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September 12, 2001
This is Dalitindia
Dalitindia is a significant part of the big ancient Nation, which is
India. It is 260 plus million of India's more than One Billion. Dalitindia
is the Working India, Productive India, Creative India, Constructive
India, and mostly honest simple sincere poor India. It is a big and important India.
Yes, it is big in number and size.
But it remains small in importance and power. It therefore lags far behind the rest of India without any
growth. Hence dalitindia is still small, in spite of all round Developments that are taking place
elsewhere in India. For, dalitindia is the Broken India,
Discriminated India, Exploited India, Marginalized India, Neglected India,
Oppressed India, and always the Vanquished and Victimized India.
Dalitindia lives in villages, industrial areas, in slums and exclusive areas of small towns
to big metropolis. Dalitindia is large poor but lives happily and
vibrantly. It is full of songs dance
drama. There is no shortage of
melodrama. But at the same time it is
frequently visited by sickness poverty and misery. And it is haunted by shortages deprivals and
discriminations. The Children of Dalitindia are also not spared. The Children of dalitindia are
denied Education, and are subjected to Child Labour. Yes, Child Labour is rampant in dalitindia. Dalitindia is denied
Employment, Wages and Dignity. Dalitindia
is neglected India, hidden India, submerged India, unseen India, unstudied
India, unreported India, undocumented India, really not studied India and is
the forgotten India.
India
is a
Nation of Injustices and Exploitation.
That is why there is No Real Development and Progress or Growth in
India, and the Nation remains Backward! The basic feature of India
is Caste. And every small and big
Indian Village, Town and City is built with the bricks of Castes, each encased
in Isolation. Because the
interfaces between the Bricks are always Isolation, there could never be any
Bondage between the Bricks. That is why
India
as a Nation had not so far built up a Society.
In fact India is a Nation in the making! If India becomes really a Nation, it will be meaningful,
strong and powerful. The fear sadly
now is that India may never become really a Nation, or ever become a
Democracy. Even those who do not accept
these, and say that there had always been an Indian Society, agree that the Indian
Society is not united, not integrated and is not built strongly. Even the slightest push brings it
down. That is the reason why India is unable to sustain any Development or
Progress for long! Indian Society
succumbs silently when challenged or even just visited by any outside forces,
or crumbles quickly into a rubble under the weight of any change or
modernization. For, each Brick of Caste
that goes to form the Indian Communities anywhere in the Country always stands
out in Isolation. All around is the
same reality. It will be so, perhaps
for a longtime. One need not be
surprised if it remains so forever!
After all, India had for long lived through its history like this
without any unity, bondage, integration, development, growth, progress, strength
and reinforcement for more than three and half millenniums of caste based
denials, discriminations, exploitations, marginalisations and oppressions. Unless the Indian Society is re-laid with
Bricks of Compassion and Cemented together with bonds of Love, no Indian Nation
could ever be really built! Therefore, there is a need to replace the Castes
being used at present by the Society as the Bricks to Build India, and also
discard the continuing Isolation between the Castes. Isolation can never bind any brick with other. Hence there can be no real and lasting
wall. With out that there could never
be a real home or building or Hall of Progress and Tower of Fame! Hence Caste has to cast out! And the Caste has
to be substituted by Compassion, and Isolation by Love, to be the New Bricks
and Cement, to evolve an integrated united and homogenous new Indian Society,
and build a new free progressive and vibrant Indian Nation.
Caste
is peculiar to India. It is an unique
characteristic of the Indian Society.
It is the Evil of India and Indians.
Caste only spreads injustices,
hatred exploitation discrimination and denials all around. It spares none. Even the most educated are
not free from Caste Venom. That is why
everything and everyone in India - right from the villager and the grocer at
the street corner to the teacher in the neighborhood school or the Professors
and Vice Chancellors in the distant Colleges and Universities, and the Peons to
Senior Officials top Bureaucrats, Doctors Engineers Scientists and senior
Managers, as well as the Political Parties to the Govts - is afflicted by this
Evil of Caste and its Venom. It
does not spare anything or anyone. And,
it could not leave any one in any Indian Community in any part of the World,
Free!
Caste is an Evil that colours almost permanently the vision of every
individual in the Indian Society, towards others who does not belong to the
same caste, even if that person does not belong to any caste at all. Caste
thus colours the way an Indian looks at anything or any other person. The
Indians therefore all have a jaundiced vision.
