08/10/2019
We the People: Who are we?
The kernel of the BJP discourse rests on the shoulder of something called the ‘Hindu Asmita’, the collective ego of the Hindu populace in India, and also scattered over the rest of the world. Thus, it always was a fantasy on which the discourse stands. ‘Hindu’ is no homogenous religious group, not a single religion by any means. There are sects among this populace identified as the Hindu (or Hindoo, following T. B. Macaulay’s and his contemporary blokes’ spelling) who follow religions of which the basic tenets contradict each other. It includes Saivites, Lingayets, Vaishnavites, Shaakto, Ta***ic, even Ta***ic-Buddhists, Nath, Naga, Aghori, Avadhut and other minor sects, tribal primitive religions, and over a hundred of other belief systems and cults and subcultures. How come all these come under a wide umbrella term Hindoo has no explanation in theology or philosophy as such. It has a more accurate and historical explanation that it’s the Brits who had done this classification and charting of the Indian religious groups for the first time. They knew who were the Muslims, Christians, even Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists there who conformed to their respective lifestyle stereotypes. All what they didn’t know were blanket charted as Hindoo. Later on, the Hindu Mahasabha, RSS, even Congress drew on this fantastic piece of wisdom of some semi-literate English convicts serving as office-bearers of the Empire here – and the damage was done. The later scholars ignored this pertinent bit of information at their convenience, and further obfuscated the scenario of the religious identity. The RSS-BJP nexus exploited this obscurity to their advantage in course of constructing the ‘Hindu Asmita’ narrative, because the Leftist camp that turned law-abiding Social Democrats shied away from some fundamental and unique problems of the Indian society ever had. Who needed that Asmita redefined for them? It’s the Hindi heartland people who have been dominated not only by the British colonizers, but also by the Bengali, Marathi, and Southerner hegemonic leaders who were then at a vantage point because they imbibed the English education and the knowledge from the other world too. The Left were not there to nullify the venomous effort of the RSS by hammering this historical fact into the peoples’ head. The right-wingers were given the free hand to conduct their evil experiment of social engineering. A society built on hatred and intolerance conjured up. They defy not just the knowledgeable people, but the entire epistemology itself. The hatred there was against anything non-Hindu, and all the largest political parties in the multi-party system fell prey to it. The judiciary too remained inconsistent by relying on the written codes, half of which was framed by the colonial lords and by virtue was anti-people, anti-Indian. Thus, the collective ego as fantasized by a dominant group (read the Manuvadi upper caste Brahminists) among the ‘Hindu’ infiltrated all narratives, institutions and the forces; Forces with a capital ‘F’ are the men in uniform. That is how RSS has infiltrated our military and paramilitary system. The right-wing narrative even infiltrated the otherwise Left-wing camp through the easy baits of populism. Hence we have become a society of completely cynic, intolerant, hateful, war-mongering bunch of puppets irrespective of the Left-Right-Centre political affinities. The “Indian Identity” as fantasized and augmented by reverse-engineered historical discourse is the easiest bait for which all Indian citizens will fall.
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