[IMC-Editorial] [India Thinkers Net]Exposure of the Bloodthirsty Hindutva of the Sangh Parivar

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HINDU or SINDHU

 

 
 
Dear friends,

Dr. Bharat Patankar, author of the article, "HINDU or SINDHU", 
copied below, is life-partner of our well known author and 
columnist Gail Omwedt. Dr. Patankar was born in 1951, in a 
farming family, His father was murdered in 1952 by certain 
Congress-connected people because they (Bharat’s parents) 
were going towards the left. Mother raised him by herself, going 
to the fields and teaching school. After obtaining his MBBS 
degree, Dr. Patankar proceeded to the USA. While he was doing 
his MD in the USA, he met Gail, and they have been together 
since that time. He started getting involved in the working 
class movements, and has been a full-time activist since then. 
Currently he is organizing dam evictees and drought prone 
farmers in four districts of southern Maharashtra. In addition, 
he is very involved with cultural movements (the Vidrohi 
Sanskritic Calval (Vidrohi Cultural Movement), which is 
recently involved in a Dharmaandhata aur Deshadrohi Virodhi 
Manch (Opponents of Religious-bigotry and Nationa-wreckers)
 -- they call RSS as deshadrohi and say "we are the 
Hindustanis, unifiers of the whole Bahujan Samaaj". Generally 
the Vidrohi platform opposes capitalism and brahlmanism.

Tomorrow you will get Tukaram’s poetry translated jointly 
by Drs. Gail Omwedt & Bharat Patankar.

Regards,

Satinath

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HINDU or SINDHU

Exposure of the Bloodthirsty Hindutva of the Sangh Parivar


(Translated from Marathi)

(Originally written in 1993 as a Marathi pamphlet selling at one 
rupee, this sold out 10,000 copies within a first few days, mainly 
when the Shetmajur Kashtakari Shetkari Sanghatana (an 
organization of toiling farmers’ and agricultural labourers) 
held a protest march of 20,000 rural people coming to 
Kolhapur in southern Maharashtra).


 

by Bharat Patankar

 

Let us remember the brave warriors 

and heroes of our country:

The brave Bhairoba, Khandoba, Jotiba

Who were the chieftains of Bali's kingdom, 

and the meritorious king Bali 

who we recall at the second day of Divali.

Why is it he is the warrior remembered with,

"Let troubles and sorrows go and the kingdom of Bali 

come"?

The Aryabhats came and looted all, made the warriors 

into slaves.

Why did Waman send Bali under the earth?

This is the question of Joti, a Mali
.(from Mahatma 

Phule, Akhands)

 

 

Introduction

The politics of "Hindutva’ have surged forward tremendously in 
the last ten years. "ram" and "Ramjanmabhoomi" have become 
the core of this new link being forged between political power 
and religion. While the Mullas and other Muslim fundamentalists 
are keeping the poor Muslims in bondage, the Sangh parivar is 
trying to bring back the old Brahmanic religion.

The Hindutvavadis are the offspring of the capitalists who 
exploit workers, agricultural labourers, peasants, women, adivasis, 
dahlits, nomads, balutedars and tenants; they are trying to 
heighten casteist exploitation by restoring the old brahmanic 
religion in a new form. Muslims have been made the direct target 
of their bloodthirsty attack, while they spread poison to confuse 
bahujans and dalits to trap them anew in a brahmanic religion. 
This makes it necessary for poor Muslims and Hindus alike to 
rip off the veil of the Sangh parivar.

In this situation we will use the perspective of Phule to find a 
way out. We will need the light of the thinking of Dr. Babasaheb 
Ambedkar, Gadge Maharaj, the heritage of Carvak, Gautam 
Buddha, Mahavir, Basaveshwar and others. It is necessary to 
rally around the trumpet of king Bali. There is a need to give a 
framework to the ideology of dalit and bahujan men and women, 
drawing on researchers like D.D. Kosambi.Jotiba had expressed 
the theme that human beings must behave humanely towards 
one another. Even while ferociously opposing brahmanic 
superstitions whenever showed blind hatred for those born as 
brahmans. In his own words,
The Aryas used caseteism to split 

the Mlecchas for  their own interests,

Aryas were declared superior for all births 

and others throughout the world inferior.

They used religious differences for self-interest, 

looting the shudras in the name of faith.

There is no such differentiation among Christians or 

Muslims.

Do not respect religious or political differences, 

Behave truthfully for the lord;

keep Christians, Muslims, Mangs just as brahmans as 

brothers. 

There is only one truth in the creator’s religion; 

but many quarrels: for what?