They see everything and do all things with Castes in their mind! The
Venom of Caste influences the thinking actions and behavior of the Indians
towards another fellow Indian, even when living in any distant part of the
World, away from the shores of the Country!
Caste is Discriminating. Yes Caste is
totally Discriminating. There is
nothing to be surprised about it. For,
Caste was evolved to separate others.
And the willy Aryan adopted it to Segregate Discriminate and Exploit
others. Caste either benefits or
discriminates! It is never
neutral! The day Caste could
become Neutral, or rendered so, that day it would collapse! Caste benefits the brahmins most, and differentially
or in an exponentially sliding scale is advantageous in many ways to other
dominant caste hindus. Caste is of some use to certain extent even
to the other small neglected forgotten marginalized caste hindus. Caste
had infected even the outcastes, or Avarnas, or the Colourless and hence
Casteless People! That is why
the Caste survives and had survived history, challenges, direct attacks,
invasions, foreign rules, reason, logic and truth. That too, in spite of the dangers flowing from it! And all
Benefits from Caste flow from Discriminations based on Caste! These benefits of Caste are the direct
results of Caste Discriminations.
Caste is based on Colour. Caste can only be
understood only when one lives through India, and either benefits from it or
suffers from it. Caste is segregating People into
different Groups Categories and People.
That is based on their Varna or Colour - the Black and the White, and
different grades and shades in between the extremes of Black and White! It is not just the colour of the person
today, but the original colour of their forefathers! An original Black may not be that Black today, or even be
nearly fair. Similarly an original
white, may nearly be black today! But
that does not matter. The white coloured
Aryan and his Women had in open aggressiveness, or discreetly and stealthily,
or on the sidelines adultered and mixed with the indigenous Black Dravidians of
the Indus Valley and their descendents.
The original colour, or the colour of the majority of the group from
which the person hails from, and the facial features or other anthropological
characters of not the individual but the group of people belonging to that
caste, determines the benefits the individual can claim or the sufferings that
will be heaped on the person, at any given point of time or throughout in
life! And of course there are many
false white people, who were never white, but claim a white ancestry of the
dominant castes! That is their answer
to the dominant castes, or an easy way to escape discriminations, and get out
of the reality of being born in an oppressed black caste like those of dalitindia.
And Colour is
based on Caste. Caste now called as jati,
was originally known as Varna. The common people in the Country still
refer to it only as Varna, and the
Caste System is Varnashram System or Vanavyavstha! The terms jathi and
caste are still not popular with an average Indian. Varna always meant
Colour. Since People were originally
divided on the basis of visible Racial Identity or the most important
anthropological factor - Colour, and segregated into separate Varnas, Varna slowly began to signify
classification, segregation and grouping of People on the basis of colour, and
means Castes! In the beginning, the
Aryans were Varnas, and were part of the Aryavamsa, whereas the indigenous
Indus Valley Dravidians were Dasas the Slaves, and were the Anaryans - the
Colourless People. For, to an Aryan,
Colour meant being pale or light coloured or fair or white! All indigenous black Dravidins meant, the
colourless People! So they were also
referred to as Avarnas - the People without Colour, or not being fair and
white. Hence they were excluded from
the fair white Aryan Society! The
coloured blacks were dismissed with contempt and denigration as Avarnas and
colourless people! Dalitindia therefore in their
vocabulary was black. Hence Avarnas, or
those without Varna or without Castes were Colourless and Casteless
People! Or simply they were Outcastes,
living in the unseen peripherals and the margins. No one bothered or worried about them.
Colour is important to Caste. Colour that
predominates the community from which one hails from, determines the Caste of
that person, and the respect he can get amongst the People in any part of the
Country, and anywhere in the World where the Indians may be living. The actual skin Colour of a person may bear
no significance whatsoever, in determining whether he or she belongs to and has
to be - condemned as being part of a colourless
black person of the denigrated Black Castes, or be benefited and showered
with rewards and honour as being a member of a fair coloured person of the elitist white castes.
