India's Failed Independence

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Editor: Nagaraja.M.R.. Vol.19....Issue. 64.......13  / 08 / 2023

Failed Constitution   and  India's Independence Struggle

Our freedom fighters from all castes and religions together  fought , sacrificed for India's independence from British rule  and british missionaries. British rulers and British missionaries sowed the seeds of caste , religious divisions amongst us. We are tasting bitter fruits now.

Even after 76 years of  getting independence , it is a shame we are still following many rules enacted by britishers in   19th and  20th century and our mindset is moulded as per British missionaries , historians. 

Caste hatred everywhere , religious hatred everywhere. Everyone has forgotten we are all human beings first and respected as such.

Inspite of many Dalits & OBCs  in powerful positions of government  , welfare measures have not fully reached poor dalits , poor OBCs.  Add to this poor among other castes , religions , brahmins  don't  even get government support and are left to suffer. Is this independence  ?

Basically we are all  human beings and must respect  each other.  Nobody is superior or inferior. All are Equals.

Many Indians have misunderstood  indian history by looking  through prism of British historians. As per those historians for all evils which happened  upto British rule brahmins were solely responsible. How is it possible for 5% population to rule over  95% strong populace ? Does that mean rulers,  kings , village heads who belonged to others castes were weak & meek ? No those  rulers were mighty , their kingdoms were wealthy. They have enforced many welfare measures. But nobody credits good deeds of these rulers to brahmins , only gives credits of bad deeds of rulers to brahmins. Double standards.

Now after 76 years of india's independence  majority of government work force is  from reserved category , non brahmins. Majority of MLAs , MPs are non brahmins , non brahmins are in power everywhere. therefore ideally a true vibrant equitable society must be in india. But  the  fact is opposite corruption , injustice , caste atrocities  , hate crimes is rampant. 

Whenever a non brahmin makes derogatory comments against brahmins , massacre of brahmins no action is taken. If  a brahmin is accused of making  derogatory  remark law swings into action at lightning speed , protests March taken. 

Is this equitable fair justice ?

Just  read following sample list  of hate crimes  ,  perpetrators  are non brahmins.

In 2023 Gang rape and murder of Dalit woman in Bikaner district, Rajasthan; in 2023 murder of Akshay Bhalerao in Nanded District, Maharashtra; in 2023 Brutal Murder of Manohar Lal in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, in 2023 Murder of 10 year old Gurjeet in Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, and Minor dalit girl gangraped by three college students in Jodhpur district, Rajasthan.

This year, a lot of murders, gang rapes, brutal killing incidents, molestations, sexual harassment, and many more things we have seen, listened to, or read. Every day we are listening to such news which shattered our lives and made us think, “Are we safe?” with this question, many “what ifs” will be followed.

This is so frustrating, and we don’t even understand this. Amid of blindfolding of religion, where we have sold out our humanity? Which religion teaches us to be inhuman? If you think so our religion teaches us this, then re-read the religious book whichever you followed.

In each book whether it is Quran, Bible, Geeta or any other mythological book you believe, each of them shares one single basic note to all of us, “Be human, be kind, follow the path of forgiveness and love every creature”. Even the line in our national song (Saare Jahaan Se Acha), “Majhab nahi sikhata aapas main ber karna”, no religion teaches us to be enemies of each other.

Instead of learning this, people are burning each other, people are doing rapes, and killing other human being, making it a political issue. Is it so? For this hatred we have inside our hearts, is it a political issue? Seriously?

Whenever the time of elections, always such things happened, but for why and for what? What are you getting out of these? Some money from political parties, some satisfaction to your ego? Is it worth it? Peace has been left apart amidst these crimes. Not so surprising, where we have come and why we all are scared of these things, however, every news channel shows unrealistic clips, the public is following the non-religious path, and political parties are playing blame games.

We are India, and we need to think about what kind of legacy we are going to leave behind for our children. Are you ready to give birth to a child in such a mahol? Our people and our country have suffered a lot, can we stop making it suffer the most?

We are losing our moral values for materialistic life and showing off. What are we flaunting by doing murders and rapes? I really don’t know, do you?

Let us truly build our motherland BHARATH as per following spirit :

Where the mind is without fear

and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up

into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by Thee

into ever-widening thought and action 

Into that heaven of freedom,

my Father, let my country awake.

Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.

