11-23-2006, 05:19 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It was not just the savagery associated with the Khairlanji killings that shocked the Dalits of Maharashta and the world over. It was not merely rape and muder. It was essentially a holocaust.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Holocaust? Interesting!
I was reading through the blogs, sometime after this multiple rape-murder, and one thing was immediately obvious: while the actual incident was real, raw and reprehensible, the rhetoric from the leftist blogosphere was artificial and contrived.
One has to remember that Kanshiram and Kancha Iliah had framed a peculiar term: Dalit-Bahujan. (The word Bahujan meant backward castes - basically OBCs). The idea was to create an alliance between the two to "interrogate" upper-caste "fascism". Now, after Khairlanji, many of the self-same idiots who were advocating Kancha Iliah's ideas have changed their tune: they are attacking the Powars and the Kalars, the dominant OBCs of that village, by calling them "Savarna castes".
So, which is it? Are they Bahujans or Savarnas? How did they determine them to be Bahujans then? On what basis, other than the categorization as OBCs by the various govts? And now, how are they classifying them as "Savarnas"? Is there a scripture, that has a list of all those jati-communities that belong to a varna? Nothing. It was always nothing. The rhetoric from the pro-Dalit blogosphere is a case study in how words may be hijacked to suit their latest argument.
Holocaust? Interesting!
I was reading through the blogs, sometime after this multiple rape-murder, and one thing was immediately obvious: while the actual incident was real, raw and reprehensible, the rhetoric from the leftist blogosphere was artificial and contrived.
One has to remember that Kanshiram and Kancha Iliah had framed a peculiar term: Dalit-Bahujan. (The word Bahujan meant backward castes - basically OBCs). The idea was to create an alliance between the two to "interrogate" upper-caste "fascism". Now, after Khairlanji, many of the self-same idiots who were advocating Kancha Iliah's ideas have changed their tune: they are attacking the Powars and the Kalars, the dominant OBCs of that village, by calling them "Savarna castes".
So, which is it? Are they Bahujans or Savarnas? How did they determine them to be Bahujans then? On what basis, other than the categorization as OBCs by the various govts? And now, how are they classifying them as "Savarnas"? Is there a scripture, that has a list of all those jati-communities that belong to a varna? Nothing. It was always nothing. The rhetoric from the pro-Dalit blogosphere is a case study in how words may be hijacked to suit their latest argument.