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Religious and Cultural Conditions During Medieval Period

Religious Conditions: Hinduism was divided into two main sects in the South. These were the Shaivism and Vaishnavism. Both these sects emphasized spiritual equality of all castes, the worship of idols, pilgrimages, suppression of desires and consideration to animal life. The rulers of Vijayanagar Kingdom patronised Hinduism, the overwhelming population of the Bahmani Kingdom comprised Hindus. image source: medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/medieval-unicorn.jpg [...]

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Religious and Social Conditions of Society during the Mughal Rule

Religious Conditions: Divergent views have been expressed by historians and scholars regarding the religious conditions. On the one hand there are those who state there was a lot of religious harmony among the people of different faiths and on the other hand it is stated that seeds of the partition of the country were sown by emperors like Aurangzeb and [...]

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Condition of Peasants: Rural Indebtedness and Recurrent Famines

One hundred years of colonial revenue policy of the British East India Company made the entire Indian peasantry impoverished and indebted to unscrupulous moneylenders and bankers. It is all because of the high incidence of land revenue fixed and imposed by the British, existence of many intermedi­aries between the cultivator and the state, subdivision and fragmentation of landholdings and pressure [...]

By |2015-08-08T12:10:30+05:30July 31, 2014|History of India|Comments Off on Condition of Peasants: Rural Indebtedness and Recurrent Famines
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