WANTED DEBATE ON "NATIONALITY QUESTION"

Strong "ethnic identity" ensures sure defeat for Hindu nazi stunt called "cultural nationalism"

Will the incorrigible Indian ruling class —which refuses to learn anything new or forget anything old — remember for a moment the sudden collapse and disintegration of the mighty super power, Soviet Union, into many nation-states — dashing the hopes of millions of toiling peoples of the world in marxism which assured a supranationalist vision of a future humanity emancipated from religions, clan and ethnic divisions? The breakup of the USSR proves the failure of marxism to overcome the desire of the different ethnic identities to establish their own separate nations. (DV Edit March 16, 1990: "Ethnic pull & Russian racism breaks up the communist giant: USSR").

The pull of nationality proved to be more powerful than the bonds of marxism because the Soviet communism could not find answer to the question of ethnic pull and Russian racism.

When the new president of the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP), Lal Krishna Advani, the Sindhi Khatri, delivered his presidential address at the party's silver jubilee session in Delhi on April 6, 2005, like a parrot he repeated the same old rotten slogans of his party's Hindu nazi parent organisation of RSS, namely "cultural nationalism" which is the other name for establishing a Brahminical dictatorship over India. The other highlights of his swan-song were:

1. Threat of demographic (read Muslim) invasion from Bangladesh leading to a second partition of India,
2. total commitment to Ram Temple at Ayodhya.

The Indian Hitler and his Brahminical backers should note that their hate-mongering party got defeated in the last parliament elections for this very same reason: India is not a "nation" but a country of several "nations".

What is a "nation": India will not become a nation just by repeating that word in every sentence and making a song and dance out of it. The legitimacy of a "nation" depends on the will of the people comprising that "nation". What is most crucial is the self-awareness of a people that it constitutes a "nation". It must be an ethno-cultural community shaped by shared myths of origins, a sense of common history and way of life and particular ideas of space that endows its members with identity and purpose. Look at Palestinians and Jews. Both are ready to fight and die for their "nation". Each can be called a "nation". Taking this as the definition of a "nation", can India be called a "nation"?

If the Hindutva hate-mongers go on imposing their Brahminical imperialism, the multitudes of oppressed, angry nationalities, gasping for breath, will certainly explode just as it happened in Soviet Russia. Soviet Union broke into pieces because of the Russian insensitivity to the national, cultural and political Russification. The "cultural nationalism" that Advani is mouthing at the instance of his RSS bosses will horrify India's multitudes of ethnic identities — castes, communities, tribes and religions.

India may follow Soviet Union: A tiny micro-minority of 15% alien Aryan Brahminical upper castes, who have illegally seized power in India, cannot go on imposing their despotic rule over the myriad peace-loving ethnic identities. What is happening in different parts of this vast country is nothing but the convulsions of these multi-ethnic forces leading to terrible unrest and violence. In the name of "cultural nationalism", Advani is pushing anti-nationalism down the throats of the unwilling original inhabitants of India.

If Advani and his god-fathers in Nagpur do not heed this warning, India may go the way of Soviet Union. This is the warning given by history. Alas, the Advanis do not want to learn from history.

The Indian history says that right from the days of Budha, there has been a xenophobic celebration of Brahminism. The two cock and bull stories, called epics, were manufactured to fool the masses of innocent Indians and thus hinduise (enslave) them. After destroying Budhism, the alien Brahminical imperialists resorted to destructive assaults on the religious and cultural heritage of the original inhabitants of India.

Hinduising the non-Hindus: With all their centuries of hinduisation (enslavement) drive and the direct state power they wielded after "independence" (1947), the Brahminical forces, aided and abetted by their monopoly media, might have to some extent influenced our non-Hindu people to call themselves Hindu but they have failed to destroy the ethnic identity of the different castes, subcastes, tribal units. We have said this in detail in our book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, (Books for Change, 2004).

The Aryan Brahmins have tried to impose their alien culture, calling India a "Hindu nation" and also forcibly kept the non-Hindu masses (over 65% comprising the SC/ST/BCs) poor and hence illiterate. And instigated the SC/ST/BCs against the three religious minorities — Muslims (15%), Christian (2.5%) and Sikhs (2.5%) — to hinduise them. But none of these hinduisation (enslavement) exercises could destroy the ethnic identity of SC/ST/BCs. Their core national identity remained untouched.

The RSS and its umpteen tails are working day in and day out spending billions and billions of dollars to hinduise (meaning destroying our "ethnic identity") but they could not succeed to destroy it inside their own nazi party. Caste is intact inside the Hindu nazi party itself.

