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लोकधर्म से अभिप्राय है, “वास्तविक धर्म से भिन्न वे बातें या कृत्य जो जन-साधारण में प्राय धर्म के रूप में प्रचलित हों।जैसे—तंत्र-मंत्र भूत-प्रेत की पूजा- वीर पूजा आदि।” सबसे अचरज की बात है की यह हमें सिर्फ परम्परा में देखने को मिलते हैं इनका कोई लिखित इतिहास नहीं है हिंदी में लोक धर्म शब्द  के अर्थ निम्नलिखित है:

पीढ़ी से पीढ़ी तक फैली मान्यताओं, अंधविश्वासों और सांस्कृतिक प्रथाओं के एक समूह का वर्णन करता है.

एक धर्म जो जातीय या क्षेत्रीय धार्मिक परंपराओं से बना है.

लोगों द्वारा बनाया एक धर्म. (The WiseDictionary)

हरियाणा क्षेत्र एवं उसके आसपास के राज्यों में निम्नलिखित लोकदेवताओं का हमें वर्णन मिलता है:

दादा नगर-खेडा (हर गाँव और शहर में)

गोगा-पीर  (बागड़)

पाथरी वाली माता (पाथरी हरियाणा)

पाँच बावरी (सबल सिंह, केसरमल,नथ मल, हरी सिंह. जीत सिंह बावरी)

माता श्याम कौर इत्यादि.

अगर हम ऐतिहासिक और सामाजिक स्तर पर देखें तो ये लोकदेवता अपने  समय के आदर्श पुरुष रहे होंगें और अपने क्रांतिकारी विचारों या कर्म की वजह से जनमानस  के जीवन का हिस्सा बन गये. मेरा ऐसा मानना है कि वर्तमान समय में लोकधर्म और लोक-विश्वासों के ब्राह्मणीकरण और संस्कृतिकरण, हमें प्रत्यक्ष और अप्रत्यक्ष तौर पर मूलनिवासी, आर्य-अनार्य संघर्ष की छवि प्रदान करता है और वर्तमान में “नया इतिहास” लिखने और समझने की ओर ले जाता है. आस्तित्व के लिए संघर्ष  विरोध के स्वर के रूप में  मुखरित होकर हमारे सामने आ रहा है.

सांस्कृतिक गतिशीलता की इस प्रक्रिया का वर्णन करने के लिए श्रीनिवास ने प्रारम्भ में ‘ब्राह्मणीकरण’ (Brahminization) शब्द का प्रयोग किया. परन्तु बाद में उसकी जगह “संस्कृतिकरण शब्द का इस्तेमाल किया. (डाँ. जे. पी. सिंह (2016) आधुनिक भारत में सामाजिक परिवर्तन,) लेकिन यह शब्द आज भी हमारे सामाजिक और साहित्यिक क्षेत्र में प्रासंगिक होने के साथ साथ व्यवहार में भी है. सुरेंद्रपाल सिंह का लेख  “लोक देवता गुग्गा पीर का बदलता स्वरूप” के निम्नलिखित अंश दृश्व्य हैं: 

“राजस्थान, हरियाणा, पंजाब, हिमाचल प्रदेश, उत्तर प्रदेश और मध्य प्रदेश के कुछ इलाकों में गुग्गा पीर एक लोकप्रिय लोकदेवता है….उल्लेखनीय है कि अधिकतम गुग्गा मैडी की इमारतों के चारों कोनों पर एक एक मीनार बनी होती है जो मैडी को एक इस्लामिक स्टाइल का रूप देती हैं। मैडी के अंदर या तो मजार बनी होती है या घोड़े पर सवार हाथ में भाला उठाए हुए जाहर वीर गुग्गा की मूर्ति होती है।….

