Bangalore: India’s upper caste rulers have been pushing privatization and globalization down our throats not in the interest of the country but their own jati interests. (V.T. Rajshekar: “Privatization, globalization are Aryan weapons to further enslave Dalits”, DV June 16, 2001, p.10).
Sister Gail Omvedt, a distinguished American social scientist, has exposed the real face of this Aryan conspiracy.
Those industrialists who have talked about a “level playing field” for Indians in the sphere of international business competition, who have wanted support to compete with multinationals, have rarely publicly discussed the issue of how company ownership and company employment works in India. While the sociological data on caste and economic achievement is rather minimal, what studies we have shown a heavy domination of upper castes. Strikingly, Brahmins seem to be outdoing even the traditional “bania” groups in industry today. Not only are people such as Gurudas Deshpande and his brother-in-law Narayan Murthy among the richest of Indians but a study by Santosh Goyal of the caste composition of top corporate officers in 1979-80 showed that out of 2,082 whose caste could be identified (of a total of 3,129), 858 or 41.2% were Brahmans, Khatris and Vaishyas were a poor second and third with 18.5% and 17.9%. Only 4.2% were shudra of any type. It is doubtful if this situation has changed significantly. (Hindu, June 1, 2001).
Darling “Bangalore Papatti”: Narayan Murthy, a Bangalore Brahmin heading a big IT enterprise, has been advocating the right to hire and fire employees. And India’s upper caste-led trade unions did not protest. When it comes to jati, anything is permissible. The twice convicted Bangalore Papatti can become Chief Minister of TN and the Mount Road Maha Vishnu, an Iyengar daily, is spearheading the campaign to cover its jatwali’s mountains of corruption.
All upper castes want jati identity and jati consolidation, but Dalits want jati vinasha. How funny.