Caste is based on Birth. In
India, one is born in Caste, grows in Caste and Dies in Caste. Everyone in India is accepted or rejected,
tolerated or pushed out, and is honoured or discriminated because of the Caste,
and on Death is buried in the Cemetry or burnt in the Crematorium based on
Caste. Which Cemetery and Crematorium,
is also determined by the Caste! Once
born in a family, one can not escape or shed or change the Caste. For, Caste is based on Birth, even if
conceived outside, or from outside!
Caste is Race. Caste based on
colour of the group to which one belongs to, and the facial features, physical
characteristics and other anthropological classifications of the group from
which one hails from, than the personality achievements capabilities capacity
and intellectual of the Individual, has all the attributes of Racial
Differentiations based on colour, continent, creed etc, is Race. The members of each caste enjoying the
benefits or suffering discrimnations etc do so on the basis of Racial
Considerations Biases and Prejudices.
Caste is Hierarchic. Castes are
basically Four! They are all arranged
vertically in an hierarchic ladder like or pyramidical social structure, with
ascending privileges and benefits, and in the descending order lesser
privileges and benefits including lesser and lesser wages salaries and lower
jobs and social status, but increasing discriminations work-load
responsibilities deprivals denigrations and discriminations! All others are casteless people and or are
the outcastes!
Caste is Unique to India. One sees hears
and feels Caste, its benefits and discriminations only in India and in Indian
Communities living even outside India.
Though no Society or Nation in the World can claim to be free from
injustices favouriticisms and discriminations, there is nothing which is historical, debilitating, sapping, grounding,
killing, destroying, destructive and yet continuing as Caste
Discrimination. Caste Discrimination
and its Nature is so pervasive and persisting that it has the unique
distinction of being used as the test stone of classifying and measuring any
discrimination in any part of the World.
That is how one frequently comes across phrases such as Caste
Discrimination, equivalent to Caste Discrimination, or
Caste-like-Discrimination.
Caste is an evil System. Caste is not just
based on birth, and inseparable part of India and an Indian. But it is a massive oppressive exploitative
system that binds people! Caste makes
people, kills people and destroys people!
Caste is the most Evil System on the Earth!
Caste System is Aryan. Caste is
definitely unique to India. Caste is
based on Race! Caste benefits the
Aryans! Caste may not be Aryan! But the Caste System is! At least the Caste System had been adopted
perfected and fully made use of by the Aryans for their advantage benefit and
social political and cultural superiority.
It is a product of the conflicting interests and continuing struggles
between the nomadic and invading Aryans and the local Indigenous People of the
pre-Vedic Periods. Caste System had
been evolved for the benefits of the Aryans to ensure their materialistic
needs, physical space, political suzerainty, social control, economic advantage
and cultural domination. That the
Aryans could establish and sustain through the Castes, Caste System and Caste
Discriminations over the last three to four millenniums. With the aryan brahmins dominating, they
have hoodwinked even the unconquerable and indominatable native rulers to
uphold their interests, and assigned them the Caste Dominance next only to them,
thus silently and deliberately denigrating them to the second position. They had coopted the enterprising traders,
merchants and business class of comprador agents as the Vaishyas, allocated
third position from the top. Thus a
trading rich baniya not only provides money and material wealth to the aryan
brahmin at the top, but also accepts always an inferior position in the Society
and Caste hierarchy. The defeated and
indegenous people spared of execution were enslaved as the captive workers of
the Aryan dominated Castes within the Caste System. Outside were, all those Anaryan Local People who could not be
enslaved and subjugated even after long ongoing conflicts with the locals and
caste cooption of the traders and caste subversion of the black agrarian based
local rulers.
Caste is Vedic. Caste has its
Origin in the endless conflicts and the resultant antagonism between the
migrant invading Aryans and the indegenous pre-Aryan Dravidian People of the
Indus Valley Civilization. The Aryans
denigrated both the enslaved and vanquished, and the defeated Dravidins. The Aryans looked down at the
Dravidians. They did not like the short
black curly-haired thick lipped Dravidians speaking their own Dravidian Languages,
which the Aryans could not understand!
The Aryans speak about these in clear unambiguous terms in their Rig
Veda itself. Fools they being, they try
to explain the creation of the Castes in Rig Veda. But now embarrassed for their foolishness and for misleading the
People and the World, they now try to duck and hide saying that the Caste
System in the Rig Veda was an Interpolation.
If it was really a later interpolation, how then the caste emerged in
the Rig Vedic Period itself?
