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I can understand the difference between the struggle of the Not Hindus farmers in other states and the struggle of the farmers of Punjab and Haryana as I have met the farmers first hand. No struggle in India can be successful without the participation of Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Castes people in India. And this is precisely the reason why the struggle of the peasants in other states has not been successful while the peasant struggle in Punjab remains a model for the whole world. The prime reason for the success of the peasant struggle in Punjab is that they are not Hindus. They cannot be separated in the name of castes because they are intertwined in the name of culture and religions. The roots that bind them emanate from the holy book of Sikh religion " Granth” On November 11, 2020 the Jharkhand Hemant soren was written by Sant Guru Ravidas and Sant Kabir, who were born from a much oppressed society.All attempts towards breaking the unity of Government Passed the separate religion code-Tribal/Sarna the peasants involved in the struggle so as to divide the movement, Religion for Adivasis/tribals. The passed resolution seeks a have been crushed to pieces. special column for the follwers of saran religion (tribal/saran The struggling farmers had refused to accept the religion) in the census 2021. We from Kansiram Sena government’s amendments and insisted that the farm laws be welcome this rightful move taken by the Jharkhand repealed.The majority of people in India think that this New Agricultural Policy is being brought about by the ruling BJP. But the government. truth is that the Congress government introduced the same thing in When the hegemonic Brahmanic forces are trying the name of "National Agricultural Policy - 2004". And now, the ruling to annihilate identity and worldview of Adivasis and further BJP government is currently making serious efforts to implement it. assimilate adivasi communities into their Hindu fold,the That is why Congress is currently maintaining a pretentious silence. Since 99% of the media in India is controlled by Brahmins and Baniyas, passed resolution brings the question of Adivasi’s separate the media has been acting in ambush and disintegrating the religious identity to the fore.Moreover,adivasi communities of movement from the very beginning of the struggle. central india have been demanding and struggling for the The media tried to disrupt the protesters by calling the recognition of their culture and religion since long time. protesting peasants as Pakistani and Khalistani supporters, which the Adivasi scholars such as Dr.Ramdayal Munda has already protesters thwarted.The struggle of these peasants cannot be thwarted by conspiracy, like the Shaheen Bagh struggle against the conceptualized and theorized the basic tenet of the faith and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Registration of religious beliefs of Adivasis. Citizens (NRC) and the great riots that took place at the end of the This has been quite apparent that mere recognition of Jallikattu struggle in Tamil Nadu. Punjabis make up only one per cent the separate religion code for adivasi communities threatens of the Indian population, and this one per cent of the population has the hoax of Hindu nation.And that’s why the RSS chief and the energy to generously provide food for the entire population of India for ten years...why..? Because they are not Hindus. All those their allied organizations have been voicing against the who do not consider themselves Hindus in India can be seen living recognition of Adivasi’s religious identity. The Hindu identity rationally and healthily. that is being imposed by the sangh parivar clearly does not To live with self-respect and rationality requires a change in exist in reality. Hindutva is merely a new face of the culture. If there is to be a change in culture, the Bahujan Dravidian community must become the rulers. If we are to become rulers ... we Brahmanical force that has tried,at different points in history, must campaign and educate our Bahujans about the importance of to shape social relations that suits its hegemony. our votes,Our heroism and dignity lies in doing the only job of getting With the advent of the modern state under colonial voters to vote honestly to become rulers of India. regime and the subsequent drafting of the constitution, Hindu Jeevan Kumar Malla nationalism emerged and proliferated to pursue Brahmanical Editor-In-Chief supremacy under the grab of nationalism. The construction of a unified Hindu identity then demands that the existing cultural and social practices,norms and belief systems must be completely destroyed or at least distorted and appropriated in order to achieve Brahmanical supremacy. The move by hemant soren’s government is thus a revolutionary move that asserts the separateness of the Adivasis from the Hindu social order and directly confronts the Hindu nationalist project. this assertion of a separate religion is also an assertion of a separate cultural , social and religious life of Adivasis which cannot be subsumed under the inegalitarian Hindu social order which has no room for liberty,equality or fraternity. - Ashok Saket Commander in chief Kanshiram Sena +91 971736 6805

