Mayawati launches bloodless revolution via UP

DR. V.D. CHANDANSHIVE, COTTAGE VAISHALI, SHAHU NAGAR, NANDED - 431 602

Though overtly it appears as a political change in UP, brought about by an “iron lady”, covertly it has all the ingredients of a silent, neat, bloodless revolution envisaged by the icons of the Bahujan Samaj beginning with the Budha, Asoka in the ancient times and dreamt of by Jyotirao Phule, Shahu, Dr. Ambedkar and Periyar.

This is so because the sweeping political change in UP is based solely on the ideology of the above-cited great personalities who always stood for justice and equality in political, social and economic spheres irrespective of caste, creed and religion.

This is the first time in post-independent India that a remarkable political transformation has materialized founded on the core ideology of Bahujanism, the ideology which has been staring through the preamble of the Indian constitution waiting to be implemented by the rulers but whose Manuwadi mind-set has converted it into more or less a dead letter. In the very first press conference, after swearing in as CM, Mayawati said:

Yeh hamari vichardhara ki vijay hai (this is the victory for our ideology).

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s definition of democracy — a system of governance in which change is brought without shedding a single drop of blood — has been actually demonstrated by Mayawati at the hustings in UP. Hats off to her indomitable courage and her managerial skills.

Our Editor has very rightly commented on the greatness of Kanshi Ram:

The country has not so far seen a political strategist like Kanshi Ram. He is an expert on caste and had all the caste arithmetic on the tip of his fingers. His experiments in UP, using the caste to kill casteism proved a great success. Kanshi Ram has been not only a dedicated and selfless leader but perhaps a rare leader who loved his people... If Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar gave us those deadly philosophical weapons to fight the Brahminical forces, the credit goes to Kanshi Ram for effectively using those weapons and producing magical results... (Dr. V.D. Chandanshive, Kanshi Ram The Crusader, Blue Dawn Books, 2005 p.5).

No Dalit leader after Babasaheb stood the test of time as Kanshi Ram did. And the novel strategy which he applied to the Bahujan movement paid him great dividends. While at Poona he happened to read Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste and he read it several times. When he found that Babasaheb had put the onus of destroying caste on the Brahmins and other upper castes who were just 15% in the Indian society, what was left for Kanshi Ram to do? But there was a section in Babasaheb’s writings about an ideal, casteless Indian society based on the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity practising social endosmosis. (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar W&S, Vol.1, p.57).

U.P. ACCEPTS BAHUJAN IDEOLOGY

He thought that the percentage of upper castes was just 15% but the deprived a whopping 85%. Why not organise and unite them on the basis of their victimisation? If Manu could divide the castes by empowering the 15% micro minority, he could unite the 85% majority (bahujans) by making them aware of their victimisation. And fraternity was the weapon he used to unite them. Kanshi Ram got the clues to do this from the writings of Phule, Shahu, Dr. Ambedkar, Periyar and also from the writings of his contemporary thinker and friend, V.T. Rajshekar our Editor.

Kanshi Ram never looked back since then conquering one target after another with the help of his organs —BAMCEF, DS-4 and BSP. Renouncing his home, relatives and adopting a life-style of a hermit, he journeyed through the nook and corner of the country selling dreams and awakening different Bahujan castes. Sleeping or awake, he devoted his entire life to the Bahujan mission. He became an ideal missionary for his cadre. A compassionate and saintly leader as he was, he wanted a better successor to the movement which he found in Sister Mayawati who has proved her mettle in UP by installing the first ever Bahujan government in clear majority and asserting herself as a Sarwajan Dalit leader.

MEANING OF “CASTE IDENTITY”

Looking at the entire demographic scenario of UP, one can claim that the steady walk of BSP’s elephant has not left any area untrampled. The Indian media has concealed the fact that apart from winning 208-10 seats in an Assembly of 403, BSP stood second in 111 constituencies and in 60 segments it lost by a margin less than 5,000 votes. The vote share reveals that it was a massive sweep for BSP. That means the UP electorate of all castes and creed had accepted the Bahujan idealogy of justice to all castes and communities.

But to make the UP electorate accept Bahujan ideology, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati had to put in their non-stop efforts for nearly 25-30 years. They have tested the thesis successfully that castes and communities of different shades can be constructively awakened to achieve their human rights and to get justice. Another significant fall-out of UP elections which has come to the fore is:

If the 85% deprived Bahujans is united, the remaining 15% upper castes will follow to safeguard their own security and rights. In this way Bahujans can be converted into sarvajans. So the fraternity of 85% Bahujans results in the fraternity of sarvajans. This is the only meaning of the thesis of “caste identity”, caste awakening or caste consolidation or to use caste unity to kill casteism.

VICTORY ONLY DUE TO BRAHMIN VOTE IS JOKE

Fraternity is a unique instrument to unite the victimised castes after caste awakening. This thesis can purge the Bahujan Samaj of the caste hatred and also superiority, inferiority feeling inducted in the caste system by Manu. This has been demonstrated perfectly by what is now termed as “social engineering” which Dr. Ambedkar called “social endosmosis” by Mayawati in UP.

In the heated UP elections the Indian media did not stop playing its old Manuwadi mischief by projecting Mayawati victory as a result of Brahmins voting for BSP. Looking at the entire electoral politics in India even a blind man can tell that due only to the Bahujan castes and communities voting for upper caste political parties a mere 15-20% upper caste rulers have been ruling India since “independence”. The media attempt to tell the people that a small river is bigger than a vast ocean is really a joke. It is true that the upper casts — Brahmins, Jains, Jats, Thakurs and even Bhumihars — did vote for the BSP. But what is their total percentage in the total population of UP? And moreover BSP had distributed tickets to these caste groups as per their percentage in the population of UP which no other party had done. Obviously the percentage of upper castes in UP is much less than SC,BC and Muslims put together. The OBC caste groups, Yadavs and Lodhs, did not vote for the BSP. But about 30% OBCs other than Yadavs and Lodhs preferred BSP. Why? The answer lies in an altogether different political representation the UP electorate expected and BSP was successful in generating this model.

