Exactly right .. it was a political statement tilak made, and it caught on
rather well as you can all see
srs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Gautam John
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [silk] The Christian, the Muslim and the Hindu..
>
> On 9/20/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Apparently the worship of Ganesha may well have been only a symbolic
> Vedic
> > ritual in ancient days with no idol.
>
> I remember being told that the festival was a recent (late 1800's -
> early 1900's) entrant and that it originated in a curious mix of the
> Indian independence struggle, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Marathi
> identity and the rise of a Hindu-right identity.
>
> I could be wrong, however.
