March 24, 2001
RELEVANCE OF
PERIYARISM IN NEW MILLENNIUM
- EMERGENCE OF HINDUTVA FORCES AND
DALIT-OBCs DILEMA
Periyar is the
Idealist who belled and brought under control the brahmins in South. These
may not appear to be great achievements to the present generations or People of
this Country or the World. Some may
ask, what if Periyar did not do these?
May be, some one else would have done it in due course of time. Or the brahmins by themselves would have
changed and reformed themselves. Given
the small number of the brahmins, growth of liberal thoughts, flowering of
Socialism, emergence of Communism, reforms in Capitalistic Values, growth of
Republican Norms, establishment of Democratic Govts, enforcement of the Rule of
Law, acceptance of the Concept of Equality of all before the Law, they could
not have hung on to archaic concepts of being the chosen people engaged in
brokering contacts between the mortals and the innumerable gods and goddesses
in this Country. Those who think so, do
not understand the total grip and vice-like-control exercised by the brahmins
in the South just in the early decades of this Century - moral authority over
the Kings, the physical control over the Queens, personal authority over the
Princes and Princesses, and the total control over the State, and the blind
superstitious subordination by the masses.
To think of any weakening of the brahmanic hold over the Royals and
other Rulers, State and the Govt, Officials and People was only a wild
dream. In the Lions' Den of Kerala,
Periyar dared and won in Vaikom. It was
a battle for the Rights of the Untouchables - as the Dalits were known then. The Thiyas, Ezhavs and Nadars whom Periyar
delivered from brahminic discriminations have grown beyond all
imaginations. Other Dalits are still
struggling to find their feet.
Periyar's
Participation in Vaikam had its reverberations all over the Country. It shook up the brahmins, rattled the
brahmin dominated Congress Party, its leaders like Gandhi, and naturally
spilled in the neighbouring Madras Presidency - Tamil Nadu. But, it
is in that Tamil Nadu today, hindutva forces have taken a clear foothold and
are trying to take firm permanent roots - thanks to the Dravidian Parties.
Today in Tamil Nadu, the Land of Periyar, no one is
Speaking against brahmins, brahmin dominationin Education, Jobs and Govt, or
their new-found-tool hindutva. Everyones senses appear to have grown
blunt, or none is bold or courageous enough to talk. Therefore, today again,
Periyar and his Thoughts - Periyarism become relevant in Tamil Nadu as it steps
into the New Millennium.
The much discussed hindutva
or hindutvam, is an accidentally pronounced term. It had not yet been satisfactorily defined, and could not infact
ever be defined without resorting to falsehood lies and deciet, or resorting to
semantic somersaults. It is as usual a
product of semantic confusions, lack of clarity in the mind of brahmins, and dishonesty
of the dominant caste hindus. It is now
carefully and deliberately used, in a systematic planned way, to endlessly
confuse semantically the common people.
This is done, just to mislead the simple poor people, with words
appearing to be big and sounding heavily ladden with extensive ideological
conceptions. Words that appear to be
pregnant with all possible permutaions and combinations of pristine
philosophical perceptions. These are
only to confuse and fool the People, with symbolic abstract nothing. It is to lead blindly the common-man into a
wrong direction, keep them engaged confused tied-down and bogged, and
ultimately leave them indulging-in endless debates for nothing.
This hindutva, at
the most is a sanskritised term of another undefined term hinduism, and hindutvam. These are clear derivatives and
extensions of Persian Words hindus and
hindustan, or hindus of hindustan, given
to those who had been living in the Indus Valley, or the Valley of Sindhu and the surrounding Lands in the
sub-Continent. From these evolved hindu expansionism, then hindi, much later hinduism, and now hindutva. These are thus Persian Words, or names
derived from Persian Roots. Hence it
can be conveniently said that hindu, hindustan, hindi, hinduism, and hindutva
are all borne out of Persian Mind,and fusion of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Roman,
Turkish and European World-Views, and fusion of their Tongues and Values with
Indian Internalism.
But these are all definitely confusing to the Common
Man. Most disadvantaged are the
SC&ST Ati-Shudra Dalits, and the poor Shudra OBC masses. But it is always clear that the Dalit and
OBC Masses, prefer Secularism, Socialism and Democracy. For only honesty, openness, simple life, and
Democracy based on one-man one-vote, one-value one-job, one-word one-meaning
can redeem the masses. Hence no double
talks, no concealed meanings, and no hidden agenda for Dalits and OBCs. As far DCHs, hindutva is an handy tool. It is symbolic of confusion, no-meaning,
double-talk, masked faces and concealed appearences. It stands for hidden agendas, secret programmes, social-tensions
and civil-unrest. It is used for sowing
seeds of distrust and hatred, for fights and looting, cheating and
robbing. It is for privatisation and
religion, castism and communalism. It
is used to divide and rule, dictatorship and rule of the privileged, sabotage
and subversion of the People and the State.
