneutics for the theoretical construct of this research. I used case study as a research strategy for generating information and analyzed it using the philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer. I used questionnaires, in-depth open- ended interviews and direct observation under this method. In order to guide myself I also developed schematic chart to dig out information for this study. I found the forces that contributed to make up Dalit women’s perception like culture, religion, social values and gender construct. I also interpreted the forces by using hermeneutic theory of Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer. I also explained about the relationship between perception and education of Dalit girl’s with hermeneutics interpretation. I found the history and structure of society as the cause of their hindrance to education. Dalits Girl’s Perception iii iii I presented the findings under different categories like findings generated from the literature, field, personal reflection, and Hermeneutical inquiry. In doing so, I tried to capture the forces that shaped and reshaped Dalit girls’ perception towards discrimination in school. Hermeneutics taught me that all meaning is context- dependent and therefore unstable. It also stated that culture could be created and recreated; implying that the culture, which is against Dalit women, could also be changed. I realized that Dalit girls’ perception towards education could be changed by introducing inclusive approach to teaching, and reorienting culturally socialized mindset. Lastly, I have concluded my thesis by saying that the discrimination started from the mind of people and spread to home school and community so the treatment should be started from the peoples’ mind.Item Nightmarish Living Condition of Oppressed Minority in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable(Department of English, 2007) Neupane, AnilUntouchableby Mulk Raj Anand depicts class system as a great social problem which creates fragmentation in the society. Because of the class system sense of humanity is lost in the human world. So-called upper class people exploit the lower class people in the name of religion. Lower class people do not get opportunity to join school, to enter the temple, and touch the wells. This is the exploitation to the lower class people by the higher class people. This exploitation certainly shatters the idea of a harmonious society and society cannot run smoothly. Hence, humiliated by caste system in society, Bakha nurtures the ambition of living like upperclass people but fails flat when he's disillusioned by the element of oppression in Gandhi's assertion of equal space in Hinduism.Item The Quest for Spiritual Truth in Hermann Hesse'sJourney to the East(Department of English, 2008) Bist, Resham BahadurJourney to the East, By Hermann Hesse is the story of acharacter's quest for Spiritual truth, written in the backdrop of the painful experience of World War I, the novel explores the fictional journey of HH and that of the League, a religious sect, to the East, the home of light. HH reaches his goal after much suffering, and it is the insight of suffering and salvation as mentioned in the Eastern religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, that Hesse uses as guidelines in this journey of salvation.