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| | name = Rajiv Dixit | | name = Rajiv Dixit | ||
| | image = Rajiv Dixit.jpg | | image = Rajiv Dixit.jpg | ||
| | alma_mater = Indian Institute Of Technology, | |||
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| | birth_date = {{birth-date|30 November 1967}} | | birth_date = {{birth-date|30 November 1967}} | ||
| | birth_place = Nah in Aligarh district | | birth_place = Nah in Aligarh district | ||
| | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|11|30|1967|11|22}} | | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|11|30|1967|11|22}}<ref name="Telegraph"/> | ||
| | death_place = ], India | | death_place = ], India | ||
| | website = {{URL|http://rajivdxt.in}} | |||
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| '''Rajiv Dixit''' (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/the-irresponsible-wicked-conspiracy-that-haunts-baba-ramdev/54602/|title=The 'irresponsible |last=Team|first=ThePrint|date=3 May 2018|website=ThePrint|language=en-US|access-date=23 April 2020}}</ref> was an Indian activist who promoted ] and opposed ] and opposed multi-national corporations. | |||
| '''Rajiv Dixit'''{{efn|Name sometimes spelled as Rajeev Dixit.<ref name="NYT2018" />}}(30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010){{sfn|Pathak-Narain|2017|p=133}} was an Indian social activist who founded the ''Azadi Bachao Andolan'' and promoted a message of '']''-economics that opposed ] and ]. Later, in alliance with ], he formed the ''Bharat Swabhiman Andolan'' and its political offshoot, which combined the economic message with promotion of ] and ]. | |||
| He completed his elementary and middle school education in ]. In 1994 he went to Prayagraj ] for higher education, but became an activist before completing his education.<ref></ref> Rajiv Dixit was the national secretary of ] trust.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-03 |title=The 'irresponsible, wicked conspiracy' that continues to haunt Baba Ramdev |url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/the-irresponsible-wicked-conspiracy-that-haunts-baba-ramdev/54602/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| == Life and career == | |||
| Dixit was born in the village of Nah in ] and studied in Allahadbad towards an engineering degree.{{efn|In later speeches, Dixit made several false claims about his education and experience, including that he had researched ] at the ], and stopped his research when Germany's ] tried to steal it in an effort that was aided by the Indian government. His supporters have also made several incorrect claims about his educational qualifications.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dwivedi |first1=Avinash |title=राजीव दीक्षित (पार्ट 1): जिनकी डिग्रियां खुद उनके फर्जीवाड़ों का खुलासा करती हैं |url=https://hindi.firstpost.com/india/lies-of-rajiv-dixit-on-rajiv-dixit-birth-and-death-anniversary-here-take-a-look-on-his-claims-on-qualification-tk-70189.html |work=] |date=30 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20190607110657/https://hindi.firstpost.com/india/lies-of-rajiv-dixit-on-rajiv-dixit-birth-and-death-anniversary-here-take-a-look-on-his-claims-on-qualification-tk-70189.html |archive-date=7 June 2019 |language=Hi}}</ref>}} In 1984, the ], in while a gas leak from a pesticide plant owned by a multinational corporation resulted in thousands of deaths, led Dixit to question the role of such corporations in the Indian economy. His thinking on the subject was subsequently shaped by ], a ] historian and thinker. In 1992, Dixit founded the trust, ''Azadi Bachao Andolan'' (Save Independence Movement), with the stated mission to "counter the onslaught of foreign multinationals and the western culture on Indians, their values, and on the Indian economy in general". Dixit's message was spread though thousands of speeches delivered across the country and through recordings on CDs and tapes distributed by the organisation.{{sfn|Pathak-Narain|2017|pp=71-73}}<ref name="Jansatta Jun2022">{{cite news |title=कहानी राजीव दीक्षित की |url=https://www.jansatta.com/religion/who-was-rajiv-dixit-and-the-facts-related-to-the-death/2201694/ |work=] |date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711181618/https://www.jansatta.com/religion/who-was-rajiv-dixit-and-the-facts-related-to-the-death/2201694/ |archive-date=11 July 2024 |language=hi}}</ref> | |||
| == Career == | |||
| In 2004, Dixit faced allegations that he had misappropriated funds from the ''Azadi Bachao Andolan'' to benefit his brother, and his relation with the organisation were estranged. The same year, ], who at that time was a traveling ] teacher with a considerable following of his own, sought out Dixit and the two met in ]. Over the next few years Dixit became a mentor to Ramdev and their campaigns, against globalisation and for yoga respectively, merged.{{sfn|Pathak-Narain|2017|pp=71-73, 115-116}} The two founded the ''Bharat Swabhiman Andolan'' (Indian Self-respect Movement), with Dixit serving as its national secretary. The new organisation had political ambitions. Prior to the ], it agitated alongside the ] and allied ] in a movement to clean the ], and in March 2010, the ''Bharat Swabhiman'' party was launched with an aim to contest the ]. Dixit and Ramdev set out on a tour (''Bharat Nirman yatra'') across India to campaign for the party but Dixit died during a stop in ], under murky circumstances.{{sfn|Pathak-Narain|2017|pp=116-119, 133}}{{sfn|Kanungo|2019|pp=127-129}} Dixit's death, and the surrounding controversy, ended Bharat Swabhiman party's ambition to field electoral candidates.<ref name="Deka">{{cite book |last1=Deka |first1=Kaushik |title=The Baba Ramdev Phenomenon: From Moksha to Market |date=2017 |publisher=Rupa |isbn=978-81-291-4637-3 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Baba_Ramdev_Phenomenon/Z-JnuQEACAAJ |chapter=The political animal}}</ref> | |||
