WOMEN LEADERS OF NEPAL
Prof. Timila Yami Thapa
Citizens of Nepal should rewrite history of WOMEN LEADERS OF NEPAL. Historians change history and give it new interpretations by collecting biased views. Events have happened and cannot be changed even God himself cannot change the past, but historians are supposed to look upon past events in history from different angles according to their convictions. Education was banned those days during Rana regime and those who gave life for the freedom struggle could not express properly in writing. Detail contextual analysis has to be done. The researchers of Nepal are doing research based mostly on false data and false descriptions of the past. True facts are erased and false facts are highlighted. This becomes very unfair for those who gave life for this nation. The books released on women movement of Nepal need to be revised.
Historians are able to change history; that is to change the meaning of an event which occurred without changing the event itself. We need to look upon history in a more scientific way. Technology today has power to capture, analyze and provide reports derived through the lenses of different perspectives. For academicians of history department of Nepalese universities history is nothing but a mass social movement in which the events are only milestones. We lose valuable information this way.
Truth about who all those women were who risked and sacrificed their lives during BS 1997 and 2007 (before AD 1950) Rana regime ( most dangerous period) overthrow movement has not been written correctly in history so far. The so-called women leaders dominated those true leaders who went through riskiest tasks during very dangerous periods. Elderly senior citizens didn't recall physically observing those leaders in roads who had produced books highlighting their roles before AD 1950s. These were the women who didn't allow the true facts to surface in written form.
Let us all write stories of mothers who sacrificed for this nation. They couldn't write about their sufferings and sacrifices because they had no resources then and some of them were silenced too. People used to be tortured those days if seen learning, carrying copies and writing martials. Peeping out of windows used to be also risky those days as told by senior citizens. The real women leaders came from very conservative family background, who were specially attacked by the rulers, suffered the most, made great contributions in social and political transformation in the country and hailed from patriarchy society which restricted women's liberation i.e., freedom of expression, mobility, decision making, choices and rights etc. Nepalese new generations are unfortunate to have missed keeping historical learning experiences from these brave women whose history could have added a lot of value to current and future generations. The so called women leaders who surfaced only during early AD 1950s dominated the early ones by making sure that these new ones get highlighted in the history and earlier women who played such high level risky roles are silenced.
Similar behaviour was observed too among women leaders around AD 1947 in India.
There is hardly any indigenous authentic history of Indian subcontinent. It is mostly by the British or Westerners.
Biswa Bhumi patrika has an article published in Baisakh month BS 1948 which highlights details about the following photo which is available in Asha Safu Kuthi, Rakta Kali, Kathmandu.