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January-March 2016, Volume 17 No. 3 DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Volume-17 No. 3 January-March, 2016 DIALOGUE QUARTERLY Editorial Advisory Board Mrinal Miri Jayanta Madhab Subscription Rates : For Individuals (in India) Editor Single issue Rs. 30.00 B.B. Kumar Annual Rs. 100.00 For 3 years Rs. 250.00 Consulting Editor J.N. Roy For Institutions: Single Issue Rs. 60.00 in India, Abroad US $ 15 Annual Rs. 200.00 in India, Abroad US $ 50 For 3 years Rs. 500.00 in India, Abroad US $ 125 All cheques and Bank Drafts (Account Payee) are to be made in the name of “ASTHA BHARATI”, Delhi. Advertisement Rates : Outside back-cover Rs. 25, 000.00 Per issue Inside Covers Rs. 20, 000.00 ,, Inner page coloured Rs. 15, 000.00 ,, Inner full page Rs. 10, 000.00 ,, Financial Assistance for publication received from Indian Council of ASTHA BHARATI Social Science Research. DELHI The views expressed by the contributors do not necessarily represent the view-point of the journal. Contents Editorial Perspective 7 This Issue of the Journal Reservations and the Caste Debate The Changing Meanings of Concepts 1. North-East Scan Banking Services and Financial Inclusion; The Case of India’s North-East 13 Patricia Mukhim The Elements can be Merciless to the Careless 16 © Astha Bharati, New Delhi Pradip Phanjoubam 2. Seer Extraordinary: Nisargadutt 21 Printed and Published by Prof. R.C. Shah Dr. Lata Singh, IAS (Retd.) 3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak 29 Secretary, Astha Bharati Sri Aurobindo Registered Office: 4. Ambedkar-Gandhi-Interface: Significance of Uttarakatha 27/201 East End Apartments, (Counternarrative) in 1936 and Now 45 Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, Sudhir Kumar Delhi-110096. 5. Dr. Ambedkar on the Trio of Principles: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity 66 Working Office: Pradeep P. Gokhale 23/203 East End Apartments, Mayur Vihar, Phase-I Extension, 6. Ambedkar: The Philosopher 81 Delhi-110096 Dr. Nishikant Kolge & Mr. Biplab Debnath Phone : 91-11-22712454 7. Veer Savarkar: Exponent of Hindutva 90 e-mail : [email protected] Dr. Shreerang Godbole web-site : www. asthabharati.org 8. A.K. Coomaraswamy: A Call for Metanoia 104 Printed at : Nagri Printers, Naveen Shahdara, Delhi-32 Brijendra Pandey DIALOGUE, Volume-17 No. 3 5 9. Krishnamurti and the Direct Perception of Truth 131 Prof. P. Krishna 10. On J. Krishnamurti 138 Satish Inamdar 11. Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya: Editorial Perspective A Constructive Interpreter of Indian Idealism 148 Ripusudan Srivastava 12. Philosophical Contributions of Ranade 154 This Issue of the Journal Sanjay Kumar Shukla The last issue of the journal was focused on the Indian Thinkers. We are bringing out papers on some more Indian thinkers in this issue, as 13. Vasudevsharan Agrawal: Reminders and Proposal 168 well as in the next one. This is a symbolic attempt to bring back the Udayan Vajpeyi discourse on right track. As we know Indian scholarship has lost its 14. The Grand Design of Stephen Hawking and track; the links with perennial philosophy have been severed; dwarfs Cosmology of the Upanishads 176 and pamphleteers have captured the Centers of Higher Learning. Entirely S. P. Rai brain-washed activist degree holders are coming out of our premier universities. The dominant group of the University teachers in the field of Social Sciences terrorize, rather than discourse. Others suffer from Intellectual/Academic Dhimmitude. Many genuine scholars have become timid; they are afraid of being accused due to guilt by association. There are many other maladies. Remedial measures are urgently needed. As we mentioned in the earlier issue of the journals, our thinkers were systematically pushed to the margins. It is high time, we take steps to acquaint our students with them. The Government of India should re-examine its policy of proliferating the country with third rate Central University. A commission is needed to go through the workings, etc of the UGC. The scholarship, rather than the post held should taken as the criteria of scholarship. Reservations and the Caste Debate The Jat agitation going on in Haryana, and the similar agitations, the other day, by the Kappu community of Andhra Pradesh, and the Patels of Gujarat, points towards the deep malady in the system. What these agitations show is only the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is deeper, and needs in-depth study and remedy. The lack syndrome causing the problem is not properly understood, nor is there any 6 DIALOGUE, Volume-17 No. 3 DIALOGUE, Volume-17 No. 3 7 sincere effort to understand and tackle it. The need of the hour is to Hindu factors. Dominant JNU type scholarship in the field of Social ponder, and initiate policy formulation and action on the whole problem. Sciences has neither the tendency nor the will and understanding to The lack of proper understanding of the Indian society and culture, put the discourse in proper