Re: [nukkad] religious contrasts

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Azim wrote:
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> Its like Acchut(untouchables) of modern times . You sound like some thakurs of old times  who says that "Pani pehle Hamare(majority ke) khet main aayega aur phir Acchut(minority) ke khet main?".

There is only "old time" part in this statement that previously it was
happening all around, now it happens at some places. I mean it is indeed
happening nowadays in twenty-first century.

While I was doing my engineering, one of my friends recounted to me that
even today when a lower-caste person gets married, the first night of
the bride was held with the thakur of the village. No explicit force, no
threat, no kidnapping, nothing. The groom himself used to bring the
bride to the haveli for the ceremony as per the custom.

He was the son of thakur of a village from Balia in U.P. from where our
erstwhile P.M. Chandrashekhar get elected.

Somehow, my friend was also taking the custom so matter of factly that
he said he will also follow it when he succeeds his father.

It was 1986.
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Those who had seen Bandit Queen might recall the scene when the sons of
thakurs tries unsuccessfully to force themselves upon teenage phoolan,
and when she goes to panchayat, they say that it was she who had called
them for this purpose saying that "chull hot hai" (it itches). The
thakur dominated panchayat upheld the version of thakurs' sons against a
lower caste person.

I Guess it was 1975.

So much for the "bad old times".

-Rawat



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