 

With such a perspective we confront the religious fanatics of 
the Sangh parivar who aim to re-establish the old brahmanic 
religion. Jotiba stated that without annihilating the exploitation 
of caste and religious-cultural oppression, the nation or the 
"people together" will never come into existence. He brought 
forward the role of equality in religions such as Buddhism and 
Islam, while saluting dalit and bahujan elements in Hindu 
traditions.

Cultural and social traditions along with political and economic 
integration play a central role in giving shape to the "people 
together" of any nation. But the time has come to analyze 
anew the traditions of the majority of people in India. If 
Bharatiya people are not to be trapped in the claws of 
religious insanity, this search has to be done with a clear 
head. With this it will be easy to rip apart the veils of the 
Hindutva of the Sangh parivar.

 

The Oldest Heritage of Bharatiya Society: Hindu or Sindhu?

Those Sanghists who call themselves "Hindutvavadis" 
consider only the tradition of brahmanic Hinduism to be 
theirs. But there is a difference of earth and sky between 
their brahmanic Hindu tradition and the "Hindu" tradition 
of the entire people. Even before the concept of "Hindu" 
came into existence there was a great tradition of the 
Indian community, one that Indians can claim with pride 
as theirs. This great tradition is that of Sindhu civilisation.

According to archeological evidence, the Sindhu civilization 
is the oldest one on the Indian subcontinent. It was found 
not only in the environs of the river Sindhu, but was spread 
even up to today’s Gujarat. It was an urban civilisation and 
had achieved an agricultural-artisan and seafaring mode of 
production. It goes back 5000 years, with dating fixed not 
only by archeological evidence but also with the help of 
radiocarbon technology. Nearly 700 settlements from small 
villages to cities have been unearthed so far. The script of 
the civilisation, found on its seals, has not been deciphered. 
But there is still much to learn from what has been 
discovered so far.

The brahmanic Hindutvavadis claim the Vedas as the original 
books of the Hindus. The Sindhu civilisation is prior to all 
of these Vedas. Contrary to the brahmanic Hindutvavadis, 
those who paraded the Vedas as their own came from 
outside the Indian subcontinent. They knew nothing of 
urban life. They were wandering pastoralists, primitive tribes 
who knew nothing of settled agriculture or the art of writing. 
These tribes destroyed the cities of the Sindhu civilisation. 
They broke up the dams necessary for their agriculture. 

The Aryans were the first outsiders known to history who 
attacked and looted the Indian people and destroyed their 
homes and villages. The Rg Veda is the poetic ballad of the 
victories and customs of these marauding barbarians! If, 
as the Hindutvavadis say, the Vedas are the original and 
sacred books of the Hindu religion, then we will have to 
admit that it was the people of the "Hindu" religion who 
were the first foreign barbarians to attack the Indian people. 
And we will have to say that the "Hindu" religion is not 
an Indian religion but a religion of foreign marauders! One 
to two thousand years before conquerors of such diverse 
religious and ethnic groups as the Greeks, Shakas, 
Muslims (Arabs, Turks) or Christians set foot on the 
Indian subcontinent, these foreign Aryan barbarians came 
to destroy our advanced civilisation. They did not stop at 
destroying the places of worship of the Sindhu civilisation 
but laid waste whole cities and villages. They also destroyed 
the agriculture based on advanced technologies along with 
its irrigation system. The Hindutvavadis advise the Indian 
people to take as their great religious book that book which 
sings the praises of such terrible acts. How will the Indian 
poor who have no knowledge of Sanskrit understand what 
this means? The Indian people understand the Hindu 
religion according to their own language. The people’s 
Hindu religion and the "Hindu" religion of the Hindutvavadis 
are different. The religion that they call theirs is a religion 
that has attacked Indian culture and Indian traditions.

Some may ask, where is the proof of all this? There is of 
course irrefutable archeological evidence for the existence of 
the cities and villages. But there is also proof that Aryan 
invaders attacked this civilisation. Evidence is found in the 
Rg Veda itself. The Rg Veda god and leader, Indra, is 
described as "releaser of floods" and "destroyer of cities." 
There is no mention of him or his followers as "builders of 
cities" or "conquerors of cities." In this first Veda the 
Sanskrit word for brick, ista, is never found. The description 
of Aryan settlements in this period is simply as "village" 
(gram). Even in the later Vedas it seems that bricks were 
used only for building a place for yagnas. The "city-destroying" 
Aryans destroyed the cities of the Sindu civilisation. Since 
they were nomadic pastoralists, rather than conquering 
and living in them they smashed them and continued to 
wander. There is a specific mention in the Rg Veda (6.27.5) 
of a war attacking and destroying a city called "Hariyupiya" 
(Harappa). A pogrom of destroying and looting is clear from 
numerous references. Those whose cities were looted were 
called "dasyu." This later became the word "das" (defeated 
people). The people of the Sindhu civilisation were made 
into slaves!