2 Kindly Subscribe PERIYAR, The Firebrand Pioneer Who Shaped The Dravidian Revolution - Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk Born on September 17, 1879, in the city of Erode, Tamil Nadu, Erode Venkata In the following year, Ramasamy joined the historical Self Respect Ramasamy Naicker, popularly known by his Movement started by another social reformer S Ramanathan. What followers as Periyar (‘elder or wise one’) or Ramasamy did was propel the movement to new heights. Thanthai Periyar, was a radical social reformer. What the movement sought was to end the scourge of pernicious Popularly known for extensively speaking out and fighting against the superstitions, rituals, customs and traditions that perpetuated the evils of caste discrimination with his famous Self Respect Movement, dynamic of caste-based subjugation. “When others of his day loved to he also espoused rationalism and women’s rights—ideas that were chant of political freedom, spiritual upliftment and other ‘bigger’ things of life, Periyar was down to earth enough to see that his people needed way ahead of their times. first and foremost their dignity to be salvaged and their self-respect to be restored. That was Periyar’s diagnosis of the society,” writes K In a public life spanning over 70 years, it is nearly impossible to Veermani. encapsulate in a few hundred words why Periyar is still held in such high regard, especially among the Tamils. In the late 1930s, Periyar joined the Justice Party, which stood in opposition to the Congress in the Madras provincial elections. When His pilgrimage to the holy Hindu town of Kashi in 1904 to visit the Shiva the British conducted provincial elections in 1937, the Congress won, temple of Kashi Vishwanath is a good place to start. His experiences and C Rajagopalachari took charge. This began another critical chapter during this pilgrimage profoundly shaped his politics. in the life of Ramasamy, who according to Ramachandra Guha in his book “Makers of Modern India”, “was increasingly known as Periyar” His disgust at the sight of prostitution, cheating, looting, floating dead bodies and rampant begging on the streets of Kashi conflicted with the As soon as it took office, the Congress-led provincial government in the romantic notions that many had held of this holy town.There was one Madras Presidency, introduced compulsory Hindi instruction in particular incident, however, which scarred him for life.At the schools.This was a step, which would resonate with greater force in the choultries (resting places) adjoining the temple, free food was on offer violent anti-Hindi agitations of the 1960s. As the new president of the to Brahmin pilgrims. When Ramasamy stood in line to partake of these Justice Party in 1938, Periyar and members of the Self Respect meals, he was refused because of his caste. Movement led protests to restore Tamil in schools. What brought greater political force to this demand was that these protests attracted One day, out of desperate hunger, he decided to go in disguised as a even those opposed to Self-Respect Movement because of its Brahmin, wearing the sacred thread. Unfortunately, his moustache emphasis on atheism. The provincial government soon had to withdraw gave away his identity since temple authorities believed that holy texts this law did not permit Brahmins to have moustaches. He was denied food and pushed out into the streets. During this time, Periyar’s politics began to shift significantly, and this is where we see his legacy on Tamil Nadu politics taking shape. “As Indian “Why and how can Brahmins obstruct Dravidians from taking meals in independence approached, Periyar grew apprehensive about the the choultry, although the choultry was built with the money of a treatment of Dravidian people, a linguistic group including the Tamils, Dravidian philanthropist? Why have Brahmins behaved so and he founded the Dravidar Kazhagam (Dravidian Organization) in mercilessly and fanatically as to push the communities of the 1944,” writes Ryan Shaffer, an American historian Dravidian race even to starvation – death by adamantly enforcing their evil casteism,” asked Ramasamy. This split from the Janata Party also marked a definitive shift away from electoral politics for Periyar, while he further immersed himself in social On his return to Erode, Ramasamy took over his father’s business. reform. Unfortunately, his protégé CN Annadurai split ranks after a When a deadly plague broke out in Erode in 1904, which claimed the series of differences, especially over the question of participation in lives of hundreds, he refused to leave unlike other local merchants electoral politics. and instead devoted his time to carry the dead for their last rites. In the following decade, his business grew, besides acquiring many Post-Independence he continued on his path of social positions in public institutions.All that changed in 1919, when he reform—speaking out against the caste system, emphasising on the joined the Indian National Congress, where he extensively importance of Tamil while stressing the need to establish English as the participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement. He was even national language instead of Hindi, and of course spreading the word of arrested twice for his troubles. In April 1924, he earned greater rationalism and atheism acclaim for leading a successful agitation for the right of the lower castes to walk on roads near a Shiva temple in the holy town of Vaikom When arrested in 1953 on charges of blasphemy, he said, “an atheist is in present-day Kerala, despite strong opposition from the local priestly not rejecting the sayings or commandments of God, but the sayings and commandments that men made in the name of God.” class and the Travancore (Brahmin hegemony) royalty He passed away on December 24, 1973, and received a state funeral. “In fact, the real public opinion in favour of the temple entry was Like any self-thinking maverick, Periyar’s legacy is complicated. created only by the Dravidian movement. The temple entry agitations were actually conducted by the followers of Thanthai Periyar from the 1920s. The Vaikom agitation under his leadership was not launched originally for the temple entry of untouchables. It was to give the oppressed the rights to approach and access the streets adjoining Sri Mahadevar temple at Vaikom,” writes K Veeramani, a social worker Talking Communism who worked closely with Ramsamy, in a blog for the Times of India. without eradication caste, In the following year, he left the Congress citing that it wasn’t doing enough to address the evils of caste discrimination within the party. In is like discussing higher education fact, this is something even BR Ambedkar had alluded to many times during his long-standing struggle for the emancipation of the without the rudiments of learning community. Nonetheless, the Vaikom episode enhanced his position in the public eye.

