" Time and again, the leaders of the Hindutva project have exhibited their love and preference for Brahminical mode of governance as laid down in the Manusmriti. In fact, when the constitutent assembly was engaged in making a constitution for independent India based on one wo/man one vote and was keen to do away with the graded hierarchy inherent in Manu's code, these leaders had no qualms in putting it bluntly that independent India should be run on Manusmriti itself. It is tragedy of our times that the anti-communal struggle in our country has not taken into account this important aspect of the Brahminical counterrevolution couched in the language of Hindutva. It would not be an exaggeration to say that till date the strategy to combat communalism has suffered from this lacunae.
As Braj Ranjan Mani rightly puts it : The Hindutva of the RSS-BJP is predominantly hegemonistic, it is more social than political, and the so-called Hindu backlash against the past humiliations supposedly heaped on it by Islam and Christianity is a shrewd tactic to arrest the democratic upsurge of the hitherto excluded and marginalised majority. Earlier, the Hindu brahminic forces treated the toiling majority as the mlecchas. Now, dalit-subalterns are being co-opted into Hindu politics as tools against religious minorities. (Page 26, Debrahminising History, Manohar, 2008) A close look at the manner in which the Ram temple movement unfolded in our times makes it abundantly clear how the affirmative action programme for the other backward classes was cleverly used to bring politics of religious symbolism to the national centrestage. It thus helped polarise Hindus on the one side and Muslims and Christians on the other and proved successful in keeping people disunited. It logically followed that they could not confront the ruling classes on the issues of mass poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and unemployment and the central issue of making collective producers collective appropriators." Contact : *[email protected]* http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade280309.htm -- http://venukm.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
