Author: Eminent Contributors
Publisher: Sahmat
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818621934x
Description
All governments, it would be argued, have their own patronages systems, their own particular brands of persons who occupy positions of office, including in the educational sphere. They also have their own ideologies which they attempt to promote through diverse means, notably through the use of influence in the educational sphere. Why then is so much fuss being made over the BJP-led government's activities in the sphere of education?
The plain answer to this question is: what this government is doing to educations is the precursor to nothing less than an assault on reason. What we are concerned about is not ideological differences, in the sense of differences in the sets of beliefs we hold, where each person holds beliefs in a necessarily provisional manner at every movement and is constantly testing these beliefs through the use of reason applied to experience. Such differences permit rational discourse; our concern precisely is that an ideology is being promoted that denies rational discourse.
Contents
Introduction
Communalization of Education and Culture
Whither Indian Education
Sanskrit and Sanskriti as Weapons
The Rewriting of History by the Sangh Parivar
Outsider as Enemy
Corrosive Fascist Onslaught
Saffron Censor: the Historical Record will