गुग्गा में आस्था रखने वाले हिन्दू भी हैं और मुसलमान भी। सभी जातियों के लोग गुग्गा पीर में आस्था रखते हुए दिखाई दे जाएंगे।……..अब उच्च जातियों के लिए लौकिक आवश्यकताओं की पूर्ति के लिए गुग्गा भी उनके अन्य  देवी देवताओं के बीच एक स्थान ग्रहण कर चुका है जबकि अनेकों निम्नवर्ग के समुदायों के लिए गुग्गा आज भी उनका मुख्य इष्टदेवता है।

अब मुख्य गुग्गा मैडी में मेले के समय एक महीने के लिए ब्राह्मण पुजारी भी नियुक्त कर दिया गया जो चोहिल राजपूत मुसलमान द्वारा ख़ानदानी रूप से 12 महीनों के लिए उपस्थित होने के अलावा है। पूजा विधान का यथासंभव ब्राह्मणीकरण किए जाने का प्रयास किया जा रहा है। अब गुग्गा मैडियों में शिव, हनुमान, गणेश, कृष्ण आदि  अन्य हिंदू देवताओं की मूर्तियाँ भी स्थापित की जाती है। पारम्परिक रूप से निम्न वर्ग के भगतों का स्थान ब्राह्मण पुजारियों द्वारा लिया जा रहा है। आरती, हवन, गणेश वंदना, संस्कृत श्लोकों के माध्यम से उच्च वर्ण के यजमान अपना स्थान बना रहे हैं। ऐसे दृष्टांत भी देखने में आते हैं कि यजमान अपने ब्राह्मण पुरोहित को मेले में अपने साथ ले जाते हैं जो मेला प्रांगण में ही ब्राह्मण हवन कर लेते हैं।

पुराने साधारण थान की जगह अब गुग्गा पीर की मूर्तियाँ घोड़े पर सवार, हाथ में भाला उठाए हुए बहादुर राजपूत के रूप में आम हो गई है। थान एक छोटा चबूतरा या घर में आले की जगह होती है जिस पर सांप की आकृति छाप दी जाती है या मिट्टी से बने घोड़े रखके पूजा की जाती है।

गुग्गा के कलेंडर और चित्र भी राजपूत योद्धा के रूप में छापे जाते हैं । इसके अलावा गोगा पुराण, गोगा चालीसा, गोगा आरती आदि पुस्तिकाएँ थोक में बेची या बाँटी जाती हैं। इन सबमें गुग्गा को गुग्गा पीर की बजाय गुग्गा वीर लिखा जाता है। एक जन नायक का जन्म और उसकी बहिष्कृत और अछूत समाज के लोक देवता के रूप में पीर से वीर की हैसियत में एक छोटे हिंदू देवता की तस्वीर हमारे सामने है।”

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चंद्रभूषण सिंह यादव, कृष्‍ण और यादवों का ब्राह्मणीकरण-Posted on August 7, 2014

कृष्‍ण और यादवों का ब्राह्मणीकरण

बाल्मीकि प्रसंग : जरूरत परंपरा-प्रक्षालन की है- ओमप्रकाश कश्यप, आखरमाला, सितम्बर 28, 2015.

बाल्मीकि प्रसंग : जरूरत परंपरा-प्रक्षालन की है

इतिहास को जानबूझ कर नजरअंदाज किया जा रहा है : सबरीमाला और आदिवासी देवता का ब्राह्मणीकरण-AATHIRA KONIKKARA, The Caravan, ०३ नवम्बर २०१८  Link: https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/pk-sajeev-sabarimala-mala-araya-brahminisation-adivasi-deity-hindi

References:

“लोक-धर्म”, शब्द का अर्थ, भारतीय साहित्य ग्रन्थ, 10-12-2018: https://www.pustak.org/index.php/dictionary/word_meaning/लोक-धर्म

The WiseDictionary, 11-12-2018, https://www.thewisedictionary.com/hindi/लोक-धर्म

डाँ. जे. पी. सिंह (2016), आधुनिक भारत में सामाजिक परिवर्तन https://books.google.co.in/books?isbn=8120352327

सुरेंद्रपाल सिंह, (2018), “लोक देवता गुग्गा पीर का बदलता स्वरूप”, देसहरियाणा, December 10, 2018

https://desharyana.in/2018/12/10/सुरेंद्रपाल-सिंह-लोक-देव/?fbclid=IwAR2idha2F0gvUAAcbA3PQJ9us3h7lIfQz511tjAYcVfme4b_6mfM5H49tpo

