06-20-2006, 07:38 AM
[quote=acharya,Jun 20 2006, 05:17 AM]
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
COMMENT: Punjabi identities before the Punjabâs partition âIshtiaq Ahmed
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This is another of the apologias for Islam that circulates the media rounds.
Punjab was not ruled by the Muslims for centuries. their so called 'rule' was contested bitterly every day, and for every inch of soil.
Though much of the data/ historical records have been lost in the turmoil of the last 8-9 centuries, there is still plenty of data, but it is buried under the Islamic and Colonial shadows. Research is bringing it out, as on the Jathistory forum.
The author attempts to portray Punjab society as governed by rules of pollution. All Punjab, was jat or non jat, but still a part of a broader Vedic/'Hinduism' in a sense.
Most of the populace, save those who accepted the orthodox hindu rituals, followed various gurus, sants/sadhus. Brahminical rituals were not followed except by the Khatri and a few others.
The heirarchial varna system, was not accepted by the Jats, and most of them took to Sikhism, or the Arya samaj.
None the less, beef eating was taboo, and 'Hindus' who converted to Islam, took to this, and to other muslim rituals - cross cousin marriage etc, and were ostracized from the bretheren, never to be accepted back in the fold..
Ravi Chaudhary
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
COMMENT: Punjabi identities before the Punjabâs partition âIshtiaq Ahmed
*******
This is another of the apologias for Islam that circulates the media rounds.
Punjab was not ruled by the Muslims for centuries. their so called 'rule' was contested bitterly every day, and for every inch of soil.
Though much of the data/ historical records have been lost in the turmoil of the last 8-9 centuries, there is still plenty of data, but it is buried under the Islamic and Colonial shadows. Research is bringing it out, as on the Jathistory forum.
The author attempts to portray Punjab society as governed by rules of pollution. All Punjab, was jat or non jat, but still a part of a broader Vedic/'Hinduism' in a sense.
Most of the populace, save those who accepted the orthodox hindu rituals, followed various gurus, sants/sadhus. Brahminical rituals were not followed except by the Khatri and a few others.
The heirarchial varna system, was not accepted by the Jats, and most of them took to Sikhism, or the Arya samaj.
None the less, beef eating was taboo, and 'Hindus' who converted to Islam, took to this, and to other muslim rituals - cross cousin marriage etc, and were ostracized from the bretheren, never to be accepted back in the fold..
Ravi Chaudhary