Bangalore: The UP-Assembly election results have made Kuldip Nayar to predict: “decimation of Hindutva forces” (Asian Age May 28, 2007).
He will be wrong. Kuldip Nayar is a senior journalist, but he belongs to an upper caste, a Punjabi Hindu Khatri. The upper castes, because of the accident of birth, have hardly any opportunity — not to speak of interest — to study India’s myriad castes. It is not their fault. That is how most of India’s upper caste social scientists criticised the Mandal Commission Report.
We have not come across a single social scientist behaving true to his profession during the entire anti-Mandal violence because the caste in which he is born prevents him from speaking out the truth and playing the role of a genuine social scientist. This is the case with our journalists also.
OUR BOSS IN INDIAN EXPRESS
However, in his article “Caste stalls communalism”, Kuldip Nayar has made a quantum jump by admitting that “caste was bound to stall the spread of communalism one day”. This is a great truth and it took years and years for him to learn.
Kuldip Nayar was our boss in the Indian Express at the time of our dismissal (1980) and used to like us very much. But unlike other upper caste journalists he has the willingness to learn. That is why we have great respect for him.
But he is wrong in predicting “decimation of Hindutva”. Where he goes wrong is in naming the forces represented by RSS-BJP as Hindutva. There is nothing like Hindutva. Golwalkar and his children may love Hindu and Hindutva. But the very name of their religion is not Hindu. There is no Hindu in India. No Brahmin calls himself a Hindu. Golwalkar and his children are all Brahmins. They love their jati. This blind love for their jati is Brahminism. To hide this blind jati love, they renamed Brahminism as Hinduism. We have explained this in our book Brahminism (DSA-2000, Rs. 50).
BRAHMINISM & ZIONISM
Brahminism is not a religion but a brand of racism like zionism. This cult of racism keeps the Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishyas — the three twice-born jatis — as the ruling class of India. There are too many contradictions between the three. The Brahmin Parasurama had killed all the Kshatriyas. That is why the Kshatriyas hate the Brahmins. The Vaishyas (Banias) also hate the Brahmins because the Brahmin scriptures describe them as those born out of papayoni.
Until M.K. Gandhi came on the scene and became the dictator of pre-independent India, the Vaishyas were a poverty-stricken lot like the rest of Indians.
Brahmins hated Gandhi because he took over the country’s leadership from them. That was why he was killed. (V.T. Rajshekar, Why Godse Killed Gandhi?, DSA-1997).
But after the “independence” the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas, the three twice-born varnas, quickly joined hands and became the country’s rulers. Later the landed Shudra castes like Jats, Marathas, Reddis, etc. also joined the exploiters. Together the four make up a total of mere 15% of the Indian population. Brahminism, which hides itself as Hindutva, is the cult of this 15% ruling class.
PREDATOR
They may be mere 15% but they control everything in India, all its property, positions, media and more than anything the “Hindu religion” and its gods. And through that they control every government. They are the rulers enforcing a religion called Hinduism — the right name of which is Brahminism.
The millions of temples they command, the education system they enforce and the value system they propound have injected the poison of Brahminism not only on the “lower castes” like SC/ST/BCs (65%) but also brainwashed the three “minorities”, Muslim/Christian/ Sikhs (20%). Those among the minorities = who challenge Brahminism are dubbed terrorists and violently tackled.
Caste stalls ‘communalism’
This is the predator called Brahminism going by the name of Hinduism or Hindutva.
Is it possible to “decimate” such an awfully powerful force? Brahminism is a thought. And no thought can be destroyed. As days pass this Hindutva thought is only getting more and more powerful and dangerous.
After thinking a great deal on this subject we have arrived at certain conclusions which we have poured into our book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation. We are happy that the eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar has endorsed our thesis without even reading or perhaps not even knowing about this book. (India’s Brahminical media even refused to review this book). That is how he came to the conclusion that “caste was bound to stall the spread of communalism one day”.