Note: This short article is a part of my presentation “Development of Philosophy and Religion in Haryana”. You can visit the complete presentation on the given below link:

 

Call for Papers

Milestone Education Review (The Journal of Ideas on Educational & Social Transformation) ISSN: 2278-2168

Special Issue on “Marx and Ambedkar for Indian Social Change”

Year 09, No. 01 (April, 2018)

Respected Faculty/Scholar/Professor,

Milestone Education Review (The Journal of Ideas on Educational & Social Transformation) is an online peer-reviewed bi-annual journal of Milestone Education Society (Regd.) Pehowa (Kurukshetra). For us education refers to any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. The role of education must be as an instrument of social change and social transformation. Social transformation refers to large scale of social change as in cultural reforms and transformations. The first occurs with the individual, the second with the social system. This journal offers an opportunity to all academicians including educationist, social-scientists, philosophers and social activities to share their views. Each issue contains about 100 pages.

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About Present Issue:

Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx (born May 5, 1818, Trier and died March 14, 1883, London, England) was a philosopher, revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist. He published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism. It was Capital’s 150th anniversary in autumn 2017, the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto will be in February 2018, and it would have been Karl Marx’s 200th birthday in May 2018. The Communist Party of the Philippines calls on all Filipino workers to start a year-long commemoration and celebration of Marx’s 200th birthday on May 5, 2018. The whole revolutionary movement must salute Karl Marx’ and Marxism’s great role in history and in the continuing world struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat and the entire humanity. This celebration is of great relevance to the working class, from politics to philosophy to academics as Karl Marx made a lasting imprint on the face of history. The Centre has also an intention to commemorate the 200 years of Karl Marx by various activities including essay competition, seminar, special issues and books on this great thinker.

Karl Marx was the first thinker to draw sharp attention to the highly deleterious impact of caste on Indian society and its causal link with the relations of production. In his famous essay on “The Future Results of British Rule in India” Karl Marx characterized the Indian castes as “the most decisive impediment to India’s progress and power”. Marx clearly and causally connected the archaic social formation of caste in India with the relations of production. It followed logically that the abolition of the caste hierarchy and the oppression and exploitation of the ‘lower’ castes could not be separated from the Marxian form of class struggle. The adivasis or indigenous people of ancient India suffered more or less the same socioeconomic disabilities as the atisudras, and were virtually indistinguishable from the latter with regard to their status in relation to the socioeconomic structure of chaturvarnya. They were also both geographically isolated and socially marginalized, and relegated to the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid. There is abundant evidence in the dharmasastras and Sanskrit literature to show that these indigenous people were also treated as untouchables. Ideologically, one can place Ambedkar in the leftist traditions, though not in its traditional forms. He was one of the few people in modern India who had developed a home-grown genre of Marxism and for Ambedkar this stood in comparison with the ideology of Buddhism – a peculiar, yet profound blend that is characteristic of an Indian philosopher. In his essay titled “Buddha or Karl Marx”, Ambedkar compared the common ideals of Buddha and Marx and submitted an ultimate analysis that socialism can only be sustained if it walks on the path lay out by the Buddha. According to him, Buddhism was “an ultimate aid to sustain Communism when force is withdrawn” and so he criticised Lenin because he failed to deliver ‘liberty and fraternity’ in the pursuit of equality. He declared that: “Equality will be of no value without fraternity or liberty. It seems that the three can coexist only if one follows the way of the Buddha. Communism can give one but not all.” It is indeed the contribution of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar that the commitment towards liberty, fraternity and equality through the means of non-violence and democracy, has become a central characteristic of our constitution. He categorically stated while addressing the constituent assembly (November 25, 1949) that, “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy, which means, a way of life which recognize liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.” In this sense there will be a great need of study both revolutionary figures to study on the same platform and to their relevance in the Indian social change. This is a special call for papers for Milestone Education Review, Year 09, No. 01 (April, 2018) issue.