Your's 

Nagaraja M R

Brahmin Genocide in India

https://www.facebook.com/INDunravelled/videos/514655370431616/?s=chYV2B&fs=e&mibextid=LYESl6 

List of Caste Hate Crimes , Murders

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste-related_violence_in_India  

Maharashtran Brahmin Genocide – 8000 Killed

Perpetrator: Indian National Congress & their supporters

Year: 1948

Number: 8000 Brahmins murdered

Following the assassination of M. K. Gandhi by Nathuram Godse, with Narayan Apte, who were Maharashtrian Brahmins, Brahmin localities of Pune and Satara saw a Hindu Genocide of Maharashtrian Brahmins, orchestrated by Indian National Congress, along with other Brahmin-hating groups. This Brahmin genocide remains, to date, one of the most suppressed atrocities on Brahmin Hindus.

Brahmins were killed, Brahmin women were raped, shops and houses were set on fire, livelihoods destroyed, and many Brahmins forced to flee, to save their lives and future generations.

‘It’s written in “City, countryside and society in Maharashtra states” that in Aundh state alone the barbarity spanned across 300 districts in all thirteen thalukas. Maureen Patterson concluded that destruction was more cataclysmic in Satara, Kohalpur. The properties of Veer Savarkar were also swindled and torched by the perpetrators. Dr. Narayana Rao Savarkar was stoned to death.’

R. Sooraj Kumar

Narayana Rao Savarkar and his family were pelted with stones, as they tried to escape from their residence. He was gravely injured and eventually succumbed to his injuries on 19 Oct, 1949.

Estimates were that 8000 Brahmins were killed, with no record or estimate of how many were forced to flee.

From the account of Sooraj Kumar Bhargav

“Angry mobs pillaged, burnt and looted the homes of hundreds of innocent Brahmin families, and many people were killed. All on the baseless assumption that all Brahmins were complicit in the assassination of the Father of the Nation.”

Arvind Kolhatkar, eyewitness.

Every aspect of this genocide points to it being a premeditated crime, targeting a religious community, namely, Maharashtrian Brahmins, who were known for being staunch Hindu nationalists. For mobs of hundreds to suddenly attack Brahmins within such a short period of time would require great ingenuity and extraordinary means of communication, technologically not available at that period. These were not “riots” as often labelled, but a planned genocide, because it was spread over the entire geography of Maharashtra, not just one mohalla or city, using arson, which is not lying around in everyone’s backyard every day. The “mobs” attacking Brahmins knew who they were, where they lived, and had the means to attack them.

“My family stands as a proof.

My grandfather was among the richest merchant in Pune and was having 3 cloth stores then which were gutted in selective killing and property burning incidence.

The family was instantaneously reduced to poverty and we had to sell-off all the properties to reduce the trading-credits. The family recovered out of the losses only by late 70’s.”

Anand Khatavkar

This is one of the genocides for which little information exists, once again, by design. It is otherwise impossible that a targeted massacre of a religious community is neither known, nor documented anywhere properly, except for first hand accounts of those who suffered, and individuals who documented the massacre at the time of its occurrence. There is every reason to believe that all evidence of this genocide was destroyed, along with images and news clips.

Massacre  of  Brahmins

It is about time we talk about the 1948 genocide of Maharashtrian Brahmins that followed M K Gandhi’s assassination

• by Suyash 

Maharashtrian Brahmin Genocide of 1948

NYT clipping covering the news of riots in Bombay after Gandhi's murder.

The aftermath of violence that spread after Mohandas Gandhi’s assassination is finally making gradual waves to the mainstream national discourse. However, the flames haven’t been distinguished and the pains have been preserved. The silencing of voices that followed one of the first large-scale massacre in Independent India accounts for one of the biggest coverups in modern history. It is need of the hour, that we talk about the crimes against Brahmins of Maharashtra that erupted after MK Gandhi’s assassination in 1948.

1948 Brahmin massacre in Maharashtra

M K Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse on January 30, 1948 in Delhi. The news sent shock waves across the country. Nathuram Godse belonged to an orthodox Chittapavan Brahmin family living in Pune.

Resentment against the Brahmins had already been cultivated by this time, as a response to their hegemonical hundred-year-old rule under the Peshwa family. As soon as the family and caste details of Godse were made public, violence abruptly outpoured in major cities of Maharashtra. Starting with Pune, the wildfire spread across Brahmin localities in Pune with as many as 50 Brahmins identified and killed on 30th January 1948 itself.

The New York times had already reported the news of ‘fifteen persons killed with more than fifty injured’ in communal riots that ‘swept’ the city of Bombay on the next day. The spurge of violence reached quickly to other cities in southern and western Maharashtra, while Nagpur in Vidarbha emerged as a hotbed of violence too.

