Tulsi Prajna 2000 01

SR No.: 524602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Technology Transformation and the Crises of Caste and ......
Rāmāyana and the Mahābhārata - are, perhaps, the best examples of the male child syndrome : King Dasaratha and his three queens express no remorse or regret for not having a daughter, though they are blessed with four mighty sons; the five mighty Pāndava brothers have no sister, and yet neither they ever regret this fact. nor their mother, Kunti; the hundred Kaurava brothers do have one sister, Duhsalā! But the Manusmriti and the epics are the products of a society based solely on manual labour-processes of social production and service !
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This male child syndrome, perhaps, is the chief cause of the crisis of population in India today despite more than forty years since the National Plan for Development of Women was adopted; and, also, despite the extraordinary advance in the means of labour - processes of social production and service from the pre-industrial manual to the post-industrial 'push-button' : nevertheless, 'any important advance in the means of production immediately leads to a great increase in population.'20
And, this male child syndrome, perhaps, is also the cause of the sex ratio in India being generally adverse to woman, 'that is, the number of women per 1.000 men has generally been less than 1.000. Apart from being adverse to women, the sex ratio has also declined over the decades. The slight improvement noticed in the 1981 census has not been maintained in 1991 and in fact there has been a fall by seven points from 934 in 1981 to 927 in 1991. The reasons for the general disparity in the sex ratio and the declining trend over the years need further examination'."
Conclusions 1. Pre-industrial society everywhere, including in India, was inevitably based
solely on manual labour-processes of all social production and service; and hence was, inevitably, undemocratic. And the cause of the origin of the Indian caste system is rooted in this inevitability of pre-industrial India.
2. Industrial and post-industrial technologies of social production and service.
therefore, do not justify the caste system or even caste.
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The male child syndrome, an inevitable requirement of every pre-industrial society, is perhaps the chief cause of the crisis of population in India despite, and also because of the significant advancements of industrial and post-industrial technologies; the social mind-set continues to be highly preindustrial.
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