--- On Sun, 2/11/08, Shiva Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Shiva Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: from Teltumbde's Khairlanji
To:
Date: Sunday, 2 November, 2008, 10:27 AM
>From Anand Teltumbde's 'Khairlanji - A strange and bitter crop' :
Contrary to the image of India being a nonviolent society, violence has always
been ingrained in the 'Hindu' societal structure, where inequality is
ideologised and rigidified with divine sanction. Any transgression of this
social code is supposed to invite the wrath of divine forces. It is not for
nothing that the Hindu gods personify violence. In no other religion are gods
depicted bearing deadly weapons and indulging in macabre violence. The Hindus
would argue that this violence is against evil and is hence reassuring to those
who are virtuous. The definition of virtue and vice however rests on caste
ideology, as we saw in Khairlanji. Those who abide by this ideology are supposed
to be virtuous and those who defy it are evil. Those who challenge this
framework are reminded by the weapon-wielding gods of the violent end they would
face. In Khairlanji, the caste Hindus wielded these weapons. All this is
embedded in and communicated through what could be summarily put as 'Hindu
culture'. Nowhere has such an effective and self-regulative system ever been
devised. It is this feature of the system that has seemingly governed Indian
history for over two millenia. This intrinsic violence has kept a multitude of
masses within bondage they are forced to accept as their karma, their fate. ...
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