| Dixit founded the "Azadi Bachao Andolan" (Save Freedom Movement) in the early 1990s as a campaign to protect Indian industries, at a time when multi-national corporations were increasing their presence in India as a part of a trend towards ].<ref name="NIE">{{citation|last=Kumaraswam|first=B. M.|title=Youthful crusader of Swadeshi|date=2 December 2010|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article165743.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409195938/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article165743.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 April 2014|work=]|location=]}}</ref><ref name="LiveMint">{{citation|author=Priyanka P. Narain|title=And then, there will be a revolution|date=5 April 2009|url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/BtLE0nBloRrgvQuW9rD6XJ/8216And-then-there-will-be-a-revolution8217.html|publisher=]}}</ref><ref name="ast">{{citation|title=A price too high for Indian farmers|date=29 June 2004|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FF29Df02.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804060238/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FF29Df02.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=4 August 2004|author=Raju Bist|newspaper=]|location=]}}</ref> An aide to ], Dixit served as the national secretary of Ramdev's anti-corruption organisation Bharat Swabhiman Andolan.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |last1=Kidwai |first1=Rasheed |title=Baba's 'plan' that went bust |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/baba-s-plan-that-went-bust/cid/1516482|access-date=6 March 2021 |work=] |date=19 June 2016}}</ref> | |||
| During his career as an activist, Dixit demanded decentralisation of the ], stating that the existing system was the core reason for bureaucratic corruption. He claimed that 80 percent of tax revenue was used to pay the salaries of politicians and bureaucrats and compared the modern budget system of the Indian government to the earlier British budget system in India.<ref name="tim">{{citation|title=Decentralise taxes, says Azadi Bachao Andolan supporter|date=9 March 2003|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-03-09/bangalore/27261142_1_taxes-crore-budget-system|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811094611/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-03-09/bangalore/27261142_1_taxes-crore-budget-system|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2011|newspaper=]}}</ref> | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| Dixit died on his 43rd birthday, on 30 November 2010, at a hospital in ], Chhattisgarh; the attending doctor declared the cause to be cardiac arrest. Dixit had been brought to the hospital after collapsing in a bathroom at an ] in the nearby town of ].{{efn|Some sources report, instead, that Dixit collapsed at the residence of a ''Bharat Swabhiman Andolan'' officer in ].<ref name=Patrika2019/>}} In later interviews, Ramdev said that Dixit refused to accept treatment despite the advice Ramdev gave him in an hour-long phone conversation that day; Dixit's family dispute that this happened. Dixit's body was flown to ] and lay in a hall at ] as a large number of mourners gathered. The body was cremated the next morning on Ramdev's insistence, who overruled demands for a post-mortem by Dixit's family and colleagues. Suspicions regarding the cause of Dixit's death and Ramdev's involvement have persisted, which Ramdev considers to be "an irresponsible, wicked conspiracy" against him.{{sfn|Pathak-Narain|2017|pp=133-141}}<ref name=NYT2018>{{cite news |last1=Worth |first1=Robert F. |title=The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/the-billionaire-yogi-behind-modis-rise.html |access-date=11 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 2018}}</ref> In 2019, the ] ordered a new inquiry into Dixit's death.<ref name=Patrika2019>{{cite news |last1=Shukla |first1=Satya Narain |title=BREAKING : क्या राजीव दीक्षित की मौत के रहस्य से उठेगा पर्दा ? #PMO ने दिए जांच के आदेश {{!}} Will the curtain rise from the secret of the death of Rajiv Dixit? |url=https://www.patrika.com/bhilai-news/will-the-curtain-rise-from-the-secret-of-the-death-of-rajiv-dixit-4023299/ |work=] |date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711201045/https://www.patrika.com/bhilai-news/will-the-curtain-rise-from-the-secret-of-the-death-of-rajiv-dixit-4023299 |archive-date=11 July 2024 |language=hi}}</ref> | |||
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== Death == | ||
