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PREFACE
Mr.D.N.Jha, primarily a historian has taken upon himself the task
of proving that the Hindus are unnecessarily holding the cow a sacred animal
and he states in the preface of the book in question that the communalist
Hindus and their fundamental organizations have repeatedly attempted to
force the sanctity of the cow into the political arena. He calls the Hindus'
holiness of the cow a myth and comes to conclude that even the Vedas
endorse beef eating besides other Indian scriptures. He mentions that his
present study is based mainly on Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina religious
scriptures and his inspirations came mainly from the historians like
Prof.R.S.Sharma and many foreign scholars and their writings. Initially he
wanted to publish the work in India but according to him the atmosphere in
India became charged with communalism and some right-wing politicians
and groups of Hindu and Jaina fanatics, without reading a single page,
termed it 'blasphemous' demanded his arrest and succeeded in obtaining a
court order restraining the circulation of the book . Consequently with the
help of Mr.Tariq Ali he could get the book published by Verso Books, London
in 2002. For Mr.Jha, it has been an academic exercise because being a
leftist historian, he is far from religion though as a Hindu he himself will
confess that his clan must have been a cow worshipper. In India, particularly
the original inhabitants and descendants of this land are cow lovers and
revere it as their mother. To term their regard for the cow as a myth is
abusing their mind-set, beliefs, faith and the very root of their culture. In
order to set the record straight through this booklet, all the references from
the RgVeda cited by Mr.Jha in his book have been singled out and their
rightful interpretation given to falsify the thesis of Mr. Jha. As a matter of
fact, internal evidence in the Vedas itself is sufficient to counter his claim
but still he is at liberty to challenge our facts which will be happily contested
by the Vedic scholars.
The Rejoinder booklet
'No Beef in Vedas'
goes to prove that the
entire thesis of Mr.Jha is based on wrong interpretation of the Vedic texts
and this belongs to the domain of the true Indian Vedic scholarship and not
of the imported breed or the Western Indologists who were guided by vested
interests to only project their language i.e. the English, their religion
i.e.Christianity and impose on us their overall superiority over our culture
and way of life and they did succeed in their mission with the help of Macaulay
and company.
There is not an iota of politics in our approach but only a sincere
desire to uphold
THE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
Unfortunately,
these days any effort to project the real spirit of the ancient Indian thought is
categorized as saffronization and it is an insult to the majority community of
free Independent India. All organizations which regard Vedas as the root of
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