"Especially the CPM government in West Bengal has been ruthlessly using the constitutional discrimination against Hindu schools for justifying take-overs. But have these organizations appealed to Hindu society to come to their rescue? Have they launched, or asked politicians to launch, a campaign to end this discrimination ? Apparently they have absolutely no confidence in the willingness of Hindu politicians to take up even an impeccably justified Hindu cause. So, I think Hindu politicians should make this their number one issue. Article 30 is far more unjust and harmful than Article 370 which gives a special status to Kashmir. You can better lose that piece of territory than to lose your next generations. It is also a good exercise in separating the genuine secularists from the Hindu-baiters. The demand for equality between all religions in education merely seeks the abrogation of an injustice against the Hindus, so it cannot be construed as directed against the minorities. It wants to stop a blatant case of discrimination on the basis of religion, so everyone who comes out in support of the present form of Article 30, will stand exposed as a supporter of communal discrimination. It is truly a watershed issue. .... A religious community is only a lawful category in strictly religious matters. In these, there is already discrimination against the Hindus. The state governments can (and do, as recently in Kerala) take over the management of Hindu temples, not of minority places of worship. They can (and do, as in West Bengal) take over school started by Hindu organizations. Apart from the secular aspects of education, there is religious discrimination against the Hindus in that the imparting of Hindus tradition is hampered, as well as the creation of a Hindu atmosphere in a school (e.g. through the selective recruitment of teachers, to which the minority schools are fully entitled). Both in the letter and spirit of the Constitution and in actual practice, Hindus as a religious community are discriminated against in matters of temples management and education. These discriminations are at least partly encroachments on the exercise n the exercise of the Hindus' constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom. Just imagine what rhetoric and agitation would be lunched if such discriminations had applied to the minorities."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Koenraad Elst, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Education_in_India
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Education in India
81 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Education in India →
Related Quotes
"National education cannot be defined briefly in one or two sentences, but we may describe it tentatively as the educa…"
"The living spirit of the demand for national education no more requires a return to the astronomy and mathematics of …"
"[Is the system in England different from that introduced in India?] Yes, [in India] they want only clerks and the edu…"
"As Gandhiji pointed out, in a country where the Ramayana is recited by the low-lowliest, in the remotest corners, the…"
"There is a strange idea prevalent that by merely teaching the dogmas of religion children can be made pious and moral…"
"The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools, and the system by which the more advanced …"
"there are multitudes who cannot even avail themselves of the advantages ... I am sorry to state, that this is ascriba…"
"It cannot have escaped the government that of nearly a million of souls in this District, not 7,000 are now at school…"
"Such is the state in this District of the various schools in which reading, writing and arithmetic are taught in the …"
"Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which o…"