Essays on Peasantry

Life sometimes resembles an infinite storm without any rainbow and sunshine in the end. Every new day it tests people’s will by various ordeals and trials. Ill luck, for example, can change the whole life upside down. All the challenges and struggles, however, fall to people’s lot for a reason. Only overcoming different hardships, it is possible to understand the true taste of life. In fact thanks to hard times, we become stronger and more confident personalities who are able to enjoy every moment of life to the full. Thus, people should learn to use various problems ...

Introduction

The Ottoman Empire was ruled from the top by a Sultan. A collection of taxes was an eternal problem in this empire so they came up with a tax farming system whereby tax collectors were employed to collect taxes in the entire empire. The system brought about various mistreatments and the poorest received very heavy tax burdens, they did not have the capability of avoiding taxes or bribe off the tax collectors. A segment of the population lived under the millet system and it consisted of the Jews, Christians and Religious minorities who run their own schools, local communities ...

Concentrating on Sri Lanka

(Name and A#) Colonialism had long reaching effects on indigenous cultures, economic systems, literature, and religions. Of those four, religions were the most personal and the most stubborn to change. It was not until the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the British first contacted the Buddhist religion. For the British, it was a bit of a shock to find a civilization willing to accept their rule and yet, a religion so constant and resilient as to be able to reject Christianity while absorbing bits and pieces of the religion and the British culture into their own. The ...