Dalits – the real victims
As Orissa keeps burning, Kala Baaz gives us a detailed analytical look on the set of people who are the real victims of Hindutva vs. Evengelists wars – the Dalits of India.
As cruelty yields more cruelty, even the Dalits have a caste system within themselves which is equally oppressive. It is somewhat comparable to the House Slave vs. the Field Slave in American plantations during the days of slavery. Most Dalits in India work as bonded labor. 70% of India’s Christian Population is Dalit and most of them are still treated as lower castes by Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
A rapid fire session of Indian reality: Since India is so fragmented and loose in its social structure, manipulative ways are needed to create that monotheistic delusion: Nationalism. When there was a foreign oppressor it was easier, but with the oppressor gone, it gets tricky to unify a nation.
The author gives us a detailed un-biased look on the politics of both the Evangelists and Hindutva vaadis. A must read post.
This brings us from the Great Commission of the 1st century to the killings in Kandhamal, Orissa happening in the 21st Century. The Hindutva project has been steadily progressing since the 1990′s. Selling itself as a tit-for-tat final solution to those seeking to convert, it has found immense support in the upper-caste Hindus. And as seen often in history, the Tit is even more cruel than the Tat. Either fall in line with Hindutva or get out. Get out, generally means out of India or out of life.
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