3 Kindly Subscribe NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020 Higher Education | Prof. Jawahar Nesan, Vice-Chancellor

Brothers and sisters, it is a great event. I very much thank you and feel pride centralized power to implement education, and regulatory authority in of being part of this deliberation today on national education policy being education sector was dominated by the army personnel in Italy and Nazis in organized by a congregation of several organizations, grassroots Germany. It was a concept - Nazism was a concept, so was fascism, so, organizations and political parties working for the cause of the society in eventually, what had happened, based on which, they created the curriculum, India. Including the Bahujan Dravida Party several other organizations are nationwide curriculum, a centralized curriculum, and they created national joining hands now in this effort, and Dr. Dhananjay kumar has addressed the textbooks as well. The textbooks were created by not less than the rank of the welcome speech, and just before me, an introductory note was given by Mr. presidents Hitler and Mussolini, and they were a part of the curriculum Jivan Kumar Mallah, the President-Bahuujan Dravida Party and the committee and formation of national textbooks. So it was highly steered by a president of this conference Mr. Lalitkumar ji, and Mr. Jitendra Cardovan top down approach, and it was centralized, the agenda, the curriculum, the who is going to deliver the vote of thanks, and Professor. Ponselvi and ladies textbook and the subject matters of instruction all were decided by the central and gentleman, good evening. government, with a strong force, strong mandate and power. If you look at the And this is, I think is a gifted event organized by the organizers, and I teachers, at one time, in Italy, most of the teachers who refused to follow the hope that the participants of this conference would be able to at least get the unethical and un-philosophical education system were all thrown out, they glimpse of the difficulty of the times that we are living in and the problems that were all replaced by the kind of the army based teachers as per the desires of this great nation is facing in the hands of the policy makers, the rulers and the the leaders of the country, and they just picked up those as teachers who had neo – liberal market forces, and of course the specially cultivated community accepted the Mussolini’s fascism and those who accepted the Germany’s which enjoys the highest social authority in this country. Their collective Nazism. Kids were forcefully brought down to schools and they were invention is National Education Policy 2020. The 66 page document has controlled and influenced by the concept of the kind of the nationalism that the been released just recently, and before this it was about 400 plus pages as a leaders wanted to inculcate in their mind. Another commonality I would like to draft document, but there is not much difference between the 400 plus pages highlight is that the rulers started taking this version of education into the and 66 pages final document. The reason is that the 66 pages are just only household, and while doing so, they tried to influence the mothers, and that the abstract of the 400 plus pages draft document. As I often said, the Indian there were different organizations created to control the households and society is now facing a very very tough time in the history of India. It is as if parents into their fore. Through mothers, they wanted to inculcate a kind of the times when the Americans bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because education to do with the kids; that is the ‘early childhood education’, because, of which even today the Japan, the Japanese people are bearing the curse the leaders thought that ever since babies born in this world, they have to be and facing a difficult time even today. I think that if this national education indoctrinated by only their agenda, their notion, their concept of nationalism policy is implemented in full swing I foresee that it will create the kind of a and their concept of idealism. This is how education was used by the nation turbulent, disturbing, distorting and very distrustful time ahead for the Indian states, and education was highly made a process of the national government. society. Why is it so? Is education so hard a substance that it is going to Finally, it ended up in fascism. create that havoc in this country? Yes, it is, it did so in at least 60 – 70 years When I look at the new National Education Policy 2020, I suspect that ago in the hands of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. I should show there are a lot of similarities too. The Ministry of Human Resource the glimpse of how an education policy will influence the society and nation Development (MHRD) has been changed as Ministry of Education; that is not building in a greater way, as we have a lot of evidences across the country, a big deal anyway, there is nothing wrong in it as well, but this was what, in Italy, but I would like to quote how Hitler and Mussolini did it. If you look at these Mussolini did. He changed the name of the Ministry of Public Instruction to samples, they had come out with an idea of nationalism - a jingoist affiliation Ministry of Education. I don’t know why, but we should note that the same is to nationalism – and, they defined what nationalism is; and ‘they’ means, the happening in the National Education Policy. Now the curriculum is highly rulers, the policymakers and the privileged segment of the societies those centralized and the curriculum framework is in the hands of the central days in those countries. They forced and imposed their concept of government. Already it has been so to some extent; it has been influenced by nationalism across the length and breadth of the country. They wanted to the central government through UGC (University Grants Commission) under command the society with that kind of nationalistic description that they had, MHRD and other agencies like AICTE (All India Council for Technical and it was the mandate that they had at that time, and with that mandate, Education), Medical Council and professional agencies. they really wanted to control and influence the mindset of the people so that However, the new education policy is trying to strongly come out with a they would continue to be in power and they would be able to achieve what centralized curriculum framework for the whole country; for 130 Crore people. they wanted to achieve. This was what had happened nearly 80 years ago. But only thing I would like to tell you now is that the curriculum is the most To do this, they had come out with an education policy, because, education essential part of education because it is a framework by which a teacher and has become a greatest tool in fixing, influencing forming and formulating the learner is going to travel through the trajectory of education and achieve the mindset of the humankind, and the same had successfully been educational goals and the learning outcomes. It is something like a framework implemented, achieved and realized 80 years ago. Gentile the education and formula by which the process of education is handled, and the next thing is minister, the advisor and mentor of Mussolini had come up with a very strong ‘subject matters of instruction’; people sometimes call it as syllabus, content convincing idea of ‘nationalism’ those days, which really the whole world and so on, but I would like to call it as subject matters of instruction or subject appreciated, initially, when they started applying it, but afterwards, the world matters of learning. The curriculum and subject matters of instruction are the had witnessed that it ended up only with fascism but not in real term two focal points in the educational process. These are the very same achievement of educational goals or improvement of the education sector. documents in which and these are all the areas where most of the nation states So, what did they do? They created the philosophy of education, and they wanted to put their hands in. That’s what Hitler did, that’s what Mussolini did, said that it is German centric education, Italianito - Italian centric education, and so does now the new National Education Policy. It wants us to just go into Romanito - Roman culture education, and ‘the Roman Pride’ the ‘Roman and listen what it says as curriculum. 