From: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: Re: The Roots of the Recent Violence in India
Keywords: violence, caste reservations, politics, religious disputes
Reply-To: uds@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:51:46 GMT


Everyone seems to have forgotten about the ramakrishna mission, and
talk about `some hindu organization'.  ramakrishna mission is no `some
organization'.  Along with the sankara maThams, it is the ramakrishan maThs
which have an incredibly high stature and respect in hindu society.

And they had to declare themselves AS NOT HINDU...

It was headlines in the hindu newspaper, I if I recall right...

Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)



In article <1gilbkINN7uh@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> vidynath@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyarath K Rao) writes:
>In article <Bz9Hx9.76B@news.cso.uiuc.edu> vtg1714@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vishwanath Tirupattur  ) writes:
>|bond@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (  Girish) writes:
>[...] (material relating to reservations deleted)
>|>     An obscure Article in the Indian Constitution was used in the 70's  by
>|>     the  Communist  provincial  government of West Bengal to challenge the
>|>     right of the Hindus to run their schools and  colleges.  According  to
>|>     this Article members of the majority religion do not have the right to
>|>     establish their own religious schools whereas the  minority  religions
>|>     do.  When  the Supreme Court of India upheld the interpretation of the
>|>     Communists, several Hindu sects that ran schools filed for or received
>|>     status  as  minority  religions  to prevent the government takeover of
>|>     their schools.
>|
>|>     The government of India did not respond to this ruling of the court to
>|>     try  to change the law so that all religions would be treated equally.
>|>     This has led to a great resentment amongst the Hindus.
>|
>|Prof.  Kak does not seem to have his facts correct.  There are Hindu run 
>|educational institutions all over the country.  I went to the 
>|Sri Venkateshwara High School in Tirupathi which is run by the 
>|TTD (Tirumala-Tirupathi Devastanams)
>
>Last time I looked, Tirupati was not in West Bengal.
>
>You see, some one must enforce the law, if it is indeed on the books. Kak
>claims that the West Bengal goverment did enforce such a law. The writ of
>WB govt runs only in WB. On top of that, Kak also says that sects
>got themselves recognized as individual religions, rather than as sects of
>Hinduism.
>
>The most important question is: Was such a decision ever made by the
>Supreme Court, and if the provision of the constitution still stand?
>Perhaps, Professor Kak can give enough details that this can be looked up
>in goverment publications.
>
>If this allegation is true, secularism has been dead in India for years.
>
>P.S. My father has been on the boards of some "hindu schools". According to
>him, the regulations are different for "hindu educational institutions" and
>"minority educational institutions". This is Tamil Nadu.
>
>
>-- 
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