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Newspaper cartoons on Hindu Code Bill
Jun 24, 2023 · original
The cartoon was published on March 18, 1949, in The Tribune during the Hindu Code Bill debates in Indian Parliament, drawn by cartoonist B Verma. Dr Ambedkar saved Hindu women from the grip of Orthodox Brahmins. A cartoon published in Shankar’s Weekly on 20th February 1949 shows a Brahmin dancing on a woman while Dr Ambedkar with a Hindu code bill in his hand and women who supported him question this. Drawn by Cartoonist Shankar Dr Ambedkar comes to cure the disease of the patient ‘Hindu Society’ through the medicine Hindu code bill, but the patient shows fists to Dr Ambedkar. Cartoon was published in National Herald on 26th February 1949, drawn by cartoonist Bireshwar. Cartoon was published in Shankar’s Weekly in December 1949. Dr Ambedkar holds the hand of a little girl named Hindu code bill and leading her towards the Parliament and a Brahmin holding an axe in hand hiding behind a wal
The Riddle of Rama and Krishna – Ambedkar
Apr 20, 2023 · original
Rama is the hero of the Ramayana whose author is Valmiki. The story of the Ramayana is a very short one. Besides it is simple and in itself there is nothing sensational about it. Rama is the son of Dasharatha the king of Ayodhya the modern Benares. Dasharatha had three wives, Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra besides several hundred concubines. Kaikeyi had married Dasharatha on terms which were at the time of marriage unspecified and which Dasharatha was bound to fulfil whenever he was called upon by Kaikeyi to do so. Dasharatha was childless for a long time. An heir to the throne was ardently desired by him. Seeing that there was no hope of his begetting a son on any of his three wives he decided to perform a Putreshti Yajna and called the sage Shrung at the sacrifice who prepared pindas and gave the three wives of Dasharatha to eat them. After they ate the pindas three wives became pregnan
The Riddle of the Kali yuga- Ambedkar
Apr 20, 2023 · original
The Units into which time is broken up for the purposes of reckoning it which are prevalent among the Hindus have not deserved the attention which their extraordinary character call for. This is a matter which forms one of the principal subject matter of the Puranas. There are according to the Puranas five measures of time (1) Varsha, (2) Yuga, (3) Maha Yuga, (4) Manwantara and (5) Kalpa. I will draw upon the Vishnu Purana to show what these units are. To begin with the Varsha. This is how the Vishnu Purana explains it1 : “Oh best of sages, fifteen twinklings of the eye make a Kashtha; thirty Kalas, one Muhurtta; thirty Muhurttas constitute a day and night of mortals : thirty such days make a month, divided into two half-months : six months form an Ayana (the period of the Sun’s progress north or south of the ecliptic): and two Ayanas compose a year.” The same is explained in greater det
Kali yuga—Why have the Brahmins made it unending? – Ambedkar
Apr 20, 2023 · original
If there is any notion widespread among the Hindus and understood by every man and woman adult or old, mature or immature it is that of the Kali Yuga. They are all aware of the fact that the present Yuga is Kali Yuga and that they are living in the Kali Yuga. The theory of Kali Yuga has a psychological effect upon the mind of the people. It means that it is an unpropitious age. It is an immoral age. It is therefore an age in which human effort will not bear any fruit. It is therefore necessary to inquire as to how such a notion arose. There are really four points which require elucidation. They are (1) What is “Kali Yuga?, (2) When did Kali Yuga begin ?, (3) When is the Kali Yuga to end ? and (4) Why such a notion was spread among the people. I To begin with the first point. For the purposes of this inquiry it is better to split the words Kali Yuga and consider them separately. What is m
Brahma is not Dharma. What good is Brahma? – Ambedkar
Apr 20, 2023 · original
There are various forms of Government known to history—Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy to which may be added Dictatorship. The most prevalent form of Government at the present time is Democracy. There is however no unanimity as to what constitutes Democracy. When one examines the question one finds that there are two views about it. One view is that Democracy is a form of Government. According to this view where the Government is chosen by the people that is where Government is a representative Government there is Democracy. According to this view Democracy is just synonymous with Representative Government which means adult suffrage and periodical elections. According to another view a democracy is more than a form of Government. It is a form of the organization of Society. There are two essential conditions which characterize a democratically constituted society. First is the absenc
