Over the years RSS and its political arm Bharatiya Janata Party has vigorously used its power to implement lasting changes through Education in the states that it is in power.
The BJP Government at Madhya Pradesh was at it again when it was found changing the textbooks of young students of classes 4-8. This time they have gone one step further by bring Babasaheb Ambedkar within the axis of Hindutva. It doesnt stop there, the books glorify the practice of Sati and Jauhar as an act of bravery.
Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan, an organisation of oppressed castes and tribes in Madhya Pradesh, posted in a series of tweets with snapshots of the books and the texts from the books.
मध्य प्रदेश बोर्ड की ५वी की हिंदी किताब के नए खोज: डॉ. अम्बेडकर बड़े धार्मिक थे, उनके परिवार में रोज़ भजन पूजन होता था | उन्होंने अपनी पत्नी का अंतिम संस्कार पुत्र से हिन्दू पद्धति के अनुसार करवाया | उन्हें ज्योतिष शास्त्र और हस्तरेखाओं का अच्छा ज्ञान था !! pic.twitter.com/XaGrDv7cVX
— Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (@JADS_mp) January 21, 2021
4. Bringing Ambedkar into the Hindutva Fold
In their attempts to hindufy Dr. B R Ambedkar, the textbooks describe Ambedkar’s childhood which was filled with religious culture and his parents to have been ardent believers in Hinduism. Where one is born is not one´s choice but the deliberate attempts to remove the entirety of Babasaheb ambedkar´s life which was fighting against Hinduism, Brahminism, and the Caste System, all of which were synonymous to him.
Ambedkar had criticised hindu practices and wrote extensively hinduism, Gods, idol worship and caste system.
The effort of glorifying the conditions of Hinduism in which he was born without choice instead of his own opinions on it seem to stand according to the RSS’ agenda of reducing him as a ‘Dalit Hindu Patriot’.
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