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Commentary on Travancore State Manual
VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
It is foretold! The torrential flow of inexorable destiny!
The errors in social engineering

There are certain things that may be mentioned here. It is not easy to suddenly change the varying levels of people’s dressing standards in a society, which is feudal like an Indian police department. Each levels’ dress is a uniform that identifies the person with a social level. When rights of articulation and restrictions on communications are there in the language, a sudden change would be equivalent to a police constable being given a sudden status equivalent to his IPS officer. It can create terrible pains and anguish in the society.


It may also be seen that the English officials as well as the English Christian Missionaries were bringing in English. The latter was also involved in converting the lower castes into Christians. This also was a terrible thing in the society. For, persons who were acknowledged as dirt level, slaves and low castes, were all being given the idea that they are human being with equal rights to dignity. However, the error here is that such equality is not there in the vernaculars of the Indian peninsula. They are there only in English and similar languages. So, what was in effect happening was the crude cutting and pasting of lower placed persons into higher positions, without affecting proper introduction into English language.


Social positions are connected to social regimentation and command levels. A person from a royal family has a definite social command capacity that comes through the royal link. Similarly every level in a feudal language society has a command right over people below that level. All this were being disturbed.

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