“LARGEST DEMOCRACY” IS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, while criticizing the nature of the body of elected representatives in parliament and assemblies, often described them as communal majorities. This meant that either the elected representatives belonged to one dominant caste numerically much stronger than other caste groups in the area or at the most all elected members belonged to the upper castes riding rough shod over the lower caste groups.

This again meant numerically much greater “lower caste” groups remained completely unrepresented which turned out to be anti-democratic in the “largest democracy of the world”. To our dismay OBC leaders Mulayam and Lalu and others have also imitated this upper caste-generated model creating Yadav monopoly in their respective states. We can now witness what the non-Yadav electorate has done with these leaders. In Maharashtra also the Maratha communal majority has been ruling the state for so many years monopolising not only political power but the entire co-operative and agricultural sector leaving the non-Maratha electorate and the communities unrepresented. But in UP, a fully democratic representation model has been generated awakening and educating the Indian electorate which has been creating ripples throughout the country. In UP, the old model of communal majority has been killed by the electorate.

MEANING OF SECULARISM

Congressmen are claiming to be secular but the BJP and Hindu terrorists are calling them pseudo-secularists striving to appease Muslims. But both of them are playing the game of phobia-generating politics — a technique that kept the Congress in power for half a century. Hindu terrorists intimidating, abusing the Muslims and the Congress pretending to be their saviour just for their votes. Both the Hindu terrorist party and the Congress engineering riots between Muslims and Backward Castes (bundling them Hindus) but focussing the riot as “Hindu versus Muslims” just to garner votes in elections and still claiming as secularists. This reached a climax when the “secularist” Congress Prime Minister Narasimha Rao silently allowed the dismantling of Babri Mosque in UP then ruled by BJP in 1992. Here the two parties proved to be two sides of the same coin. The anti-Muslim stance of upper castes in all upper caste parties was perfected with the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. This much for the secularism of upper castes.

WELFARE ECONOMY

Mayawati has added another vital meaning to the Indian secularism. Apart from the “religious secularism” they have added “social secularism” in a caste-ridden India. The principle of secularism cannot be implemented without “social secularism” or call it secularism of castes apart from secularism of religions.

Unless each caste is managed, awakened and empowered the principle of secularism cannot be brought to its logical end.

But the upper caste rulers have been using secularism as a disruptive weapon to disturb the peace of the society with which the electorate is disgusted. The Indian society along with the “poor” of the upper castes wants security, justice, development and progress which have been denied to them by the upper caste ruling clique throwing secularism to the winds.

Political power for BSP is not an end in itself. But it is an effective means to be used for social and economic democracy or transformation. Otherwise, mere political democracy (right to vote), without creating social and economic equality will be a fiasco. And it has been made a fiasco by the 15% upper caste rulers in terms of 85% deprived Bahujans. The upper caste rulers have been using the country’s economy for the welfare of their own jati people who are just 15-20% leaving out a gigantic chunk of 85% high and dry. (Read V.T. Rajshekar’s book, Development Redefined, DSA-2006).

DR. AMBEDKAR CHEATED

A core part-IV of the Indian constitution which puts forth the developmental agenda — the directive principles of state policy — still remains un-implemented even after 6 years of “independence” simply because it is not made obligatory by the constitution-makers as they have done with the fundamental rights. In fact, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar wanted to induct an economic policy, namely state socialism, in the basic structure of the constitution and wanted to make it obligatory on every government to implement it. In the constitutional debates he had pointed out that in the world constitutions there was a lacuna of non-inclusion of definite economic policy and we Indians should remove this drawback in the making of our constitution. But our great upper caste lovers of democracy opposed his proposal and refused to make economic policy of state socialism obligatory by law. Since then the upper caste rulers have been playing hide and seek with part-IV of the constitution.

But in UP, Mayawati cannot afford to drift away from the welfare economy of the dynamic Bahujan icon. For this dynamic iron lady, Mayawati, must become the PM to materialize the benefits of welfare economy.

Indian rulers have blindly imitated the Western economic model which pushed the country to extreme poles of marxism or capitalist or market economy. Those countries which sought equilibrium between these two poles have prospered. Nothing that goes to the extreme succeeds. Under marxism, liberty is crushed and under capitalism equality is thrown to the winds. So justice is denied in both the systems.

Both the economic systems (socialism and capitalism) have been created by international Jewry (read Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion, copies available with Dalit Voice, Rs. 50). Marx was a Jew and the champions of globalisation (WTO, World Bank and IMF) are all Jew. They have invented these economic systems to disrupt peace in different countries to push the zionist agenda. They think that they have been chosen by god to rule the entire world. But they cannot fool the entire world all the time. They should also remember that human mind is capable of innovations and it has the capacity to invent a novel economic system which would establish world peace once again. They should also remember that if they are bent upon destroying world peace, they too will remain unsafe. Mayawati is capable of reviewing the economic world scenario to apply Dr. Ambedkar’s indigenous brand of state socialism.

CLOSING DOWN D.V. : EDITOR MUST LAUNCH R.S.S.-LIKE BODY

Socio-cultural revolution alone can make political power permanent

NAGESH CHOUDHARY, EDITOR, BAHUJAN SANGHARSH, RAHATE COLONY, WARDHA ROAD, NAGPUR - 440 022

I fully understand the agony of Editor V.T. Rajshekar. Many including myself are shocked to hear his decision to “close down DV” (DV Edit May 16, 2007). If not today, DV will soon stop if somebody capable does not come to forward. So what and who after VTR? He is 76 years young. His energy and intellect are still youthful as they were before.

I am reacting to what Com. Ayyankali has written, “Brahmins will rejoice if DV is closed but India can see no revolution” (DV June 16, 2007 p.11).

What I understood from many years of contact with VTR and studying his writings is that he is striving for a cultural revolution rather than political power. He has deliberately kept aloof from politics, joined no party but supported certain parties especially the Dalit ones.

Ayyankali wants an “RSS-like non-political organisation” and adds:

DV can no longer be run only by one man. It has to be run by a trust backed by an RSS-like non-political organisation.