Caste always was and is destructive! It started by
destroying the Civilization of the Indus Valley People. It enslaved all those whom they could catch
and take prisoners! It froze the
Development of the Native People. That
sealed any Development or Progress Growth and Strength of India and the Indian
People. The technology, technical
knowledge, and the technical skills, remained as it was then, and did not
develop, evolve, grow or progress any further, beyond that stage when the Indus
Valley Civilization was destroyed. It
is sad that this happened even though the Indian Sub-Continent had a very good
salubrious weather, with reasonably temperate sun, regular seasonal rains, and
favorable wind conditions, for growth, development and evolution of a rich
society and human civilization.
Caste prevented emergence of Indian
Nationality. The Indian People could never became the People of a Nation. Indian Nation never emerged! Only small small kingdoms and principalities
in thousands emerged. These further
divided the People of the Indian Sub-Continent. The People therefore remained
seperate as divided antagonistic warring people, arraigned against one
another. This, in spite of an almost
closed protected living within the Shores of the Indian Ocean on three sides,
and the long massive high Himalayan Mountain Range on the fourth side in the
North. This therefore prevented any
integration of the people, and emergence of a big strong homogenous united
Society. And the erstwhile Rulers and
local Leaders of the old small kingdoms and principalities, still divide the
People with their own personal private vested interests, clothed and
camouflaged under regional, language, dialect, religious and other emotional
and easily inflammable issues. Behind
these issues the cheap small minded 'big' leaders hide many many of their
private and secret agendas. It is there
lurk the invisible dangers to the Indian People, Indian Society, Indian Govt
and the Indian State.
Caste denigrates and looks down at the
indigenous People. Along with these denigrated looked down
people were clubbed and relegated all other subsequent migrants new-comers
invaders conquerors and even the mighty moghuls who created the first ever
empire of Hindustan, and the all conquering Colonizing Imperial Western
European Rulers, Races and People!
Why Castes? Castes help
discriminations on easy and viable lines, based on the Castes, Caste System,
Norms of the Caste System, Caste Rules, Caste Dharma and Caste
Prescriptions! These Caste
Discriminations were the ones that had helped the Aryans, to keep themselves
distinct separate and distant from the Indigenous People of India, in spite of
nearly three to four millenniums of social upheavals, political shakeups,
foreign invasions, conquests, killings, genocide and ethnocide. What is more unique is the fact that the
Aryans stand apart not only from the Indigenous People, but also from other
conquerors and invaders who came to India over those long millenniums after
their entry into this sub-Continent!
This is because of the Uniqueness of the Caste, and how the Aryans have
made use of the caste, caste differentiations and caste discriminations over
those millenniums, to suit the time occasion and each challenge, to ultimately
survive and raise up again to dominate.
Thus they had survived almost every type of challenge including the
Muslim, Moghul and the Imperialistic European Colonial Rulers like the British,
French and the Portuguese.
Caste is Isolating! Caste
has always helped the Aryans to identify themselves, differentiate themselves
from the rest to distance themselves.
It had helped them to live separately and isolated. They could socially economically politically
and culturally isolate themselves and be separate as a group community and
people! This Isolation Separation and
Racial Segregation had helped them to protect their Women and Girls
biologically socially and culturally from the rest of the People, particularly
their original enemies and continuing antagonists, the Indigenous People of the
Indus Valley Civilization and the hinterlands!
Caste may not be Race, some say! That is a lie! A big lie! That is being
dishonest! That is fraudulent! That is cheating!
Caste is Race!
Caste is Colour! Caste is Based
on Birth! Caste is also Ethnic! And if Caste is not Race, what then is it?
If Everest is not the highest point of the Himalayan
Mountain Range, what could it be? Is it
just the tip of a Stone?
Similarly if Caste is not Race, then nothing
else could qualify to be a Race in this World!
And nothing else would merit a discussion or Meet on Racial
Discrimination! Please recall the Discriminations of the helpless poor
Castes and Casteless People who were also the victims and sufferers in Gujarat
Earthquake. The hindu religious
organizations, caste hindu groups and hindu state sponsored and Govt supported
NGOs in Gujarat refused to entertain the SC&ST Dalits, Christians and
Muslims help. They refused to
provide succour, or give any of the relief material and food items sent by
International Agencies and various Govts from abroad, and also made available
by many State and UT Govts and the Govt of India, on grounds of the victims
being Avarnas, the Casteless People.