38000 colleges, thousand universities Tradition’ ‘Italian Pride’, ‘Italian Tradition’, ‘German Pride’, ‘Racial Purity’ and and several lakhs schools are supposed to follow that framework; and that Pure German Race’ were all the slogans they made in the education framework is going to be developed none other than the Ministry of Education philosophy of Hitler and Mussolini. Both were contemporary leaders, just and its subordinate agencies, centralized in Delhi. The interests of all the adjacent brothers, who followed the same philosophy. So, with this, what did provincial areas, the states, the districts and other regions, the regional issues they do? They had come out with a kind of a Ministry they formulated ever all will be wiped out from education, and it is going to be one curriculum, one first in Italy - Ministry of Education; previously, that ministry was called textbook and one subject matters of instruction, one content, and the Ministry of Public Instruction; and they wanted to rename it as Ministry of ‘oneness’ is going to be the concept - the focal point of the National Education Education. They created extensive, extra ordinary regulatory regimes and Policy. There are a lot of other steps and measures that they have identified authorities, and the educational process was highly centralized in the capital and recommended in the Policy, but those are all only just a discrete set of with the federal government, and there was no freedom for the provinces to action plans. It is just nothing; it is not a policy at all. address the matter of education. So, that means, there was a great plan behind it – the plan was augmented with a strong centralized regiment with 4 Kindly Subscribe The National Education Policy is simply a set of discrete action plans; almost to control the educational process, this government has also intended to 90 percent of it is simply action points. It stipulates that do this do that, and establish scores of different bodies and regulatory requirements to inculcate these are all the regulations, those are all the operational procedures and and put into its agenda through education policy. standards. This cannot be considered as a policy. A policy, in the first place, To answer why it is so, let me just read a couple of lines of the vision should look into the conditions of the country. The conditions and norms of statement of the National Education Policy - “the national education policy the society and the environment in which the society lives, and the envisions an education system rooted in Indian ethos that contributes directly and transforming India that is Bharat”, and the passage goes on like this and at challenges, the problems, the questions, the doubts facing the society all the end it reads that … “to instill among the learners a deep rooted pride in have to be received and taken into account when you draft a policy for being Indian not only in thought but also in spirit, intellect and deeds, as well as education nationally. But you have not taken into account the conditions of to develop knowledge, skills, values and dispositions that support responsible the society, here in this country; the economic conditions, the environmental commitment to human rights ...”. So, the keywords in the vision statement conditions, the social conditions, oppressions, suppressions, and fosters much for Indian ethos, education system rooted in Indian ethos, deep persecutions ever since the invention of the caste system was inculcated in rooted pride in being Indian not only in thought but also in spirit, intellect and the Indian social structure. On this account I shall say that no Indian deeds, which are worrying statements for me. But the policy doesn’t answer education policy so far had taken into account these social conditions. issues like what is Indian, who is Indian, what is Indian pride, and what is Majority of the people have been denied education; quality education. Just Indian ethos. Is it the ethos of the forefathers who created the modern India? only after independence, constitutionally, people have the right to access Is it the ethos established by the 3000 years old Indian caste system? Is it the education but before independence, majority - more than 90 percent of the ethos of the highest social authority who is sitting at the top of the hierarchical people - had no rights to access education. It was through the religious laws social order? Whose ethos? You and I know whose ethos it is. You and I also know whose ethos and whose pride would eventually become the ethos and and mandates they were denied education; such is the country we are born pride of all walks of life in this country. My question here is that: is it going to be in, and such is the society we belong to. With this kind of society, which is the resultant ethos and pride of all walks of life or the pride of only the socially very much agrarian in nature and segregated like water tight compartments and specially cultivated community of this country? These are all the into different castes, creeds, religions and so on with linguistic variability and questions that the new national education policy should spell out, but it didn’t with different walks of life with different culture and different indigenous do so. But if you read the other side of the documents, throughout, you will knowledge systems across this country, the education policy should be able know where they are coming from on the matters of Indian ethos, Indian pride to be flexible enough to consume all these variations and diversities. But this and Indian knowledge. These are all the worrying issues that are very much National Education Policy is trying to come out with one curriculum, one text central in the national education policy. We may not know the kind of things book and one regulatory authority and one oneness and oneness in about the so called Indian pride and Indian ethos and Indian centric until they everything. are revealed in real terms, but one can surely understand, from the way they The Policy is trying to sanskritize this country through the new three have spelled out justifications for and backdrops of the policy, that they are language formula. So far, Hindi was fostered. I don‘t mind if anyone wants nothing but the means to inculcate and ensure oppression; they will be the to learn Hindi. If I too want I can learn it. It is one of our brother languages; oppressors’ ethos, and oppressors’ pride. The same will become the Indian pride that everyone also has to follow. nothing wrong in learning it, but the thing is, you shall not impose such other The policy speaks greatly about liberal education; too much of liberal languages and the one that has already died – I mean the Sanskrit. You are education. I am not against liberal education. But to them liberal education going to learning