KCP greets all on raising day-1
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, April 13 2018: The Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) has greeted all the people of Kangleipak and WESEA on the occasion of the outfit's 38th raising day.

A statement issued by the outfit's president Ksh Laba Meitei said that education always takes important roles in building any colonial ideology.

In a colonised Nation, all educational policies are tailored by the colonisers to suit their colonial interests and education is often used as a soft tool for subjugation of colonised people.

Colonial powers invariably use military power as well as political dictatorship to control colonised people.

Economic and political control over a group of people or Nation is never complete until their mental sphere is brought under total domination, Laba said.

By imposing their language, culture and literature upon colonised people, colonial powers manipulate the subjectivity, mind and psychology of colonised people.

These days sheer individualism and the ideology of might is right have replaced the folk wisdom of discipline, cooperation and industries which once served as the foundation of Kanglei society, rued the KCP president.

All the folk stories, folk lores and cultural norms of Kangleipak have been undergoing drastic changes under the alleged Indian colonial system because the education system followed in the State is neither endemic nor independent.

The present education system is basically about teaching Indian literature, Indian history, Indian geography and Indian values.

Just as Faocault said that knowledge is moulded by power, knowledge system of a colonised system is often superseded by the knowledge system of the colonisers.

A coloniser is far more powerful than the colonised.

As such, people of Kangleipak do not have the audacity to question the Indian knowledge system.

What is right and what is wrong are also determined by the colonial power.

This power configuration can be compared to the relationship shared between the 'haves' and 'have nots'.

As they (India) are the owners of the knowledge system imposed here, they have been giving knowledge of their choice* The claim that the people of Kangleipak are descendents of Mahabharat's Arjun is a clear example, Laba asserted.

While teaching geography, students of Kangleipak were taught that crude oil is not available in the land and the people were thereby inculcated a sense that Kangleipak cannot survive independently and this was another vivid example of colonisation of mind.

The historical memory that Kangleipak was politically independent and economically self sufficient has been replaced by the Indian historical result.

As a result, Kangleipak became subservient to India, continued the statement.

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