Similar were the situation earlier in Orissa
Cyclone. There as in Gujarat, the caste hindu Volunteers, NGOs, and
other Workers refused to go to the help of SC&ST Dalits, stranded in the
flood with out any food or drinking water or shelter.. The DCHs refused to handle the dead, remove
them to burry or burn! Even in the face
of intolerable stink from the rotting corpses, and fear of pollution and out
break of epidemics due to the rotting dead bodies of human beings and animals
of every kind and size, the caste hindus preferred to wait for the Dalits or
the Army to come and dispose of the carcasses.
A Special Team of Sweepers had to be sent from far away Delhi, to clear
the bodies of the dead. If such
Discriminations can occur in the Twenty-first Century, and the believers of
Caste and Religion can go to that extent, right in the face of death and even
after escaping by a hair's breadth after a serious encounter with death and
Natures Fury, are these not Race? If such things can happen even now, is
Caste not Race?
Infact Caste should then be Race Plus, or
more than Race! A Caste Hindu should be more than an Animal and a Devil, and be really
an incarnation of the Satan! They
should be a plague on the earth, and a curse on the humanity!
If Caste is not Race, were all the Caste Discriminations,
Crimes against the SC&ST Dalits and Dalit Carnages only a joke?
Caste had always been directed against SC&ST Dalits!
Caste was originally used by the invading barbaric Aryans,
only to keep out the native Dravidians of the Indus Valley Civilization! It appears that
the Aryans had designed the Castes against the indigenous Dravidian People of
the Indus Valley Civilization.
Caste was enforced to banish the Dalits from the Indus
Valley Three to four millenniums ago!
Caste was forced upon the People to deny the Dalits any
human considerations!
Caste is too serious a matter to be either neglected, or
brushed aside, or belittled as a slight aberration!
Caste is a Crime Against Humanity!
Caste is too serious an issue to be neglected or brushed
aside anymore!
Caste is Race!
Caste is based on Race!
Caste has always been Race!
Caste System is based on the Conflicts and
ensuing continuing struggles basically between the nomadic new comers - the
Aryans of the Vedic Period and those Indigenous People of the pre-historic
India.
Caste is Racial, based on the Colour
differences between the two Races of People, and on their anthropological
features and racial differences! Those who feel otherwise, argue that Aryans
did not create Castes in any other parts of the World other than India, where
all they had migrated. May be true,
that Caste was not only Unique to India, but was based on some social economic
work and organizational differences of the Native Indegenous People of Indus
Valley Civilizations. But, the Aryans
definitely adopted it, and made use of it to their best and utmost
advantages! Those who are of Aryan
descent or hold loyalty to the Aryans and Aryan Races, and do not want to
accept any accountability or blame or responsibility to the Caste System, argue
at times that Caste is not Race! In the
back of their mind that Scientifically and Biologically the whole humanity is
one Race, the homo-sapiens! And it is
stupid, unscientific and un-academic to talk of Aryan and Dravidian Races, or
refer to Monogoloid or African or Austroloid Races! May be true, but in the Anthropological sense, and Sociological
and or Political usage Aryan, Dravidian, Monogoloid, African, Austroloid and
Red-Indian Races exist and are a reality!
Hence to say that Caste may not
be Race is a political gimmick, and is itself a Racial Statement to
cover-up shield and protect the Indian Aryans from blame for harnessing the
Castes, evolving the Caste System and for perpetrating and perpetuating the
associated Caste Discriminations!
Castes were introduced, the Caste System was
evolved, only to perpetrate and perpetuate the associated Caste
Discriminations!
Caste Discriminations are Permanent. Since
Caste Benefits, there is a need for it!
At least the felt need for the same exists with some. But, all discriminations are painful, costly
and needs efforts. Hence, there are
always losses in discriminations!
Hence, more and more discriminations have to be resorted to benefit a
little! Since these Discriminations are
based on Caste, the discriminated are those who have always been discriminated,
again and again discriminated, constantly discriminated and continuously
discriminated! Hence the discriminated
have very little to be discriminated.
Yet, as the benefits to flow from discriminations of the continuously
discriminated, a very large numbers of individuals have to be discriminated to
benefit a few! Since more individuals
are discriminated, and such discriminations directly benefit a few, that too
almost continuously, the discriminations continue endlessly. And the few beneficiaries remain close knit,
had developed extraordinary vested interests, developed a strong clout to
sustain and continue the discriminations!
