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Tulsidas accused of plagiarism
TNN, Nov 29, 2010, 01.19am IST
PATNA: Had Tulsidas composed his Ramcharitmanas in modern India, he
would have landed in a jail on the charge of plagiarism as his book
was nothing, but a copy of Valmiki's Ramayan.
Making this observation at a two-day national seminar on Dalit
literature, jointly organized by the Sahitya Academy and Patna
University (PU) Hindi department at the geology auditorium here on
Sunday, JNU professor Tulsi Ram said that the orthodox Hindu society
popularized Tulsidas creation because he was a Brahmin. But Valmiki's
creation was ignored by the people simply because he was a Dalit.
He further observed that the ancient Gurukul system was also meant to
provide education only to the wards of Brahmins and Rajputs. No
Gurukul ever allowed the entry of Dalits and other weaker sections of
the society. The then society had conspired to keep the downtrodden
away from education, he added.
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