tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338007918823710198.post2244812703015920062..comments2023-07-26T16:09:24.741+05:30Comments on Lokavidya Jan Andolan (LJA)<br>लोकविद्या जन आन्दोलन: A Grave ResponsibilityVidya Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02683679935172546020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338007918823710198.post-23483652574667393362013-02-13T16:43:35.197+05:302013-02-13T16:43:35.197+05:30Good that someone is looking at the chaturvarna in...Good that someone is looking at the chaturvarna in the context of tana-bana. Indeed it is a grave responsibility<br />But what does the following mean?<br /><br />"<i>Moreover, the major portion of the Indian society lived outside the chatur varna, autonomously and actually were the masters of all the knowledge and the philosophy of human life, while the Varna system was applicable to only those who were directly involved in the admistration of the state, not unlike the reservation system starting from the British. It is this declaration by the Lokavidya Samaj, that will be one aspect of the basis for Lokavidya Tana-Bana and its globalization.</i>" <br />Did the sudras live outside the chaturvarna system? The scavengers and the washermen and the cobblers? And did they not possess lok vidya?<br /><br />-<b>Mohini Mullick</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com