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  2. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The syllabus of Social Sciences, which covers History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics, had 24 chapters in Class IX as compared to 15 each in Science and Mathematics. Similarly, Class X Social Sciences had 28 chapters as compared to 16 each in Science and Mathematics.

  3. Social science - Wikipedia

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    Social science and humanities have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. […] The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not. [18]

  4. Jajmani system - Wikipedia

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    The word jajmani has its origins as a descriptor of those who paid for religious sacrifices in the Vedic period but today refers to a system of exchange of services. [1] As a sociological model that became much studied from the late 1950s, it is at odds with the demiurgic model posited earlier by Max Weber and others.

  5. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy - Wikipedia

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    Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.

  6. Bharat Ek Khoj - Wikipedia

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    12 November 1989 () [1] Bharat Ek Khoj ( lit. ' India: An Exploration ' ) is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru [ 3 ] that covers a 5,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947.

  7. Periyar and social reform - Wikipedia

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    Periyar. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy [1] (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was a Dravidian social reformer and politician from India, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.

  8. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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    Book 3 of Patanjali's Yogasutra is dedicated to soteriological aspects of yoga philosophy. Patanjali begins by stating that all limbs of yoga are a necessary foundation to reaching the state of self-awareness, freedom and liberation.

  9. Bharat Mata (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Bharat Mata is a work painted by the Indian painter Abanindranath Tagore in 1905. However, the painting was first painted by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the 1870s. The work depicts a saffron-clad woman, dressed like a sadhvi, holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth, and a rudraksha garland (mala) in her four hands.