Plagiarism by Dr Ramakant Jha of Kashi Vidyapeeth University, Banaras

[Guest guest]

Dear Scholars of Indology,

 

 

 

The Universities both in India and US seem to be plagued with plagiarism

these days and very much competing with each other in spreading the epidemic

all over. On the heels of the recent episode of Miss Kavya Viswanathan

lifting the passages from the two novels of Mr Megan Mcafferty, the next

turn seems to be of Dr Ramakant Jha of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth

University, one of the three Universities in the ancient city of learning,

i.e., Banaras. Dr Jha has profusely copied major portions of my thesis

(1976) verbatim and got the doctoral degree from the above Universtiy named

after Mahatma Gandhi! What an Experiment with the Truth by Dr Jha ! The

hither too unknown academic theft made by him 25 years ago, has come to my

knowledge only three weeks ago ! After verifying the matter with all

responsibility, I am breaking this shocking news to the academic world.

 

 

 

I was awarded Ph.D by the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, as far back as

1976 for my thesis in English entitled "A Critical Study of the Suta

Samhita" - a Pauranic text very much popular in the South falling under

Skanda Mahapurana. Almost 80% of my thesis has been plagiarised by Dr

Ramakant Jha in Hindi verbatim including footnotes, charts and tables. He

has submitted his fake thesis entitled "Suta Samhita ka Alocanatmak

Adhyayan" to Kashi Vidyapeeth University and got the Ph.D degree in the year

1981.

 

 

 

The same has been published under the title "Suta Samhita Mimamsa" by the

famous Indological Publishers, Chowkhamba Vidyabhavan, Banaras, in the year

2005. The printed book which consists of 285 pages costs Rs. 300. Except

the first 20 pages of introductory chapter and the last 14 pages of

"Upasamhar" and Bibliography, the remaining major portion of the book

(almost 251 pages) is nothing but a verbatim Hindi reproduction of my thesis

(1976) in English - both in its title and contents and the expressions too.

It may be an interesting study to know how the plagiarist Dr Jha had access

to my unpublished thesis.

 

 

 

What a disgraceful intellectual fraud has been going on in the so-called

Universities of higher learning! Who has to and how to teach a lesson to

such shameless spurious academicians?

 

 

 

For more details and <http://www.taralabalu.org/Suta%20Samhita/plagiarism/>

the sample pages of my original thesis and the Plagiarist Dr Ramakant Jha's

book, follow this link.

 

 

 

With best wishes,

 

 

 

Dr Shivamurthy Swamiji

 

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Sri Taralabalu Jagadguru Brihanmath,

 

Sirigere - 577 541, Chitradurga Dist, Karnataka [india]

 

E-mail: swamiji (AT) vsnl (DOT) com

 

Web: <http://www.taralabalu.org> www.taralabalu.org

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr. Swamiji,

 

 

 

True! Plagiarism has become a real menace in academic world. The basic

problem lies with examiners and poor academics who have never bothered to

update their knowledge. This is why such unscrupulous students and teachers

(racing for the number of Ph.D.'s under them for promotion) are taking

advantage of the situation.

 

UGC should amend its policy to check the menace.

 

Regards,

 

Lalit Kumar

 

 

 

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Dear Mr Lalit Kumar,

 

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piracy to music piracy has become virtually the order of the day or modern

age. Without naming anybody even Multi-Nationals are now indulging in this

unscrupulous act to make money - what will anybody do? Even Federation of

Publishers have got tired of fighting & battling. You concern may be your

product alone, but answers or solutions do you have if I as a publisher

tells you that about 100 of our precious titles were pirated in Korea /

India etc? What have you really lost in terms of money in comparison to

this, pls explain?

 

If we start thinking the way you are thinking we will have to stop & close

down our business we are doing for the last more than 100 years. It goes

without saying that Truth is always too bitter to accept; it is very easy to

say or talk about anything, but very tough to find a way out because you or

anybody else for that matter has to get down to gound realities before

implementing or getting into action or execution.

 

All the best

 

RP Jain

 

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Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:07 AM

RE: [Y-Indology] Plagiarism by Dr Ramakant Jha of Kashi Vidyapeeth

University, Banaras

 

 

> Dear Dr. Swamiji,

>

>

>

> True! Plagiarism has become a real menace in academic world. The basic

> problem lies with examiners and poor academics who have never bothered to

> update their knowledge. This is why such unscrupulous students and

teachers

> (racing for the number of Ph.D.'s under them for promotion) are taking

> advantage of the situation.

>

> UGC should amend its policy to check the menace.

>

> Regards,

>

> Lalit Kumar