Slavery in India: Dalit team visits Europe

A delegation of Indian activists on behalf of the country’s Untouchable community will visit London, Brussels, Edinburgh and Oslo during the UK commemorations of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. During their visit, the activists will highlight the plight of India’s 250 million-strong Dalit and tribal communities who are the main victims of modern forms of slavery there.

Members of the delegation include Dr Joseph D’souza, the International President of the Dalit Freedom Network (DFN) and President of the All India Christian Council (AICC), Dr Kancha Ilaiah, HOD, Osmania University, Hyderabad, and Ms. Indira Athawale, a noted activist for Dalit women’s rights, Moses Parmar, the North India Director of Operation Mercy Charitable Company and a Dalit from Gujarat.

The delegation will be in Brussels (19-20 March), UK (20-28 March) and Norway (29-30 March).

In the UK, they will meet with MPs, peers, religious leaders, the India All Party Parliamentary Group, advisors at the Foreign Office and the Conservative Human Rights Commission. They will speak at the launch of a new documentary-film, India’s Hidden Slavery: Caste, Apartheid and Exploitation in the World’s Largest Democracy, at the West End Cinema, Leicester Square, on March 27, 2007.

In India, millions are enslaved or suffer brutal labour exploitation. There is more slavery in India than anywhere else in the world today. The victims of these horrific abuses are, overwhelmingly, the outcast Dalits, whose pleas we can ignore no longer, says Marvyn Thomas, chief of the Christian Solidarity World-wide. (finicy@gmail.com)

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The Dalit delegation to highlight the slavery in India is very timely and appropriate. India is the only country in the world where slavery is still alive and kicking. If only India’s Christian leadership had this wisdom and courage by this time we could have made big progress. The Indian Untouchables and Tribals will have to demand reparations from their slave owners, and the European Union and European Christians will have to raise their voice — EDITOR.

Muslims can’t be defeated or wiped out

I am a regular reader of DV cover to cover.I have been in your company for about 25 years. Though the problem dealt by you are not new, the taste and delivery are inspiring: “The serpent and mongoose”.

Here is a Quranic ayat Chapter 4/75. Its translation says:

And why should ye not Fight in the cause of Allah, And of those who, being weak, Are ill-treated (and oppressed)? Men, women, and Children, Whose cry is: “Our Lord! Rescue us from this town, Whose people are oppressors; And raise for us from Thee One who will protect”.

Allah is asking the Muslims: What has happened to you? The Quran is full of such questions. 57/8 and 10 says, “What is the matter with you?

In all your writings you are also asking the Muslims, the same question. Hence I thought I should answer your questions.

I. It is said that in India for every 7 to 10 minutes a man commits suicide unable to bear poverty. Why there are hardly any Muslims among them? The Muslims are also absolutely poor. They are not even waiting for governmental doles. Yet they do not commit suicide anywhere in the world. It is only in the “Hindu India”, the “Hindus” commit suicide.

II. Why do Muslims instead take to suicide bomb but do not commit suicide like “Hindus”? Is it because of poverty? Not moulvis, but well educated engineers and doctors are becoming suicide bombers. There are about 10 such questions to be answered by your audience.

You know the answer. Can the Muslims be defeated by Hindu terrorists? Or wiped out as they desire? Impossible.

I repeat what I wrote in your booklet, Curse of Allah (DSA-1997, pp.35), under the title: “Islam does not believe in compromise: Jihad is the answer”.

I wish you success for your April 8, 2007 silver jubilee in Delhi.

Dalits & Brahminical Social Order

(1) Introduction: India, with the world’s second largest population of about 1,000 odd millions, next only to China, is a big puzzle. It is the least understood country in the world even by its best brains.

This is because the thoughts inside India are so tightly controlled by its micro-minority Brahminical Order that the outsiders get a totally false picture — fully dressed in shining clothes of non-violence, democracy, socialism, truth, justice and what not.

That is how even the most descerning observers among foreign scholars like Alan Hart are deceived and carried away by the Brahminical rhetorics.

If the thought and action in America are controlled by its 3% Jewish ruling class, in India it is still worse.

Here in India, it is its 3% Brahminical rulers who control the entire media and its publishing industry. But India is one step ahead of America where the Jews are only the king-makers. Here the Brahmins being the controllers of (Hindu) gods and also its Hindu religion, they are also kings themselves lording over every section of the society. Thus, they have the divine authority to rule. That is how they have remained as the unquestioned monarchs from centuries.

