05-19-2007, 04:12 AM
Francois G at Rediff on Mayawati
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Today, many government, academic, bureaucratic and even medical posts in India are held by Dalits and Other Backward Castes. A Harijan made it to the highest post of President. Today India has another Muslim as President, a Sikh as prime minister and a Christian as 'eminence grise'.
Did the United States ever have a black President? Did France ever boast of a Muslim prime minister, or a Hindu President? No way -- and it will take a long time to happen.
In fact, today it is the Brahmins who have become the Dalits of India.
Brahmins are in minority in most of UP's villages, where Dalits constitute 60 to 65 per cent.
Most of the intellectual Brahmin Tamil class has emigrated outside Tamil Nadu.
The average income of Brahmins is less than that of non-Brahmins.
A high percentage of Brahmin students drop out at the intermediate level.
75 percent of domestic help and cooks in Andhra Pradesh are Brahmins.
And most of Delhi's public toilets are cleaned by Brahmins.
Yet, contrary to the West, where Christian priests and popes constantly meddled in politics and acquired huge health and land, which led to the separation of the Church and the State under the French Revolution, the much maligned Brahmins never interfered in the affairs of State throughout Indian history, restraining themselves to advising kings and maharajas on spiritual matters.
Dalits should never forget that the caste system, which once upon a time was just an arrangement for the distribution of functions in society, just as much as class in Europe, has been the stick that all invaders have used to put down India.
And it is today still skillfully employed by missionaries, Marxists and the millions of parasite non-governmental organisations who make money out of India's misery, without really uplifting anything but their own bank accounts -- one of the greatest scams today.
On top of that, nowadays, it is not the Brahmins who oppress the Dalits, but the OBC. See any village in Tamil Nadu: Dalits are parked in one corner and cannot enter the area devoted to Vanniars, who are just one rung above them.
Is the caste-isation of politics in India, as embodied in UP, here to stay? We hope not, as it may lead to the balkanisation of India.
What is the key to stem this rot? Education.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Today, many government, academic, bureaucratic and even medical posts in India are held by Dalits and Other Backward Castes. A Harijan made it to the highest post of President. Today India has another Muslim as President, a Sikh as prime minister and a Christian as 'eminence grise'.
Did the United States ever have a black President? Did France ever boast of a Muslim prime minister, or a Hindu President? No way -- and it will take a long time to happen.
In fact, today it is the Brahmins who have become the Dalits of India.
Brahmins are in minority in most of UP's villages, where Dalits constitute 60 to 65 per cent.
Most of the intellectual Brahmin Tamil class has emigrated outside Tamil Nadu.
The average income of Brahmins is less than that of non-Brahmins.
A high percentage of Brahmin students drop out at the intermediate level.
75 percent of domestic help and cooks in Andhra Pradesh are Brahmins.
And most of Delhi's public toilets are cleaned by Brahmins.
Yet, contrary to the West, where Christian priests and popes constantly meddled in politics and acquired huge health and land, which led to the separation of the Church and the State under the French Revolution, the much maligned Brahmins never interfered in the affairs of State throughout Indian history, restraining themselves to advising kings and maharajas on spiritual matters.
Dalits should never forget that the caste system, which once upon a time was just an arrangement for the distribution of functions in society, just as much as class in Europe, has been the stick that all invaders have used to put down India.
And it is today still skillfully employed by missionaries, Marxists and the millions of parasite non-governmental organisations who make money out of India's misery, without really uplifting anything but their own bank accounts -- one of the greatest scams today.
On top of that, nowadays, it is not the Brahmins who oppress the Dalits, but the OBC. See any village in Tamil Nadu: Dalits are parked in one corner and cannot enter the area devoted to Vanniars, who are just one rung above them.
Is the caste-isation of politics in India, as embodied in UP, here to stay? We hope not, as it may lead to the balkanisation of India.
What is the key to stem this rot? Education.
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