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  2. Status quo - Wikipedia

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    Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, economic, legal, environmental, political, religious, scientific or military issues. [1] In the sociological sense, the status quo refers to the current state of social structure or values. [ 2 ]

  3. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    status quaestionis: the state of investigation: most commonly employed in scholarly literature to refer in a summary way to the accumulated results, scholarly consensus, and areas remaining to be developed on any given topic. status quo: the state in which: The current condition or situation. status quo ante: the state in which [things were] before

  4. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    As in status quo ante bellum ("as it was before the war"); commonly used as antebellum to refer to the period preceding the American Civil War, primarily in reference to the Southern United States at that time. ante cibum (a.c.) before food: Medical shorthand for "before meals" ante faciem Domini: before the face of the Lord

  5. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hindi literature, particularly poetry, has been influenced by Bengali literature and the Bengal Renaissance, which in itself was inspired from the romantics of the Western literature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The person who brought realism in the Hindi prose literature was Premchand , who is considered the most revered figure in the world of ...

  6. Subversion - Wikipedia

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    The term has taken over from 'sedition' as the name for illicit rebellion, though the connotations of the two words are rather different; sedition suggesting overt attacks on institutions, subversion something much more surreptitious, such as eroding the basis of belief in the status quo or setting people against each other.

  7. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  8. Angry young men - Wikipedia

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    The main issues that Angry Young Men had were "impatience with the status quo, refusal to be co-opted by a bankrupt society, an instinctive solidarity with the lower classes". Referred to as " kitchen sink realism ", literary works began to deal with lower class themes. [ 3 ]

  9. Counterhegemony - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is a confrontation or opposition to existing status quo and its legitimacy in politics, but can also be observed in various other spheres of life, such as history, media, music, etc. Neo-Gramscian theorist Nicola Pratt (2004) has described counter-hegemony as "a creation of an alternative hegemony on the terrain of civil ...