The sins of the ancestors Vs The role of the descendants - Part IV

Mr. Manivannan has responded as given below,  with closed mind, to the Rejoinder given as Part III of this series:

"These are lame excuses based on ideas that were current during fascist, Stalinist era. All I'm asking is why can't the middle castes demonstrate their egalitarianism by breaking the barriers between them and the oppressed. That doesn't take much, does it? Fighting for a principle is a lot easier and consistent. Attacking selected groups based on their birth is primitive and discriminatory."

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Such attitude of these spokesmen necessitates a reply. That is why the following reply is given. It is for the readers to judge.

Brahmins sabotaged the unity among the non-Brahmins

One never expects any reasonable answer from the Ku Klux Klan or its advocates. When Mr.Manivannan started asking pointed questions, I was happy that there were persons among the Ku Klux Klan who would discuss the issues, open-mindedly. But Mr.Manivannan has, through his replies and silence, demonstrated that the Brahmins would never concede equal rights to the non-Brahmins and would never come out of their mentality of apartheid. What he implies is that Brahmins would continue to be like that and, it is for the subjugated classes to unite among themselves and then, also, to remain under the Brahmins as slaves. Will tbe Brahmins keep quiet when such grand alliance is formed? History, including contemporary history, tells us that they would not allow any such grand alliance to come true. They would, therefore, do their ‘duty’ to create dissension among them.

Knowledge (of the opponents' character) is power

The first thing that the subjugated classes must do, in the context, is, therefore, to understand the techniques of their common enemy who would never allow any rapprochement between various sections of the subjugated classes. That was being done through the post in Part III of this series. And that, again, is what is being attempted at through this post too.

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Enabling the people of all castes among the non-Brahmins in the Hindu fold to officiate as priests in the HR&CE temples  is the first step for unity among the non-Brahmins. But, what did the Brahmins do, when such a step was taken? A historical event is re-called here to show how the Brahmins had worked against the unity of all the subjugated classes in the Hindu fold and against the emancipation of Scheduled Castes.

Apartheid soul-deep

The statement filed by the Hindu Fundamentalists, in the Supreme Court challenging the amendment to the Tamilnadu HR&CE Act of 1970 made as per the recommendation of the Committee on Untouchability, Economic and Educational Development of the Scheduled Castes, contained the following argument in support of the policy of apartheid perpetuated by them for millennia:

1. If the person who goes near the deity is a Brahmin who is not a priest Samprotchanam must be done with pure water.

2. If he is a Kshatriya the Samprotchanam must be with 7 pots of water.

3. If he is a Vysya, (a) Samprotchananm must be  performed with 24 pots of water and (b) Santhi homam must also be performed.

4.  If he is a Shudhra, (a) Samprotchanam must be performed with 108 pots of water, (b) Mahasanthi homam must be performed besides  (c) offering food to Brahmins.

How dare they? But, they did. Mr. Manivannan must know that it was the Brahmins who worked against the emancipation of Scheduled Caste people,  thus, and not the intermediate castes. Because, the step taken by the government was in the right direction, benefitting the society as a whole with the aim of evolving casteless society, in the short run. 

            In the year 1969 the Committee on Untouchability, Economic and Educational Development of the Scheduled Castes had suggested in its report that the hereditary priesthood in the Hindu Society should be abolished, that the system could be replaced by an ecclesiastical organisation of men possessing the requisite educational qualifications who might be trained in recognised institutions in priesthood and that the line should be open to all candidates irrespective of caste, creed or race. The Government of Tamilnadu had, accordingly, amended Sections 55 and 56 of the Principal Act, the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable, Endowments Act, 1959 to facilitate Non-Brahmins also to acquire the qualification and officiate as priests. The matter went to Supreme Court of India (Seshammal & Others Vs. State of Tamilnadu – 14-03-1972). But, those who perpetuated apartheid had the day, for peculiar reasons. If only the British had learnt the tricks of these Hindu Fundamentalists and enforced apartheid in South Africa in the name of religion, Nelson Mandela would not have won. In South Africa, apartheid was skin-deep. In Hindu religion, apartheid is soul-deep.

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Now that Mr. Manivannan, the spokesman of the Ku Klux Klan of India, has confessed to and exhibited the brahmanical animosity towards all the non-Brahmins, which is true otherwise too, there are some options available to the suppressed classes to redeem themselves:

 1. The non-Brahmins of all castes can go to their temples for prayer and worship but should not requisition the services of the Brahmin priests and accept the sacred ash or kum-kum from the Brahmin priests (until they stop their racist tendency to treat us as low-born and accept  our legitimate stand to officiate as priests in those temples). They, therefore, need not pay any Dakshinaa to them. But, because the temples are ours, they may deposit their contributions in the hundials for the maintenance of the temples until the  temples allow our people also to officiate as priests. That is what I do ;

 2. They can visit the temples of Kaaliamman, Maariamman or Ayyanaar and worship the God there, requisition the services of the Poosaaries there and pay their ‘Kaanikkai’ to them  as usual;

 3.  They can pray God in their mother-tongue itself and reach God, thereby.

         “சொல்லிய பாட்டின் பொருளுணர்ந்து சொல்லுவார்

செல்வர் சிவபுரத்தின் உள்ளார் சிவனடிக்கீழ்ப்

பல்லோரும் ஏத்தப் பணிந்து."  - மாணிக்கவாசகர். 

4. The non-Brahmins, who are not ready to continue to fight against the system,  can migrate to any other religion of their choice, either Buddhism, Christianity or Buddhism to escape from the ignominy heaped on them by the Brahmins;

 5. They will not lose their benefits of reservation in services (which, anyway, is going to be made nil soon by the conspirators, through various means), which issue can be taken care of separately legally;

 6. They also need not bother themselves about the manner in which the Ku Klux Klans would create a furore when such religious conversions take place. The design of the rabid racists of India would stand exposed before the world easily then;

 7. They must insist on compulsory conscription of all the castes and religions as field level soldiers in the army. That will solve many problems for the nation.