CASTE SYSTEM

(2) Brahmins, who have devised the ingenious, deathless caste system (the other word for Hinduism) may be a micro-minority of just 3%. But the wonder of this caste system is this over 3,000 year-old steel frame is deathless. Just below the Brahmins stand the two other (dwija) castes —Kshatriya (warrior caste) and Vaishya (Bania), the trading caste to which M.K. Gandhi belonged.

Below the three stand the most powerful landed shudra caste group.

Together, the four varnas (varna means skin colour) make up only 15% of the total population.

ROLE OF GANDHI

(3) M.K. Gandhi, a Baniya, the greatest supporter of this deathless caste system of ascending order of reverence and descending degree of contempt, paved the way for the Brahmin takeover of the country in 1947.

Immediately after “independence” (1947), the Brahmins got rid of Gandhi fearing his idiosyncrasies.

This Brahminical Order comprising a mere 15% of the population has been ruling India even before “independence” but it further entrenched its position after Gandhi handed over the country to these people.

The only people who did not surrender to the Brahminical rulers are the country’s Black Untouchables, who are its original inhabitants. Forming the country’s single largest population (20%), Dalits, as they are known today, are guided by the burning thoughts of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.

Gandhi is called the “Father of the nation”. But the problem is India is not a “nation” but a group of perpetually warring nationalities. A Brahmin terrorist organisation shot dead Gandhi thereby admitting he is not the “Father of their nation”.

RISE OF DR. AMBEDKAR

(4) The only person who is today accepted as the Father of all the different “nations” in India is Dr. Ambedkar. That is why he is called the “Father of India”, the highest title which the country as a whole has conferred upon this Black Untouchable.

Dr. Ambedkar is the only all-India leader who has asked us to fight the Brahminical Order. And this fight is going on ever since the Aryan Brahmins invaded India over 4,000 years ago.

So, Dalits are the one and the only people of this country who have not compromised with Brahminism. The fight is going on from centuries and it will continue as long as Brahminical Order continues.

Dalit Voice, of which I am the Editor, is the country’s oldest (26 years) and the largest circulated English journal published in six Indian languages. We have to our credit over 100 world-famous books including the one published from America, Dalit — The Black Untouchables of India, (Clarity Press, Atlanta, USA).

FOUNDING FATHER OF RACISM

(5) This book has linked the struggle of the American, African and Indian Blacks. It also invited the world’s attention to Brahminism which is the founding father of racism in the world.

The upper castes of India recently made much noise on the racist attacks in London on Shilpa Shetty. But they are hiding the historical fact that the Brahminical India exported racism all over the world. India therefore is the founding father of racism. The Sanskrit word varna means skin colour.

Brahminism is the other word for racism. Racism has theological (religious) sanction under Brahminical sacred scriptures.

BLUFF OF “INDIA SHINING”

(6) China, which became independent two years after India, has galloped and became a world leader. But India is limping, sinking deeper and deeper into economic crisis, social stagnation, endless violence and political crisis.

Our Brahminical rulers are misleading the outside world by their false figures on its “roaring” GDP. When over 85% of India’s population is not only sick but in deep pain how can anybody talk of “India shining”? This is sheer bluff.

But the wonder of all wonders is that India did not collapse despite all its crisis after crisis. This is because its steel and concrete caste scaffolding is strong and in tact.

But Dalits are determined to demolish this deathless human pyramid and liberate the over 85% non-Aryan nationalities and also the 15% Brahminical Social Order and particularly the 3% Brahmins who are also its victims.

(7) We want to save the Brahmins who are also suffering from the mental disease of Brahminism. We want to fight and finish only Brahminism. We have nothing against individual Brahmins. However, we admit that there can be no Brahminism without the Brahmin.

Brahminical people with the help of their monopoly media inside India and occupying many key positions in the West are misleading the world.

PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION

(8) Earlier, they took over the leadership of marxist parties and fooled the oppressed people.

They packed their people in key positions by resorting to nationalisation of industries and organising trade unions. But marxism failed to liberate our people because marxism became the other name for Brahminism.

Later the rulers switched over to globalisation and denationalised the industries, invited foreign capitalists and further entrenched themselves.

Neither marxism nor globalisation can cure India’s disease as long as Brahminism continues to sap our vital energies.

As a specialist on the subject, I want to warn that India can make no progress as long as Brahminism continues to be the country’s guiding philosophy.

If India has to live Brahminism has to die. Indian history has proved this fact.

That means Brahminism is the country’s principal contradiction. But our rulers talk of all sorts of contradictions but carefully hiding the principal contradiction. That is how the foreigners get deceived.

BRAHMINISM & ZIONISM

(9) We want to impress our friends in the West that Brahminism is the other word for zionism.