it under new education policy. They are going to create means simply ‘flexibility’, which shows, how narrow the policy makers are in universities, they are going to inculcate and come out with some kind of a their thoughts. Liberal education is not just simply being liberal and flexible system and schemes to indirectly influence the education sector to and giving opportunity for the students to just go ahead and learn what they implement Sanskrit, sanskritization, and to implement the ideals of Sanskrit expect and whatsoever they desire in their studies. It is not so limited in this literatures - the Vedas and so on. If you are asked to learn the language manner but beyond it is to liberate the mindset of the people. The pedagogy, I Sanskrit which is full of vedas, related spirituality and allied texts, then you mean the critical pedagogy, is the pedagogy that goes along with liberal have to learn it only through these texts and follow them, which, I term as education to liberate the mindset and to train the mindset to question and to sanskritization. reflect on the knowledge and the information that a learner receives in the Hundreds of agencies and regulatory authorities have been created classroom. He/She cannot just simply consume it and vomit it in the by the central government to implement this new education policy. If you examination. The learner has to critically think, evaluate the information and look into the list, for instance, a centralized national curriculum framework for knowledge that he/she receives in the classroom and reflect with new ideas. This is what knowledge is all about. The synthesis of knowledge during the school education will be formulated for school education. A National learning process must be critically viewed using critical pedagogy, and the Assessment Center will come out with a nationwide framework for learner must have an opportunity to go around and investigate all round ideas conducting examinations. When examination is just simply nothing but and issues, information, and knowledge related to the domains of learning, evaluation and assessment of the learning outcomes, and it is an activity which is what liberal education is about. between the teacher and student, and that too when it occurs within the But one of their versions of liberal education is that to have a flexibility campus, then why do we need the central government to give us its version to kick out a student if he/she is not able to continue his/her studies. A student of students assessment and examination system in schools and universities. is not able to continue his/her studies probably because of several reasons; Another body, called, National Testing Agency has already been established the social reasons, social conditions and economic conditions. A student by the centre whose job is to conduct competitive examinations like NEET should not drop out of studies and just do something else against his/her and other entrance examinations all around, which is another big subject on educational desires just because of these conditions that the education policy which we don‘t have much time now to talk. At the state level, the policy must have considered and for which it must have a solution. But it doesn’t suggests Department of School Education, Directorate of School Education, have one, instead, it comes out with an idea that a student can just opt out of his/her desirable studies anytime at any stage throughout the educational State School Standards Authority, SCERT - a state level council to establish programme and pursue some cultural aspects, per the desires of the rulers curriculum - and district and block level authorities to implement, oversee and some vocational coaching or receive certification proportionately for the and monitor the national education policy. So, right from Delhi to block levels courses completed. the national education policy is going to centrol education. In higher The policy emphasizes vocational education from the fifth standard education, of course, several similar bodies have been recommended; like, onwards. A student has to learn and study vocation, at least, one vocation, so the Higher Education Commission - which is going to be the umbrella body that in case if a student goes out (drop out) of the education system because of for controlling, monitoring and influencing all higher education sectors all various reasons he/she will just look after his/her livelihood with the earned around the country - National Higher Education Regulatory Authority, vocation. What do you mean by education? Who you are to come and tell us National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Higher Education Grants that, okay, you just learn a vocation? Who you are to advise us to do some Council, General Education Council and scores of other things. Like the vocation as opposed to quality education? Education has been reduced like a past how the nationalist’s governments, in other countries, had always tried commodity in this new education policy. This reflects loss of responsibility of the government in ensuring education for all. 5 Kindly Subscribe Manu The Pig / Swine What Saheb Kanshi Ram Said About Pasmanda Muslims 1. We have not forgotten the Evil book which defines us as lowly and untouchable. Tulsi the poet who writes "The drum, What Saheb Kanshi Ram Said About Pasmanda Muslims I shudra, animal and women are all fit for being beaten. These thought it was better to contact Muslims through their leadership. After words still echo in our ears loud and clear. meeting about 50 Muslim leaders I was astonished to witness their

2. We have not forgotten the cruel Brahmin who had mercilessly Brahmanism.Islam teaches us to establish equality and struggle beaten our ancestors for having read the mantras from the Vedas. against injustice but the leadership of Muslims is dominated by so- called high castes like Syeds, Sheikhs, Mughals, and Pathans. The latter 3. We have not forgotten the terrorist and alien Aryans, who had on do not want the Ansaris, Dhuniyas, Qureshis to rise to their levels.In the daily basis killed hundreds of thousands of Buddhists and monks. Allahabad by-election (1988) this became very clear. 4. We have not forgotten that cold blooded murderer Pushyamitra Hindu fundamentalists like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, RSS, Shungh who killed Brahdarath Maurya. He who had kidnapped a 14 year old Buddhist girl and raped her in his palace. Bajrang Dal, BJP and Ram Janambhumi Mukti Samiti and Muslim fundamentalists like the Muslim League, Muslim Majlis, Jamaat-e- 5. We have not forgotten that evil shankaracharya who all over India Islami, Maulana Bukhari, and Syed Shahabuddin were marching had ordered the destruction of 84 thousand Buddhist Viharas. together to ensure the victory of V. P. Singh and the defeat of 6. We have not forgotten the devil Manu who had forced our Kanshiram. Here both shared the same interests. Both the savarna ancestors to carry a pot around their neck and a broom tied to their Hindus and savarna Muslims were anxious that with the victory of waist. Kanshiram their positions could be threatened.After this election, I decided to groom only those Muslims who had converted from Hindu 7. we have not forgotten that evil Shashank who threw the naked Buddhist Minor girls in front of the army soldiers, just because the SC communities [Pasmanda Muslims] for leadership.Translated by Buddhists refused to accept being Shudra. Khalid Anis Ansari

8. We have not forgotten that sadist Kumaril Bhatt who used hot iron rod and kept burning the Buddhist Guru Dhammapal till his bones started showing.

