Editorial


Angry castes & tribes will explode if Western-style democracy is imposed: Kenya will repeat in India

Our fear is the horrendous happenings today in Kenya will repeat in India also if we do not take the stern warning given by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar that India is not a “nation” but a country of several waring nations,.

In Kenya, the Dec.27, 2007 Presidential election led to over 1,000 dead and over 300,000 displaced in ethnic cleansing. It is over 1 1/2 months (as we write) but neither the United Nations, USA nor any other power is able to bring back the warring tribes to sanity. The fear is Kenya, one of the African continent’s most prosperous countries, is breaking into pieces.

What is happening in Kenya today is hardly reported in India’s Brahminical media because the racist Indian ruling class does not like to read anything about Black Africa. Their heart is in America.

Angriest tribe: Kenya has half a dozen or so tribes of which four are major. (1) Luos of Raila Odinga, who was defeated in the presidential election, live mostly in the western part of Kenya. Kusumu is Kenya’s third biggest city and capital of the Luos who are the country’s third biggest and the angriest ethnic group. They are also the country’s most neglected, poorest, politically and economically ill-treated tribe by the ruling Kikuyus.

Luos have driven out over 20,000 Kikuyus from the Luo-land. Their population is estimated at 4 million and most of them voted for Raila Odinga but Luos say their victory was stolen by the ruling Kikuyu tribal leader Mwai Kibaki who declared himself elected President of Kenya.

Kikuyus are the only tribe which gained education, captured services and flourished in business and became rich — just like India’s 15% Brahminical rulers.

(2) Luhya is the country’s second biggest tribe, unrelated to the Luo, but most of them backed Odinga.

(3) Kikuyus together with the closely related Embu and Meru, who together make up 28% of the Kenyans, are now on the receiving end from Luos for “stealing the election”.

(4) There is another tribe called Kamba, the fifth largest group, which backed another leader who got about 9% votes in the presidential election.

(5) Other tribes like Kiri (6%) are divided though they all voted against Kibaki. That means Kenya is in a terrible ethnic mess.

India’s ethnic strife: India is still worse with hundreds of castes, subcastes, tribes and religious minorities who again are divided.

But India has not flared up into such a gigantic ethnic war like Kenya despite India’s deeper divisions because all the castes are arranged in the shape of a pyramid — ascending order of reverence and descending degree of contempt.

Such a caste system (the other name for Brahminism parading as Hinduism) is keeping every angry caste under check like the crabs in a basket. Any crab trying to climb up the basket and escape will be pulled down by another crab. So much so fishermen going into sea need not cover the basket. Each crab acts like a policeman.

Gujjar-Meena clash in Rajasthan: A caste (above another caste in this pyramidical order) will kick the “erring” caste down below and see that it does not shake the pyramid too much and thus ensures the safety of the pyramid. The caste below the revolting caste will do the same duty. This is called the caste duty (jati dharma) to maintain the Brahminical Social Order.

When the Gujjar’s rightly revolted in Rajasthan and took to violence demanding tribal (ST) status, the Meenas (another tribe) was activated to maintain the balance and stability of the caste pyramid (jati dharma). (DV Edit June 16, 2007: “Caste identity rocks Rajasthan: Gujjar - Meena war kills BJP’s Hindu unity”).

Tribe made into caste: Thank god, Africa has no Hinduism and that is how an aggrieved tribe spontaneously protests and revolts because the different tribes are not arranged in the shape of a pyramid as under the Hindu caste system. This is the principal reason why “Hindu India” can never see a revolution — though the caste (ethnic) strife here is much more serious reaching the boiling point.

The caste in India and the tribe in Africa (or even in India) are one and the same. Before the Aryans came, India too was a country of only numerous tribes which the Brahminical people arranged on a hierarchical order (pyramid) and gave each caste a rank. The Brahmins then placed themselves on the top of the caste pyramid and declared themselves Bhoodevatas.

Kenya today has become ungovernable. India too has reached that stage (DV Edit Dec.1, 2007: “India is fast becoming ungovernable — We will not allow Brahminical people to dismantle parliamentary democracy”). But the Hindu (caste system) religion with its poisonous injection of papa, punya, karma, punar janma and hundreds of other superstitions injected into our body is keeping the pyramid in tact (deathless?) — though quite a lot of violent rumblings are shaking this pyramid.

Kenya is suffering and will continue to suffer as long as the different ethnic tribes are put in one basket and election held in the Western-style democracy.

Flawed Indian democracy: For long it is known that Kenya’s Kikuyus are the worst blood-sucker (tribe) like India’s micro-minority Brahminical people who used India’s Western-style democracy and managed to become the ruling class. They have the additional advantage of the Hindu religion (unlike in Kenya) to give them the religious sanctity for their exploitation.

That is why we have often said that the Western-style democracy is not suitable for Asia and Africa which consists of nation-states.

The Western propaganda is that democracy is the best form of govt. Our study and experience says democracy can be a success only in a nation-state.

But in a country with many nations (each caste is a nation in India), some strong but many weak, democracy will become a dictatorship of the minority. The best example is India where its tiny, less than 15% ruling upper castes have given international publicity to its “democratic experiment. (Shape of the Things to Come, V.T. Rajshekar, DSA-2005, p. 50, Rs. 50).

Vast population made powerless: That is how the Untouchables forming about 20% of India’s population, Tribals 10% and Backward Castes 35% and Muslims 15%, despite their huge population, are made powerless.

Africa also copied the Western-style democracy and that is how Kenya imploded. In many other African countries similar situation is prevailing.

China diagnoses disease: Western-style democracy is not the only form of democracy where tribals and caste loyalties are strong, Western-style democracy will not succeed. India is the best example to prove this point.

China is the only country in the world to diagnose the disease of Kenyan ethnic strife when it said:

Western-style democratic theory simply is not suited to African conditions but rather it caries with it the root of disease. The election crisis in Kenya is just one example. (Economist, Feb.9, 2007).

Marxist manipulation in Bengal: In our book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation (Books for Change, Bangalore) we have said that each caste (or even subcaste) is a “nation” by itself. India with its 2,800 castes has so many “nations”. This is evident from the growing number of caste-based parties, caste associations and caste conferences. The Chitpavans asserted their national identity recently at Pune. (DV Edit Feb.16, 2008).

Under the existing democracy only a candidate with plenty of money or a caste with strong population strength can get elected. What about those without the two qualifications?

Because of the Hindu poison injected into the veins of each jati, their anger is contained. Yet the Gujjar explosion in Rajasthan, Madiga fury in AP are the beginning of caste consolidation. Each caste is strengthening its identity — thanks to parliamentary democracy assuring one vote to one person.

But such a voting system throws up only a leader with a powerful caste backing. What about those castes which have no strength of population like the Brahmins and hundreds of other castes? This is the serious disadvantage of parliamentary democracy in a country like India where people are poor, illiterate and also made unthinking who can be easily manipulated.

The marxists are doing it in Bengal and pocketing the votes of both Dalits and Muslims while proving themselves the Enemy No.1 of both. The Congress did it earlier.

Slowly but steadily awareness is growing and when the powerful aggrieved castes (nations) realise they are cheated, they are sure to explode. Kenya will repeat in India.