In this connection, some people of the Sindhu civilisation 
known as "pani" were mentioned with scorn. The meaning 
of the word is "merchant." In destroying the urban 
settlements of the Sindhu civilisation, the Aryans also 
naturally destroyed their agriculture and crafts and the 
trade based on these. Some eight to nine hundred years 
after the Sindhu civilisation was destroyed new cities began 
to come again into existence. When coins began to be 
used again they were known as pana. Even today, 
merchants are called vani in Marathi and bania in Hindi. 
The Sindhu civilisation was smashed but not completely 
uprooted. When settled agriculture and urban civilisation 
began to be generalised once again, Indian civilisation 
developed on the foundation of the broken remnants of 
that civilisation. It could not and did not develop on 
the basis of the Vedic verses.

Proof can also be found in the Rg Veda that the Aryans 
destroyed the agricultural system of the Sindhu civilisation. 
Indra is often called the "liberator of waters." Indra freed 
rivers from the clutches of Vrtra. The meaning of vrtra is 
obstruction, barricade or bandh. There is also a specific 
mention that "he removed the artificial obstruction to 
rivers." The method of cultivation of the Sindhu civilisation 
depended on this water. Their agriculture flourished on 
the floodplains of rivers and on silt deposited by water 
spread over the fields. Dams were built to spread this water 
over greater distances. This was the best way of irrigating 
the land and making it cultivable in the low rainfall areas. 
Since two early floods came from the seven rivers originating 
in the Himalayas, two good crops every year could be taken 
on this basis. The Aryans destroyed this method of 
cultivating the land. It was a deathblow to the Sindhu 
civilisation.

In brief, the claim of the Hindutvavadis that the Vedas are 
the ancient and sacred books of the Indian culture or 
alternatively of the Hindu religion proves to be a lie. These 
are books that the pastoral, nomadic, barbarian Aryan 
tribes created to sing the praises of their victories. They 
are the oldest memorials of the destruction of the Indian 
culture by "foreigners." It is the Sindhu civilisation which 
is the ancient and original culture of the Indian people.

Along with the truth that the Rg Veda-parading Aryans 
were the first outside barbarians attacking the Indian 
people is another strange truth. Those Sanghist brahmani 
Hindutvavadis who call the Muslims outsiders were Aryans 
who came from the Muslim-majority regions! This is the 
region of central Asia. The region from today’s Iran to 
Afghanistan and further up to the Sindhu river was known 
as "Arya Pradesh" by the world conqueror Alexander. It 
is not that these Aryans wandered somewhere else and 
Muslims came from outside and encroached on their land. 
These onetime Aryans became Muslims and became 
among the many groups from outside who became 
Muslims and then came into India. (Though most of 
today’s Indian Muslims come from the nonAryan Dravidian 
and other groups). Yet those who claim the tradition of 
that Aryan religion call the Muslim Aryans as "outside 
invaders" and vow to eradicate them!

The region of today’s Iran was previously known as Persia 
(about 486 BC). The ruler of Persia at that time, Darius, 
was the first to have engravings on his tomb, in which 
he said, "Persian, the son of a Persian, Arya, the son of 
an Arya"! Isn’t it an irony that those Sanghists who claim 
the heritage of the Aryans who were the first to attack the 
Indian people and culture consider the original Aryas 
who did not participate in the attack as alien?

 

The Hindu Religion of the People and the Religion of the 
Hindutvavadis

The English pronounced Mumbai as "Bombay" and this 
is the way Indians write the name of the city even today. 
Similarly, the people who came over the Khyber Pass 
and crossed the Sindhu river in the Indian subcontinent 
pronounced the Sindhu as "Indus" or "Hindu" and based 
on this distorted foreign pronunciation the Bharatiyas 
came to be known as "Indian" or "Hindu." And then all 
of us living on the banks of the Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, 
Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri etc. began to be known by the 
name of "Hindus" or "Hindustanis." More accurately we 
should be called "Sindhus" or "Sindhustanis."