These discriminations based on invasions conquests colour and visible
anthropological considerations of Racial Features had left deep conscious
unconscious and sub-conscious antagonisms that are hard to shake up or
shed. Therefore, Caste Discriminations
are Permanent.
Caste Struggle is Class Struggle. Those who suffer
because of the Castes and Caste Discrimination, want to get out of Castes, and
prefers to Struggle against the Castes.
But not always! For, many are
not even aware of their sufferings, and what they miss, or are forced to miss
in life, and what all they are being deprived off! They are not most of the times even aware that the comfortable
life of others is not due to the later and is not because of their efforts but
because of their work creations and produce!
They are not aware that what most others possess are theirs, and what
those others have are mostly theirs!
The sufferers of the Caste System are almost everyone in the Indian
Society, right after those at the helm of the caste system who benefit the
most. In fact even they and the whole
Nation, Nation's Economy, Nation's Development and Nation's Progress suffer
because the of the Caste System and Caste Discriminations. To be honest, the People, the Country and
the Indian Nation had all suffered irreparable and great damages repeatedly and
throughout the History, because of the Caste System and Caste Biases and
Discriminations! But, very few realize
these, and even those who realize these hardly want to do anything! For most of them, except those at the very
bottom suffer totally and absolutely.
All others, suffer differentially depending upon the Caste and Social
Level they are at, in the vertical graded hierarchic system that India is. And even
all of those Castes who suffer the most in the hands of the DCHs, enjoy certain
minimal Caste Privileges and Benefits because they are somewhat above in the
Caste Hierarchy! And those who
enjoy Privileges and Benefits, never want to part with them, even if they are
very minor Privileges and Benefits, or are only tokenisms!
Those who benefit, Resist any Change in the
Caste System when those suffering the most want and cry for a Change! Thus there is
clash of interests, differences in perspective and clash of interests, and
needs! Therefore the Caste
Struggle! Those who want to get out of
Caste Discriminations and those who Benefit from the Castes, Caste System and
Caste Discriminations, get always into confrontation mode and socially
antagonistic positions, even if the same are not visible or perceptible to
others!
Caste Conflicts are Racial Upheavals! There are
frequent Caste Conflicts over basic social activities, like walking through the
streets, riding an horse or a cycle, or owning a car.
Caste continues even after death. Caste travels
beyond life. Caste moves to burial
grounds. Dalitindia being the native Dravidian, their dead are buried, and
not burnt like the Aryanss! Caste
follows dalitindia even into the
burial grounds. Dalitindia has separate burial grounds. Not only their colonies but even their roads are separate.
Caste is now being justified. Caste is justified
on many grounds. Caste is said to be
based on Professions, Jobs, Skills and Expertise.
Caste is now also being rationalized. Many reasons are
now being brought forward for the Castes.
It is said to be a distortion of the old system of unharmful sharing of
work. What a distortion? A distortion that is shamelessly being
honoured and worshipped with blood rape and killings of millions of
dalits! What an unharmful sharing of
work?
Dalitindia's isolation is rationalized on
grounds of purity and pollution. That is a joke! For the brahmins are the
most dirtiest people in the World! Purity of the brahmins who stink is not real, but is
ritualistic. Brahmins are those - Who
never used to clean their mouth, and brush their teeth properly. Who never used to take a proper bath. Who just dip themselves once, or twice, or
thrice ritually in the water! Who never
even today use a soap to bath. If at
all they use, they use it only to wash their hands and face. Those who never wash their hands after going
to toilet. Who just poor a pot or
bucket of water over their heads, fully dressed in the open public places near
a well or a public tap, and say they had taken a bath! A ritualistic bath! A namesake bath, even today! Who change their dress after the ritualistic
bath in the public open places, and then dry their clothes as they are without
washing or even rinsing them! Who for
washing their clothes, just rinse the clothes in the ponds or tanks or a bucket
of water. Who just poor water on the clothes and then dry them up as a lump,
with out even spreading them out on the grass or a line. Who don't use any soap for washing their
clothes, or just rinse in soap water once or twice, and then dip in water and
dry them out without bothering to see the clothes are free from soap. Whose clothes, even if costly, washed and
nicely ironed out at home, stink horribly and intolerably because of the
improper wash and rinsing! This even
today!