Our research has revealed that both the Jews and Brahmins originated from the same geographical area in Middle East and both have the same DNA. Both have the same value system. The very fact the two are cooperating and collaborating closely in fighting terrorism (read Muslims) proves their close historical affinity and their hate-mongering mental make-up.

If India has to live, Brahminism must die. Such a destruction of Brahminism will be carried out by none other than the Black Untouchables of India, the children of Dr. Ambedkar, and the most uncompromising blood enemies of Brahminism.

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Paper presented in Bangalore on Feb.15, 2007 at the seminar held as part of the Empower India Conference, The seminar was inaugurated by the British journalist, Alan Hart.

Muslims have a duty to support Dalits

Your “Letters” column always has important messages. They all trace the grievances of Muslims. However, the educated Muslims and Dalits fail to understand the fact in respect of socio-culture status. Muslims have a prominent cultural background of self-respect and emancipation. Sister Nazneen says we are fighting over petty issues because we don’t follow the Quran. It is the duty of Muslims to fight for Dalits who for over 3,500 years are oppressed by the BSO. In India, Muslims just think of only Muslims. If we dig out the history you will see that all Muslim leaders got help from Dalits. Till the Dalits were with them, the Muslims ruled. When they forgot Dalits, they simply collapsed. This is the truth. We get the courageous statements of our Editor: “Dalits are not Hindu and were never Hindu”. If they are not Hindu, what are they? Who are they? We Muslims have to find out the answer. Both the communities have a historical relation. Muslims can join hands with Dalits and Dalits may culturally come close to Muslim as they are very feeble in culture. The coming age will be the age of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Dr. Iqbal. (kamru_jaman@rediffmail.com)

Contradictions between TN Dalit & non-Brahmin movements

Tamil Nadu outcastes were the historical pioneers in launching a movement against Brahmins for which they aligned with the British and started a campaign against Brahminism. Pandit Iyotheedas was the father of this anti-Brahmin movement in South India. Until the outcastes (Dalits) started the anti-Brahmin movement TN did not have any evidence of non-Brahmin movement.

In 1882, the outcastes under the leadership of Rev. Fr. John Ratnam and Iyotheedas established the Dravidar Kazhagam.

Until 1915, there was no sign of a separate identity for shudras as non-Brahmin. Only a few Saivites like C.V. Damodaram Pillai and Arumuga Navalar were mobilising Tamil Saivism to fight Brahmin domination. Thiyagaraayar, T.N. Nair, Natesan and other shudra leaders formed the South Indian Liberal Federation and declared a “non-Brahmin manifesto” and finally appropriated the ideology of anti-Brahminism. The shudra uprising gained its momentum and they finally named it Dravidar movement which was nothing but an imitation of the movement of the outcastes.

Shudra movement was anti-Dalit: But the shudra anti-Brahmin movement did not want to include the question of outcastes fearing that the outcastes would ask for their share in society.

The problem with the shudra leaders of Tamil country was they did not come out of their slave mentality even when they carried on their movement against Brahmins. Because their “uprising” was not against Brahminism of which they were part.

They only hated the Brahmin and his hegemony but did not love the Untouchables.

Three questions: The majoritarian approach the shudra exercised was 97% of people are ruled by the 3% Aryans. This is because the neo-Brahmin shudras suffered from serious contradictions.

(i) Are not the shudras part of chaturvarna in which the Dalits are not included? If the shudras are not part of chaturvarna (caste system) why did they follow Hinduism and the caste order?

(ii) The truth is the shudras are also Hindu and are the fourth varna of the chaturvarna which is the secret of their hatred towards Dalits.

(iii) Dalits are outcastes meaning outside the caste order. They were Budhists . So the Dalits can never align with shudras and lend support to their fight against Brahmins as long as the shudras persecute Dalits and do not consider us brothers.

These three serious contradictions will expose the hollowness of the anti-Brahmin movement of the shudras.

Periyar’s movement: Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy, one of the leaders of TN shudra movement and a disciple of Pandit Iyotheedas, began his socio-political movement as a member of the Congress Party until 1925. He raised the following slogans:

“Brahmin should be destroyed, god should be destroyed, Hindi should be destroyed, Hindi-speaking North Indians should be destroyed, the Congress should be destroyed, Mohandas (Gandhi) should be destroyed.”

In his magazine, Kudiyarasu (April 25, 1926), he said: shudra means Dravidian or Tamil —that one who is not a Brahmin, not a Muslim, not a Christian and not an Adi-Dravida.

By this he confirmed the Hinduhood of the shudras and the Hindu state of his mind.