perspective. The issues, so vital for the especially the caste and untouchability, has created enormous problems society, have been over-politicized. The need is to depoliticize the for the nation and the society. Caste and untouchability, in its present issue, continue the reservations, and to ensure its benefits to the form, is a recent, and, at best, a post-Turk phenomenon. Al-Biruni, deserving ones. only a thousand years ago, talks of only the four castes, and all sitting The game going on in the Universities, like JNU, Hyderabad and and eating at one place; no caste proliferation, and no untouchability. Jadavpur university, the role of the Marxist-Leninist teachers and For Panini, jati was gotra and charana. Manu and Vyasa (in Mahabharata) recognize only four, and if we take hypergamy into account, then only students, anti-national game of a section of the media, the foreign three, exogamous categories in Hindu society. Vedas, in the matter of scholars, supporting their client scholars in JNU, need to be understood, marriage, is free from even that restriction. and taken to the public. Hindu society witnessed many changes after Arab, Turk and A very subtle game, with hidden agenda, to facilitate division of Mughal aggressions. (a) Many a Mahattar (greater) were forced to the Hindu society, with the aim to grab a section of them, is going on become Mehtar (scavenger). After all, there is no mention of scavenger in many universities. The beef festivals, aimed at humiliating the Hindus, in Classical Indian literature. In this connection, it also need mention and hurting their sentiments, clearly shows the designs of the Semitic that Risley’s survey found Mehtars better placed than the Punjab linked organizers. Such activities, anyway, cannot go indefinitely; and, Brahmins, and Mahars better placed than the Chitpawan Brahmins in it is better if the conspirators understand it sooner. the facial frame in the survey conducted to show the social and racial correspondence of the Scheduled Castes. The hypothesis, which Risley Perversion of Meanings of Concepts wanted to prove, was aimed at dividing the Hindus to strengthen the The shocking incident of the other day, in JNU, though not unexpected, British colonial cause, and facilitate the conversion agenda of the surprised many of us. Though anti-national activity in JNU usually Christian Missionaries. (b) Aggressive anti-Hindu agenda of conversion does not surprise us, as we have seen that University’s ugly face of the Muslim rulers, their capture and sale of Hindus as slaves, etc., led lakhs of Hindus to run away to the forests for saving themselves; several times; we have witnessed its activist teachers lobbying for US many started taking pig’s flesh to avoid becoming Muslims; they, intervention in our country’s internal affairs; a section of its students eventually, become Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes. This led celebrating the murder of seventy CRPF men by Maoists, the innocent to the increase in tribal and Scheduled Caste population. (c) There was India-loving foreign students coming for study here and returning as lowering of the status of the Hindu women due to the (i) introduction this country’s enemies, and many more such unforgettable black records. of veil, (ii) early marriage, (iii) women’s restricted movement and limited But this time, it was a surprise with a difference. The dirty combination participation in economic activities, etc. (d) The range of the marriage of the twin ideologies, responsible for this country’s partition, has area, socially and geographically, shrinked, leading into the rapid growth resurfaced and shown its dirty face again after seventy years. The in the number of endogamous groups, and thus, the caste. Thus, the slogans raised in the JNU campus on February 9, 2016, were: root cause of the proliferation of the number of castes in Hindu society has been the (i) conversion of exogamous guilds (shrenis) into Bharat ki barbadi tak, Kashmir ki ajadi tak, endogamous castes, and (ii) fission and fusion of the social groups. Jang rahegi, jang rahegi. What Manu names as the mixed marriage progeny is technical terms, Bharat tere tukde honge, which mischievous anthropologists term as castes. Insha Allah, Insha Allah. A point, needing emphasis, is that caste in the present form, Afjal ham sharminda hain, untouchability and intra-Hindu societal exploitation are entirely non- Tere qatil jinda hain. 8 DIALOGUE, Volume-17 No. 3 DIALOGUE, Volume-17 No. 3 9 The happenings in JNU campus have made some facts clear: about the Communists; they have already been pushed to the margins. (i) The belief that the partition of India brought the end of Pakistan The sad thing is that Rahul Gandhi, who has proved by his actions and ideology on Indian soil is a myth. utterances to be an incapable and un-understanding leader, is becoming (ii) The destructive role of Marxist-Leninist ideology in India a burden for the country, and more so for his party.
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