Bangalore: Caste enumeration in the current ongoing census operation (2010) is banned by the upper caste rulers on the ground that such a head-count will promote “casteism”. The mere 15% upper castes are ruling India only on the strength of their caste. Even the Supreme Court – dominated by upper castes – helped the Brahmin castes by ruling that a Brahmin alone must be the temple priest. The upper castes are holding on to their caste privileges even as successfully making the SC/ST/BCs lifeless – of course with the help of their Brahminical casteist media.
Women’s Bill: When the Editor of Dalit Voice got the international LISA award in London (2005), for his book, Caste – A Nation Within the Nation (Books for Change, Bangalore, 2002, photocopy available with DV office Rs. 100) the Brahminical media blacked out the report. Not a single paper reviewed the book which went into three editions and translated to Hindi and Kannada – all sold out.
The politics of “caste”, however, came to the forefront when the upper caste rulers cunningly got the Women’s Reservation Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha after clamping “martial law” and physically throwing out the protestors. The Bill has to be brought before the Lok Sabha but the upper castes are nervous. Because the caste is killing the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) also.
Thakur caste party: The 15% micro-minority upper caste rulers have successfully broken the backbone of the 85% Moolnivasi Bahujan Bharat, made them deaf, dumb and blind. And yet the oppressors trumpet through their casteist “national” toilet papers that “India is the world’s greatest democracy”.
But with all the Brahminical efforts to beat the “caste” to death, the sole single “ethnic identity” of the indigenous people, the “caste” is not only not dying but fully alive and kicking.
The notorious UP Thakur, Amar Singh, thrown out of the party by Mulayam Singh, wants to start a caste party of Thakurs. No Brahmin has so far criticised his proposal.
DV has long back welcomed caste-based parties which will pave the way for caste wars.
Bihar experiment: In the neighboring Bihar, the Brahmin favourite, Nitish Kumar, a Kurmi, wants to give land to certain Dalit subcastes. He has already introduced a new caste-based reservation to “Maha Dalits” comprising 21 castes. The Kurmi leader is the latest blue-eyed boy of the Brahmins. He now wants to include the Paswan Jati also. (DV April 1, 2010 p.20: “Brahminic hand boosting Nitish Govt. to keep Lalu out”).
The four castes – Dusadh, Pasi, Dhobi and Chamar – constitute 69% of Bihar’s Dalit population living in subhuman condition. Of this Ravidas and Dusadh (Paswan) form 31.4% and 30.1%. Only 26% of the Dalits in Bihar are literate.
No subcaste among the Dalits, OBCs or upper castes is ready to give up its “caste identity” because that is their ethnic origin. And yet these Dalit castes are brain- washed by Brahmin to say that caste must go – even as every oppressor caste retains its “caste identity” in tact
Not a single Aryan upper caste (15%) has given up its “ethnic identity”. They are only asking our people to destroy our castes. This will never happen.
