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NEWS: RK Mission Denied Non-Hindu Status
HINDUISM TODAY August 1995
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BREAKING NEWS AT PRESS TIME
India's Supreme Court Denies RK Mission Non-Hindu Status
The Ramakrishna Mission has ultimately failed in its attempt,
begun in 1980, to have themselves declared a non-Hindu
minority religion -- "Ramakrishnaism" -- under Indian law.
On July 2nd, Indian Supreme Court Justices Kuldip Singh,
N. Venkatacheliah and Saghir Ahmed set aside an earlier
verdict of a Calcutta court that declared the RK Mission
separate from the Hindu religion and therefore entitled to
protection under Article 30(1) of the Indian constitution.
Under this article, the Mission would have been able to
retain complete control of its extensive school system, a
privilege accorded in India only to religious minorities such
as Christianity and Islam.
Now the schools, which receive substantial government
subsidies, will come under government control, and that too of
Bengal's ruling communist party.
The Hindu world was shocked in 1986 to learn that the RK
Mission founded by Swami Vivekananda was opting out of the
Hindu family to become "the cult or religion of Sri
Ramakrishna" for political/economic reasons. A further report
will appear in our September issue.
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