जन उदय : ब्राह्मण एक ऐसी
कौम है की ये जहा रहती है जिस देश का खाती
है , जिस देश के हवा पानी में पैदा होते है पलते बढ़ते है उसी समाज से उसी देश से
गद्दारी करते है
अमरीका, ऑस्ट्रेलिया इंग्लैंड
, फ्रांस हर जगह ये उस देश से गद्दारी करते है . इसके अलावा जातिवाद और महिला उत्पीडन को भगवान् का संदेश बताते है
ऐसा ही अमरीका में एक बार
फिर नकल कर आया है जहा पर अमरीकी सरकार ने विभिन्न एथनिक ग्रुप को साउथ एशिया के
इतिहास की जानकारी के लिए आमंत्रित
किया , लेकिन आर एस एस द्वारा
चलाये जा रहे संघठनो ने जो किया आप दंग रह जाएंगे पेश है पूरी खबर
it is important to recognize the elements of creeping Hindu
fundamentalist revisionism,” said Bhajan Singh, Director of the Stockton-based
Sikh Information Centre. “We've experienced how these beliefs inspire people to
view others as untouchable, deviant, and deserving of whatever suffering
assigned to their birth caste, including death.” ...
HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS FAIL TO OMIT CASTE OPPRESSION -
California Education Commission denies anti-Dalit revisions in favor of
academic-backed positions on history of caste-based violence
Sacramento, CA (March 30, 2016) – The California Department
of Education’s Instructional Quality Commission’s History-Social Science
Subject Matter Committee convened on March 24, 2016 in Sacramento for a public
hearing on the state’s K-12 History and Social Science curriculum framework.
The process determines the guidelines for California’s textbooks and
instructional materials and through a multiyear series of hearings welcomes and
assesses content submissions from the public. During the submission process,
minority groups representing Dalit and other low-caste communities were alarmed
to see revisions they claimed would lessen the historical significance of
caste-based oppression and subsume minority religious identity under Hinduism.
Dalit (meaning "oppressed”) is the name for members of the lowest-caste in
the Hindu Varna system, often called the "untouchables.”
As the curriculum touches South Asian history in several
grade levels, submissions ranged from geographical designations of South Asian
landmarks to the accuracy of the information presented about the region’s
religious heritage. Religious Hindu organizations like Hindu American
Foundation (HAF), Vedic Foundation, and Uberoi Foundation submitted revisions
to separate and disassociate the history and impact of the caste system from
the religious teachings of Hinduism, as well as challenge the framework’s
emphasis on the inequity between men and women in Hindu culture. “Denial of such
a painful history is more disrespectful and only adds to the discrimination,”
said Srikanth Jandhyala of the Association for India’s Development. “As a Hindu
by birth I care to know the true history.”
The committee chaired by Bill Honig rejected a multitude of
submissions from the Hindu groups including all eight of the submission from
the Hindu America Foundation (HAF). The HAF has been involved in the curriculum
battle in several U.S. states and is ideologically aligned with the right-wing
Hindu-nationalist organization the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Suhag
Shukla, executive director for the HAF, also financially supported the
congressional campaign of the 1984 Sikh Genocide denier Rep. Ami Bera (D-Elk
Grove, CA). Past submissions from HAF included striking “Sikh” from the
descriptions of America’s first Asian American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund.
According to attendees, HAF’s submissions on Sikhism were the catalyst to
involve several California Sikh organizations to take a more active role in the
curriculum discussion.
“It is important to recognize the elements of creeping Hindu
fundamentalist revisionism,” said Bhajan Singh, Director of the Stockton-based
Sikh Information Centre. “We've experienced how these beliefs inspire people to
view others as untouchable, deviant, and deserving of whatever suffering
assigned to their birth caste, including death.” Singh was pleased with
committee’s decision to reject the additions from HAF, but credited the success
to the South Asian Faculty Group and the several Dalit-rights groups who
attended the Sacramento hearing.
“The South Asian Faculty are not an advocacy group, but they
are a committee of experts from California’s universities,” said Umar Malick
with the Indian American Muslim Council. “Their work is now being targeted by
Hindu fundamentalists who have a long track record of meddling with the history
books to advance their views and spread hatred among minority communities.”
Followers of Islam make up over one-sixth of India’s population, yet Malick
sees the textbook battle as an attempt to malign the religion’s history in
South Asia. “They are bent on propagating a negative portrayal of the Muslim
rule in the subcontinent and have even tried to blame the caste structure
inherent to Hinduism on Muslims,” added Malick.
He joins a growing coalition of South Asian minorities who
were galvanized by the adamant attempts of the HAF to bring ideological battles
about caste and Hinduism to America. Representatives from the Alliance of South
Asians Taking Action, Association for India’s Development, Ambedkar Association
of California, Friends for Education in India, Indian American Muslim Council,
Organization for Minorities of India, Sikh Coalition and Sikh Information
Centre testified before the subject matter committee.
Among the controversies in the curriculum was the use of the
term India to identify ancient and historic regions that pre-date the modern
Indian state. While Hindu groups lobbied for the absolute usage of the term
India, the committee instead qualified definitions of India by recognizing the
historic diversity of South Asian with the inclusion of other nations like
Pakistan and Bangladesh. Despite this compromise, Hindu groups continued to
claim that the curriculum would unfairly affect their Indian identity. Dalit
groups lobbied for an understanding of Indian history that reflected the
diversity of South Asian. “Much of the history of South Asian identity has been
written by upper-caste [Hindu] academics,” said Thenmozhi Soundararajan of the
Ambedkar Association of California. “They have written much about class, but
omitted the vital organizing of Dalit Bahujans and the religious minority
communities of Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims.”
The hearing also revealed the complicated relationship
between sentiments and academic accuracy in California’s textbooks. Hindu
groups claimed that the proposed depictions of the Hindu caste-system would
encourage a negative view of Hinduism. While evaluating a submission about
Hinduism’s relationship to religious diversity, committee chairman Bill Honig
commented, “I don’t know if it is true, but it is a good sentiment.” It
followed the trend of testimony from other Hindu organizations that claimed
that the academic perspective could lead to “diminishing the dignity” of
Hinduism. A revision was also submitted
by Hindu groups to identify a river in Punjab as the Saraswati River, a sacred
river which appears in ancient Hindu religious texts. “Punjab means land of five
rivers, but Hindu activists want the mythological Saraswati to be the sixth,”
said Bhajan Singh, who sees the addition as an attempt to anachronistically
impose the Hindu religion into the curriculum.
“Our primary concerns are human dignity and academic
integrity,” said Steve Macias, outreach coordinator for Organization for
Minorities of India, “It would be a grave injustice to ignore the plight of the
minorities and to downplay the violent segregationist history of Hindu caste.
We are thankful that the committee has sided with evidence-based scholarship
over religious and political agendas.”
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advance individual liberties of Christians, Buddhists, Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs,
and all Mulnivasi people of South Asia by encouraging secularism, progressive
human rights, liberation of oppressed peoples, and universal human dignity.
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