09-23-2003, 09:43 PM
Such mischievous mislabelling has of course been used in other parts of India too. In Tamil Nadu, for instance, missionaries made it a habit to refer to the Bible as Vedam in literature, popular songs etc., and even got this meaning entered in Tamil dictionaries. In southern Tamil Nadu, Christians call themselves Vedakaran (âthe People of the Vedasâ) and a Church is Vedakovil (âthe temple of the Vedaâ), while the Hindus are called Ajnanigal (âthe Ignorant Peopleâ). This has gone so deep into the psyche of the people that Hindu villagers themselves speak of the Church as Vedakovil, of Christians as Vedakaran and of themselves as Ajnanigal.
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