Persecution of Brahmins after M K Gandhi’s assassination

Advocate P.L.Inamdar as quoted in Vikram Sampath’s Savarkar Vol. II had noted the primary reason behind persecution of Brahmins; which being Nathuram Godse, who killed Gandhi belonged to the Chittapavan Brahmin community in Maharashtra. Writing about the ‘manhunt’ that followed the assassination, Inamdar said, “Some of my close relatives living in southern districts of Maharashtra were being made victims of this manhunt only because they were Maharashtrian Brahmins. They escaped being lynched only by the sheer chance of not being found in their houses at the time of the raids.”

Talking about the violence that erupted in Nagpur, which was part of the Central Provinces then, Dwarka Prasad Mishra, a senior Congress leader himself, wrote unapologetically in his memoirs about the mayhem that followed. He wrote, “Those who indulged in unlawful activities also included a large number of Congressmen belonging to non-brahmin communities. In fact, in Nagpur and Berar the troublemakers were mostly Congressmen, some being even office bearers of various Congress Committees.”

While the media of the time had turned a blind eye to the events that were unfolding, state pressure to disencourage any recording of the events also accounted for the dearth of resources available today. It was only after British Journalist Maureen Patterson who was researching on the aftermath of Gandhi’s death in India, wrote decisively about the violence against Brahmins of Maharashtra in 1948 that people started talking about it.

Patterson has recorded several instances of targeting, riots and disturbances which directed to the cleansing of Brahmins from Maharashtra’s rural interiors. She recorded that magnified violence that also spread in the Deccan cities like Satara, Kolhapur and Belgaum. A conservative estimate of total damage around Rs. 6 to 10 crores by the violent activities was calculated by the scholar based on unofficial numbers and anecdotal publications.

While the violence started with targeting of people surnamed ‘Godse’, the casteist ire quickly spread categorically across all subcastes beyond the Chittapavans (Konkanasthas) to Deshastha and Karhade Brahmin communities in Maharashtra as well. As reported, veteran journalist Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar lost his home and premises of his newspaper publishing house in Nagpur to the violence. In Kolhapur, renowned film maker of the times, Bhalji Pendharkar – a Karhade Brahmin suffered a huge loss with damage to his studio. Property damages, burning of homes, mills, factories owned by brahmins was rampant in Kolhapur, Sangli and other districts.

Anti-Brahmin resentment in Maharashtra

While analysing aftermath of MK Gandhi’s murder, there appears to be a combination of multiple narratives under play which culminated into the anti-Brahmin violence. At the outset, it was the Gandhian Ahimsa-vaadis themselves who retorted to mass violence as a tool to avenge his murder. As mentioned earlier, Dwarka Prasad Mishra had confessed as a member of Congress himself, about the role of ‘Congressmen’ in leading the violence against the Brahmin community. They were later joined by leaders from the non-Brahmin communities who had a personal axe to grind against the ‘influential’ Brahmins who made their fortunes in the 18th and the 19th centuries.

A community which has historically consolidated not more than 4-5% of Maharashtra’s population, rose to considerable influence and power when the Shrivardhankar Bhat family ruled the Maratha Empire as Peshwas or Prime Ministers. With the rise of the Peshwas, Brahmin community weilded a hegemonical control over many walks of life as mercenaries, money lenders, businessmen and over other service related activities related to the intellect.

Over the time, this outpoured into a resentment against the community which was also fueled by the staunch discriminatory practices against the lower-castes upheld during the times. So much so, when an undecisive battle at Bheema-Koregoan was led by the Mahar battalion in the English army against the Maratha Empire, it was touted as the victory of ‘lower castes’ over the ‘Brahmin’ Peshwas. The archaic resentment against the Brahmins joined by violence perpetrated by the angry Congress led to the apocalyptic mayhem after January 30, 1948.

The modern state of Maharashtra continues to disengage with the stories of pilage of Marathi Brahmins that took place during the reigns of the Bombay state presidency. The Congress leaders which took part in the genocidal violence continue to keep their strongholds in parts of the newly formed state, with their heirs holding ministerial ranks in the state cabinet. The local politics thence continued to propel the narrative of a ‘progressive Maharashtra’ lead by the ideals of ‘Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar’ while suitably leaving no space for leaders from the Brahmin community. The aftermath of the violence also explains the plight of the Brahmins from the villages and their rapid migration into the cities, as many families succumbed to threats during the 1960s. Even today, the Maharashtrian Brahmins as a minority community do not hold much say in the politics of the state dominated by the Marathas and the Kunbis.