It helps to underme and destroy the Peoples' Will. These are the only known options for the
DCHs. It is now their big mantra and
hope for continued survival with comfort, in islands of privilege in a sea of
poverty and shortages, and pain and misery.
In view of the above, hindutva is seen and percieved as a
great danger by the Dalits and OBCs.
What
then is hindutva?
hindutava stands only for hinduism and hindus
hindutva is the dangerously sanskritised new name for
hinduism
hindutva is the fundamentalist form of hinduism, the
undefined unidentified formless non-existant Religion of the hindus
hindutva is a cunning backdoor attempt
by hard-core brahmins to preserve perpetuate and extend the supermacy of the
brahmins, and in the larger sense an exploitative effort by the fundamentalist
brahmin-baniyas to fool the masses and rule the Nation
What
are the dangers of hindutva?
It is very rightly said that,
- one can
realise who the True Friends are, what they are Worth, and distinguish them from other fair weather friends only
when personally is in grave crisis and big difficult times,
- one can know
any individuals Real Face thinking commitments and right value, only by the person's actions, when the individual is
angry,
- one can
understand the Actual Qualities and Basic Images of a person, only by the person's behaviours and actions, when the
individual is in great personal difficulties.
We Dalits are in such times - powerless even after 53
years after Independence of the Country and 50 years after bringing into effect
a liberal secular socialistic Republican Democratic Constitution. Our People are now seeing and realising -
1. the True
Qualities and Worth of our Political Parties
2. the Real Faces
and Commitments of our Leaders
3. the Actual
Qualities and Basic Images of the Parties and Leaders of hindutva
Various Political Parties in the Country came out with
their True Colours, and showed their Qualities and Worth, when they shamelessly
plunged to Grab Power.
The Leaders came out with their Real Faces exposing what
their Commitments really are, when they proved how mean they are and what all
they can do to gain Ministerial Berths and Cling to Power.
The fearful racist and fascist Images and Qualities of hindutva, comes out clearly in their
extreme cruelty, with the smallest excuse.
Earlier, there were Party Splitters and Govt Fixers. But now we have Govt Grabbers, subvertors of
Parliaments and Legislative Assemblies, Law Breakers, Manipulators of
Anti-Defection Law, breakers of Parliamentary Parties and Legislative Groups,
wreckers and subvertors of Parliament and Legislatives, sinkers of Govt,
sabotagers of the State, and destroyers of Peace, and deliberate daylight
killers of innocent unarmed People.
They kill cowardishly like Rama hiding from the back, snd in the
darkness of the nights when People are sleeping, everything is calm and the
whole World is sleeping.
Those who,
- killed looted
raped and burnt SC&ST Dalit Villages, committing
Dalit Atrocities just Before the Elections to Terrorise the Dalits from coming
to vote, so as to caste by themselves
all the Dalit Votes to those whom they want to be elected, and
- let loose
massive Communal Violences against select Minority Communities, in the year of
run-up to the Elections, in selected
production, trading and business Centers of Minorities, by openly and selectively marking and identifying
mainority areas, households, shops, show-rooms, production centers, factories,
places of worship etc,
- are now coming
up with their True Colours and Real Faces in
all their uglyness without any masks covering or hiding their Basic Images,
Original Qualities and Actual Intentions, to psychologically terrorise the
People and State Govts, and totally
confuse to divide and isolate the poor Weaker Sections and Working Classes
along Party Lines, and Parthy Lines
of Centers of Influence around dominant caste hindu leaders in the villages and
the local areas. The entire Govt, whole
Govt Machineries, and Party Structures including the line and file of the
cadres and activists, also all the hired criminals and paid lumpen elements,
and the whole Media are shamelessly deployed to corner the State Govts, render
the State Apparatus ineffective, and bring the Rural Areas to a stand still.
Such things had happened in Tamil Nadu, then in Karnataka,
later in Andhra Pradesh, further on to Bihar, and now in West Bengal. This, when the hindutva forces know that the Parliament is not on their side, the
present straight-forward Acdemic Diplomatic President is neither a rubber-stamp
or a push-over! Imagine what will
happen when they get a majority in Parliament, even if that is not of their own
strength. The gutless hollow feminine
alliance partners and their leaders - totally scarred of snap-elections; and
mortally afraid of facing the People on their own, without adequate money,
manipulations, and sufficiently long a time to prepare and build up their
purchasing powers, to buy the majority of all those who have to be bought
before the elections; and manouver tactfully and silently to position at
important vantage points their amenable officials in the administration - would
go strictly along the way the hindutva
skirt swirls and flows.
Will now Periyarism provide an Answer to hindutva forces? Yes, it should if Our People are to survive as a People in
the coming Millennium! Otherwise OUR
PEOPLE, the Society and the whole Nation will Suffer seriously and irreperably,
putting the Clock back by many a Centuries!
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