BRAHMINIC THOUGHT CONTROLLED BY RSS

But he does not know that RSS is not just a trust but controls almost all political parties, besides directly controlling BJP. Today, RSS is the biggest organisation in India. It has solid assets in all major cities of India. Its wealth cannot be matched by any political party including the ruling Congress Party. I am saying this with my close watch on RSS which has its headquarters right here in Nagpur.

RSS has a definite aim — to keep India a Hindu nation. All Brahmins and most non-Brahmins in political or social organisations are controlled by the RSS. Besides, there are scores of outfits controlled by the RSS. The “Hindu nation” is a system. After the British left they have strengthened the Brahminic system with an all-pervading bondage.

Political power, according to the RSS, is not the master key. It is part of the system, the “nation”. M.S. Golwalkar says:

We stand for national regeneration and not for that half-hazard bundle of (politics) — the state. (We or Our Nationhood Defined, 1939, p.3. Photocopy available with DV).

PHULE-AMBEDKAR-PERIYAR PRODUCT OF BRITISH

We consider our great liberators as our guide today. Mahatma Phule and Dr. Ambedkar were born in Maharashtra. Phule was born (1827) just nine years after the Peshwa rule was defeated by the British. Dr. Ambedkar was born under the British Raj. Phule wrote all his books when British were ruling. Had there been a Peshwa rule — India’s last Brahminic rule run as per Manu’s law — how could Phule criticise Brahmins as he did? He would have been nipped in the bud.

In Pune, Mahars and other Untouchables were not allowed to walk on the streets. Even cats and dogs had that freedom but not Dalits. This inhuman practice was stopped by the British.

The British introduced a new administrative system. No single personality was important under that system. Had there been no British rule neither Dr. Ambedkar nor Periyar or Shahu Maharaja would have come up.

Brahmin rule would not have tolerated Phule, Periyar or Dr. Ambedkar. So, we should accept the bitter truth that it was the British who were responsible for the rise of our great saviours like Phule, Dr. Ambedkar and Periyar.

“HINDU NATION” CONFINED TO 15% ARYANS

A great personality alone cannot create a system. Phule-Periyar-Dr. Ambedkar could not have created an anti-Brahmin or non-Brahmin system. They could attack the Brahminic system only because of the protection they enjoyed under the British rule. That is why all the Brahmin marxists as well reactionaries call Phule, Dr. Ambedkar, Periyar as stooges of British.

Ayyankali’s call for an RSS-like body needs to be examined in the light of my above observation. The Brahminic system, meaning the “the Hindu nation”, as a whole has to be countered and defeated in totality. That is why they call RSS a cultural body. The “Hindu nation” concept does not indicate the majority Hindu population. What they mean by “Hindu nation” is the mere 15% Aryan nation.

Golwalkar’s concept of “Hindu nation” is a racial one. If we read the book, We or Our Nationhood Defined, the overall domination of Aryan Brahmins is what Golwalkar means by “Hindu nation”. He considered such aspects as race, language, culture and religion in the context of Aryans only. In the foreword to his book, M.S. Aney, ex-Governor and a Congressman then, supporting Golwalkars theory says:

The state is an essentially political unity while the nationality is primarily cultural and incidentally political.

Quoting Prof. Hayes, Golwalkar says:

“...the idea contained in the word nation is a compound of five distinct factors fused into one indissoluble whole, the famous five units — geographical (country) and racial (race), religious (religion), cultural (culture) and linguistic (language). (Ibid p.18).

INDIAN GOVT. FOLLOWS BRAHMINIC SYSTEM

RSS never aspires for political power. At least they say so and there is lot of truth in that statement. They stand for “nation” meaning Brahminical control or domination over the country i.e. geographical entity under their control.

Aryans are culturally superior because the people are under the influence of Brahminic or vedic culture.

Even the Indian state (the Govt. of India) follows Brahminic culture, It respects the Vedas, Ramayana, Gita more than any scripture. The state respects the Sanskrit language the most. No other language has such respect as Sanskrit. There are Sanskrit universities all over India for a few hundred Sanskrit learning Brahmins. On the contrary there is not even a single department to learn the languages of Adivasis who constitute 10% of our population.

Gonds speaking Gondi language number lakhs but they have to learn in Brahminic language. And above all the masses are insulted by calling their speech, language as impure, rustic. They are not only socially downgraded but linguistically and culturally insulted. The people’s languages are inferior just like their castes are.

It is said that if you kill the language you kill the nation. Aryans have to a large extent killed the languages of Bahujans. They have labelled Urdu as anti-national. Another way of side- tracking or killing it. Language contains cultural traits and social relations. Brahminism by killing the languages of Bahujans killed the Bahujan culture and nation.

Golwalkar says Sanskrit is the national language of “Hindu nation”. Hindi is sponsored by the Central Govt. as our national language but RSS considers that declaration is done by the state and not by the “nation”. This speaks how they are particular about the “Hindu nation”.

HINDUS EQUATED WITH ARYAN

They say their religion is Hindu. But Hindu is equated with Aryan and hence religion and race are synonymous. The other Hindu (non-Brahmins) are not Hindus in the minds of the Brahmins. They are shudras i.e. slaves.

RSS is run according to the thesis propounded by Golwalkar even to this day. But where are we? Com. Ayyankali is perfectly right in proposing that DV should be run like the RSS.

The readers of DV should give thought to his idea. Then not only DV will survive but also you will be able to counter the “Hindu nation”. RSS leaders say India is a “Hindu nation” because very thing including the Indian state is being run as per their wishes whichever political party runs the Indian state. Even Dalit political parties dare not challenge them culturally. We are fooling ourselves calling “political power as the master key”.

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Brother Nagesh Chaudhary is our good old friend at Nagpur and a great admirer of our work for about three decades. As the Editor of a Marathi journal, he too is struggling like us. We thank him for pointing out that socio-cultural revolution alone can lead to political revolution. We have endorsed his point and elaborated it in the Editorial (see p.3) — EDITOR.

Iran attack underway?