Dalitindia's sufferings are reasoned out on grounds of hygiene and
cleanliness.
Dalitindia's isolation and segregation is being justified on the
ground that it is engaged in unclean jobs like leather work and scavenging.
Caste System is also being rationalized. The oppressive
Caste Exploiters say that the Caste System was developed as a Rational
Scientific Way of apportioning and sharing work amongst the different Groups of
People. What rationality? Bones for you, flesh for us! May be they mean to say, 'We give you really
all the heavy hard strong things to bite and eat, where as we only take the
soft things!' Perhaps what they meant
is, "Yes, we leave for you the bones as we throw them to our dogs, to keep
the dogs quiet busy and foolishly engaged in trying stupidly again and again to
bite and eat the unbitable and uneatable bones. The Caste Discriminators say that the Caste System is a
Cooperative way of Social Living, each group doing the Works they are capable
of, and are specialized in doing! What
a Cooperation? All good things for
some! All easy things for some! And here again all soft things, the soft
works for some! All drudgery for
others! All hard works for the
masses! All difficult works for the
discriminated! Those discriminated
three to four millenniums ago! All
miserable works for the despised!
Despised right during and before the Rig Veda, the first work of the
invading Aryans destroyers. All
dangerous works for the common people!
All unhygienic works for the poor!
All unclean works for the helpless!
Caste India is arrogant, discriminatory, unfair,
unjust, exploitative, oppressive. Caste
India is Racial India.
dalitindia is Avarnas, without Varnas, without Colour, without
Castes. They were the real and original
Casteless People of India. They are the
Indigenous People of India. They are
the SC&ST Dalits today. They are
the Adivasis or the Aborigines of India.
dalitindia is an ungrateful one.
dalitindia is totally
indebted to the Muslims who came to India for willy-nilly beginning a serious
and powerful onslaught on Caste India, and for starting the process of slow but
steady and the still continuing Dalit Conversions into Islam, Christian
Missionaries of various Denominations from different small and big
West-European Nations and America, the almost forgotten Dutch Rulers whose
legacy still lives in Serampore around the Serampore University, French Rulers
in the small area of French India centered around Pondichery, the big powerful
plenipotent colonial Imperial British Rulers both in India and England, the
Native Rulers like Sahu Maharaj, Maharaja of Mysore, Nizam of Deccan Hyderabad,
and most importantly the Great Messiah Baba Saheb Dr BR Ambedkar. But sadly enough dalitindia had either forgotten them or is totally neglecting them
most of the times, particularly at important crucial moments. The most ungrateful of all in dalitindia are the educated people,
particularly the well employed ones like Doctors, Engineers, and those in the
various Administrative Police Para-Military and Military Services. This ungratefulness and indifference on the part
of the Educated and well Employed could be seen by Baba Saheb himself. Baba Saheb during his last days talked about
them in Nagpur, how they had belied his hopes, and betrayed the Dalit
Communities and their Development.
Things had not changed in spite of Baba Saheb's public expression of
dismay and criticism. On the other hand
dalitindia is proving to be more and
more selfish, hollow and ungrateful. A
great wise Dalit recently said with great pain and disappointment, 'In my forty
years of working with Dalit Communities Employees and senior Officials, I am
yet to see a SC or ST Dalit who is grateful to Baba Saheb for Free ships,
Scholarships, Reservations in Colleges and Universities, and the Reservations
in Recruitments Appointments, Trainings, Postings and Promotions all of which
had facilitated a few millions of SC&ST Dalits to get Education and Manage
to complete their Studies without discontinuing for want of funds, in getting a
good Job and making them a little important in life. This is sad. They are so
ungrateful to even tell other SC&ST Dalits that they had come up in life by
shear hard work on their own efforts, without any help whatsoever, or making
use of Reservations. What lies?' Another great Dalit once said, 'I am
surprised to see the emergence of sly cunning crude cheats and betrayers
amongst We SC&ST Dalits. The
brahmins and their brahminism and hinduism is making deep inroads into our
minds. The weak in mind heart and flesh
are easily falling their prey' Yes, he
was very right. There are many number
of cases where certain SC&ST Dalit Officials, both small and big.
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