User talk:Binodcharitra

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Proposed deletion of Ram Charitra

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Added a citation, and please note the page numbers where 'Ram Charitra' mentioned. Check Index of the book for references to Ram Charitra. Please also note that he is NOT now living - as made clear at the end of the article. I think I have satisfied the criteria and consider that the article should not now be deleted. I have therefore removed the deletion warning. I am continuing with research and expect to include newspaper mention of his appointment to the committee; he also served as Secretary of a trade union which is now defunct (or absorbed by another union) and thus it is difficult to have access to documents to confirm and have therefore not mentioned this; and am working on his memoirs as a colonial civil servant, from his papers and documents; this will result in a book possibly by the end of the year. Binod Charitra 14:12, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Binod CharitraYour emphasis on “notability” as defined, may be misplaced.

There are/were people out there who were notable in the area of their expertise, and who made no noise outside the confines of their institutions to get noticed. Some, including the late Mr Ram Charitra, were of the sterner stuff who thought they had a good argument, and if given fair play and decency of the human mind, they could have made the difference, and altered things for the better. Persons of his ilk have come and gone, and the world is none the wiser or better, for their pains.

It is only since I have come across his documents, petitions, and submissions to the Governor of the former Colony of Fiji, that I have felt compelled to take this up and bring his thoughts, ideas and the goings on in the British civil service, to the forefront, as a monument to his struggles to reach the top, and which should have been a natural progression purely on the strength of his great facility in the areas of taxation and accountancy, and his ability to communicate. Many of his contemporaries felt that he was the best Head of the Inland (Internal) Revenue that Fiji never had, because, it appears that racism, not merit, was their guild line.

In his normal course of work, he exposed a number of failings of his superiors, including the Head of Department. Was this a stumbling block? Should he have not brought such matters to their attention? The Attorney General of the land agreed with his interpretation, not with that of the Commissioner – Did this add to the chagrin of the Head as well? On the one hand, he was praised for his work, on the other, he was asked to take an early retirement!

In the period he lived and worked, expatriates were imported from England, Australia, and New Zealand, to work in the country, despite the official pronouncements which laid down that locals were to be preferred. But when this was shown not be the practice in an article “Black Man’s Land, White Man’s Paradise” in ‘the Fiji Guardian’ – a weekly newspaper, published by Dean Printers, from Marks Lane, Suva, c.1962, the paper was promptly shut down!

Wikipedia, as has been said, is a work in progress. I am developing this article on Ram Charitra, and I expect, in time, to expose how the civil service worked in colonial times, which I am sure will be of interest and benefit to anyone looking at this subject matter - an aspect of the mechanism of the British Colonial Civil Service.

If, in spite of the foregoing, it is felt that the article should be deleted, then please do so. Binod Charitra 16:01, 15 March 2011 (UTC)