We have been very often repeating about the crucial role played by the “Law of Contradictions” in Indian society, and those who have not studied this law will not be able to understand what is happening in Punjab today.
We have visited Punjab many times and studied its caste structure, and that is how we long back confidently predicted the “slow death of Sikhism” (DV Edit Nov. 1, 1998: “Slow death of a brave community: BSO using internal enemies to destroy Sikh identity”).
So, what is happening today in Punjab, the violent clashes between the Backward Castes following the Sirsa (Haryana)-based Dera Sacha Sauda and the Jat Sikhs of Punjab, is nothing but a dress rehearsal for a wholesale bloody caste war. Such a war will be between the Jat Sikhs and the Dalit and Backward Castes (both Sikh and non-Sikh) who are fast getting alienated from Sikhism.
Caste contradictions between the two are getting more and more serious. These contradictions are sharpened by the Brahminical forces who control both the sections. Here lies the beauty and the power of the “Law of Contradictions”.
Role of Arya Samaj: Punjab is the country’s most wonderful laboratory offering the best of scope to make a study of the Law of Contradictions where the different castes are so sharply pitted against each other. Punjab has one of the highest Dalit populations.
Brahminical people, who thrive on making use of such contradictions, have made a deep study of Punjab because they wanted to destroy Sikhism which they found to be so deadly and dangerous for the spread of Brahminism. That was how they launched Arya Samaj under the leadership of a Gujarati Brahmin, Dayananda Saraswati.
The Sikh gurus had killed Brahminism (now disguised as Hinduism) and established a revolutionary religion of Sikhism which liberated the entire society, particularly its most oppressed Dalits and Backward Castes. All this is history.
You will read the great achievements of Sikhism from the book, Sikh Revolution (Jagjit Singh, Bahri Publications, New Delhi, 1998, photocopy available with Dalit Voice office Rs. 300). The author, Sardar Jagjit Singh, was a great admirer of our work and used to visit the Chandigarh jail (in which we were lodged in 1986) and simply sit from morning to evening without talking to anybody but reading Dalit Voice and our books and shedding tears.
This great Sikh scholar died long back unsung and unwept by the Sikhs themselves.
Secrecy over causes of clash: If this is what Sikhism stood for as outlined in the above book, why are the Dalits and Backward Castes — for whose liberation Sikhism was born — today fighting the very Sikhs? Why are media reports and both the parties to the dispute silent on this most vital question?
The ruling Akali Dal is a tail of the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP). The Sirsa Dera which is challenging the Sikhs is also controlled by the same Brahminical forces. Brahminism, which controls both the groups, is managing the clash to ultimately finish both by skillfully using the Law of Contradictions. Ordinary minds cannot discover it and those who know it a little bit will not disclose it.
Brahminical forces are financing many persons and groups among SC/BCs to systematically criticise and malign Sikhism — particularly the Jat Sikhs — and vice versa. When hate-mongering becomes a big business, it will ultimately lead to clash and bloodshed.
When Editor met Bhindranwale: Even when we met Sant Bhindranwale and supported his movement for Sikh self-determination (1982), Kanshi Ram, himself a Dalit Sikh, did not like it. He said the Jat Sikhs were oppressors and Dalit Voice supporting the Sant would not be liked.
We raised this issue with Sant Bhindranwale, and he was frank enough to admit the SC/BC alienation from Sikhism. However, he confessed that his Sikh revolution against Brahminism would never succeed without the Sikhs frankly admitting the Sikh mistakes and then embracing the SC/BCs — and then taking them along. He said the very purpose of his Sikh revolution was to liberate the SC/BCs.
We supported Sant Bhindranwale. But before he could take any step the enemy struck, launching its “Hindu war against Sikh” through “Blue Star” and killed thousands of Sikhs — men, women and children — including the Sant in 1984. (V.T. Rajshekar, The Birth Pangs of Khalistan, pp. 40, photocopy available Rs. 35).
Ever since then the Brahminical people have been systematically widening the gulf between the two sections, and the latest explosion is just a dress rehearsal.
Not only the Punjabi society is badly fractured but it’s very economy too is ruined. In the once famous “breadbasket of India”, the farmers are committing suicide.
Not only has Brahminism weaned away SC/BCs from Sikhs but turned them hostile to Sikhs. If Brahminism hates SC/BCs, why this love for the “Wretched of the Earth”? The “Law of Contradictions” will give you the answer.
They did not spare the Jat Sikhs also. They have been divided into two major warring camps: Akalis and the Congress — the original Brahminical party. Both the Sikh parties are under Brahminical control, and their leadership corrupted.
Slow death of Sikhism: We have written enough on the “slow death of Sikhism” and held a long debate in DV. Quite a lot of thinking Sikhs have agreed with us, but such of them are in a minority. As days pass, their number is shrinking.
Only a towering person of the calibre of Sant Bhindranwale can restore Sikhism to its pristine purity. But such a revolutionary person coming up in the existing corrupt, money-driven Sikh society is an impossibility.
The Jat Sikhs alone can re-establish Sikhism and restore its revolutionary fervour — but only by winning over the hearts of Dalits and Backward Caste Sikhs — not by threatening them, fighting them and further driving them away from Sikhism.
The Jat Sikhs being the elder brothers must set an example to Dalit Sikhs. Or else both will be gobbled up by the ever-hungry Brahmin stomach.