The "Hindu rule" is much more coercive, aggressive and violent compared to the Russian rule or any other oppressive ruling class in the world though it has succeeded in hiding its blood-stained hands — under the gandhian garb of Ahimsa (non-violence), tolerance and democracy.

Gujarat Genocide: We are aware that the upper castes (only the thinking sections among them) are restless because political power is slipping out of their hands. That is why they are frantically resorting to all sorts of gimmicks. They thought by hinduising the SC/ST/BCs they could instigate them against the Muslim and Christian. Gujarat Genocide (2002) was their grandest experiment. But it did not help their nazi party to get re-elected. The architect of the Gujarat Genocide was denied the American visa which amounted to a slap on the face of the country's upper caste rulers who have their heart in America.

Whatever they touch is turning mud. Because their hearts are filled with poison. We want to warn them that their "cultural nationalism" will also turn mud. Hate will produce more hate.

Advani and his Nagpur godfathers must read the history of Soviet Russia and its breakup. Over 75 years of marxist experiment to melt, dissolve and devour the different ethnic identities within the USSR did not succeed. How can the historically hated Aryans succeed to destroy our "ethnic identity" by hating us?

Caste as a "nation": Remember, democratic experiment is something new to India. A state undergoing democratisation and to achieve stability, it has to constructively use the different elements constituting that state. Those constituent elements are called "ethnic cores". In the case of India, the "ethnic cores" are the different castes and subcastes — in other word jati. We have compared India's caste to a "nation". An up-and-coming young democracy like India (58 years old) can flourish only if these "ethnic cores" are kept as "democratically dominant and strongly identified with the states and its territories". (Anthony Smith, Ethnic Origins of Nations, 1996, Oxford). Without these conditions multi-national countries like India will be regularly destabilised, warns Anthony Smith.

Bihar experiment: We in India are regularly experiencing such a destabilisation in every part. In Bihar, all the wicked "Brahmin brains" put together could not form a govt. keeping the "hated" Lalu Prasad out. Vaidik hearts are burning. As this is written all their stooges like Ram Vilas Paswan, Nitish Kumar, George Fernandes have failed. The handful of Brahmins and Bumihars want to re-establish their hegemony over Bihar but they are not succeeding. Money is no problem for them. But the SC/ST/BCs of Bihar are unwilling to give up their identity.

More the vaidiks try to suppress and gag the "ethnic cores" more they will revolt. Bihar provides a good example.

What is keeping India from a breakup like Soviet Union is the ingenious Brahmin-made caste system. Strong and long-lasting like a pyramid, though periodically shaking — because of its ascending order of reverence and descending degree of contempt — India has become a wonder of the world: neither dying nor living. It is perhaps the world's only case of living death.

The pyramid may be shaky but its different layers are so much cemented and bound to each other that it will not break or collapse. This is evident from the fact that though naked exploitation of the different "ethnic identities" (nationalities) has reached peak proportions, the pyramid as such has not collapsed in India. This is because of the caste system which is the other word for Hinduism.

The pyramid might not have collapsed but the different "nations" that constitute this country (pyramid) called India did not allow peace of mind to the ruling upper castes by subjecting the pyramid to periodical tremor. That means over 3,000 years of hinduisation and the arbitrary imposition of Brahminical dictatorship on the multitudes of "ethnic identities" (castes, subcastes, communities, tribes and religions minorities), the different "nations" (castes etc.) have remained deathless.

The vaidik rulers should again study the history of the breakup of Soviet Union to understand that in a world committed to human rights and democratic values we must also allow for expression of "national identity".

India not a "nation": India cannot become a "nation" just because it has a geographical boundary. Remember, this boundary has changed many times. Even when the British bulldozed India into a "nation", hundreds of autonomous princely states were smoothly functioning inside India. Even now Kashmir is refusing to integrate with India. The North-Eastern states still do not consider part of India. The Hindu nazi party itself is dubbing the country's 15% Muslim population (India's single largest community) as "foreigners". Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are on a perpetual war on the river water issue. Sikhs are boiling over the denial of their ethnic identity. (DV Sept.1, 1991 p.17: "Dr. Ambedkar's warning: India is not a nation").

The pyramid that is India is periodically shaking and the vaidiks who are sitting on its top, forming the apex of this pyramid, are naturally worried. Their worry is real and genuine. Thinking sections of vaidiks are not even getting a sound sleep in the night. Why these "thinking people" are not trying to solve the worry of their very survival?

History tells us that no "ethnic identity" in any part of the world has allowed itself to be willingly destroyed. The best example for this is the Jews. Wherever they may be and whatever be their "nationality" the Jews, despite being the world's most prosperous and educated community, have maintained their "ethnic identity" which is further strengthened after the establishment of Israel. The same is the case with India's Brahmins.

