07-26-2006, 05:21 PM
If memory serves, <b>dubois the missionary</b> started "brahmins" vs everyone else <b>& in "racial" terms</b>. The biblical jurist, poet and linguist - William Jones, ran with it. With him Muller of course (who never visited India ?).
William Jones started speaking on behalf of brahmins. That is one of the hall marks of the colonialism, isn't it? Colonialism makes the subjugated and defeated participate in their own defeat and by the time their minds are colonized, will start offering their gratitude to those who screwed them over, wiped off their culture and looted the country. In the beginning however, Jones assumed the role of the defeated (hindus) and speaks on their behalf. <i>For example: Jones in his hymn to ganga dedicates to "brahmen", who the heck were they? No one knows or will ever know.</i>
He then speaks as if he was a hindu, the grateful native who welcomes the arrival of the British and Britainâs desire to govern Indian subjects by their own laws. Process of colonized mind, now firmly in place. We begin to screw ourselves, new identity emerges and keeps morphing to fit any ideology other than "sanatana dharma" - and still continues with Brown sahibs.
The point is, no one had to volunteerily screw themselves or played along - this probably speaks to "naivete", (although, I am not disputing the existence of such vermin - again in 20/20 hindsight).
William Jones started speaking on behalf of brahmins. That is one of the hall marks of the colonialism, isn't it? Colonialism makes the subjugated and defeated participate in their own defeat and by the time their minds are colonized, will start offering their gratitude to those who screwed them over, wiped off their culture and looted the country. In the beginning however, Jones assumed the role of the defeated (hindus) and speaks on their behalf. <i>For example: Jones in his hymn to ganga dedicates to "brahmen", who the heck were they? No one knows or will ever know.</i>
He then speaks as if he was a hindu, the grateful native who welcomes the arrival of the British and Britainâs desire to govern Indian subjects by their own laws. Process of colonized mind, now firmly in place. We begin to screw ourselves, new identity emerges and keeps morphing to fit any ideology other than "sanatana dharma" - and still continues with Brown sahibs.
The point is, no one had to volunteerily screw themselves or played along - this probably speaks to "naivete", (although, I am not disputing the existence of such vermin - again in 20/20 hindsight).