{"id":127377,"date":"2024-08-31T20:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indusvalleytimes.com\/news\/?p=127377"},"modified":"2024-08-31T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:48:46","slug":"dharmendra-pradhan-pitches-for-change-of-156-yr-old-ravenshaw-university-intellectuals-oppose-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indusvalleytimes.com\/news\/dharmendra-pradhan-pitches-for-change-of-156-yr-old-ravenshaw-university-intellectuals-oppose-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Dharmendra Pradhan pitches for change of 156-yr-old Ravenshaw University; intellectuals oppose idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"caps\"><strong>By Mahendra Darjee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bhubaneswar, Aug. 31: <\/strong>Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday pleaded for change of the name of Ravenshaw University in Odisha, drawing mixed reactions from educationists and alumni of the 156-year-old premiere educational institution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister questioned the contribution of Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, famously known as Ravenshaw Saheb, after whom the university has been named, to the development of Odia people during his period as the Commissioner of Odisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, the then Commissioner of Odisha, do during the 1866 great famine in the state? Is the person who was found tormenting Odia people a matter of pride for us?\u201d asked Pradhan during an event in Cuttack city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pradhan said his observation was \u201cpurely personal\u201d and there should be debates on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet me make it clear that it is my personal opinion. Intellectuals in Odisha should think over it. There should be debates and discussions over the matter,\u201d said the minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1866 great famine, more known as \u2018Na-Anka Durbiksha\u2019 as it happened in the ninth regnal year of Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb, the calamity claimed over a million lives. Many blamed Ravenshaw for the calamity saying he could not foresee the imminent calamity and failed to handle the situation as the devastation struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister\u2019s observation did not find favour with certain former students of the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t support the name change suggestion. Ravenshaw is not a name. It is a way of life. It has more than 100 years of history behind it. It can\u2019t be related to \u2018Asmita\u2019 (pride and identity). Asmita cannot exist without tradition. I think the minister\u2019s statement is unrealistic and I differ with him,\u201d said Hemendra Narayan Das, a former student of Ravenshaw University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who know about the contribution of Ravenshaw will never say that the university named after him should be changed. If our students have read Odia, it\u2019s because of Ravenshaw only. When there was a conspiracy not to teach the students in Odia medium in schools, Ravenshaw was strongly against it. He has written many letters in this regard,\u201d said Satyakam Mishra, a former student and ex-administrator of Ravenshaw University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who don\u2019t know about Ravenshaw\u2019s contributions will talk about famine. The famine didn\u2019t occur due to Ravenshaw, rather it happened due to wrong information given by the then administration that enough food stuff was available. Ravenshaw played a great role in spreading education in Odisha,\u201d said Mishra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Odisha chief secretary Sahadev Sahoo said, \u201cRavenshaw never tormented people. He played a great role in the spread of education in Odisha. People honoured him by naming the prestigious college after him. There is no need to change the name of Ravenshaw University.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mahendra Darjee Bhubaneswar, Aug. 31: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday pleaded for change of the name of Ravenshaw University in Odisha, drawing mixed reactions from educationists and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[25578,14738],"class_list":["post-127377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-top-stories","tag-ravenshaw-university","tag-union-education-minister-dharmendra-pradhan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dharmendra Pradhan pitches for change of 156-yr-old Ravenshaw University;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dharmendra Pradhan pitches for change of 156-yr-old Ravenshaw University; 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