The unheard voices which suffered the violence have chosen to stay silent and move on. It all started from a group of Hindu-nationalist men from the Brahmin community, killing Gandhi over his policies regarding the partition. Neither Godse’s ideology nor his caste identity had anything to do with his justification of the murder. Yet, the consequences of this mindless act were suffered by Hindu nationalists and the Brahmins unsparingly.

Moreover, it was ironical that the upholders of the ‘absolute non-violence’ ideology – followers of Gandhi himself, presided over one of the first hate crimes that happened in Independent India. The episode of violence against Brahmins in Maharashtra was the first blot on the legacy of Mohandas Gandhi as an upholder of peace and non-violence. The state headed by the Congress party, is equally complicit in erasing the traces of truth from the mainstream. History, however has a window of opportunity to heal the silenced wounds. Sheer acknowledgment of the brutal violence, lead by hate against the Maharashtrian Brahmins as a genocide would go a long way.

DMK spokesperson Rajiv Gandhi calls for genocide of Tamil Brahmins, wants to adopt Periyar’s killing model: 

On Friday (June 3), the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party in Tamil Nadu courted controversy after its official spokesperson R. Rajiv Gandhi claimed that Tamil Brahmins should have been killed as per the directions of Dravidian icon Periyar.

In a contentious tweet, the DMK leader remarked, “If we Shudras had done what Periyar told us back then, we wouldn’t have had to struggle with Brahmins for justice, rights, education and equality. 3% of you (Brahmins) are still dominating some areas.”

Screengrab of the tweet by Rajiv Gandhi

His tweet, endorsing the genocide of Tamil Brahmins, comes after political commentator Sumanth Raman had shared a snippet of the Periyar’s 1973 speech in Karikudi in Tamil Nadu.

The Background of the controversy

In the said speech, the anti-Hindu activist was heard calling for the annihilation of Tamil Brahmins. Periyar had lamented how a Brahmin ‘Lord Murugan’ killed demon king ‘Soora Padman’, who supposedly said that there was no God.

“Tamil Brahmins killed him. So, now we can kill those buggers. That won’t be wrong. Maybe legally it will be wrong. That legal offence and all is humbug. We can’t be bothered that it is legally wrong. We have to come to this conclusion,” he had remarked.

Periyar had emphasised, “Wherever we see a temple, we must go inside and break all the idols inside. Wherever we find a Paapaan (slur for Tamil Brahmins), we must kill and destroy him. Brahmins have done this to us. We must avenge it.”

The Dravidian icon had suggested that a few non-Brahmins might have to die for the cause. “If one non-Brahmin Tamil dies while trying to kill one Tamil Brahmin, only 3 of us will die out of every hundred. 94% of us will still remain but Tamil Brahmins will be eliminated. We will definitely go to this level. We can take one step at a time,” Periyar had suggested.

Political commentar Sumanth Raman pointed out how the rest of India and especially the wokes do not have any idea about the hate peddled by Periyar in his lifetime.

“Those from the rest of India may want to listen to this speech. Especially wokes who have no idea of the hatred spread and the calls for genocide made then. That a genocide did not happen is thanks in large measure to Indira Gandhi, MGR & Jayalalithaa,” he tweeted.

Raman then went on to engage in bothsidesism and drew a false balance between Periyar’s 1973 speech and Hindutva.

“Tell me one reason why this speech is better than those made by some fringe Hindutva Groups today. That is why I have for long maintained that both so-called Dravidianism and Hindutva are two sides of the same coin. Hope people appreciate this better now,” Raman stated.

Periyar and his hatred towards Hindus and Hinduism

In 1953, Periyar organized agitations for the desecration of Ganesha idols. He had elaborated extensively on the motivations behind the breaking of the idols. Thousands of idols were broken on the chosen day of the agitation, which also happened to be Gautama Buddha’s birthday. A case was filed against him which was later dismissed by the Courts.

In August 1956, he was poised to lead his followers to the Marina in burning pictures of Shri Rama. In his mind, the Ramayana was a tale of war between Aryans and Dravidians where the less worthy Aryans prevailed over the righteous Dravidians. Quite obviously, Periyar’s interpretation of events had no real basis in reality.

On the day of the protest, Periyar was arrested by the Police but his followers proceeded with the madness at the Marina. Most people went home after the Police brandished their lathis.

Approximately 890 people were arrested either before or during the event. Periyar was released after two and a half hours but he declined to continue the protest following his release.

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