The India mainstream media which does not give a place to the views of untouchables and Shudras, is very much angered about the treatment given to Hindu religion in Californian school textbooks for the VI graders. In Indian media all the views about untouchables are given by upper caste Hindus journalist, reporters. Columnist and editors. May be their ethos prevent them from giving space to these people; all are ingrained in purity of Hindu religion.
However the same logic is not employed in case of study by Americans. As per their ways of working the American themselves are entitled form a view about Hindu religion which is required to be taught in American schools.
However, as we have seen in previous posting dated
However, Pioneer Columnist Sandhya Jain is very critical of the role of Witzel and his role in Californian school textbook controversy. She alleges that all this is an agenda of Hindu haters and Christian converts. It looks like speaking against Hindu religion essentially means hating, not the criticism or protest or dissent. The pure Hindu religion should not be criticized even if for the practice of sati and untouchability. Both depict the inhuman cruelty inherent in the structure of Hindu society.
Further she warns of bad effect Western world on Hinduism as follows,
“Any attempt to accord primacy to secular education and employment (Mammon) is counter to the Hindu ethos wherein the hierarchy of values (varnas) ranks mercantile and wealth-generating groups (Vaishya
The concept of secularism and materialism (Mammon) will destroy the inhuman hierarchy of Hindu religion!!!! Its civilizational ethos of hierarchy are in grave danger if lower castes learn about equality and if they castes are given the jobs which make them financially well off. With the concept the lower castes will challenge the
It seems like that she is really an integral part of privileged upper castes in ancient sense and not so ancient, Hindu civilization is still a continuous Civilization where there is no place for 1/5 of the society.!
What an incredible blog. You know so much of the caste system. I was a physician in india and I thought that I had seen it all in the rural areas.But I am learning so much from you and now i realise that Brahmins were foolish enough to continue to cause these caste based atrocities on others and hence have ceased to exist.Now that they are extinct in AP, TN , kerala and now that your fundies have converted every body in sight to christianity, what else you can teach me ,you noble mind
ReplyDeleteI studied in TN for 4 years. My college being a national college, had only 50% students from TamilNadu, which meant 300 of 600 students. Except the reserved seats, which were 65 out of 300(22.5%), almost everyone else was a brahmin. I used to think the whole of TN consisted only of brahmins, or atleast brahmins were the most numerous in TN. Reading this comment makes me laugh that an extinct population group can claim 95% of the resources(unreserved seats in this case).
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