Let the alien Aryan Brahminical people go on "uniting" us in the name of their Hinduism but we will go on "dividing" their Hinduism by using our "ethnic identity" called caste or subcaste.

Nationality question: "Nationality question" is never discussed in India — even in our intellectual circles. Even marxists are shy to talk about it. We have made several attempts to raise a discussion on the subject but the intellectual poverty of India is so much we are met with a quick reply saying that "India is a nation hence such a discussion is irrelevant". But this "intellectual class", which is the other name for the Brahminical class, is extremely worried over caste-based parties coming to the fore. In the Central Govt. itself caste-based parties are sharing power today. It was so even when the Hindu Nazi Govt. was ruling in Delhi. Maharashtra is ruled by a caste-based party of Marathas. Caste leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh, Mayawati are today national leaders. Caste is the deciding factor in all State Assembly and Parliament elections. Caste-based reservations have come to stay. Even within religious minorities like Muslim and Christians, demand for caste-based reservations are gaining ground. No political party is free from caste.

Caste is our identity: Why caste is getting such a supreme importance because caste(jati) is our ethnic identity. Each caste (or subcaste to be precise) is a "nation" by itself. Hence the importance of nationality question. By putting caste under the carpet it will not be possible to hide caste or diminish its importance. Caste is the be-all and end-all of Indian life. Brahmins went up and became the ruling class only because of caste. Having gone up, they are trying to hide caste, ridicule caste, deny the existence of caste and play politics with caste by instigating the Scheduled Castes against the Backward Castes. They are the very people who make the maximum use of caste, derive the highest profits from caste even castigating the caste and trying to confuse such of those "educated" Dalits who are willing to be confused.

Wanted debate: But that stage is over. Parliamentary democracy has brought caste to the centre stage. And hence the "nationality question" will gain the highest importance in the coming days.

We want our DV family members to arrange debates in different towns and cities on the "nationality question in India" and wherever possible we will try to attend it.

Advani facing defeat: Advani is fighting a losing battle. Many Hindu heroes before him have tried the weapon of "cultural nationalism" to destroy our "ethnic identity". But they all failed.

Neither they succeed nor we succeed. In the process of this never-ending tug of war between the monolithic "cultural nationalism" and democratic ethnic nations, the country called India is suffering and sinking.

But we the oppressed 85% of the non-Hindu indigenous people have nothing to lose. We are already deep in the water. What if we sink further? It is the heaven-born vaidik rulers who stand to suffer if the pyramid that is India shakes more and more and those sitting at the top fall and get crushed. The loss is theirs. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

We have thought deeply on this subject for over ten years and our considered opinion is that our "ethnic identity" (which in the case of India is called caste for want of any other appropriate word) if strengthened and consolidated, the menace of Hindutva will simply wither away.

No leader in the Hindu nazi party has destroyed his "ethnic identity" (caste). Narendra Modi is hated by the Patels in Gujarat because he is a Backward Caste. Even Advani is hated by Vaidik Vajpayee and his jatwalas because he is not a Brahmin.

Caste can't be killed: Caste is also in tact within the Marxist parties — CPM and CPI. Prakash Karat was made the boss of CPM because he is an upper caste Nair from Kerala. No political party or any intellectual institution has killed caste. Because of the simple fact that caste cannot be killed. Caste cannot be killed because it is our "core identity" or "ethnic identity".

Any society or people who allow their identity to be destroyed will simply get enslaved. They will gradually wither away. We have to learn this from the Jews and the Brahmins who call themselves as the "Jews of India".

Confused Dalits: Some of our people under Brahminical influence are confusing the caste to caste system. The two are not only different but hostile to each other. Dr. Ambedkar, the Father of India, never called for destruction of our caste (ethnic identity). Babasaheb called himself a proud Mahar. (Eleanor Zelliot, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar & the Untouchable Movement, Blumoon Books, New Delhi, 2004).

Caste is our ethnic identity but caste system is the other name for Hinduism or Brahminism and hence our Enemy No.1. This has to be destroyed. And we are all-out for its destruction. But the deadliest and the surest weapon to destroy it is by strengthening our ethnic identity —that is caste. (V.T. Rajshekar, Weapons to Fight Counter Revolution, DSA-2004).

That is what we meant when we said "caste to kill casteism". Advani please note: You may go on trying to enslave us through "cultural nationalism", but we will go on cutting you to size through "ethnic nationalism". The ethnic war began with Budhism and will continue until we win. This is Ambedkarism. (April 13, 2005).