The majority of people of India are of the Hindu (Sindhu) 
religion of the Baliraja tradition, while the religion of those 
who call themselves Hindutvavadis is of the Vaman 
tradition. In this context a custom known in every home 
in Maharashtra and brought to our attention by Mahatma 
Jotiba Phule is worth noting. It is a tradition that the 
women of the house felicitate the men coming home from 
"taking the gold of Dussera" with ida pida javo, balica rajya 
yevo, "let sorrows and troubles go and the kingdom of Bali 
come." Only in the homes of those who observe the 
brahmanic customs is there the humiliating custom of 
breaking the statue of Bali to felicitate the entry of men. 
Folk legends describe Bali Raja as a beneficent ruler 
behaving well with the people, a hero struggling to give a 
life of equality and prosperity. In contrast, without any 
errors of this king, without any tyrannous actions he is called 
a "rakshasa" and the so-called avatar of Vishnu comes 
forward as "Vaman" to deceive and destroy him. This is 
appropriate to the Hindutvavadis who praise the destroying 
of the Babri Masjid. (It is important to remember here that 
the people of the Sindhu civilisation were also described as 
rakshasas in the Rg Veda). 

The majority of the Indian people observe the Hindu (Sindhu) 
religious tradition of Bali Raja, while those who call 
themselves Hindutvavadis observe the Hindu religion of Waman!

The majority Indian people of the Hindu (Sindhu) tradition 
have very many close and important devatas. Examples of 
these in Maharashtra are such gods as Jotiba, Vithoba, 
Khandoba etc. and goddesses such as Kalubai, Banaik, 
Jokai, Ambabai. There is not a mention of these in the 
religious books that the Hindutvavadis take as the main 
religious books of the Hindus. The devatas followed by the 
majority of Hindus (Sindhus) do not have brahman priests 
and have only an insignificant place in the religious books 
of the Hindutvavadis. The main festivals of the majority, 
ghatastapana, Dassera, Nagpanchmi, Bendu or Bailpola, 
Rangpanchmi, Holi etc. are also not in the religious books 
of the Hindutvavadis. The original devata of Maharashtrian 
culture, Vithoba, is also absent from their religious books! 
All these festivals and devatas are linked to the laborious 
but creative agricultural life and livelihood of the majority 
of Indian people. They have originated from that life. This 
bahujan religion has an extremely close relation to the 
matricentric agricultural tradition of the Sindhu civilisation.

There is nothing of this in the Hindutvavadis religious books. 
Whatever there is represents a snatching away of the 
independence of the bahujan Indians. It is a way of keeping
 them in slavery. These books have proclaimed a religion 
that closes off all women and over 95% of men from 
knowledge. They have given instructions to treat women 
as animals. With the proclamation that toiling people 
should be given the lowest status, that some among them 
should be made untouchables and treated worse than 
animals, they have divided them and locked them into the 
hierarchy of the caste system. Such religious books 
cannot represent the Hindu (Sindhu) religion of the majority 
of Indians. The Brahmanic religion, which makes the 
majority of people and all women into slaves and keeps 
them in the night of ignorance, can only be beneficial to 
the Hindutvavadis. In the rhetoric of making India a 
"Hindu nation" the intention seems to be to implement 
such a religion once again. If it is not, they should clearly 
renounce all such religious books. They should publicly 
criticise the teachings in them. Not only this, they should 
condemn the actions in the Ramayana of killing Shambuk 
for the crime (!) of tapascharya. They should condemn 
the injustice meted out to Sita. They should agree that 
only Sita and Shambuk could be models for the majority 
of Indian people.

The majority of Indian people have followed another 
"religious" practice. They have gone on discussing and 
criticising whatever they considered to be errors in the 
mythologies. For example, the ovya sung by "ignorant" 
women at work in our villages are critical of the behavior 
of Rama to Sita.

The people have regarded all the religions born out of the 
Indian tradition as theirs. Buddhism, Jainism, Veerasaivism, 
Sikhism were never regarded as alien. The reason is clear. 
These religions all opposed the caste system. They opposed 
varna. Buddhism in fact waged a struggle against regarding 
the majority of people as slaves. The reason for the spread 
of Buddhism in India up to the time of Emperor Ashok 
was that the slave system was overcome and the toiling 
people remained comparatively freer as independent 
peasants and paid laborers. The Buddhist symbol of this 
emperor Ashok is today on our national flag. The 
Brahmanic Hindutvavadis of the Sangh parivar have 
started to oppose this symbol! The empire of Ashok, who 
accepted Buddhist religion, extended over all of India. 
His symbol was in reality the symbol of the liberation 
of the majority of Indian toiling people from the slavery 
of the das system of the old brahmanic religion. The 
Sangh parivar does not want the symbol of the first 
stage of our liberation. They want to impose again 
another casteist slavery upon us along with capitalism. 