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| Dixit held that globalisation and ] represented a new form of colonialism and blamed them for India's "dependency on the West, lack of domestic production, the rise of excessive consumerism, the weakening of the agrarian sector, and farmers’ suicides." He re-appropriated the term ''swadeshi'' for this message, thus linking it to the ] pioneered by ] and ] during the ].<ref name="Khalikova2017">{{cite journal |last1=Khalikova |first1=Venera R. |title=The Ayurveda of Baba Ramdev: Biomoral Consumerism, National Duty and the Biopolitics of ‘Homegrown’ Medicine in India |journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |date=2 January 2017 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=105–122 |doi=10.1080/00856401.2017.1266987}}</ref> The neologism ''bharatiyata'' (lit. Indian-ness) adopted by Ramdev to describe his ideology, also likely traces its origins to Dixit, according to anthropologist Venera R. Khalikova.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Khalikova |first=Venera R. |date=2017 |title= Institutionalized alternative medicine in North India: Plurality, legitimacy, and nationalist discourses|url=http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/32955/ |degree=PhD |chapter= |publisher=University of Pittsburgh}}</ref> | |||
| Dixit died on 30 November 2010 in ], ]. After a lecture at Bemetra in Durg, he was accompanied by Daya Sagar, a local Bharat Swabhiman Andolan officer, while driving to Bhilai. During the trip he felt uncomfortable and sweated.<ref></ref> At Daya Sagar's residence, he fell down in the bathroom. Initially he insisted on not going to the doctor. After a call from ], he was first taken to Sector 9 Hospital in Bhilai and then transferred to the BSR Apollo Hospital. According to Dr. Dilip Ratnani, he died of a massive heart attack at night between 1 and 2 AM. On 1 December, his body was sent by air to Aligarh without an autopsy. His body was displayed at Patanjali Yogapita and later cremated with mukhagni lit by his brother Pradip Dixit and ].<ref></ref> Later the Prime Minister's Office ordered an investigation into his death in 2019.<ref></ref> | |||
| There is a belief among his followers that he was poisoned to death because of his movement against multinational companies in India and other countries. Some of his supporters claimed foul play by ],<ref></ref> but Ramdev dismissed the claims.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Worth|first=Robert F.|date=2018|title=The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi's Rise|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/the-billionaire-yogi-behind-modis-rise.html}}</ref> | |||
| After the formation of the ''Bharat Swabhiman Andolan'', the message of ''swadeshi'' economics was extended to include concerns about governmental corruption and economic inequalities, and interwoven with promotion of ] and ].{{sfn|Kanungo|2019|pp=127-128}} In advancing his message in thousands of speeches, Dixit often made claims that were false, including several about ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dwivedi |first1=Avinash |title=राजीव दीक्षित (पार्ट-2): जिसने भारत में शुरू किया फेक न्यूज और पोस्ट ट्रुथ का दौर |url=https://hindi.firstpost.com/india/lies-of-rajiv-dixit-part-2-rajiv-dixit-propaganda-on-jawahar-lal-nehru-rajiv-dixit-facts-rajiv-dixit-videos-tk-70209.html |work=] |date=30 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607113016/https://hindi.firstpost.com/india/lies-of-rajiv-dixit-part-2-rajiv-dixit-propaganda-on-jawahar-lal-nehru-rajiv-dixit-facts-rajiv-dixit-videos-tk-70209.html |archive-date=7 June 2019 |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Vishal |title=रामदेव के साथ काम करने वाले राजीव दीक्षित, जिनकी मौत को लोग रहस्यमय मानते हैं |url=https://www.thelallantop.com/tehkhana/everything-about-rajiv-dixit-his-nationalism-and-claims-about-amitabh-bachchan-and-jawaharlal-nehru/ |work=] |date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818202114/https://www.thelallantop.com/tehkhana/everything-about-rajiv-dixit-his-nationalism-and-claims-about-amitabh-bachchan-and-jawaharlal-nehru/ |archive-date=18 August 2017 |language=hi}}</ref> He also falsely claimed that ] wrote India's national anthem '']'' to honour ], who subsequently awarded Tagore the ];<ref>{{cite news |last1=Varma |first1=Aishwarya |title=No, King George V Did Not Give Tagore Nobel Prize for Writing National Anthem |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/rabindranath-tagore-national-anthem-george-v-nobel-prize-literature-fact-check |work=] |date=21 December 2023}}</ref> | |||
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| *{{cite book |last1=Kanungo |first1=Pralay |editor1-last=Ahmad |editor1-first=Irfan |editor2-last=Kanungo |editor2-first=Pralay |title=The algebra of warfare-welfare: a long view of India's 2014 election |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New Delhi, India |isbn=978-0-19-948962-6 |pages=119-142 |chapter=Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Politics: The Baba Ramdev–BJP Partnership in the 2014 Elections|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Algebra_of_Warfare_Welfare/EMrhDwAAQBAJ}} | |||
| *{{cite book |last1=Pathak-Narain |first1=Priyanka |title=Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev |date=2017 |publisher=Juggernaut |isbn=978-93-86228-38-3 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Godman_to_Tycoon/HVwSyAEACAAJ?hl=en |language=en}} | |||
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| Rajiv Dixit | |
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| Born | 30 November 1967 (1967-11-30) Nah in Aligarh district |
| Died | 30 November 2010(2010-11-30) (aged 43) Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur |
| Website | rajivdxt |
Rajiv Dixit (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian activist who promoted Ayurveda and opposed modern medicine and opposed multi-national corporations.
