Itihaas Sankalan Yojana junks idea of more children, wants to restore ancient glorious status of Indian woman .
New Delhi : Rabble rousers like Sakshi Maharaj, Sadhvi Prachee and Praveen Togadia demanding that Hindu women must bear more and more children may have to face a counter attack within their Parivar. Sangh-affiliate Akhil Bharatiya Itihaas Sankalan Yojana (ABISY), which has become an important ”pressure group” in the Narendra Modi govt, wants to restore the Vedic status of Indian women when she enjoyed a liberated, independent and empowered life. ”No reasonable human being, definitely not a Hindu man, can ever look upon his wife as a child-bearing machine. Our ancient culture establishes it very clearly”, says Balmukund, who heads the ABISY.
Various RSS-supported organizations, especially leaders of the VHP, have been stressing on the need for Hindus to bear more children. They have raised the bogey of Muslim population growing at an alarming rate and Hindus being reduced to a minority in the coming decades.
Meanwhile, as a counter point, the ASBISY has convened a three-day brainstorming later this year in which research papers would be presented and experts would share their studies on how the liberated, empowered Indian woman of the Vedic ages lost her status in society as a result of foreign invaders specially the Islamic ones.
The proposed conference is scheduled from 24-26 Dec in Mysore and the theme is ”Women in Indian Culture : Through the Ages”. The invitation pamphlet for the conference reads, ”the Rigvedic women enjoyed high status in society. They were educated in the Vedic period, married at a mature age and were free to select their husbands, had got important roles in family life as well as economic affairs”. The pamphlet further says that with successive invasions, the status of women declined and particularly after the onslaught of Islamic attackers, women”s freedom and rights were drastically curtailed.
The three-day exercise which is aimed at deliberating on all aspects of the Indian woman”s life has more than two dozen academics and scholars listed for its various sessions.
