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About the book :
This book is a a Collection of Essays and Speeches by Dharampal ji between 1956-1998 on various subjects. e Dharampal flavor is manifest in each of the articles in this collection – rich in research, delectable insight, and revelations which are spicy & invigorating.
ISBN : 8187827017 ; Publisher : SIDH ; Paperback
Contents of book in brief :
| Bullet Points | If you want to read through quickly. |
| Interview Dharampalji | Is Summary of chapters below, gives his views on state of Indian social, agricultural political economy when British came to India, why they called Indians ignorant and criticized caste system. |
| Misconception Sudras | Tells you why the Brits called Indians ignorant, Sudras were artisans, astrologers etc and primary steps initiated by new political system of the British. |
| Land Revenue System | Changes brought about the British impact. |
| Community Living | Explains how village community existed new revenue policy led to indebtedness, unemployment. |
| Lowering of Wages | British deliberately lowered wages of Indians. |
| Caste made into Evil | Benefits of caste system, why British demonized caste, how they made caste watertight compartments, backward caste socio-economic backwardness is post 1800, use of the term Backwardness to demoralize. |
| Indian Education in 1820 | Results of app 1820 survey in South India showed large number of schools, sudras lower castes were 70% of students, large nos of Muslim girls went to school in Malabar. |
| Understanding India | Tells you about the British inability to accept understand lace India’s cohesive social structure, joint ownership of property etc very different from theirs. |
| Agricultural Productivity | Gives egs of high productivity as seen by the Brits reasons for same i.e. variety of seeds, sophistication of tools and care of land. Export of Indian agricultural implements to lace England |
| Warriors into Backwards | Ref to Bihar Backward Classes Commission 1976, today’s notified tribes were actually warriors who succumbed to British power. |
| Census 1881 | Gives the Index of Caste prepared by the British in 1831, effect of Conversions Islamic conquest on caste and excerpts from the Punjab Census. |
| Reindustrialization of lace India | Gives you % of population engaged in which industry, most imp industry was mining of metals, disruption started app 1800, Brit type of industrialization started app 1880. NET, tells you how the Backwards of today came into being. |
| Rebuilding India | Priority to agriculture education, develop close relations with Far East S.E.Asia, understand our nature, traditions systems. |
| Killing local Americans | North America to kill local population. |
| Intro Indian Society | Tells you about Community based living in, consensus thereafter, concept of Chakravartin explained, satyagraha in Varanasi in 1810-11. |
| India’s Material Progress | Was made in lace cloth, steel furnaces, sugar, ice. Brits borrowed from India modern plastic surgery, steel manufacture practices etc. |
| Decay Indian Society | Tells of the impact of British rule on the Indian economy and people. |
About the Author :
Dharampal was an accomplished researcher, writer, thinker, sociologist, historian & philosopher. It was his ability to question what looks like obvious, to delve behind it and unravel intriguing and insightful details of Indian history, society & polity that made Dharampalji very special.
Dharampal served as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research for two terms in the early 1990s and again for a term recently. He was also the Chairman of the Commission on the Protection of the Cow set up by the Government of India in 2001. From the mid 1980s Dharampal was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram, Wardha (Maharashtra) which he considered his main abode until he passed away there on 24th October 2006
Get other books by Dharampal ji at this link :
https://www.hindueshop.com/author/dharampal/
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