It is good that Gerry has added some additional important factors that have contributed to the violence in the Northeast, and I am especially thankful that he has expressed utmost respect for the views of others in this forum. But I also noticed that two of the three factors he has added have religion and religious differences as their mainstay, including the belief or implication that tribal animism and Hinduism were harmful or deficient because of which the tribals decided to convert en masse to a new religion. Here are the two quotes in particular that I am referring to:
QUOTE Animism or Naturalism used to be the predominant religion of the tribal people inhabitng North East India. UNQUOTE .......Gerald Fernandes QUOTE The Hindu beliefs did not accept the Tribals mainly on account of the Tribals eating raw food , both vegetarian and flesh, thus referring to them as "ADI MANAV" ( half humans, or not fully human) The Christian missionaries accepted them as fully human and fully worthy of attention as fellow human beings which resulted in a mass exodus to the Christian way of Thought (as opposed to religion) How do populations escape from fatalism which paints them( their past and future generations) in a corner forever by sheer accident of birth or belief or eating preferences????? UNQUOTE .......Gerald Fernandes BTW, I would like to correct an error in the first quote. The tribals did not practice naturalism. Naturalism is practiced by people like me. Nature worship is the right word for the religion of tribals. Cheers, Santosh ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Fernandes <[email protected]> > > 1.With utmost respect to the views expressed on this Forum by various > contributors, as an Indian Citizen who has an abiding interest in the North > eastern States of India, may I point out that the people comprisng the > current > North Eastern States of India are TRIBAL POPULATIONS, wherein each Tribe till > today do not understand the unique tribal language of other TRIBES.It is a > fact > that in Nagaland the people use "NAGAMESE" to be comprehensible. > Nagamese is not a language in the Classical sense but a dialect of > convenience > to communicate in a basic way. Similarly , it perhaps might come as a > surprise > to some of us that the most used language in Arunachal Pradesh ( which is a > hothouse of tribal culture) is HINDI . Hindi binds the TRIBAL population of > Arunachal Pradesh. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