U. KHALID, 3-BLACKLAND DR., HAYES, MDDX 8B4 8 EU, UK

Reports say President Bush told a meeting in Reno he has “authorized the military commanders in Iraq to confront Teheran’s murderous activities”. Those words come close to saying not that a war is coming but that it is already here. Equipped with 97-0 resolution in the Senate to confront Iran, the President may unleash a surprise assault on Iran very soon. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s book, Israel Lobby, released here is under attack and dubbed anti-semite.

American protest meetings to expose Gandhi

PIETER FREDRICH, SAN FRANSCISCO

We are glad to hear Dalit Voice is arranging a protest in Bombay on Oct.2 to expose the mischief of M.K. Gandhi through the “Poona Pact”. What time of day does your protest in Bombay start? Is there a phone number or email we can use publicly for interested parties to contact? We would like to list a schedule of Oct.2 protests on our website, www.gandhism.net. We will include the details of your scheduled protest on our list. We have also put together an online petition protesting the UN resolution honoring Gandhi. You can view this here:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-honoring-gandhi-with-un-international-day-of-non-violence.html

Please pass this around to increase awareness of the problems with Mohandas Gandhi. Please make sure that any interested parties receive an opportunity to view our website at http://www.gandhism.net. This website has a great many details about the problems surrounding Gandhi and is very informative. We are currently working on a “Gandhi and Dalits” section which should be completed within two to three weeks. (jjamesf@gmail.com).

RAW hand in Bangladesh student violence

MOHAMMAD ZAINAL ABEDIN, H.NO.9, ROAD-20, BLOCK-C, SECT.-10, DHAKA - 1216

The tempest that rocked Dhaka from Aug.20 to 22 under the cover of student protest was masterminded by India’s super intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing).

RAW was behind the recent upheaval in Dhaka University (DU) and other educational institutions when students attacked vehicles and business installations. The situation was so grave that the government was forced to impose curfew in Dhaka and five other divisional headquarters to control the students belonging to pro-India camp. They were joined by non-student hired hooligans and activists belonging to different political parties and their front organizations that enjoy RAW blessings.

The trouble started over a trifling matter — a football match at DU playground to teach a “lesson” to the caretaker government and undermine the image of Bangladesh armed forces. The tempest struck when the country was recovering from scars of India-created devastating floods.

The student riot spread to many other universities and even colleges which had no connection with the DU playground incident. Cash distribution was so open and enormous that the Army chief, Lt. Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed, said the “evil power (meaning India) poured crores of taka to instigate vandalism in the streets”.

RAW, they said, is engaged in disruptive activities in Bangladesh ever since it came into being in 1971. No other country in this region and beyond is against Bangladesh and no other intelligence agency maintains so many tentacles and toadies in Bangladesh other than the RAW.

A Bengali daily, Naya Diganta, of Dhaka said Indian diplomats based in Rajshahi caused release of the three teachers of Rajshahi University. Of these one was Prof. Moloy Kumar Bhowmic, a Hindu.

Indian High Commission officials were very active throughout the student violence. Rajshahi University did not experience such a violence in its 54-year existence.

Indian diplomats tried to influence the police not to prosecute the culprits. It also said that many teachers and student leaders of RU were on the payroll of RAW.

Barrister Mainul Hosen, the adviser for Law and Information, told the BBC the involvement of foreign hands. (noa@agni.com)

If Ambedkarism has to survive DV must continue

R.R. GAWALI, C-2048, PATEL KUNJ, GAIL GAON, DIBIYAPUR 206 241

DV is the energy and inspiration for the survival of Ambedkarism, We are not having an all-India English media of our own except Dalit Voice. I am requesting you to please continue DV. As per my ability I am sending you a cheque of Rs. 5,000 as a contribution for your noble cause.

COMMMUNICATION : “CASTE IDENITY”

In defence of Bojja Tarakam

NEERAV PATEL, 4-HEMANG PARK, VEJALPUR, AHMEDABAD 380 051

Thank you for publishing my Letter (DV, Aug, 16, 2007, p. 8) even though it carried some criticism. Again I find in the current issue that Bojja Tharakam criticised you at the Andhra Pradesh DVsilver Jubilee Celebrations on Aug 12 at Hyderabad. I must praise your democratic ethos when you allow such dissenting voices in DV.

But it does not go well with the champion of Dalit cause like you when equally respectable but dissenting Dalit activists/ideologues are attributed with practicing subtle casteism. You cannot necessarily perceive them as taking their caste’s interest uppermost just because they are born Mala or Madiga or Mahar or Chamar.

Dangerous evil: You deserve a lot more praise when you take the side of the weakest of the weak among the Dalits and advocate the principle of reservation to its logical end i.e. those who are yet to avail the benefits of the scheme must be given their due and, therefore, internal reservation (“categorisation”) is the only just solution. Great and fine. This is nothing but social justice. But I can’t understand how you can mix the two issues — “caste identity” and “categorisation” (i.e. extension of the principle of social justice and equality of opportunity, fraternity of all human beings including among Dalits themselves )?

I cannot take you as a petty propagandist, a pamphleteer involved in his myopic mission; I know you are a great scholar, a great philosopher, a great humanitarian, a great ideologue, a great revolutionary. I simply can’t understand how you got possessed of this dangerous evil called “caste identity”.

I find you and many other contributors every now and then lamenting on this evil called “caste identity” plaguing Dalit converts in the so-called egalitarian religions like Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Budhism. On the one hand you preach people to take pride in their “caste identity”, engage in their caste solidarity.

What do you want – caste without casteism ? It is like Brahmin without Brahminism. I wonder, without abolishing caste how one can fully get rid of casteism ?

You must read Moses Parmar again , and yet again. You must accept universal brotherhood as an ideal and pride on the basis of any identity other than the human identity is bound to backfire into the concepts and practices of inferior-superior, high-low, pure-impure. Whatever our struggle, we must never forget that it is for human fraternity, human equality, human liberty. “Caste Identity” theory in the name ethnic roots and knowing one’s history is nothing but a tribal instinct and we must keep it restrained as the evolutionary theory of mankind as a whole. The sooner you exorcise this ghost, the saner you will become in the eyes of Dalit intellectuals/activists.

