LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Social Order and the Dynamics of Hegemony: A Study of Untouchable

Himanshu Parmar, Ph.D.

Power as the Governing Factor

Power is invariably the oldest and the most dominating factor that has governed and determined the fates of nations and civilizations in human history. Historically it has been defined as the factor that made things the way they are and not otherwise. What is more astounding is that it has rarely been given the space, in life or politics, which is due to it as the governing factor. On the contrary, power has largely been garbed in different forms and ways thereby making it invisible and at times even non-existent. This garb has been religious, constitutional, political and intellectual as well. Power, hence, is rarely exhibited in its naked form, but it is largely in the former ways that it manifests itself.

This leads to the two major ways in which power operates in any order: the brute form of raw force and in its subtle manifestations. There have been various names offered to these manifestations by critics like Althusser and Gramsci but basically they revolve around two basic ideas: Exercise of power by remaining anti and exercise of power by remaining pro to the ones on whom it is being exercised.

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Himanshu Parmar
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Department of English
BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
Khanpur Kalan
Sonipat0131305
Haryana
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