He completed his elementary and middle school education in Firozabad. In 1994 he went to Prayagraj Allahabad for higher education, but became an activist before completing his education. Rajiv Dixit was the national secretary of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan trust.
Career
Dixit founded the "Azadi Bachao Andolan" (Save Freedom Movement) in the early 1990s as a campaign to protect Indian industries, at a time when multi-national corporations were increasing their presence in India as a part of a trend towards globalisation. An aide to Ramdev, Dixit served as the national secretary of Ramdev's anti-corruption organisation Bharat Swabhiman Andolan.
During his career as an activist, Dixit demanded decentralisation of the Indian taxation system, stating that the existing system was the core reason for bureaucratic corruption. He claimed that 80 percent of tax revenue was used to pay the salaries of politicians and bureaucrats and compared the modern budget system of the Indian government to the earlier British budget system in India.
Death
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Dixit died on 30 November 2010 in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. After a lecture at Bemetra in Durg, he was accompanied by Daya Sagar, a local Bharat Swabhiman Andolan officer, while driving to Bhilai. During the trip he felt uncomfortable and sweated. At Daya Sagar's residence, he fell down in the bathroom. Initially he insisted on not going to the doctor. After a call from Baba Ramdev, he was first taken to Sector 9 Hospital in Bhilai and then transferred to the BSR Apollo Hospital. According to Dr. Dilip Ratnani, he died of a massive heart attack at night between 1 and 2 AM. On 1 December, his body was sent by air to Aligarh without an autopsy. His body was displayed at Patanjali Yogapita and later cremated with mukhagni lit by his brother Pradip Dixit and Baba Ramdev. Later the Prime Minister's Office ordered an investigation into his death in 2019.
There is a belief among his followers that he was poisoned to death because of his movement against multinational companies in India and other countries. Some of his supporters claimed foul play by Baba Ramdev, but Ramdev dismissed the claims.
See also
- Khadi
- Khadi and Village Industries Commission
- List of unsolved deaths
- Make In India
- National Charkha Museum
- Sarvodaya
- Standup India
- Startup India
- Swadeshi Jagaran Manch
- Swaraj
References
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- Team, ThePrint (3 May 2018). "The 'irresponsible". ThePrint. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
- कहानी राजीव दीक्षित की: हार्ट अटैक से मौत पर अब भी विवाद, जानिये उस दिन बाबा रामदेव से क्या बात हुई थी, Jansatta, June 1, 2022
- "The 'irresponsible, wicked conspiracy' that continues to haunt Baba Ramdev". ThePrint. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- Kumaraswam, B. M. (2 December 2010), "Youthful crusader of Swadeshi", The New Indian Express, Shimoga, archived from the original on 9 April 2014
- Priyanka P. Narain (5 April 2009), And then, there will be a revolution, Mint
- Raju Bist (29 June 2004), "A price too high for Indian farmers", Asia Times, Mumbai, archived from the original on 4 August 2004
- "Decentralise taxes, says Azadi Bachao Andolan supporter", The Times of India, 9 March 2003, archived from the original on 11 August 2011
- क्या राजीव दीक्षित की मौत के रहस्य से उठेगा पर्दा ? #PMO ने दिए जांच के आदेश, Patrika, January 23, 2019
- राजीव दीक्षित, स्वदेशी के प्रखर प्रवक्ता, राजीव भाई की शहादत, 2010
- भारत स्वाभिमान आंदोलन के Rajiv Dixit की मौत की फाइल फिर खुली, Nai Dunia 09 Aug 2019
- The ‘irresponsible, wicked conspiracy’ that continues to haunt Baba Ramdev, The Print, 3 May, 2018
- Worth, Robert F. (2018). "The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi's Rise". The New York Times.
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