Bojja Tharakam is absolutely right, you are absolutely wrong my dear friend, philosopher and guide. I am really crying when I write to criticise you, as I love you too much and want to respect you much more than that. I wish you many many more years of life, and DV living longer than that. Having lost Dr. Ambedkar so early, we Dalits can’t afford any more casualties. We have long way to go and you have to live to guide us, my veteran leader.

With tears in eyes, Neerav, your loved one.

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If DV is promoting casteism why Brahmins hate it ?

Brother Neerav, Gujarat’s topmost Dalit poet, a long-standing member of DV and an esteemed friend of the Editor, has been a critic of our “caste identity” theory from the very beginning. Fine. We always give priority to any criticism — even if it is from Brahmins. That is how the five-year-long Debate on “caste identity” began with our another esteemed Brother Bojja Tarakam criticising our thesis. In he Debate that followed we published every criticism but rejecting much of the Letters in praise of our thesis. When the support to the thesis became overwhelming and specially the Brahminical people, our principal enemy, gave our thesis a fantastic certificate by their unanimous opposition, we decided to close the Debate when the AP State Assembly passed “categorisation” Bill and start writing a book itself on the subject. (DV May 1, 2000 p.9: “DV’s caste identity thesis gets peoples endorsement”).

Our book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, came out in 2002 and gained instant popularity despite the Brahminical toilet papers decision not to review the book. Even the international award we got in London and reported by PTI was totally blacked out. Such is the intensity of the Brahmin hatred towards our thesis.

BRAHMASTRA TO KILL BRAHMINISM

What does it mean? Our centuries-old sole single enemy hates our “caste identity” thesis because it is convinced that it is the Brahmastra to kill Brahminism. Did not Mao say “Love what the enemy hates and hate what the enemy loves”?

When our war is against Brahminism and Babasaheb and every other revolutionary fought and died fighting Brahminism, is it not our duty to rejoice when Brahminism is hurt and starts bleeding because of our Brahmastra?

We did not know that Neerav never read our book. All his questions are answered in our book and yet he goes on raising the same questions again and again because he did not read the book.

In the very state of Neerav (Gujarat), where Brahminism (Hinduism) is staging its Tandav dance after killing 2,500 Muslims at Gujarat Genocide-2002 using Dalits and tribals to do the job, the ruling Patels are using the “caste identity” thesis to kill the Monster Modi.

CASTE KILLING CASTEISTS

Brahmins and their party are worried that the people are getting divided on caste lines and their Hindu and Hindutva are going to the background. In Rajasthan, the Gujjars inside BJP revolted against their party. Caste is killing the casteists (Brahminism).

We thought and thought for years perhaps a decade or so — on how to kill Brahminism — our principal enemy. Brahminism is disguising as Hinduism by annexing the non-Hindu SC/ST/BCs (65%) and thereby becoming the country’s single largest “religion” — though it is essentially the creed of only 15% Aryans. How to annihilate Hinduism? With all the media, history books, public opinion being the monopoly of this 15% Aryans how can we the slaves kill Brahminism?

So, after a decade-long thinking we found that the weapon we are so desperately searching for so long is available inside our very kitchen — the caste.

MALA-MADIGA FEUD

And when we stumbled upon this wonder weapon of “caste identity” the Mala-Madiga feud did not break out. We started the Debate with all honesty thinking that those Dalits, well-versed in Babasaheb’s burning thoughts, would support us because the entire “caste identity” thesis is based on Ambedkarism. Yet, a small section of our people went on raising objections even after we answered all their objections quoting from Babasaheb’s words only. When “caste identity” aims at equal sharing and equal caring, assuring each caste (ethnic identity) its share in proportion to its population, how can we be accused of dividing Dalits? When the deprived Dalits demand only their share, how can the Malas say such a demand will divide the Dalits?

Our Caste book in manuscript stage was read by scholars in Oxford University and they said if it was submitted as a thesis it would fetch an Oxford University doctoral degree.

Neerav’s single-point attack in his latest Letter is “caste identity” will promote casteism. There is a whole chapter in our book (Chapter-5: “Caste to kill casteism) which is fully based on the thoughts of Babasaheb.

D.V. PROMOTING CASTEISM?

But Neerav says:

“Caste without casteism” is like Brahmin without Brahminism. I wonder without abolishing caste how one can fully get rid of casteism?

But even such a brilliant person like Neerav, who is himself a victim of Brahminism, does not pause for a while before jumping to this conclusion. If the Editor and DV are promoting casteism, which is the other name for Brahminism, the Brahmins should have been the happiest people. Why then they are after our blood? Why can’t Neerav ponder before jumping into conclusion.

Every day we receive hate mails and threats from Brahmins. Except killing us these killers of Gandhi have done all the damage they could. Sama, dana, bedha are over. Only the danda, the last weapon, is reserved.

If the Editor and DV are promoting casteism, the killers of Gandhi should have loved us, given us awards and rewards.

MADIGAS ARE AN INDEPENDENT CASTE

Malas, Madigas and ever so many castes within the Scheduled Castes in AP are not one single caste. Nor are they different subcastes under the SCs. Scheduled Castes is plural. It is not singular. It is a collection of several independent castes in which each caste is a separate ethnic identity but living separately with no inter-dining, inter-marriage or any other intercourse. The only bond that binds them is untouchability. That is why they come under the single umbrella of SCs. Barring this they have nothing else in common. Babasaheb has cleared all these things decades back.

Bojja Tarakam continues to be our esteemed brother. Our differences are not personal but intellectual. He was once the topmost leader of the entire Untouchables of AP but when the Mala-Madiga feud broke out he supported his Malas and the powerful Andhra Dalit Maha Sabha died. The AP Dalits today are a house divided.

Enemies of Dalits are playing their part to keep the Malas and Madigas divided in AP. In Maharashtra, they are behind the Mahar monopoly which drove non-Mahars into Shiv Sena.