9. We have not forgotten that time when our ancestors were not even allowed to sit on the cot.

10. We have not forgotten that evil Dronacharya who asked for eklavya's thumb and had it cut from his body.

11. We have mot forgotten those Brahmins who hand in glove with Bakhtiyar Khilji had burnt down the Nalanda University

From Ancient Times to Currently All the repression in Indian history has been performed by the Brahmins. Then how can the Chamcha people whose ancestors have been deprived since the last two millenniums say that we are not against Brahmins but against Brahminism..? You know... SC/ST/OBC in India, who could not bear the Brahmins are Hindus and Hindus are following Hinduism; the persecution in Hinduism they embraced Islam. At present Philosophy of Hinduism is Brahminism. Not so difficult to decipher the they are the majority Islamists in India. They are calling as intentions of a sick philosophy called Brahminism same as Hinduism. Chamchas hope you understand this simple logic. Baswanta Muslims. But they are facing various forms of social and cultural oppression from their own upper caste Muslims. Therefore the Chamchas are either stupid or shameless to consider So they are living as underprivileged in mainstream politics in Brahmins not being part and parcel of Brahminism. India. Having read Babasahib on who were the Shudras and how they came Former Member of Parliament Mr Ali Ahmed, who is to be the fourth Varna, it becomes clear that the Brahmins conspiracy fighting for Baswanta Muslims political rights, The National against them resulted in the shudras becoming the fourth Varna after having been very powerful ruling class. Their only fault being to President of Bahujan Dravida Party Mr Jeevan Kumar Malla challenge the authority of the vedas and the Brahmin-priests or and The Supreme Court Senior Advocate Mr Arun Kumar Maji challenging Brahminism itself. had a long discussion on the current political situation of India If reading this post your blood boils then do share it atleast 10 like to defeat Brahmanism. minded members of our Bahujan Dravida Samaj Finally it was decided to function politically together as a full-fledged party. Chase out the *Alien Brahmans and SAVE BHARATH* For the BCCI news Korkai Palanichamy Kudumbar Commander in chief Kanshiram Sena From Delhi ... +91 97156 46452

6 Kindly Subscribe SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Continuation from last issue (Volume 1, Issue 2, Page 7) S. K. Biswas Rtd IAS

His political target was to free the oppressed immense majority people coerced to dead-point by the Hindu code of Manu Brahmin. With a view to achieving the goal, he proclaimed that he would establish a ‘Bahujan Raj’, the rule of the majority by the majority and for the majority. He came out of the ongoing ‘Social Justice’ movement and also out of ‘fill-up quota-job’ move. With his initial political experiences he deeply realized that as a result of Poona Pact it has become impossible to make these scheduled castes, tribes and other proselytes as independent rulers in their own land. Horrified and frustrated he became restlessly mad and slept a whole night putting his head on a sleepless pillow growled, ‘Gulami Hame Manjur Nahin’’I refuse to remain a Gulam. He then discovered that committing suicide remained the only escape route to avoid slavery. He had narrated to me that in the morning he got a vision of his mother. And said, ‘Meri Mammi Khudkusi Karneko liye Mera Paida Nehin Ki’ my mom did not beget me for committing suicide. So I must fight out an exit from the concentration camp of Hindu- Fascism. He visualized, ‘I am not the only slave; the SCs are not the only slaves; there are others like Backward Shudras, proselyte minorities who are equally oppressed discriminated and denied of their rights. The oppression on different sections by the common enemy differs only in degree and not in kind. The combine numerical strength of these victims of system is 85% to 90% of total population of the country. The political structure of the country is Democratic Republic. Its Parliament is composed of the representatives from various constituencies elected with majority vote polled by the people with ‘universal adult franchise.’ So the idea for formation of Bahujan Samaj Party eventually became a reality at the earliest appropriate time. However, like the ‘Non-Brahmin Political Party’ which was active in Bombay and Madras during early 1920s, the BAMCEF expressed the unique idea of bahujan without Brahmins in reality. So also the DS4 raised slogans fearlessly, “Brahmin Baniya Thakur Chors; Baki Sav Ham DS4” to isolate Trivarnis from others. The same ideals were proclaimed by the BSP cadres in wider range with clarity, “Tilak Taraju aur Talwar Unko Mao Juta Char.” Slap the priests, traders and warriors with chappals. He very rightly targeted to identify the enemy of the victims of the system and demolish the supercilious by-birth supremacy of the top 10% superstructure of pyramidical society. It was in consonance with the international politico-economic concept of Marxian doctrine that the 90% of the laboring class, the proletariat the immense majority the lowest stratum of society remain in abject poverty as slaves simply because 10% Masters of the top accumulate 95% of the means of production. So Marx gave a call to forcibly overthrow the top strata. The Indian producing or the laboring class forms Bahujan Samaj which can be equated with the word proletariat. But two differs fundamentally on two prime points that (1) Indian laboring class is a hereditary professional class and no intermixing between professions which results no fellow feeling or belongingness in same class. Untouchable peasants of Rajbanshi or Poundra normally hate peasantry belonging to untouchable community and maintain honourable social distance because of caste difference. (2) That the labourers are the divided lot due to spiritual sanctions. An infant pauper Brahmin remains Elite-class, superior and boss for a very rich and octogenarian Sudra. It is the accepted social behavioral pattern. Workers of India thus never unite. In such circumstances Manyawar Kanshiramji attempted to dwindle down the lofty Chinese Walls of caste hatred and build bridges of brotherhood however, amongst the servile low-castes only. He never chased after the utopian perception of ‘Sarbajan’ and refused to soften his attack on the brute Brahminism. With the mighty strength of oneness of the victims of system, on the basis of belongingness to a single-class or bahujan-society Kanshiram planned to bring forth ‘Social Transformation’, by over-throwing the ‘beneficiaries of the system. It meant a total revolution in a democratic way. Social change or change is a continuous phenomenon. ‘Sarbang Anityam’, propagated Buddha, everything is on change. According to Karl Marx, ‘uninterrupted change is the only permanent state.’ Many alterations had taken place in our country but the oppressed India continues without any change. Kanshiram therefore, rose to revolt not only to have super-structural changes but he also wanted a structural change a change for upside down of the existing social structure. Social Transformation is not just a change; it is transformation of basic structural paraphernalia and arrangements of society. Casteism is an economic structure by itself neither feudalism nor capitalism. Kanshiram rose to transform this exploitative structure of fascist- casteism into a structure where there shall be no landless labourers no land-lords. It would be nearer to a structure that prevailed in the Buddha Vihar with no private property. It would be like Asokan economic-structure of little accumulation and little expenditure with maximization of productivity. The political structure is to be transformed into the democratic structure where the ruling class will fail to capture power. The structure of scheduled-castes is to be transformed into depressed-class or classless society. It was in 1996, Kanshiramji’s political maneuvering succeeded in installing Mayawati of BSP on the throne of UP as Chief Minister for six months. Kanshiram was also anointed by Atal Behari Bajpayee of BJP for Prime Minister of India during the same period. Kanshiramji created a panel of one hundred dependable followers from those who were closely associated with the movement of BSP. Extra security encircled him. He convened a high- powered meeting of this panel of hundred in the Parliament House Annexes itself. The meeting started at 10 a.m. and closed at 10.30 p.m. with a solo speech by the lone speaker Kanshiram. It was an uninterrupted speech with a short break of lunch. Here in the meeting Kanshiramji with his characteristic obvious frankness narrated his journey from an ordinary activist to be the prime minister shortly. He disclosed a secret as to how he had ultimately reached on the very spot of his destination. “Manjeel Dhundulasa Dekhai Deta….” Close is the tower, visible though mists…’ He also narrated as to how suddenly this crown of fulfillment of dream came true. It was the result of his movement called ‘Social Transformation”. He picked up his pen, the vertical pen in his hand, he explained that the pen was the projection of the conventionally stratified society which is pyramidical, base heavy and strong to hold the burden of the upper strata. At the top of it are the ruling classes the Manuwadis a microscopic minority. Beneath them were some layers of their associates as a part of the ruling class. At the base exists the Bahujan Samaj the immense majority service-classes. We want to change this vertically arranged pyramidical society into a horizontal society of equals. He demonstrated it by putting the vertical pen as horizontal. He further proceeded, as the cap of the pen is loosely shunted on the pen so is the position of ruling Brahmanical class who remains parasites. They do not have long roots deep in the vast society. Now since the speed and force of our movement for social transformation have got its expected momentum, the governing class is exceedingly worried that there may occur heavy damage and injury in the ruling class at the top of strata due to impact and jerk of speedy downwards fall towards the horizontal level. And that the ruling classes are also interested to bring forth a gradual change for horizontal society and ready to join this movement if we slow down the speed of leveling unequal levels. And as a gesture of good will they want to support Kanshiram’s claim for the post of Prime Minister. Fortunately, I was witnessing the entire proceedings as one of the members of the distinguished Hundred. Now this was not for first time that Kanshiram was demonstrating his socio-economic and political philosophy palpably by showing a position of a pen in different form on the eve of reaching to his destination. This was not the end point; this was his starting point too. From the beginning of his public carrier to liberate the oppressed humanity his vertical and horizontal pen position created heavy impact and easy understanding for his illiterate, deaf and dumb followers the masses. No more begging justice as charity from the magnanimous fascist oppressors became his plank for self-respect movement on self-help to achieve self-dependent self-conscious freedom in every respect. According to him the oppressed, denounced, discriminated and the exploited people of the country are the immense majority and form the lowest stratum of the society. The Bahujan Samaj possesses overwhelmingly majority votes and can chose and elect their representatives in the Legislatures. They belong to a single social stratum or class. Therefore, they need not to beg from the ruling classes. But the vast ocean of denounced humanity is fragmented in thousands of no-contact small groups some even hostile groups by the institution of Caste system. They are though exploited and discriminated by the common element yet cannot stand against as one body against the common enemy because of this divisions or intra-class rivalry. Earlier in theocratic monarchy they had no way out so their forefathers accepted slavery and torture inflicted by the Trivarnis. But with the advent of the British rule of laws a new British India ushered. While transferring power in the hands of the erstwhile British subjects of British India they did not miss to bestow politically independent India with a Democratic Political structure. In this structure people are to vote and elect their representatives in the provincial Legislatures and Parliament. But due to age-old structural demographic arrangements and unscrupulous hereditary ruling classes the democratic machinery has failed to deliver goods as expected. Now the function of the people has come to be to vote for their masters and leave them to rule. But conception of poor-subjects for liberty is not merely the negative conception of absence of restrain or denial of pursuit of happiness by fulfilling his or her or their human aspirations. The idea of liberty for the untouchable is not confined to the mere recognition of the right of the people to vote. It means to bring the rule of the Bahujan by means of proportional representation of each community. In the circumstances, the Bahujan Samaj only can muster their unity and vote out the traditional ruling class easily. They can chisel their own fate and bring each and every types of social justice by settling injustices on them by themselves. The outcry for Social justice is nothing but begging justice from the Tyrants who are the flux of all injustice. In the Parliamentary democracy they are abject minority and that microscopic minority manage to conquer the support of ballots polled by the Low-castes, Tribals, minorities and economically exploited hereditary producing masses. They apply physical, gun-force, force of money to purchase votes, loot votes, snatching votes, debarring votes by various means. Vote capturing is a big game now. And its sole target is to kick out the undesirable low caste- candidates or their political party if any. The oppressors betray their duty after capturing power. It is rather misnomer to call it betray from the part of the age old-hereditary ruling classes. To empower the down trodden untouchables and Sudras was indeed, a suicidal step for them. They, therefore, as being scrupulous