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Special Issue on “Marx and Ambedkar for Indian Social Change”

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Milestone Education Review (The Journal of Ideas on Educational & Social Transformation)

ISSN:2278-2168

Year 07, No.02, October, 2016

Special Issue on “Ambedkar, Indian Society and Tribal Philosophy”

(Released on 21st November, 2016)

Chief-Editor: Desh Raj Sirswal

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Special Issue on “Ambedkar, Indian Society and Tribal Philosophy”

                                                    Abstract

Religion is a deriving force for social change in India since ancient times. Although we boast about ancient Indian ideals of social stratification, which made a long lasting discrimination within society, and most of the times we do not do any justice to social-political life of a billion peoples. The study of the relation between religion and politics showed that this relation always made a problematic situation for the indigenous people and always benefitted invaders. The idea of the interface or mixing of religion and politics being problematic and potentially dangerous is a byproduct of the rise of secularism, often regarded as one of the hallmarks of modern society. The concept of social justice is an important concept for the social-political harmony in present times. Social justice denotes the equal treatment of all citizens without any social distinction based on caste, colour, race, religion, sex and so on. It means absence of privileges being extended to any particular section of the society, and improvement in the conditions of backward classes (SCs, STs, and OBCs) and women. Social justice is a public and collective good that involves an equitable sharing of the earth’s power, resources and opportunities to enable people individually and collectively to develop their talents to the fullest. Its realisation requires social relations embedded in trust, acceptance, mutuality, reciprocity and solidarity. Under Indian Constitution the use of social justice is accepted in wider sense, which includes social and economical justice both. Ancient social structure allows us to see the discrimination made to indigenous people with reference to their socio-political life. These evils not only effects Hindu social order rather it also haunts the social structure of newly established religions in Indian continent. The objective of this paper is to disuses the role of religions in imparting social justice to Indian socio-political structure of our society. First we will see the place of religion in society then sees its effect on socio-political order whether it is affirmative or negative which allow us to make any rational conclusion.

Key-Words: Religion, Indian Society, Social Justice, Social Inclusion and Indian Constitution

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To be presented at National Seminar on Social Security and Social Inclusion for Inclusive Growth in India,  PG Department of Economics and PG Department of Sociology, PGGCG-11, Chandigarh to be held on 5th August 2016.

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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: The Maker of Modern India

Editor: Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal

ISBN: 978-81-922377-8-7

First Edition: April 2016

Centre for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS), Pehowa (Kurukshetra)

Released on 14th April, 2016

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Lecture Series-VII

Ambedkarism: Theory and Values

Prof. Subhash Chander

April 11, 2016

Centre for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS), Pehowa (Kurukshetra)

Series Editor: Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal, Assistant Professor (Philosophy), P. G. Govt. College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh

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Released on 23rd March,2016

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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is one of the names that changed social order of the age-old tradition of suppression and humiliation. He was an intellectual, scholar & statesman and contributed greatly in the nation building. He led a number of movements to emancipate the downtrodden masses and to secure human rights to millions of depressed classes. He has left an indelible imprint through his immense contribution in framing the modern Constitution of free India. He stands as a symbol of struggle for achieving the Social Justice. We can assign several roles to this great personality due to his life full dedication towards his mission of eradicating evils from Indian society. The social evils of Indian society, also neglected this great personality even in intellectual sphere too. The so-called intellectuals of India not honestly discussed his contribution to Indian intellectual heritage, rather what they discussed, also smells their biases towards a Dalit literate and underestimated his great personality. This paper will attempt to discuss important facts about life and a short description of the literature written by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Then discuss his philosophy in the five major sections i.e. Feminism and women empowerment, philosophy of education, ideas on social justice and equality, philosophy of politics and economics and philosophy of religion.

Key words: Indian social system, social equality, philosophy of religion, women empowerment, Indian education.

Note: To be presented atTwo-Day National Seminar on Understanding Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar organized by the Post Graduate Department of  Political Science , Dayal College, Karnal  on 23th and 24th January, 2016.

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CELEBRATING WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY-2015
A Lecture on “Social Philosophy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar”
19th November, 2015
Time: 11.00 a
Venue: Conference Hall
Speaker: Prof. Subhash Chander
(Professor, Department of Hindi, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)
Organised by Departments of Philosophy and Hindi,
Post Graduate Govt. College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh-160011.

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