When DV celebrated its silver jubilee at Hyderabad both Malas, Madigas and other smaller SC castes attended it because they all know that DV stands for Ambedkarism. Even Bojja Tarakam came despite this minor difference with the Editor.

CHAMARS OF U.P. BACKED BABASAHEB

Babasaheb was a Mahar (Mala) and he was proud of his caste. But he never went against the interests of SC castes outside Mahar. It is the Chamars of UP that popularised Ambedkarism in the North. But it is the Mala leadership of AP that refused to support Kanshi Ram because he was a Chamar.

ROLE OF GADDAR

Dalit movement is already very weak. Ambedkarites should do everything to save it and bring it back to its original glory. For this we must rise above Mala-Madiga feud.

In this we have to follow the noble example of Gaddar who despite being a Mala is fully supporting the Madiga demand for proportional share.

Or else the Brahminical enemies will go on fanning the feud and further divide us.

One last question which Neerav must answer: If “caste identity” thesis is going against the interest of Dalits and “Dalit unity”, the Ambedkarites as a whole should have rejected it and also dumped DV. But DV is fully supported by the entire Chamars who constitute the single largest Untouchable caste in the Hindi heartland comprising several states. Bahujan Samaj Party also supported us. Besides an overwhelming lot among the fair-minded Mahars, Malas and others have also supported us. Why?

INDIA IS NOT A NATION

Our “caste identity” thesis is not meant only for Dalits. It is for the entire country— including Brahmins.

India is not a “nation”, it is a country of several warring “nations”. It is only the caste that comes nearest to the concept of a “nation”. “Caste identity” helps each weaker caste to gain caste consciousness and then demand its share in proportion to its population. “Caste identity” is the deadliest weapon to kill Brahminism. There is no other weapon. Brahmins know it. But not Neerav. This is the tragedy of India — EDITOR.

Brahmin communist leader Dange killed party to save his jati

COMRADE AYYANKALI

On July 24, Aug.16 and Sept.6, 1947, the Brahmin head of the undivided Communist Party of India, Shripad Amrit Dange, was in Moscow for discussion with A.A. Zhdanov and M.A. Suslov — the two leading theorists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The Brahmin crook was later expelled from the CPI for writing a foreword to his daughter’s book saying the “entire wisdom of Karl Marx came from the Vedas”.

He was asked if caste or national interest that dominated the democratic movement in India. But the Vaidik Dange did not offer any straight reply. He simply said that there were 60 million Untouchables in India and they did not favour the Congress. He then claimed that the communists and the others were trying to bring them to their fold. This again was an unsubstantiated claim.

DR. AMBEDKAR REJECTS MARXISM

In fact, according to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s writings though the unions in the cotton mills of Bombay were mostly under the communists, the Untouchables were still a segregated community.

During the 1940s, a few Indian Trotskyites led by a White South African Trotskyite, Dr. Murray Gow Purdy, met Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. However, Dr. Purdy failed to persuade Dr. Ambedkar to adopt Trotskyite communism, even though Dr. Ambedkar was a confirmed anti-capitalist and often made reference to marxism.

But Dr. Ambedkar was also very much aware of India’s Brahminical manuwadi marxists whom he called “a bunch of Brahmin boys”, misusing marxism to deliberately obscure, obfuscate and mechanically distort the question of caste, by denying that it is essentially a class construct which is part of the base and not merely superstructure.

Because of this possibility Dr. Ambedkar rejected Dr. Purdy’s Trotskyism also. However, Dr. Purdy was convinced that Dalits alone held the key to communist revolution in India. He wrote:

For the first time in its history we proudly affirm that the hereditary proletarians forming the Untouchable Harijan class shall be the spinal chord of the proletarian government, of which the industrial proletariat must be the head. Unlike the Stalinist Communist Party (then undivided CPI) we openly state our independence upon and integral unity with the Harijan (Dalit) propertyless proletarian class. Our work must be among our Harijan brethren, and we must oppose the treacherous gandhian propaganda among them.

DALIT MILL WORKERS OF BOMBAY

Dr. Purdy opposed both erstwhile Brahminical CPI as well as Gandhi. But unlike Dr. Ambedkar, Dr. Purdy believed in armed, bloody and violent Dalit revolution which clearly went beyond even Leon Trotsky’s “Open Letter to the workers of India”.

Dr. Purdy set out to organise Dalit mill workers in Bombay and actually succeeded in launching a struggle against discrimination by upper caste mill workers against Dalit workers in the early 1940s. Dalit workers enthusiastically supported Dr. Purdy and the Trotksyite Party started gaining support at the expense of the CPI unions. The newly formed Dalit Workers’ Union led by Dr. Pudry opposed the British as well.

The Brahmin Dange misled the CPI, the Bania textile mill owners.

The British were shocked at the development. A panic-stricken Dange began shouting that Dr. Purdy was breaking “working class unity”. He used naked upper caste chauvinism to uphold the discrimination of Dalit workers by Brahminical labour aristocrats.

MIM’S REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP

This is exactly how today’s communist parties run by White labour aristocrats in the USA ignore the discrimination against Blacks, Latino as well as coloured workers under the name of “working class unity” and exploit them.

Only the Black African-led Maoist International Movement (MIM) has exposed that there is no such thing called a White working class in today’s USA.

Dange gave orders to the upper caste workers to smash the Trotskyite (Dalit) unions. Dr. Purdy was forced to quit India. He died unsung, even the Trotskyists abroad refusing to endorse his line that Dalits and Bahujans are India’s Organic revolutionary vanguard proletariat. They dubbed him “flamboyant, sectarian, ultra-left adventurer”, who confused class with caste. He was denounced by Trotskyists for peddling Third Period Stalinist politics in Trotskyite guise. Trotskyists continue to criticise his “Harijans as revolutionary vanguard” theory as having anticipated Fanon’s “New Left Dogma”, the most oppressed are the most revolutionary. He was been accused by Trotskyists of abandoning marxism itself.

