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Yvette Claire Rosser (born January 31, 1952), also known as Ram Rani,[1] is an American writer and scholar. She identifies as a Hindu and teaches Hinduism to Westerners.[1]
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Neem Karoli Baba or Neeb Karori Baba - known to his followers as Maharaj-ji - was a Hindu guru, mystic and devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman. He is known outside India for being the guru of a number of Americans who travelled to India in the 1960s and 1970s, the most well-known being the spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Bhagavan Das, and the musicians Krishna Das and Jai Uttal. His ashrams are in Kainchi, Vrindavan, Rishikesh, Shimla, Neem Karoli village near Khimasepur in Farrukhabad, Bhumiadhar, Hanuman Gadi, Lucknow, Delhi in India and in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
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Career
Rosser is a co-creator of the International Day Without Violence held on April 4.[4] She is co-founder of the G. M. Syed Memorial Committee.[5] Its objectives are to educate the international community about G. M. Syed's message of non-violence, democracy, secularism, and the right to self-determination for Sindhi people and other oppressed groups, and to advocate and support other organizations promoting human rights, religious tolerance, environmental responsibility, equal rights for women and religious minorities, as well as conflict resolution and peaceful initiatives in Sindh.[citation needed]
Ghulam Murtaza Syed, known as G.M Syed was a prominent Sindhi politician, who is known for his scholarly work, passing only constitutional resolution in favor of the establishment of Pakistan from British Sindh Assembly in 1943, proposing ideological groundwork for separate Sindhi identity and laying the foundations of Sindhudesh movement. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism.
Democracy is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting. In a direct democracy, the citizens as a whole form a governing body and vote directly on each issue. In a representative democracy the citizens elect representatives from among themselves. These representatives meet to form a governing body, such as a legislature. In a constitutional democracy the powers of the majority are exercised within the framework of a representative democracy, but the constitution limits the majority and protects the minority, usually through the enjoyment by all of certain individual rights, e.g. freedom of speech, or freedom of association.
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She is also on the advisory board of the Baacha Khan Research Centre in Baacha Khan Markaz, Peshawar; and founder of the Badshah Khan Peace Initiative (BKPI), a worldwide movement to promote the life's teachings of Abdul Ghaffar Khan.[citation needed]
Publications
Articles and chapters
Rosser, Yvette C. (Spring 1996). "Pervasive Pedagogical Paradigms". SAGAR (South Asian Graduate Research Journal). 3 (1).
Rosser, Yvette C. (October 1997). "Sindh Memories". Daily Sindh (in Sindhi). Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Rosser, Yvette C. (1999). "Hegemony and Historiography: Politics of Pedagogy". Asian Review. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Rosser, Yvette C. (1999). "Stereotypes in Schooling: Negative Pressures in the American Educational System on Hindu Identity Formation". In Rukmani, T. S. (ed.). Hindu Diaspora: Global Perspectives. Montreal, Canada: Concordia University. ISBN0889473382.
Rosser, Yvette C. (March 13, 2001). "Are the Taliban Coming?". The Friday Times. Lahore, Pakistan.
Rosser, Yvette C. (July 2001). "Pakistani Perspectives of India". MANUSHI: A Journal About Women and Society. New Delhi.
Rosser, Yvette C. (Fall 2001). "Internationalizing Teacher Education: Preparedness to Teach About India". Teaching South Asia. Project South Asia at Missouri Southern State College. ISSN1529-8558.
Rosser, Yvette C. (2003). "Contesting Historiographies in South Asia: The Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks". In Saha, Santosh (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues. Lexington Books. ISBN978-0-7391-0760-7.
Rosser, Yvette C. (2006). "Cognitive Dissonance: Confusing Discourse in Pakistani Studies Textbooks". Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes. Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). ISBN978-9698784409.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier which is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.
An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title. ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature.
Rosser, Yvette Claire (2003). Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. ISBN81-291-0221-8.
Rosser, Yvette Claire (2004). Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. ISBN8129104318.
Rosser, Yvette Claire (forthcoming). Mukti Bahini to Jihad: The Evolution of Historiography in Bangladesh. New Delhi, India: Observer Research Foundation.
Notes
1 2 Melwani, Lavina (April–June 2004). "Oh, For a Fair View of Hinduism...". Hinduism Today. pp.18–20.
↑ Rao, Ramesh N. (2003). IDRF, let the facts speak. Friends of India. p.30.
↑ Rosser, Yvette Claire (2003). "Curriculum as Destiny: Forging National Identity in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh". p.iv.
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