There were and are some sections of people in India who do not think on their own but place themselves at the disposal of the Chaturvarna fanatics. They are not ready to take their lives into their own hands and decide
their own destiny. Their lives are disposable and dispensable at the whims and fancy
of the Chaturvarna fanatics who are Hindu fundamentalists.
"History is the vast early warning system", said Norman Cousins. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", said George Santayana in his book "The Life of Reason". But these people do not read history and do not care for their posterity.
But History repeats itself. People of all the 'lower' Varnas are continued to be branded as 'kul-heenas' and are treated like dust. Yet, they do not know that fact. They continue to live their lives in servility and cause permanent damage to their progeny.
2300 years ago
Chanakya advises about the methods of collecting money from
the people for the government. He says that some outcast person should be made
to be bitten by cobra. Thereafter, the government servants should spread the
rumour among the people that there was some bad omen and that the government
was going take some remedial measures for it. They must then collect money from
people and take it to government.
“Or by causing an outcaste person (abihityakta) to be bitten
by cobra, spies may collect revenue under the pretext of undertaking remedial
measures against ominous phenomena” - One of many such instances in Arthasastra
- Page 276 – Book V – - Conduct of Corporations ––R. Shama Sastry.
In the process, Chanakya, as a decision maker, did not care for the life of an innocent man who was to be killed by cobra-bite. Because, Chanakya, the terrorist, became the first State-Terrorist in the recorded history of the world. He was indulging many more activities of such State-Terrorism, in his capacity as the Chancellor of his stooge, Chandragupta Maurya.
Chanakya says more of the "use of outcastes".
"An outcaste, under the guise of a high-born man, may claim from a seditious person a large amount of money professed to have been placed in the latter's custody by the claimant, or a large debt outstanding against a seditious person, or a share of parental property........ and when the outcaste is lying at the door of the seditious person's house at night or is living elsewhere, a fiery spy may murder him and declare: "The claimant of his own property .. has been, thus, killed". And for this offence others (i.e. the seditious person and his followers) shall be deprived of their property".
Chanakya provides varieties too in his terrorist techniques, about the manner in which the outcaste person should be advised to indulge in quarrel with the targeted person, as could be seen from his text.
The number of murders of innocent persons who were not liked by Chanakya and were, therefore, killed by him and his disciples in this manner is for the readers to understand.The number of outcastes who were used and killed by Chanakya and his disciples for such conspiratorial plots would be equal to that number.
Outcastes - nobody would care for them
In the era of Chanakya, the outcastes were the ones whose lives did not matter to anyone. Nor their death, except, of course, to their near ones. They did not have any voice or influence in the society. Their sufferings were not taken any cognizance of by the rest. Nobody would protest if any harm is done to them. They were humans without any human rights. One could exploit them to any end and need not recompense.
Chanakya uses the phrase "carry away the corpse as that of an outcaste" in his advisory, the Arthasastra in Book V - by Dr. R. Shamasastry - Page 277 - 1967 Edition). That would show what sort of contemptible life the outcastes were condemned to, in a society in which the Brahmin Supremacists ruled the roost.
500 years ago, in c. 1520-22 AD
The era of Vijayanagar empire was from 1336 BC to 1646 BC. Krishnadevaraya ruled between 1509 to 1529 AD.
The descendants of Chanakya had strong hold over the power centres. There was a problem about the persistent breach on the banks of a tank that was under construction. These Chanakya's descendants were consulted by the king;
“...the tank was finished and brought to completion. The tank burst two or three times, and the king asked his Brahmans to consult their idol and to the reason why it burst so often, and the Brahmans said that the idol was displeased, and desired that they should make a sacrifice, and should give him the blood of men, horses and buffaloes; and as soon as the king heard this he forthwith commanded that at the gate of the pagoda the heads of sixty men should be cut off, and of certain horses and buffaloes, which was at once done.”
(Page 245 – A Forgotten Empire – Robert Sewell - Narrative
of Domingos Paes – about the kingdom of Narsymga (Vijayanagar ) about a tank
that was dug after breaking down a hill – c. 1520-22 AD.
Lives of sixty men were consigned to oblivion. What a rule! What an atrocious advice!!
All because the entire community did not have conscience, did not question the advisors why their heads were not offered to be cut off. It was a cannibalistic society. Lives and aspirations of people do not matter, if they are hapless, helpless and voiceless.
We are also going to be like those voiceless people, unless we assert our rights assured to us by the Constitution and stand up against the wheeling-dealings of the central bureaucrats who thrive only in a secretive system.
Indian democracy will become a humane one, only when the RAW, MEA, MHA,
EC and Income Tax Departments are monitored 24 x 7 by a multi-party monitoring
committee of elected Members of Parliament. The committee should consist of the
people of all Varnas and all religions. Until then, Central establishment would continue to serve only sectarian ends.
Let us work for Unity of our nation, by ensuring real Equality
and Fraternity in the functioning of our State machinery.
Let out motto be, “One Hindu Religion, One Single Varna”.