Finally, Dange and Nehru, both Brahmins, collaborated politically to finish off Dr. Ambedkar and his RPI. While Nehru’s Congress propped up a corrupt Brahminised Dalit like Jagjivan Ram against Dr. Ambedkar, CPI went on to actively and deliberately distort all caste-based questions and systematically discriminated against Dalits within the party. All these details were deliberately hidden and buried by Brahminical elements in India’s fake communist movement. Such is the stinking and rotten record of our Manuwadi communist parties in India.

But some questions surely arise:

Why did a White South African Trotskyite easily see through all the Brahminical labour aristocrat obfuscation by CPI Manuwadis like Dange? Is it because Dr. Purdy was familiar with casteism-style racist apartheid in South Africa? Why is it that Dalit Voice finds it easy to understand Steve Biko who said “Let us stop learning how to fight White settlers from the Whites themselves?” Why does MIM seem to understand that caste is an expression of class?

GADDAR’S LEADERSHIP

Would history have been different if Dr. Ambedkar had joined hands with Dr. Purdy — who was accused of Stalinism — to launch an armed, bloody, violent struggle? Would it have been possible for today’s Brahminical manuwadi fake Maoists to monopolise Maoism and misuse it against the Dalits if such an armed, bloody and violent struggle had been led by Dr. Ambedkar? Is it time for the Bahujans and Dalits to revolt against their Brahminical upper caste misleaders in CPI-CPM and set up their own armed revolutionary Maoist party under Dalit Comrade Gaddar — adopting MIM thought? Is it not time to use “caste identity” theory and launch simultaneous caste-class struggle? Is the armed revolutionary Dalit-led splinter group from Brahminical fake Maoist Party called the Tritiya Maoist Prastuti Committee already a step ahead in doing the right thing? Now that it is clear that both Budha and Dr. Ambedkar sanctioned violence against Brahminical oppressors (DV Sept.1, 2007 p. 5: “Even Dr. Ambedkar sanctioned violence against oppressors”). For how long should Dalits and Bahujans blindly continue to reject armed revolutionary struggle to win their human rights?

Babasaheb supported “categorisation”

M.N. ACHARYA, AMBEDKAR BHAVAN, D.NO. 4-6-37, SATTENAPALLI, GUNTUR DT. - 522 403

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar supported “categorization” (caste identity) of the SCs in his book, States and Minorities. Under the head “safeguards for the Scheduled Castes”, he said:

Clause-1: right to representation in the Legislature

(1) Quantum of Representation:-(a) The Scheduled Castes shall have minimum representation in the Legislature —Union and State— and if there be a group Constitution then in the group Legislature equal to the ratio of their population to the total population. Provided that no other minority is allowed to claim more representation than what is due to it on the basis of its population.

(4) Weightage carved out from the share of majority shall not be assigned to one community only. But the same shall be divided among all minority communities equally or in inverse proportion to their - (1) economic position, (2) social status, and (3) educational advance.

Clause-2

(1) The Scheduled Castes shall have minimum representation in the Executive — Union and State — and if there be a group Constitution then in the group executive equal to the ratio of their population to the total population. Provided that no minority community is allowed to claim more than its population.

Clause-3 : Right to representation in the services.

(a) The quantum of representation of the Scheduled Castes in the services shall be as follows:

(i) In the Union services: - in proportion to the ratio of their population to the total population in India or British India as the case may be.

(ii) In the state and group services:- In proportion to their population in the State or Union.

(iii) In the Municipal and local board services: - In proportion to their population in the municipal and local boards areas: Provided that no minority community is allowed to claim more than its population ratio of representation in the services.

Part V - Interpretation

1. For the purpose of Article-II the Scheduled Castes, as defined in the Government of India Scheduled Caste Order, 1936, issued under the Government of India Act, 1935, shall be deemed to be a minority.

For details see Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol.1 pp. 401, 402, 404. Published by Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979.

BOOK REVIEW:-

Maratha scholar’s call to destroy Brahminism

DR. K. JAMANADAS, “SHALIMAR”, MAIN ROAD, CHANDRAPUR - 442 402

This is a new Marathi book just published. The author, M. M. Deshmukh, is a noted Bahujan author of Maharashtra and one of the pioneers of a new religion, Shiva Dharma. Like his many more books, this also is very educative and is meant for the awakening of the Bahujan masses.

Few words about the author. As a professor of History, he, wrote in a history book that Ramadas was no guru of Shivaji but was a spy of Aurangzeb. Volunteers of Ramdasi Samaj planned the funeral yatra of the author. But his Ambedkarite students saved his life and the funeral yatra was converted into victory march. His book was banned by the govt. but later released by the High Court. He was honored in various places in Maharashtra. I presided over an event honoring him in my city. That was some 40 years ago.

VAIDIK FALSE HISTORY

Later he joined BSP and became its state vicepresident. We shared the dais on many occasions. I have his views in my book, Maratha Revolt against Brahmanism in 21st Century (available in DV office). I believe he was one of those responsible for calming down the riots against the Riddles.

The book is so important for Adivasis, VJNTs, Dalits, Bahujans, Budhists, Ambedkarites and even Harijans and Brahmins, that I may be excused for this lengthy review. It has 16 chapters. The book is available also as a VCD (Rs. 40), which the author promotes as Aapali Chanel.

Chapter-I describes the modus operandi of Brahmin pundits and how they write false history. How the Brahminic authors have created a lot of nuisance in the field of history by way of historical novels, poetry, stories, dramas and cinemas is explained. When challenged by knowledgeable people, they say that they are not historians but fiction writers. Obvious reference is to the so-called Shiva Shahir Purandare. Author warns against such people.

Chapter-II deals with Indus Valley Civilization, claiming it to be Bahujan Civilization having no temples but omits to mention the existence of a stupa there.

SANSKRIT ORIGINATED FROM PALI

Chapter-III is titled “Vedas, Vedic religion and Vedic culture do not exit”. Author believes that many verses from the Vedas have been stolen from the indigenous Indians. He refutes that the verses in the Vedas are ancient, and suggests that the Brahmin pundits have written down the Vedas during the last 200 years of the 19th century.

