Brother Teltumbde, a close of Babasaheb Ambedakar, is an honest infellectual. We know him. But the problem with him is either he has not read all the works of Babasaheb or the marxist injection, which has gone deep 1 info his veins, is not allowing him fo identify the hicdern honds of Brahminism.
That is how the “Socialist Brahmins” are making use of his knowledge and honesty. We have undergone all this process decades back, but Babasaheb’s works helped us to come to the right conclusions.
CLASS–CASTE STRUGGLE
For the information of Brother Yogi, the reviewer — we were the first in India to write a booklet on Class–Caste Struggle: Emerging Third Force (DSA–1979). Like Brother Teltumbde, we too were Marxists, and the above booklet was written when we started getting doubts on India’s upper caste Marxists.
All the then top Marxist leaders were our friends. We met E.M.S. Namboodiripad, then heading the CPM, to release this booklet. After reading the book, he flared up and said that he would not only not release the book but also write against it.
VENOMOUS NAMBOODIRI
We were then in the Indian Express, Bangalore, and thought that being young, the senior leader would forget and forgive us. No. But the venomous Namboodiri Brahmin did not pardon the young comrade-in-arms. He did write a lengthy article in the Marxist journal, Social Scientist (Dec. 1981, No.103), accusing us of casteism.
As it hardly had any circulation, we thought the “Modern Shankara” should be exposed to a wider audience, and reprinted his article titled Once Again on Castes & Classes, in our next book Dilemma of Class & Caste (DSA–1984). EMS proved to be the deadliest enemy of SC/ST/BCs and Muslims of Kerala. The topmost Marxist leader, Mrs. K.R. Gowri of Kerala, has said all this.
Brother Teltumbde should stop wasting time converting the black crow into white. We have read all the works of Marx. Short of joining the CPM, we were closest to Marxist leadership. But after years of working with them, we found them more dangerous than hard-core Hindu Nazis.
It is after coming to this conclusion that we wrote our book How Marx Failed in Hindu India (DSA–1988), which went to several editions and is now out of print (photocopy available).
CASTES CAN’T BE DESTROYED
As we have close connections with Kerala and Bengal, where the cross-thread Marxists are active, we are saying all this with our intimate knowledge and with our 25 years of experience as the Editor of Dalit Voice. Teltumbde should note that “Socialist Brahmins” are more dangerous than “Sacred Brahmins”.
As for his plea for “annihilation of caste,” we are sorry to say either he has not read Babasaheb’s book of the same title or he has not understood the thesis of that book. Nowhere does Babasaheb (in this book or elsewhere) call for destruction of our castes or subcastes which are our ethnic identities.
Eleanor Zelliot’s Ph.D. thesis on Babasaheb (2004, Blumoon Books) reveals that what Babasaheb began was a Mahar movement — a movement to liberate his own subcaste. Later it turned into a Dalit movement embracing all the Untouchable subcastes. Babasaheb called himself a proud Mahar.
Caste, or subcaste to be precise, is our ethnic identity. Nowhere in the world has the identity of any ethnic group been destroyed. In fact, the turmoil going on today all over the world is to defend the ethnic identity of every group.
Even the American Neo-Cons, trying to destroy the identity of all other nationalities hostile to them, are secretly strengthening their White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christian identity.
HINDUS WANT NO CHANGE
After studying the American Neo-Cons led by their Zionist masters — with whom Brahminical people (Jews of India) have joined hands — we wrote the book Caste: A Nation Within the Nation, for which we received the International Award in London from the honest intellectuals of that country.
We are sure Brother Teltumbde can do a lot if he comes out of the clutches of “Socialist Brahmins” and devotes himself to a serious study of Babasaheb, who has given us all the weapons to fight both the Right and Left counter-revolutionaries.
He should not waste his time and energy on upper castes (Hindus) who are not ready for any change.
– EDITOR
