[Assam] beef-eating in india: History is from Hindu texts?

[umesh sharma]

even Xourav-da's article quotes only Hindu religious texts --where is the historical info -- which is not in religious tests. Why don't you believe Hindu texts when they say that Mahabharat war took place and Ram and Krishna etc were heroes born and bred in India. Why do you declare them to be myths -and they do not find a place in history of ancient India.
  Why such one-sided version of history --why cow killing is more important that the Mahabharat war?

   
  Umesh
   
  
Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:
    Beef-eating could be a big issue in India today. But that was not the issue we were discussing here.
   
  What I said was most mainstream Hindus don't really care if ancient Hindus ate beef, and if this was touted to be true in today's textbooks. That the BJP and others trying to rewrite this, is I think a small segment hell-bent on such trivialities. 

 
  On 6/17/06, xourov pathok <xourov at yahoo.com> wrote:   Ram Sarangapani wrote:

+  I really don't think mainstream Hindus have
+  any problem in this. Many Hindus recognize that 
+  ancient Hindus supposedly did eat beef. Who is
+  trying
+  to hide this fact? Most Hindus don't care one way
+  or
+  the other about this. The fact that some in the
+  education department now or in previous BJP govt. 
+  tried to rewrite some textbooks has little
+  relevance
+  to mainstream Hindus.

this is not entirely true.  beef-eating is a big issue
in india.  as far as i know, beef and beef-products
are banned in many states in india.  there was a move 
to ban cow slaughter at the union level (which would
have affected meghalaya too).  i don't know whether
this is law today.  nevertheless, it is interesting
that the present anti-cow slaughter movement is a
recent phenomenon.

d h jha, a history prof from delhi university, wrote a
book.  he had to ask for police security because of
threats.  his article here is more readable than his
book:

http://www.indowindow.com/sad/article.php?child=17&article=11

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