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The writer is sick. So steeped in caste conundrum. Incidentally, Prof.Romilla Thapar came to the rescue of Urban Naxals when they were arrested by ATS police of Maharashtra, by lending her name to the PIL filed for the release of five urban naxals.
Bhakts are present everywhere to pollute the conversation like you .I think your upper compartment is filled up with cows dung.
And Bhimtes like you never stop complaining. I guess the begging and nagging is a part of your heritage
It ceases to be a problem if we accept the fact that the Indian nation-state (the so-called ,”Idea of India”) is a relatively new construct. We should stop trying to force-fit events from the past into that model.
Most so-called intellectuals, even the left leaning ones, come from upper castes, they have been unable to put their finger on the crux of the problem – a biting caste system that has surpassed >70% of the population for last 2500 years, India’s cast system has been more successful in its longevity and suppression then some other well-known systems like a apartheid or serfdom. For India to grow to its full potential, it will have to have its own version of emancipation, that cannot come from cheap slogans or proclamations, rather it will come from a painful process similar to Reformation in Europe.
Wow how easily a so called scholar goes about narrating a history which does not exist. Maratha- east india company wars involved Peshwa, holkars, scindias etc. And it was the Peshwas who plunged the dagger in the back of Martha’s through treaty of bassein. The bhima koregaon battle was proped up against the Maratha valor as the Martha army under holkars scindias and peshwas was as cosmopolitan as the company army.
No, we were and are persecuted daily because of casteism. Casteism is a problem so long as the privileged upper castes exercise it. So for caste to go away the privileged classes who practice caste discrimination have to change
Smt Sudha Bhargava is a saintly person. One hopes the new government will order a detailed probe to uncover the truth.
Even some Left leaning Dalit intellectuals have some problem with acknowledging the substance of the Koregaon event as they fear of being branded as pro-Imperialist. Dalits and Bahujans have always been facing another Imperialism – the Brahminical Imperialism. Lefts has no been t able to theorise Caste in India. Look at the way dozens of articles that came from the pens (laptops) of the Left and Liberal intellectuals on the ‘ Indian War of Independence of 1857’ Babasaheb Ambedkar had a different view of it. Close to this view from the Left was from M N Roy, musch derided and castigated by the Left in India.
Jai Jai Gatha, Veer Maratha. Peshwa or Maratha, we will never bow down to glorification of British imperialism in garb of Dalit appeasement
The writer is sick. So steeped in caste conundrum. Incidentally, Prof.Romilla Thapar came to the rescue of Urban Naxals when they were arrested by ATS police of Maharashtra, by lending her name to the PIL filed for the release of five urban naxals.
Bhakts are present everywhere to pollute the conversation like you .I think your upper compartment is filled up with cows dung.
And Bhimtes like you never stop complaining. I guess the begging and nagging is a part of your heritage
It ceases to be a problem if we accept the fact that the Indian nation-state (the so-called ,”Idea of India”) is a relatively new construct. We should stop trying to force-fit events from the past into that model.
Most so-called intellectuals, even the left leaning ones, come from upper castes, they have been unable to put their finger on the crux of the problem – a biting caste system that has surpassed >70% of the population for last 2500 years, India’s cast system has been more successful in its longevity and suppression then some other well-known systems like a apartheid or serfdom. For India to grow to its full potential, it will have to have its own version of emancipation, that cannot come from cheap slogans or proclamations, rather it will come from a painful process similar to Reformation in Europe.
Wow how easily a so called scholar goes about narrating a history which does not exist. Maratha- east india company wars involved Peshwa, holkars, scindias etc. And it was the Peshwas who plunged the dagger in the back of Martha’s through treaty of bassein. The bhima koregaon battle was proped up against the Maratha valor as the Martha army under holkars scindias and peshwas was as cosmopolitan as the company army.
Great way to start the new year with hate. Was this necessary today also? Seems you breathe caste 24 by 7.
No, we were and are persecuted daily because of casteism. Casteism is a problem so long as the privileged upper castes exercise it. So for caste to go away the privileged classes who practice caste discrimination have to change
Smt Sudha Bhargava is a saintly person. One hopes the new government will order a detailed probe to uncover the truth.
Even some Left leaning Dalit intellectuals have some problem with acknowledging the substance of the Koregaon event as they fear of being branded as pro-Imperialist. Dalits and Bahujans have always been facing another Imperialism – the Brahminical Imperialism. Lefts has no been t able to theorise Caste in India. Look at the way dozens of articles that came from the pens (laptops) of the Left and Liberal intellectuals on the ‘ Indian War of Independence of 1857’ Babasaheb Ambedkar had a different view of it. Close to this view from the Left was from M N Roy, musch derided and castigated by the Left in India.
In India castes are classes. Left leaders are predominantly upper castes Hence they could not accept this fact.