Role of Dr. Ambedkar: India’s first movement for gaining self-esteem and dignified social identity through “quit Hinduism movement” was led by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. But the Dalit leaders who erected hundreds of Babasaheb’s statues in the nook and corner of TN did not speak about what the Messiah of the Untouchables discoursed about Buddha & His Dhamma. They never had any plan to organise any “Quit Hinduism movement” and converting them into Budhism.

No leader of RPI or any other Dalit parties or any movement were interested in Budhism. However, leaders of Dr. Ambedkar Youth Front (AAIM), TN, under the leadership of Dr. Velu Annamalai of Madras, launched a mass conversion drive for about 10,000 Dalits. Perambalur was named as “Diskha Bhoomi of Tamil Nadu”.

Dalit movements and all other non-Brahmin organizations in TN are all shattered like broken glasses. This is because all such organizations are either tied to different non-Dalit political wings or segregated in a much diversified conceptual differences.

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BSO creates total confusion in TN by using Dalits against BCs

India itself is a country of hundreds of contradictions and TN is a part of it. Nobody knows it better than the most poisonous Tamil vaidiks, the king cobras of the country’s Brahminical order. That is how they exploited these contradictions to their best advantage. This has worked wonders. Dalit Voice circulation in TN has dipped because of the tremendous confusion created by the papan who through their manuwadi monopoly media can convert a race horse into donkey and a bloody donkey into a Derby race horse.

PAPAN CREATING CONFUSION

The papans while shedding crocodile tears over the “plight” of Dalits did not spare them also,. If the papans are so much in love with Dalits they should have helped strengthen their movement. But they did not. So much so the Dalit movement is also badly divided. It is dog eating dog in TN.

And in this all-round confusion the only people who reaped the highest profit are the papans. Because they are the one people who stand to gain most when the toiling masses are in confusion.

If the toiling masses of India comprising the six broad segments (called Bahujan Samaj) — SC/ST/BCs and Muslim/Christian Sikhs — go on quarreling between themselves forgetting their principal oppressor, how can we unite to form the Bahujan Samaj?

This is were we have to take advantage of the law of contradictions. We have repeated this hundreds of time in DV but our people are not understanding it or under the spell of papan are ignoring us.

Dr. AMBEDKAR IDENTIFIED PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION

We have devoted a whole chapter to the subject (Chapter V: Law of Contradictions) in our book, Weapons to Fight Counter-Revolution, (DSA-2004, Rs. 75). Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has time and again pointed out that the principal contradiction in India is Brahminism. Shudras are part of the chaturvarna but the OBCs are not. Backward Castes are neither shudra nor Hindu. That is why Babasaheb supported the Backward Castes despite all their stupidity because they are a deprived lot.

That the OBCs are an unthinking lot was proved long back during the anti-Mandal war and violence when instead of joining Dalits they joined Hindus, their enemy, and attacked Dalits. But just because they are stupid, Dalits as leader of Indian revolution, we can’t oppose them.

BRAHMIN AS COMMON ENEMY

All the six segments in the Bahujan Samaj are having a common enemy, that is the Brahmin.

In TN, we are aware of the shortcomings of the Dravida Kazhagam which itself has undergone splits.

We are also aware of the anti-Dalit mind-set of the Cut Throat. His recent behaviour with the fraudman, Satya Sai Baba, showed his real face.

Dalits themselves are divided into three main segments in TN — Paraiah, Pallar and Chakkaliyar and also fighting with each other. These three are separate and distinct ethnic identities.

If we go on fighting only between ourselves when can we form the Bahujan Samaj to fight the principal contradiction — the papan?

T.N. UNDER TOTAL CONFUSION

Scenting this danger, the papans are hyperactive in instigating certain Dalits against BCs, OBCs and shudras.

The papans are taking lot of interest in dividing Dalits and BCs.

It may be the interest of the enemy to divide the Bahujans but is it our interest to play into their hands? Is it possible to win any war forgetting the principal enemy (Brahminism)? Dalits have to ponder this question.

The TN scene is frustrating. This is the scene all over India also. As we are in touch with the whole country we are in a position to say this with full authority.

The oppressed Dalits are easily tricked by the papan to fall into their net and then instigate against the BCs. They want the Dalits to forget the principal contradiction (Brahmins)

Because of this confusion TN today is in total control of the papan — EDITOR.

Muslims & Dalits must go for separate electorate but reject reservations

Message of Brotherly solidarity with the Dalit people of India.

The imperial castes who rule India, have fixed their gaze on becoming a super power — while the largest number of the poorest and the most wretched people on earth live in India. What are classified as low castes are the indigenous peoples — the owners of this sub-continent — whereas the Aryan castes are foreigners who enslaved them. But no amount of repetition of this fact would change anything. The caste system cannot be abolished because its privileges are exercised by social not legal mechanisms.