Ninety-five percent of Bahujan Samaj is outside the Brahminic religion. Their gods, rites, worship, bhajans, devotional songs, rites of birth, marriage and death etc. are all different from those of the Brahmins.

The primitive man sang praising nature and numerous such poems are in existence unwritten among the indigenous Indians. Also the incoming Aryans had them. There was tremendous change in their sayings during last 3,000 years, that none of the original poems exists today. Vedas were not written, the Aryans did not know the art of writing, but the Indians did, as seen in Harrapan Civilization. As original Vedas are not available, there cannot be a Vedic religion or Vedic culture. The author says he does not consider Veda or Manusmriti as garanths, because had they been printed then, they would be of the size of book of cinema songs.

The language also was not chaste and pure. They corrected their language according to Pali grammar. Today nobody understands the language of Vedic suktas. Vedas have been destroyed because of constant interpolations and did not remain ancient anymore.

VAIDIKS LOVED SEX

Now it is proved by scholars like Sadar, that Sanskrit originated from Pali and Marathi. In reality, Sanskrit is post-Budhistic, and explains how it came into existence after the Budha. As the Brahmins, for their selfish motives, praised and pleased locals and provided them women but committed atrocities over the weak, they needed a code language like the thieves and beggars do. Thus originated Sanskrit by stealing words from Pali, Marathi etc.

Thus the Vedas are not ancient, they are not written by god, they are not infallible, they do not contain any knowledge and 95% Indians never bother even to look at them.

Their society was primitive, they had no marriage or family system and they used to enjoy women in common, drink in common and praise nature in common. We do not blame them, avers author, but we cannot tolerate the Brahmin pundits projecting their nomadic beggar, barbarian ancestors as scientists, philosophers, and omniscient just to denigrate the Bahujans.

The original verses of the Vedas are not available, what are available are not understandable, and many verses added later are mostly of the indigenous people. There is nothing benevolent in them but are full of immorality, incivility and packed with meaningless nonsense. Such a book is called “sacred” though nobody can have any respect for it. The Rig Veda is full of obscene verses.

Brahmin pundits have written that Aryans came down fighting, and defeated original Indians. This is not correct. Because Brahmins do not like to fight and they were never a fighting race. They gained entry not by fighting but by begging compassion, showing courteous, admiring and flattering behavior, showing helplessness, praising the locals, speaking sweet words, singing panegyrics, and providing women to them.

Chapter-IV describes various reasons for the rise of Budhism and describes the life of the Budha, the principles and the literature in detail and describes also the reasons for the spread of Budhism in the whole world. He also describes the effects of Budhism on Indian life for thousands of years claiming that Budhism affected all sects in India. The Mahabharata, the Gita, Nath cult, Ramanand, Kabir, Tukaram, Mahanubhava etc. all are affected.

Chapter-V deals with all that happened after the death of the Budha, the various convocations, origin of the various sects in Budhism.

MANU SMRITI IS ANTI-NATIONAL

Chapter-VI deals with all the kings and rulers who helped spread Budhism explaining life and works of Asoka, Milinda, Kanishka, Harsha, Nalanda University etc.

Chapter-VII deals with spread of Budhism outside India and work of three great Chinese travellers, Fa Hain, Huen Tsang and Itsing. Then follows the description of countries under the influence of Buddhism. Among them are Java, Sumatra, Siam, Myanmar, Ceylon, Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Greece, and America.

Chapter-VIII deals with the Manu Smriti narrating its anti-national attitude. The author emphasizes that to understand the need of Budhism and Shiva Dharma for the Bahujans today, it is necessary to understand the anti-national nature of Hindu literature like the Vedas and Manusmriti etc. New translations are coming in order to change the old meaning. He warns and asks the Bahujans to be cautious. As examples, he quotes how the meanings of women’s independence and of madhupark are changed in recent book of Manu. Quoting of words from Manu, and explaining the life of Peshava ruler Bajirao-I, he explains the real biological father of Bajirao-I, was not the Peshava Balaji Viswanath.

Explaining the degraded condition of women made by Manu, he exclaims the degradation of women done by Manu is not seen in any other book in the world. The author asks the readers not to take revenge against the Brahmins and avers that the best way of taking revenge is only to empower yourself and rise to great heights and start working for empowerment of the Bahujans.

Chapter-IX deals with the life, scholarship, writings and work of Karmveer Vithal Ramji Shinde, a Bahujan scholar of high repute who flourished during 1873 to 1944, and worked for betterment of Bahujans and Dalits. This is an important chapter because even many Ambedkarites do not know much about the personality of this great scholar.

It also explains the non-Brahmin movement during Tilak, who had refused to sign a declaration not to follow untouchability. The revolutionary views of Shinde on Vedas, Puranas, Bhagwat religion, his elaboration of ancient history, culture of Marathas, origin of Brahmanism and his love for Budhism are worth studying by Ambedkarites.

JUDICIAL TERRORISM

Chapter-X deals with Dr. Ambedkar’s works on Budhism. Chapter-XI deals with Dr. Ambedkar’s conversion to Budhism. Chapter-XII narrates Dr. Ambedkar’s full speech at the time of conversion. Chapter-XIII remembers Dr. Ambedkar and laments his loss for the Bahujan movement and how various Brahmin institutions including judiciary are playing havoc. Chapter- XIV deals with preliminaries of Shiva Dharma. Chapter-XV clarifies many doubts about Shiva Dharma.

Those who have read my book, Maratha Revolt against Brahmanism in 21st century, would be conversant with the views expressed. The author declares that Bahujans are not impractical that they would give up all the temples and the property, which is really a Bahujan property, to the Brahmins. Bahujans should purify all Brahmin temples, debrahminize them and convert them into temples of learning, knowledge and science, into hostels, libraries, study rooms, hospitals, and for other useful purposes meant for progress of Bahujans.

Chapter-XVI is eulogical and contains articles by Purushottam Khedekar and Jaimini Kadu explaining work of M. M. Deshmukh, praising Sambhaji Brigade and wishing the proposed rule of Shiva Dharma.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of this book for Bahujans and wish that it be translated in other regional languages.

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