Caught between myth and reality: A nation called India
By: Sircar, Jawhar
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BookPublisher: India International Centre Description: 50(1), Summer, 2023: p.18-31.
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India International CentreSummary: Few can deny that India is seared right through, over several vexing issues, among which is whether the two sacred epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, are actually history or just myths. There is hardly any middle ground, as rationalists and leftliberals are absolutely certain that the epics are only myths, while a large section of Hindus refuse to believe they are not historical. The debate would have been simply academic, had not the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and their associates, like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) positioned Ram right at the centre of India’s political debate, thereby de-stabilising rather severely the very composite nation that Gandhi and Nehru had nurtured.- Reproduced
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Few can deny that India is seared right through, over several vexing issues, among which is whether the two sacred epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, are actually history or just myths. There is hardly any middle ground, as rationalists and leftliberals are absolutely certain that the epics are only myths, while a large section of Hindus refuse to believe they are not historical. The debate would have been simply academic, had not the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and their associates, like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) positioned Ram right at the centre of India’s political debate, thereby de-stabilising rather severely the very composite nation that Gandhi and Nehru had nurtured.- Reproduced
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