Piety in a parking lot and shrinking secular space in Pakistan
Piety in a parking lot and shrinking secular space in Pakistan
This is all about a young woman’s right to choose her partner. The Indian Supreme Court in a recent judgment (written judgment delivered on 21st May 2009) observed that girls above 18 years of age can live with or marry anyone of their choice. Unhappy parents could at best severe their ties with her and dare not harass or torture her taking law into their hands, it warned.
The article is a brief overview of a project initiated by the Government of India in the early 1960s to draw on the expertise of professional historians and involve them in writing textbooks for Middle and High School, in an effort to improve the quality of textbooks. The attempt to distance the books from religious and nationalist biases did not however protect the project from interference by political parties and the governments these formed. Historiographical approaches came under discussion as also the questioning of the kind of historical interpretation that went into the making of national identities.
The Hindu nationalist insistence on a single, authoritative version of the Ramayana contravenes the central tenet of Hinduism.
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