Category: Traditions

Travelling has great educational value. It increases the frontiers of our knowledge. While travelling, a person comes across people of different races, religions, castes, regions, etc. He also visits different places. Each place has a historical importance of its own. Many colleges and schools arrange educational tours for the benefit of their students. Young boys and girls of western countries have a great passion for travelling.Travelling is also a source of great pleasure. It gives us respite from our dull and dreary routine. It relieves us of our worries. It affords us an opportunity to meet our near and dear ones who may be far away from us. It enables us to meet new people and know their customs, habits and traditions. We can also know the different kinds of…

A constitution, like a tree, is only suitable to the climate of a particular country and therefore, it is difficult to have a general standard for the evaluation of a good constitution. In spite of this difficulty, the following few points may be taken as the requisites of an ideal constitution. ADVERTISEMENTS: (1) The constitution should suit to the social and political atmosphere of the country. It should be drafted with political realities in mind and in consideration of the needs, desires, traditions and habits of the people. It should not be an imposed document. (2) The contents of a good constitution should be confined to ‘fundamentals’. It must contain the fundamental features of the governmental system of the State. It should clearly state the powers and functions of different…

Five Important Merits and Demerits of the Presidential Form of Government are as follows: Merits: (1) The chief merit of this system lies in the fact that it establishes a stable executive which does not depend upon the fluctuating will of the legislature. The tenure of the executive is fixed and, therefore, the policy is carried without any fear or favour. Further, a fixed tenure of office means a greater continuity of policies and programmes and higher standard of administration. (2) As the executive authority is concentrated in one hand, there is singleness of purpose, more vigour initiative and promptness than in the cabinet system. There is unity of control in administration and there is absence of delay in taking decision. Image Source: canadait.com ADVERTISEMENTS: This is why this form…

The traditional distinctive attributes or characteristics of sovereignty are: permanence, exclusiveness, all-comprehensiveness, inalienability, indivisibility, and absoluteness.Permanence: ADVERTISEMENTS: Sovereignty is permanent and it continues uninterrupted as long as the State exists. Changes in government do not mean cessation of sovereignty. Bearers of the authority of government may change, but the State endures and so does sovereignty.It does not cease with the “death or temporary dispossession of a particular bearer or the reorganisation of the State, but shifts immediately to a new bearer as the centre of gravity shifts from one part of a physical body to another when it undergoes external change.” Image Source: ksr-ugc.imgix.netExclusiveness:The sovereign power is exclusive and there is none to compete with it. There can be only one sovereign power in a State which can legally command…

The State is, as Garner said, “neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of superior physical force, nor the creation of resolution or convention, nor a mere expansion of the family.”The State is, as Garner said, “neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of superior physical force, nor the creation of resolution or convention, nor a mere expansion of the family.”It is an institution of natural growth which originated in the bare needs of the life of man and continues in existence for the sake of good life. ADVERTISEMENTS: The theory which explains, and is now accepted as a convincing origin of the State, is the Historical or Evolutionary Theory. It explains that the State is the product of growth, a slow and steady evolution extending over a…

1167 words free essay on Christmas. On 25 December, Christmas is observed throughout many parts of the world. As a cultural celebration, it is a peculiar mix – part myth, part magic and part religion.Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Christmas festival lasts for twelve days, from 25 December (Jesus’ birth) to 6 January (Epiphany). The story is simple – Jesus is born, angels announce his birth to shepherds in the fields and he is visited by three Magis (wise men from the East), who offer him gifts. The significance of these events for Christians is their belief that Jesus is ‘the Son of God’, the Messiah sent from Heaven to save the world from sin. ADVERTISEMENTS: In the first few centuries AD, Christmas as…

Short Essay on Marriage Laws in India – Family is the fundamental unit of a civil society, and marriage a pivotal social institution.All religions accord inviolable sanctity to it and mandate that the followers honour matrimonial obligations to the last word. The law recognises and endorses this socially sanctioned union between a man and a woman.Despite the immense diversity of religious faiths, customs and cultures in India, there has been a peaceful coexistence with occasional pulls and push here and there. Image Source: newsclick.in ADVERTISEMENTS: Marriage being a union sanctioned by all religions is also an area where traditions and practices have a long standing. The law recognizes the diversity here too. That explains the existence of a number of statutes pertaining to the tying and untying of the proverbial…

Essay on Different Types of Social Control – Society makes use of various means of social control depending upon the time and social situation for the realisation of its purposes. It is left to the discretion of the group to decide what means must be used at what time and in what social situation. In some primitive communities magic and superstitious beliefs are enough to exercise control.In a rural society means such as folkways, mores, customs, traditions, beliefs are enough to act as social pressures on individual behaviour. But in the modern urban society, radio, television, newspapers, schools and colleges, police force, etc., may be used for enforcing conformity. In fact, societies have developed consciously or unconsciously various devices for the purpose of controlling the behaviour of their members. Formal…

Short essay on An Indian Marriage for students (free to read). It is said,” Marriages are decided in heaven though arranged on earth.” Accord­ing to Indian traditions, the two should unite into one; only physically they remain two.Last month the marriage of my elder brother was celebrated. The auspicious day had been fixed after prolonged consultations with the priest. Although, we, the young­sters, want to move with times and consider all days auspicious, yet the elders are still steeped in superstition. We have to obey them. However, in one thing my brother and I were triumphant. It was that we succeeded in convincing out elders that dowry was an evil and it should not be accepted.In every other respect, the marriage was celebrated according to tradition. All our relatives and…

The Historical Theory of Rights emphasizes that rights are the product of history. They have their origin in customs which once possessed practical social utility and passed on from one generation to another, ultimately having been recognised as inherent claims or rights.Ritchie says that “those rights which people think they ought to have are just those rights which they have been accustomed to have, or which they have a tradition (whether true or false) of having once possessed.Custom is primitive law.” In explaining natural rights, advocates of the historical theory maintain that custom is their sanction. They are considered fundamental to the development of man, because they have been maintained by a long unbroken custom and the generations have habitually followed them: Habits are ‘natural’ as they grow. They are…