However, a slight correct. There is nothing like “communalism”. It is the other word for Brahminism.
He fears that the UP voting pattern may promote casteism and says “both casteism (of Mayawati) and communalism (of BJP) are bad for the country’s health”.
U.P. Chamars not casteist
Again a correction. Caste is not our enemy. But casteism is. Upper castes who have taken casteism to America and Britain, where they have migrated, are the casteists.
Casteism is different from caste. Caste is our ethnic identity.
If a Brahmin loves his caste he doesn’t become a casteist. He becomes a casteist only when he wants to use his caste to dominate and exploit others. Casteism is the other name for Hinduism or Brahminism. The Chamars of UP and other oppressed castes loved their jatis and voted for BSP which assured protection to their human rights. Using the jati power for domination and exploitation is casteism. The SC/ST/OBCs belong to different castes (ethnic identities) but they do not dominate or exploit anybody.
“CASTE IDENTITY”
The four top varnas — Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra (15%) came up and became rulers of India only by strengthening their respective castes (ethnic identity). The lower castes (65%) have also learnt that in a parliamentary democracy, which is a game of numbers, they have no other way but to imitate the rulers and strengthen their respective “caste identity”.
That is how all over India every caste is strengthening its identity by forming its caste association. That is how caste-based, and region-based political parties are coming up indicating the shape of the things to come.
Elite Muslim Problem
All the “national parties” like the Congress, BJP, CPI, CPM will automatically die. Already, coalitions of such caste-based parties are there in the Centre and also in some states. In the coming parliament election, such parties are bound to take over Delhi.
India’s only problem is the elite Muslims who have either not understood the caste system and the part played by the castes, or are under Brahminical control. But the masses of Muslims in UP voted for Mayawati as they live and work with the oppressed castes.
We want to assure the 15% Brahminical forces that we have nothing against them. It is they who hate us. We don’t hate them. Brahminical forces (BJP) still command ten states. Even in UP, its base is strong, though the poorer, village-dwelling Brahmins have gone over to BSP.
“Software Shakas”
The chaddi party (RSS) is still strong. But if it thinks that it can enslave us, it will go wrong. RSS spokesman Ram Madhav says plenty of “software shakas” are springing up in Bangalore’s burgeoning IT industry — dominated by Brahmins. IT is a drop in this vast ocean of India. We don’t bother about IT.
We admit the RSS-BJP forces have succeeded in hinduising the non-Hindu SC/ST/BCs and frightening the minorities, particularly the Muslims. But they have failed to “decimate” and destroy our castes. Their own party is riddled with caste conflicts. Narendra Modi is ruling in Gujarat because of his Backward Caste strength, which the ruling Patidar Patels and Brahmins want to destroy. Advani is hated by the Brahmins inside BJP.
When “caste” is rocking the Brahminical party of RSS-BJP itself, how can they erase caste by hinduising us? It is the other way: the caste is killing the casteists (Hindutva forces). In Rajasthan, the clashing Gujjars and Meenas will kill “Hindu unity”.
Kuldip Nayar must make a deeper study of India’s castes and its amazing power to save this country from Brahminism.
PHOOLAN DEVI NOT CRIMINAL
Kuldip Nayar says many “casteist criminals” are elected MLAs and the Mayawati cabinet has some criminals. But our question is why nobody has called P.V. Narasimha Rao, Jayalalita or Narendra Modi criminal?
Why those top frauds like Harshad Mehta who have duped millions are not called criminals? Why the Kanchi Shankarachari who indulged in murders and sex scandals is not called criminal?
The problem is only those who have won the hearts of the oppressed people by fighting the thugs and pindaris protected by the corrupt police are called criminals. Such “criminals” defend the defenseless SC/ST/BCs and Muslims in rural India. That is how they win the hearts of the masses and get elected to the legislature. But to our urban-dwelling upper caste journalists such heroes and heroines like Phoolan Devi become criminals and dacoits .