The Theory of Manvantara – Ambedkar
Apr 20, 2023 · original
The Brahmins had a theory of the Government of their country from Heaven. This seems to be the idea underlying what is called a Manvantara. The idea underlying a Manvantara is related to the political Government of the country. It is founded on the belief that the Government of the world is entrusted to a corporation for a fixed period. This corporation consists of an officer called Manu and Saptarishis (seven Rishis) and one Indra conducting the affairs of the country from their seats in Heaven without consulting the people or ascertaining their wishes. The period of the reign by one corporation is called a Manvantara after Manu the premier authority in the ruling set. When the reign of one Manu is over he is succeeded by another Manu and so on. As in the case of the Yugas, the Manvantaras also move in cycles. Fourteen Manvantaras make one eycle. The Vishnu Purana gives us an idea of th
Compulsory Matrimony – Ambedkar
Apr 16, 2023 · original
Appendix II Manu prescribes that an individual’s life on earth be divided into four stages. The four stages are: (1) Brahmacharya, (2) Grahasthashram, (3) Vanaprastha and (4) Sanyas. The stage of Brahmacharya is the stage of studentship—a period devoted to the study of the Vedas. The stage of Grahasthashram is the stage of married state or as Manu calls it the state of being an householder marrying and rearing a family. In the Vanaprastha stage the Vanaprastha ceases to be an householder in as much as he abandons his house. He, however, does not abandon his wife. He lives in jungle but does not give up his right to his property. He is dead in so far as the religious duties of an householder are concerned but he is not civilly dead. The stage of Sanyas is the stage in which a person breaks his marital tie, abandons his wife, gives up his wordly goods and leaves his household and does not
The Riddle of the Varnashram Dharma – Ambedkar
Apr 16, 2023 · original
Appendix I Reference has already been made to the two dogmas of Varna Dharma and Asharm Dharma, which are called by the collective names of Varnashram Dharma and which form so fundamental a part of Hinduism. It cannot but be instructive to know the views expressed by the ancient writers on these strange dogmas. I To begin with Varna Dharma. It would be better to collect together in the first place the views expressed in the Vedas. The subject is referred to in the Rig-Veda in the 90th Hymn of the 10th Book. It runs as follows:— “1. Purusha has a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, on every side enveloping the earth he overpassed (if) by a space of ten fingers. 2. Purusha himself is this whole (universe), whatever has been and whatever shall be. He is also the lord of immortality since (or, when) by food he expands. 3. Such is his greatness, and Purusha is superior to this.
Kali Varjya or the Brahmanic art of suspending the operation of Sin without calling it Sin – Ambedkar
Apr 16, 2023 · original
Few have heard of the Brahmanic dogma called Kali Varjya. It must not be confused with another Brahmanic Dogma of Kali Yuga. The dogma of Kali Varja prescribes that customs and usages which are valid and good in other yugas are not to be observed in the Kali Age. The references to these instructions are scattered in the different Puranas. But the Adityapurana has codified them and brought them together1. The practices which are Kali Varjya are given below : To appoint the husband’s brother for procreating a son on a widow. The remarriage of a (married) girl (whose marriage is not consummated) and of one (whose marriage was consummated) to another husband (after the death of the first. The marriage with girls of different Varna among persons of the three twice-born classes. The killing even in a straight fight of Brahmanas that have become desperadoes. The acceptance (for all ordinary int
The change from Paternity to Maternity. What did the Brahmins wish to gain by it? – Ambedkar
Apr 12, 2023 · original
Mr. Mayne in his treatise on Hindu law has pointed out some anomalous features of the rules of Kinships. He says: “No part of the Hindu Law is more anomalous than that which governs the family relations. Not only does there appear to be a complete break of continuity between the ancient system and that which now prevails, but the different parts of the ancient system appear in this respect to be in direct conflict with each other. We find a law of inheritance, which assumes the possibility of tracing male ancestors in an unbroken pedigre extending to fourteen generations; while coupled with it is a family law, in which several admitted forms of marriage are only euphemisms for seduction and rape, and in which twelve sorts of sons are recognized, the majority of whom have no blood relationship to their own father.” The existence of this anomaly is a fact and will be quite clear to those w

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