05-16-2008, 05:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-16-2008, 05:57 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is that article by Thengadi the only case or there are recurring examples of this? Have you seen somethig since that article 22 years back?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No since the organizer got online they seem to mostly avoid mentioning Muhammad, but I have seen quite a few wooly headed RSS people praising Muhammad on their own, this is like IKSCON and their followers who can't seem to get rid of this myth of Jesus being some avatara or Muhammad civilizing the Arabs.
You have to check the Panchajanya though to confirm because I don't get it.
From what I heard many of the cadre are like Dr. Godbole, it is the top brass who seem to think it can fool Muslims into becoming patriots by praising Muhammad or Islam, and this is supposed to have started with Guru Govalkar himself, I had read in many writings of Goel that he once heard him declare "Islam and Muhammad were great, its practice has been perverted by the Muslims", this is the very opposite of the truth.
Speaking of being armed, medieval Hindu society was mostly armed, everyone from the illiterate peasent to the highest Raja carried arms, many had matchlocks and bows. It was only when the British gained power that these were confiscated and Hindu society became what it is today, many families still have old swords with them in their homes, these weapons maybe primitive now but they were good in their day.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Medieval Indian society, both urban and agrarian, was to some extent an armed society. In cities and towns the elite carried swords like walking sticks. In villages few men were without at least a spear or bow and arrows, and they were skilled in the use of these arms. In 1632, Peter Mundy actually saw in the present day Kanpur district, �labourers with their guns, swords and bucklers lying by them while they ploughed the ground�.70 Similarly, Manucci described how in Akbar�s days the villagers of the Mathura region defended themselves against Mughal revenue-collecting officers: �The women stood behind their husbands with spears and arrows, when the husband had shot off his matchlock, his wife handed him the lance, while she reloaded the matchlock.�71 The countryside was studded with little forts, some surrounded by nothing more than mud walls, but which nevertheless provided centres of the general tradition of rebellion and agrarian unrest. Armed peasants provided contingents to Baheliyas, Bhadauriyas, Bachgotis, Mandahars and Tomars in the earlier period, to Jats, Marathas and Sikhs in the later.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tlmr/ch7.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No since the organizer got online they seem to mostly avoid mentioning Muhammad, but I have seen quite a few wooly headed RSS people praising Muhammad on their own, this is like IKSCON and their followers who can't seem to get rid of this myth of Jesus being some avatara or Muhammad civilizing the Arabs.
You have to check the Panchajanya though to confirm because I don't get it.
From what I heard many of the cadre are like Dr. Godbole, it is the top brass who seem to think it can fool Muslims into becoming patriots by praising Muhammad or Islam, and this is supposed to have started with Guru Govalkar himself, I had read in many writings of Goel that he once heard him declare "Islam and Muhammad were great, its practice has been perverted by the Muslims", this is the very opposite of the truth.
Speaking of being armed, medieval Hindu society was mostly armed, everyone from the illiterate peasent to the highest Raja carried arms, many had matchlocks and bows. It was only when the British gained power that these were confiscated and Hindu society became what it is today, many families still have old swords with them in their homes, these weapons maybe primitive now but they were good in their day.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Medieval Indian society, both urban and agrarian, was to some extent an armed society. In cities and towns the elite carried swords like walking sticks. In villages few men were without at least a spear or bow and arrows, and they were skilled in the use of these arms. In 1632, Peter Mundy actually saw in the present day Kanpur district, �labourers with their guns, swords and bucklers lying by them while they ploughed the ground�.70 Similarly, Manucci described how in Akbar�s days the villagers of the Mathura region defended themselves against Mughal revenue-collecting officers: �The women stood behind their husbands with spears and arrows, when the husband had shot off his matchlock, his wife handed him the lance, while she reloaded the matchlock.�71 The countryside was studded with little forts, some surrounded by nothing more than mud walls, but which nevertheless provided centres of the general tradition of rebellion and agrarian unrest. Armed peasants provided contingents to Baheliyas, Bhadauriyas, Bachgotis, Mandahars and Tomars in the earlier period, to Jats, Marathas and Sikhs in the later.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tlmr/ch7.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->