Aryan conquest of India’s indigenous peoples caused slavery
Bangalore: Mahatma Phule publised his Marathi book Slavery, in 1873, in which Jotirao’s thesis is that the Aryan Brahmins were Iranians, and this resulted in the conquest of the original inhabitants of India
He regards Baliraja as a champion of the original inhabitants of India. He says: “Let there be schools for the Shudras in every village, but away with all Brahmin school masters (p.XI).
“Mahatma Phule’s heart goes all out to the sad lot of the helpless shudras and Ali-shudras, it bleeds for them, and hence the somewhat harsh and brash tone and tenor of his writing. Desperate diseases call for desperate remedies. Jotirao wields his pen like a rapier, and attacks Bhats (Aryan Brahmins) in strong words, which are fully justified”, says P.G. Patil, the translator.
Ancient Indian history, according to Mahatma Phule, is a record of the protracted struggle between the alien Brahmins and the (native) non-Brahmins of the time.
Rapacious priests: The theses contained in the Slavery is a bit ‘negative. The sharp barbs of Jotirao’s criticism are directed at the Bhats (Brahmins, Aryans) not as Brahmins but as a rapacious, greedy, slothful priestly class who were claiming a divine ancestry and an exalted status in social hierarchy for themselves, says Patil.
This is followed by a brief life- sketch of Mahatma Jotirao Phule (1827-90) written by a noted scholar, Dr. Y.D. Phadke. He says Jotirao boldly attacked the stranglehold of the Brahmins. The book traces the history of the Brahmin domination in India. Though he was often accused of formenting hatred between the Brahmins and the non-Brahmins very rarely an attempt was made to consider his scathing criticism in a broad perspective. The later generations also took considerable time to understand and appreciate the profound significance of his unflinching espousal of the rights of man’ which remained till the end of his life a major theme of his writings and a goal of his actions, says Brahmin Phadke.
Dedicated to US Blacks: The book is dedicated “in the cause of Negro Slavery: Mahatma Phule in his preface says: “Recent researches have demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt that the Brahmins were not the aborigines of India. At some remote period of antiquity, probably more than 3,000 years ago, the Aryan progenitors of the present Brahmin race descended upon the plains of Hindoostan From regions lying beyond the Indus, the Hindu Koosh, and other adjoining tracts.”
The preface was dated June 1, 1873. “Aryans, who came to India, not as simple emigrants with peaceful intentions of colonization, but as conquerors. They appear to have been a race imbued with very high notions of self, extremely cunning, arrogant and bigoted. Such self- gratulatory, pride-flattering epithets as etc., with which they designated themselves, confirm us in our opinion of their primitive character, which they have preserved up to the present time, with perhaps, little change for the better.”
“The Brahmins waged very protacted wars against the original inhabitants. They eventually succeeded in establishing their supremacy and subjugating the aborigines to their entire control.
“The Brahmins waged very protracted wars against the original inhabitants and subjugating the aborigines to their entrie control.”
Parasurama was a muderer: “Parashuram was more a fiend than a God…… Myriads of men and defencelss children were butchered by Parashuram.
“The institution of caste, which has been the main object of their laws, had no existence among them originally. That it was an after- creation of their deep cunning is evident from their own writings. The highest rights, the highest privileges and gilts and everything that would make the lite of a Brahmin easy. smooth-going and happy everything that would conserve or flatter their sell-pride were specially inculcated and enjoined”.
Deadly war: “A Brahmin can do no wrong. That was their law”. There was, originally between the two, a deadly feud, arising as we have shown above, from the advent of the latter into this land”.
“Selfish heartlessness and consummate cunning of the Brahmin tyranny by which india has been so long governed”.
“These blasphemous writings, the products of the distampered brains of these interlopers, were received as gospel truths, for to doubt them was considered as the most unpardonable of sins. The system of slavery to which the Brahmins reduced the lower classes is in no respects interior to that which obtained a few years ago in America in the days of rigid Brahmin dominancy, so lately as that of the time of the Peshwa, my sudra brethren had even greater hardships and oppression practised upon them than what even the slaves in America had to suffer… It will, indeed, be difficult to name a single advantage which accrued to the aborigines from the advent of this intensely selfish and tyrannical sect”.
“While the Sudra on the other hand is so far reconciled to the Brahmin yoke, that like the American slave he would resist any attempt that may be made for this deliverance and fight even against his benefactor. Under the guise of religion the Brahmin has his finger in everything, big or small, which the Sudra undertakes”.
“The higher and richer classes contribute little or nothing to the state’s exchequer”. “The education system proved the virtual monopoly of all the higher offices under them by the Brahmins”. This book tries to prove how they have been duped by the Brahmins.
“The Sudras are the life and sinews of the country. The introduction that followed was dated June 1 1873, in which he says the original inhabitants were already a “conquered race.”
In these modem times…. the Bhats are deceiving the ignorant folks even now..”
How Parashuram, the chief (executive authority) of Bhats of India persecuted the original inhabitants of India…. Parashuram defeated the Kshatriyas twenty-one times and massacred the young ones.
Beef-eating Brahmins: The Bhats who came after Parashuram continued to torture the Kshatriyas still further.
“Most of the so-called devout Brahmins will curry favour with the English rulers, devour the left-overs of the beet-preparations at their tables not giving a remote chance to the butlers to partake of them. Most Mahar butlers are already grumbling, albeit secretly, against the Brahmin (beef-eaters)”
Brahmins came from Iran: “Brahmins were the natives of Iran (Persia)”. (p.2) Brahmins were then called Iranians or Aryans.
“Marry hordes of the Aryans came to India in ships (by the sea)”.
