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The video doesn't show that part of the textbook. I found some pages from the series but they're pretty innocuous. [1] But it's probably accurate. It's not a h
by Arnavion 6y ago
The video doesn't show that part of the textbook. I found some pages from the series but they're pretty innocuous. [1]
But it's probably accurate. It's not a history textbook but a literature textbook for primary school students. It was probably meant to be used in Hindi classes. So this kind of bullshit would fly under the guise of "it's just a story". [2]
[1]: hxxps://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/lamps-of-inspiration-set-of-4-volumes-NZE671/ The "Look Inside the Book" section. The first few pages are just a preface talking about how the book has collected tales to bolster moral values and duties in the reader. Then there are a bunch of contents pages.
The third contents page does match the two short scenes from the video that show the titles of the stories - "8. Nirlobh adarsh jivan" and "17. Parishram ka koi vikalp nahin" (though the latter in the video is titled "Parishram ka vikalp...", no "koi").
So presumably this is the contents page for Prernadeep 3. I can't tell just from the contents page which story might be the one in question, though. The video says it's on page 22 but the contents page doesn't have page numbers. It might be #36 - "Bahin, ham bhaaratiya hain" "Sister, we are Indian" - or #53 perhaps - "Kya aapne ishvar ko dekha hai?" "Have you ever laid eyes on God" ?
The last page has one story and the start of another one (listed in the very first contents page, so preumably from Prernadeep 1 rather than 3), but they're pretty innocuous.
[2]: The larger context around that story is even more amusing, because it's being "told" by Dr Radhakrishnan (President in the 50s and well-known for liking teachers; his birthday is celebrated as "Teacher's Day") to a white person who claims to be very "close to God".
- pratik661 6y agoThanks for looking this up. My hindi is really bad and I could not decipher the name of the book from the video.
- iamshs 6y agoOnly people on here can justify books written by Dinanath Batra as "pretty innocuous".
- Arnavion 6y agoDon't put words in my mouth. I was talking about the one-and-a-half stories I could read on that website, not the books or the author as a whole.
- iamshs 6y agoI quoted you. Read the preface of the book, and the story number 52. How is that "pretty innocuous", and especally a book that is aimed at kids? No wonder caste discrimination has carried on for centuries in India with learned people like you able to charitably justify the oppression.
- Arnavion 6y ago>I quoted you. No you did not. Nowhere did I say that the books written by Dinanath Batra were pretty innocuous. If you had quoted me, it would've been quite obvious I didn't say what you claimed I did, because a proper quote would look like: >>I found some pages from the series but they're pretty innocuous. "some pages from the series". It doesn't get any clearer than that. >Read the preface of the book, and the story number 52. How is that "pretty innocuous", and especally a book that is aimed at kids? I already summarized what the preface says in my original comment. And #52 is not in the pages I linked to. The only ones are #55 and the first half of #56. #55 has a Mughal emperor praising a Hindu man for giving the emperor's daughter an Islamic education despite his religion, and #56 starts off with the son of a Naval officer in a war between England and France before it is cut off. I say again, that just these one-and-a-half stories that I have access to are pretty innocuous. >No wonder caste discrimination has carried on for centuries in India with learned people like you able to charitably justify the oppression. Incidentally, the rest of the comment that you're misquoting clarified pretty clearly that I'm against the story that the Aljazeera video talks about. But you do you; don't let facts and reading comprehension get in the way of your spiel and slander.