ABSTRACT
Discourses, Hegemony and the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini
By HB Bhandari Prabhat , Maryland, USA.
Nepal,a small country of 1,47,000 Sq.Km with 25 million people situated between India and China, has its recognition around the globe as the country of diversity with rich cultural heritage Therefore, a nation must be well equipped in all sectors such as education, politics and so forth to preserve its identity of a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religion country in this era where power is created by discourse. Power,then, intimidates truth and imparts false knowledge modifying the existing truth in the veil of modernism and pluralism. In the same way, some historians are actively producing fake documents for last 30 years to define and establish India’s Orissa as the birth place of Buddha, Nepali cultural icons and identity. This paper attempts to illustrate motif behind it and explore some of the ways to combat such discourse and hegemony created to confuse and confound the globe by untold numbers of Indian historian and a few western academia.
Discourses, Hegemony and the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini
By HB Bhandari Prabhat , Maryland, USA.
Nepal,a small country of 1,47,000 Sq.Km with 25 million people situated between India and China, has its recognition around the globe as the country of diversity with rich cultural heritage Therefore, a nation must be well equipped in all sectors such as education, politics and so forth to preserve its identity of a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religion country in this era where power is created by discourse. Power,then, intimidates truth and imparts false knowledge modifying the existing truth in the veil of modernism and pluralism. In the same way, some historians are actively producing fake documents for last 30 years to define and establish India’s Orissa as the birth place of Buddha, Nepali cultural icons and identity. This paper attempts to illustrate motif behind it and explore some of the ways to combat such discourse and hegemony created to confuse and confound the globe by untold numbers of Indian historian and a few western academia.
to be continued.....
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