details of book (D.N. Jha, cow)

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"macgupta123" <suvidya@o...>

Fri Dec 7, 2001 6:37 pm

Re: details of book (D.N. Jha, Cow)

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A Hindutva connection is not clear.

 

-Arun Gupta

 

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Following are a few online articles to enlighten Arun Gupta (and possibly

others):

 

1.

 

http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010809/top10.html

 

[Extract:THE Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is fuming and is planning a protest

against a Delhi-based historian¡¯s book which says long before the advent of

Islam, a typical Indian meal included beef....

 

When contacted, VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore said he would wait till

he had read the book to initiate action. He was of the view that Prof Jha

had probably not referred to the correct texts.

 

¡®¡®There have been many recent additions and he has probably seen those as

none of the original texts would have included the instances he is citing.

People don¡¯t understand the vedic language and therefore make their own

interpretations which are usually false. These are just Western influences,

attempting at spreading the non-vegetarian culture,¡¯¡¯ the VHP leader said.

]

 

2. http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0111/insidepublishing.html

 

[Extract:

 

Upon the book's publication, groups loyal to the BJP whose election

manifesto routinely promises to ban the slaughter of "cows and cow-progeny"

in those states where it is not already illegal immediately demanded the

author's arrest and a ban on the book. Jha has not been arrested, but after

a number of religious and animal-rights groups filed petitions, a court in

the southern city of Hyderabad ordered the publisher to desist from

printing, publishing, and releasing the book anywhere in India until further

hearings are held. As a result, says Jha, Holy Cow is "for all intents and

purposes banned." ]

 

 

3. The following article is also worth taking a look at:

 

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/251001/detide01.asp

 

-Satya

 

 

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[Guest guest]

What is wrong with banning cow slaughter in India?

 

Hindus and Jains revere cows and so want the law implemented.

 

If westerners think this is objectionable because some minorities eat

cows in India (and basically because they themselves do so), then can

I question whether eating dogs is allowed in the US or UK? If not

would it not be discriminatory towards Koreans and Vietnamese who eat

dogs?

 

Laws are not absolute but relative. So one society should not look

down on another based on its own presumptions as to what is good and

bad.

[Guest guest]

I think this debate does not belong to this egroup.

While we may debate critical interpretations of plausible

evidences of beef eating etc., to argue over Indian govt's policies

may be off-scope.

 

I am fraid we might end up hijacking this calm egroup to destruction

if undisciplined.

IndianCivilation egroup seems to be open to this.

 

Regards,

P. Chandrasekaran

 

INDOLOGY, "vpcnk" <vpcnk@H...> wrote:

> What is wrong with banning cow slaughter in India?

>

> Hindus and Jains revere cows and so want the law implemented.

>

> If westerners think this is objectionable because some minorities

eat

> cows in India (and basically because they themselves do so), then

can

> I question whether eating dogs is allowed in the US or UK? If not

> would it not be discriminatory towards Koreans and Vietnamese who

eat

> dogs?

>

> Laws are not absolute but relative. So one society should not look

> down on another based on its own presumptions as to what is good and

> bad.