GREATEST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY

The only time in history when the indigenous people of India became free, it was when all of them embraced Budhism. There is a lesson in it. It was conversion to an egalitarian faith of Buddhism that set the native peoples free. It was the rule by egalitarian Muslims and Christians over a thousand years that helped them carry the millstone of untouchability around their neck and yet survive and even flourish.

The native peoples were enslaved twice after being liberated by Budhism. Once when Adi Shankara went around the country with a handful of men slaughtering Budhist monks and destroying their viharas while the populace watched in horror unable to react because their faith taught never to shed blood. It is a very sad chapter of history.

The dwarf Brahmin killer is still revered as Shankaracharya even though what he did was to engage in the greatest genocide in history. He did all this to promote his Brahmin clan. For thousands of years the native people had no faith; they only had fears. What the Brahmin Manu prescribed for them was life worse than death — submission to hurt, humiliation, and hard labour merely for the pleasure of those of the Sanatan Dharma. That was until the dawn of Muslim rule, a thousand years ago.

The Muslims gave protection to the native people by establishing rule of law before which all were equal. The native people saw that equality was the law of god; inequality the law of Manu. Many converted to Islam and found themselves to be treated as equals.

NATIVES CALLED “HINDU”

Then came the British, first in Bengal, which had a flourishing economy built as a joint enterprise of two egalitarian faiths— Budhism and Islam. The followers of Brahminism had been sidelined because of their small number, lack of skills and devious ways. They collaborated with the British against the native people and were rewarded with land grants and jobs in administration.

The rule of the East India Company was a joint enterprise of the Brahman and the British. That is when the native peoples were enslaved by the Brahman for the second time. It happened in a typically Brahman way. No arguments; no fuss; mere change of name. The British called every body who was not a Muslim - a Hindu.

The native peoples began to be called Hindu not by consent but by default. The permanent settlement in Bengal made upper caste Hindus big landowners and the native people — whatever their faith— were reduced to serfs who were allowed to take part in puja once a year to pay tribute to goddess Durga.

COMMUNAL AWARD

The chance to secure freedom came in 1932 with the Communal Award that offered separate electorate not only to the Muslims but also to the native Scheduled Castes and Tribal peoples. This offer was first accepted but finally rejected under pressure of a ‘fast unto death’ by M.K.Gandhi. The Muslims not only did accept separate electorate they made it their principal demand.

Most of us do not know or realise that the Muslims did not want a separate country; they only wanted separate electorate. The Brahman- Bania leadership of the Congress Party was ready to give the Muslims a separate country but not separate electorate. It was that important.

BRAHMIN SPIN MACHINE

Separate electorate was the only way the minorities could have what was theirs by right. Reservation, which was presented actually as a favour, was accepted instead. Freedom was on offer but favours were accepted instead. A wrong choice was made.

The upper castes, after having dragged the Muslims from the elite class to the poorest, are now ready to give them reservation. Dalits who have benefited from the reservation in the past are referred as the ‘creamy layer’ which must be excluded from reservation now.

Reservation is a self perpetuating internecine war like beggars fighting each other protecting their turf. This must be understood that the turf of the native peoples is the whole country — if they got separate electorate.

The choice is between favours and freedom. Reservation is favours; separate electorate is freedom.

It is through the mechanism of reservation that the Brahman has been able to maintain its status as the ruling caste. They consolidated the 85% with favours against the 15% Muslims. Now the Congress Party wants to regain support of the Muslims that kept it in power for more than four decades. It is ready to give the Muslims a ‘leg up’ by extending Reservation if they begged with contrition.

BRAHMIN FEAR

I notice that the Muslims find such proposals attractive but the Untouchable castes, which have ‘enjoyed’ Reservation since 1950 are not so sure.

The main political issue in India today is: what is better for the non-Hindus? Reservation or Separate Electorate?

With separate electorate, the non- Hindus would be the majority in many states of India.

The award of reserved seats underlines low status and poverty. It entrenches the privileges of the upper castes (Hindu) by underlining their ‘generosity’.

The Brahmin spin machine is very cunning; it was able to get Dalit leaders to reject ‘Separate Electorate’ in 1932. Now the very same spin machine, apparently to alleviate the condition of Muslims, is ready to thwart their unity by offering Muslims reservations. The Brahman fears the alliance of all the non-Hindus — Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, Christians and the Sikhs. The Muslims must not fall into the ‘reservation’ pit; it is time to unite for freedom - for separate electorate. It is unwise to settle for favours; it is time for a rise for freedom to begin.