Ram Gopal Varma

First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.

Indian Director

Chris Roberson

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

American Author

Jagapathi Babu

I have played a terrorist in 'Goodachari,' a feudal lord in 'Rangasthalam' and a factionist in 'AS.' The variations in all these characters are so different. It's only because of my directors that this was possible.

Indian Actor

John Boyle O'Reilly

With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

Irish Poet

Horatio Alger

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

John Singleton

There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.

American Director

Mark Leibovich

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

American Journalist

Heather Brooke

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Brian Cox

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Actor

Arun Jaitley

I think the Indian media suffers from a feudal mindset.

Indian Politician

Used when discussing historical periods, especially when describing social hierarchies and land ownership in those times.

Historical Context

Emphasizes the relationship between land ownership and power in the feudal system.

Land and Power

Indicates that the feudal system is from a past era and not used in modern governance or society.

Not Contemporary

Suggests an unfair or overly controlling system, resembling the authoritative aspects of feudal societies.

Repressive Connotation

Used to criticize structures viewed as outdated or unjust, both in historical context and modern metaphors.

Critique of Systems

Carries a negative tone when used to describe present-day situations, emphasizing the need for progress or change.

Negative Modern Usage

 Yet the world has never been more democratic than it has been in the past decade, with two-thirds of the world's people living in democracies. Homicide rates plunge whenever anarchy and the code of vendetta are replaced by the rule of law. It happened when feudal Europe was brought under the control of centralized kingdoms,

Is the world getting...

 winds its way through the countryside of China with a history almost as long and serpentine as the structure. The Great Wall began as multiple walls of rammed earth built by individual feudal states during the Chunqiu period to protect against nomadic raiders north of China and each other.

What makes the Great...

 from a chaotic patchwork of fragmented feudal and religious territories into efficient, modern, and secular nation states where the people held more power and rights than ever before." "Should we also thank him for the rise of nationalism and the massive increase in army sizes?

History vs. Napoleon...

 the old feudal order with its concepts of honor and mercy had passed into history chins officers and promotion to success on the battlefield not through family status bring me the head of an enemy soldier and you will advance by one rank that was the maximum by which

China's Warrior King PIPE...

 the feudal system was abolished. The Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed a radical idea for the time -- that individual rights and freedoms were fundamental to human nature and government existed only to protect them.

What caused the French...

 and I hoped that we'd slow the spread of the virus. I was aware that socially marginalized populations were at disproportionate risk of getting and dying of AIDS. And on the sugar plantations, which really more closely resembled feudal fiefdoms

Why your doctor should...

 where humanity rules the stars in a giant feudal empire. This medieval motif goes beyond just the government. Unlike most interstellar sci-fi, Herbert's humans conquered the stars without any computers. Following an ancient war with robots,

Why should you read...

 which takes place in feudal Japan, and a modernized version called "Scotland, PA," in which Macbeth and his rivals are managers of competing fast food restaurants. No matter the presentation, questions of morality, politics,

 or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first case is the encounter between two medieval period feudal style teams one was Portugal the other was the kingdom

Africa’s rhyming history...

 "And replaced by something worse. The factory bosses treated the people far worse than their former feudal landlords. And unlike the landlords, they were always there. Russian workers toiled for eleven hours a day

Feudal

Historical Context

Land and Power

Not Contemporary

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