Re: Economic analysis of caste in India



On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, zach wrote:


Straydog wrote:
email and post (quoting all of your post below mine)

I only heard about the Dalits recently and I quote below an interesting
long Wall Street Journal (USA edition) article that, in the end, explains
some things about the Dalits. I have sympathy for these people. See the
quote below.

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Wall Street Journal: Weds, Jan 25, 2006 FRONT PAGE

"New Battleground In Textbook Wars: Religion in History"
by Daniel Golden

This is all about how special interest groups like to influence the
guys who write the textbooks. One case was that some Jews did
not like some things being said, so the authors changed that. Next,
some Moslems thought they were definitely being portrayed as
being too violent, militaristic, murderous, too much emphasis on
wars in their past. OK, tone that down. Now, wait till you read
about what was in the last two thirds of the article (see below).

(I typed it all, the quote below, from my copy of the WSJ)

Quote (no parts are deleted, this is continuous)

<snip>

At the Vedic Foundation, 'Our motto is to re-establish the
greatness of Hinduism, and part of that is to correct the
textbooks,' says Janeshwari Devi, director of programs. 'Those are
a source of misunderstanding, prejudice and derogatory
information.'

Maybe she should change her name if she is going to lie. "Devi" means
"goddess." It is a common suffix when girls are named after goddesses
also.

Interesting comment, however, I took it that the Vedic Foundation guys are, sorta, like, more-or-less, or maybe the _badguys_ in all this stuff. Or, maybe its a form of self-propaganda: "your kind" tells you that you are hot ***, and then it makes you go out on a "jihad" to prove it. Or, something like that. I'll leave it for others to give their viewpoints on this.










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