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<p>feeling a little like the cross product of (Vonnegut) Harrison
Bergeron and George Santos ?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/1/23 12:07 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi Glen<br>
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In so far as the report of dropping the periodic table and
evolution from the Class 10 syllabus, it is essentially a
question of Hindu class and caste dynamics operating in India.<br>
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Traditionally, education / knowledge in India was the domain
of the Higher castes like Brahmins (Pundits), the next caste
beneath them (Kshatriyas) were warriors so didn't need much
bookish knowledge as they also had Brahmins to advise them,
the 3rd highest caste (Kayasthas) were scribes and scriveners
so allowed to read books but not to apply them .. and so on.
All the castes beneath them were prohibited from reading
books or acquiring Brahmanical knowledge - on pain of death.<br>
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Over the centuries by marrying endogamously the genetics of
the various castes evolved to amplify the physical
characteristics required for each castes' profession. The
Muslim and then the British rulers of India were more than
happy to allow this state of affairs to continue while they
ruled as it kept the Hindus divided and segregated.<br>
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However, after India became independent in 1947, with
the spread of universal education the Brahmins were subjected
to intense reverse discrimination and negative reservations
intended to curtail their education domination. With the
infiltration of the lower castes throughout the education
system the education standards of India have been pulled down
to the lowest common denominator. To take a simple example
which I cited earlier, a Brahmin student needs to score a 99+%
percentile to get into a top engineering or medical college
(scoring 250 marks out of 300 in a negatively marked exam)
whereas a low caste (barely literate) student gets in even
with a score of negative 50 out of 300, with over 40% of the
students unable to score <a class="gmail_plusreply"
id="plusReplyChip-0" moz-do-not-send="true">+ve marks.</a><br>
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The reasons these chapters are being removed has nothing to do
with religion or creationism, and everything to do with the
poor state of the Indian education system where the bottom
students can't cope. The low caste Prime Minister of India
(who has only passed Grade 4) claims to have acquired graduate
as well as post-graduate degrees from top universities (which
seem completely fake), Universities which he publicly
admits he never set foot in, especially seems determined to
pull everyone in India down to his semi-literate level.<br>
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Sarbajit<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:29 PM
glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
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don't follow Indian politics. But these seem scary:<br>
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Religion and the decline of freethought in South Asia<br>
<a
href="https://freethinker.co.uk/2022/04/religion-and-the-decline-of-freethought-in-south-asia/"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://freethinker.co.uk/2022/04/religion-and-the-decline-of-freethought-in-south-asia/</a><br>
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India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks<br>
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y</a><br>
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Again, going back to Sweet Tooth, the tension between having
to sacrifice hybrids to get the 'secret sauce' for the
anti-viral (or the cure) against a vegetarian ideology is
interesting, flies in the face of naïve utilitarianism.<br>
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