oppressed and exploited unscrupulously the have-nots Bahujan Samaj. It has been therefore, very rightly assessed by a political thinker, “Parliamentary Democracy, notwithstanding the paraphernalia of a popular government, is in reality a government of a hereditary subject class by a hereditary ruling class. It is this vicious organization of political life which has made Parliamentary Democracy a dismal failure…. It has not fulfilled the hope it held out the common man of ensuring to him liberty, property and pursuit of happiness.” Doctrine and principles of caste prevails in politics; son or daughter of a politician or a descendant of a political family is to be a politician. Today’s Parliament is full with hereditary politicians. Kanshiramji, therefore, started a ‘Social Transformation’ movement for placing upside down. The beginning of transformation of social structure was to end its course of journey and replace it with a new ‘Transformed Society’. He wanted that all social evils and inequalities suffered by servile masses were to be redressed by themselves as new authority. Politics and capturing political power was for him simply an instrument to maximize his capacity to demolish the old structure and erect a new one. Political authority he regarded as the most effective platform to meet his end target of ‘Social Transformation’. He was averse to any kind of lawlessness and law breaking. His plan was to capture Legislature and change laws which hindered transformation and enact new laws favorable for social transformation. He was fearlessly adamant to achieve his goal and declared during an election campaign being threatened to eliminate in massacre by the Thakurs, ‘Our target is to get liberty; and if killed in this battle we are not loosing anything but servitude, chains in our hands.’ “Is larhai Me Marbhi Jaoge to Gulamihi Chor Jaoge.” According to him the existing society is found to have been divided into two opposite and hostile camps. One was composed of the people, the Beneficiaries of the System. And the other camp was the fall out of the previous one the Victims of the System. And the system rests its foundation on the hereditary division of labour tagged with the division of labourers with specific sets of professions. Hindu caste system thus founded the ‘Divine Labouring class’ and ‘Divine Ruling class’ with un-changeable profession or economic structure. Thus a particular set of profession or means of production is permanently fixed with a hereditary service producing labour-group. Each caste is tagged with a particular set of means of production or profession. Profession denotes caste name. It creates a closed-class society without any scope of social mobility either vertical or horizontal. This economic and basic structure of the Hindu society got immortality with its genesis in divine covenant. Lower classes of Indian converts are aborigines of this land and blood-brothers of oppressed or victims of the Hindu system and philosophy. The 8% hereditary ruling class could rule with their tyrannical godly-roads. By virtue of divine sanctions the Brahmins only remained absolute owners of the entire means of production of the country. Kanshiram’s social transformation movement targeted this basic structure of Indian society to demolish. These 90% ‘Victims’ are direct product of the inhuman Caste-system, an economic basic structure of the society. The system made the residuary 10% as Beneficiaries’. Caste-ism is not a super structure. Even in the Parliamentary Democratic Republic, the Victims failed to become a part of Governing section. They got only duty to come to vote the representatives of the Rulers to Parliament and get ruled. Structurally the old Indian society has not changed at all. Form of exploitation and tyrannical attitudes have changed its super-structural hue only to deceive and push anesthetic drug of religion. The fortunate ‘Beneficiaries’ of the System distribute charities from their surplus spoils. Kanshiramji planned a programme that the majority must rule and protect their interest themselves. Human rights and right to live freely and with boundless equal opportunity to have scope for pursuit of happiness would be their own affair. Those who fail to provide these basic rights of the subjects must be replaced. So to bring a new democratic society where the minority ruling class would fail to capture government ‘Social Transformation’ has taken a central place as an ultimate target. He started ‘Pay-back to the society’ scheme. Liberation movement by way of social transformation is a self-conscious self-respect self-organized movement on self-help basis. The Beneficiaries can not commit suicide by helping Victims to destroy the system. Help from powerful masters lead to a failure for achieving success in liberation movement. This must be organized and led by bahujans and for the bahujan samaj. Self- dependence is the essence of independence. Continue in next issue... 7 Kindly Subscribe - OSHO -

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"Just now the pope has been here. In his rst day's speech in New Whether they were more procient or not, those limited places were Delhi he was very much disappointed." "In that meeting he given to them. In universities, in colleges, they were given special remarked in a very subtle, diplomatic, indirect way against the scholarships. Whether they deserved them or not, that was not the Hindu caste system, that all human beings should be treated question. They have suffered for centuries, and now some equally. He is not aware or he is lying, because the sudras, the compensation has to be made. By becoming Christians they have lost untouchables who have become Catholic Christians, they are not all those privileges, because they are no longer Hindus. And as far as being allowed to worship with all the other Christians – they are their being sudras is concerned, they are still sudras. So they have segregated. They have been given different small churches to been cheated badly." "And the pope had not the guts to say directly to worship separately. Now the man had some nerve to condemn the Hindus, "Your caste system is inhuman." He did not mention Hindus." "And the sudras who became converted to Christianity became converted only on the grounds that they were promised Hinduism. A criticism has to be direct and clear, honest and sincere. that they would be treated equally. And they are not treated Why was he afraid of making a direct criticism? He was afraid because equally – they cannot even worship in the other churches, with the he was going to move around India, then everywhere he would be other Christians." "So they are Christian sudras; there is no change condemned and protested against because the caste system is the at all. It has not been a gain in any way. It has been a loss, because very corner stone of Hinduism. It is ugly, it should not be there, but when they were Hindu sudras the Indian constitution was giving even critics are such cowards." them special privileges. In jobs there were limited quotas for (The Sword and the Lotus # 21 them.

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