PALLAVA SOCIETY

PALLAVA SOCIETY

 The Pallavas political history covering four centuries is tortous and complex but their contribution to society is singnificant in two ways - comletion of Aryanisation of southern India, and consmation of traditional or indigenous art.

The Aryanisation of south India as completed during the period of the Pallavas. Their grants show that the Aryan structure of society has gained frim hold on the south by the sixth century. Grants to brahmins are specifically mentioned which show that the north Indian Dharma Sastras had acquired authority in the Pallava kingdom. Sanskrit had established its sway. The university of Kanchi played to doubt a great part in India, and we know from Hiuen-Tsang that it was the greatest center of education in the south.

NOTE ON CHALUKYA-PALLAVA CONFLICT

NOTE ON CHALUKYA-PALLAVA CONFLICT

The Chalukya-Pallava war began with Pulkasin II and ended with the collapse of both the dynasties singnificantly, the power that rose thereafter, the Rushtrakutas and the cholas, continued the same sort of struggle. This was because the Chalukya-Pallava struggled was to a great extent determined by the geographical loation of the Chalukya and Pallava kingdoms.

After the first bout was over, the Pallavas agenged their defeat during the days of Narasimhavarman I. He captured the lost territories . In thie he was assisted by the king of Ceylon. He entered the capital of Bademi in 642 A.D. and assumed the title of Vatapikonda, that is, the conqueror or Vatapi

POLITICAL HISTORY OF PALLAVAS

POLITICAL HISTORY of PALLAVAS

               The first important ruler was Siva Skandavarman who performed an Aswamedha and other Vedic sacrifices. His capital was kanchi. Samudragupta forced the pallava king, Vishnugopa, to acknowledge the Gupta suzerainty. And the story of the Pallavas in the 5th and 6th centuries is very sketchy.

By end of the sixth century the Pallavas re-emerged on the scene. Simhavishnu (575 to 600 A.D.) captured the territory of the Cholas and humbled the pride of his neighbours including Ceylon. He was ovavaishnava faith as borne out by the magnificent reliefs representing Simhavishnu and two of his consorts in the Varsha cave at Mamallpuram.

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Neo-colonialism

Neo-colonialism

Since the end of the 1990s has been developing an international campaign for debt relief for poor countries, especially Africa.

This kind of action has been gaining adherents and is a sign that global poverty even bother to point to the rich countries to seek solutions to it.

We must remember, however, that the origin of poverty, which condemns to death millions of people around the world, is the intense exploitation perpetrated by world powers for centuries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This process is known as imperialism.

The new European issues

In the nineteenth century for many European countries have colonies meant to have easy and cheap access to raw materials and energy sources for industry such as iron, coal and oil. It also meant building the consumer markets for products manufactured in Europe.

Opium War

Opium War

Until the late eighteenth century, Europeans were only allowed to negotiate with China through the port of Canton. The Chinese, who considered their country self-sufficient, they showed little interest in foreign goods, in exchange for its exports of porcelain, silk and tea. Moreover, the trade could not be done directly with the Chinese population. Should be mediated by special officials, which set quotas and prices of goods.

INDIAN CRISTIANS AND INM

INDIAN CHRISTIANS AND THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT

There are many Hindutva ideologues and organisations that accuse the Christians in India that they did not participate in the freedom struggle. M.S. Golwalkar (1906-1973) who was the leader of the RSS for more than three decades, says in his Bunch of Thoughts (1966,1996) that Christians in India are not merely irreligious but also anti-nationals and internal threats to the security of the nation. He alleges that the Christians, in general, kept themselves aloof from the freedom struggle. In fact, they were on the side of the British who belonged to their own faith. The British in turn helped the Christian missionaries to materialise their ‘agenda’.

Arun Shourie, a prominent BJP leader who was a Cabinet Minister in the former BJP-led NDA government, states in his Missionaries in India (1994) a view similar to that of Golwalkar. Shourie says: “For over a hundred years thus missionary activity was interwoven with, and inextricably tied up with British imperial control of India: that the missionaries – even those of Indian origin – did not join the Independence Movement was not an accident”.