In the very period in which the bahujans and dalits of old
days were becoming free from the das system of slavery, 
the symptoms of the creation of the jati system could be
 seen. In this context Gautam Buddha has clearly said,

"Only among nonhuman animals do differences such as 
jati exist, not among humans."

Buddha opposed the jati system at the time of its origin. 
This was the reason he was attacked. Thousands were 
killed and their blood was spilled. This terrible action was 
done by the brahmanic religion, which is hailed today by 
the Sangh parivar. In every footpath in India and especially 
in Maharashtra there are relics which prove we were 
Buddhists. Caves in the hills at Ajanta-Ellora, Karle, 
Bhaje, Karad; hills at Naneghat, Nashik, the hill where 
Tukaram sang his abhangs are among these. Our 
ancestors built these with their own hands. Those who 
established the first state in Maharashtra and Andhra 
also, the Satavahanas, supported both Buddhism and 
the Hindu (Sindhu) religion. Our Khandoba of Jejuri 
was one such Satavahana. The Sangh family is playing 
a game to once again catch the necks of the bahujans 
and dalits in their brahmanic noose. They are giving an 
invitation to turn away from the liberatory tradition and 
become a slave again accepting the bloodthirsty tradition. 
The remedy to this is to tear apart the veil over their 
plotting.

The Sikh and Lingayat religions came forward to achieve 
liberation from the caste system and defeat the brahmanic 
religion. It is no accident that the abhangs of Namdev of 
the bhakti tradition which opposed caste are in the "Guru 
Granthsaheb" of the Sikhs. The Lingayat religion founded 
by Basaveshwar also aimed at this liberation. It was cause 
of this that brahmans were enraged and murderously 
attacked him. 

In the abhangs of Tukaram Maharaj of the Varkari religion 
of Maharashtra the oppostion to brahmanic religion is 
clear. Not only this, but a sympathy is expressed for 
Islam. Tukaram and Kunbis like him were forbidden to 
learn Sanskrit; he made his own songs and created his 
own "Veda." The bhakti tradition attacked brahmanism. 
This is why he was tortured by the brahmans of the time 
and killed. The Sangh parivar is once again following this
 murderous tradition.

Not only this, but people following religions that were 
founded outside the Indian subcontinent were never 
seen as foreigners or outsiders by the people of Hindu 
(Sindhu) religion. In the villages of Maharashtra, 
Moharram has been observed as a festival of all people 
for generations. In some places the Moharram tabut 
does not even go out without Hindus (Sindhus) doing 
"puja." The people of Hindu (Sindhu) religion make vows 
to pirs while Muslims observe the fast days of Hindu 
(Sindhu) clan devatas and make vows to them. Behaving 
humanely to one another is the religion of the Hindu 
(Sindhu) tradition. Enslaving human beings, using power 
to kill people in order to establish domination, is the 
religion of the Vaman tradition of the Hindutvavadis. 
The looting kings whose spirituality was only in 
exploitation were the ones who took up the business of 
destroying the places of worship of one or anther 
religion. It was not the people. In the 7th century AD 
king Shashanka destroyed Buddhist memorials and 
burned to the ground the tree under which the Buddha 
had found enlightenment. In that period only King 
Harsha honoured both Hindu and Buddhist religions. 
The most noteworthy event is that a Kashmir raja 
named Harsha in the 11th-12th century, known for his 
Sanskrit poetry, confiscated the property of temples, 
threw out their idols and melted down important coinage. 
This "Hindu" king appointed a special minister known as 
devotpatannayak for such work!

The majority of Hindu (Sindhu) people remained apart 
form such politics of destruction. And if the question 
comes of retribution for such politics, then a new 
industry will have to be started in the country. The 
first retribution will have to be from those who 
destroyed the cities, places of worship and agriculture 
of the Sindhu civilisation. And by the logic of justice 
used by the Sangh parivar, retribution is owed by all 
those Brahmans (whether or not their descendents 
are criminals) who kept all women and nonBrahman 
men as slaves for two thousand years, locking them 
up in the exploitation of the caste hierarchy, depriving 
them of knowledge. That town whose original name 
of Saket was wiped out in the fifth century and called 
"Ayodhya" will have to be given again the name of 
Saket. The temple of Ram will have to be condemned 
and the temples of Sita and the martyred ancestor of 
the bahujans, Shambuk, built in its place.

However, though such politics is part of the Vaman 
tradition of the Hindutvavadis, the majority of Indian 
people of the Hindu (Sindhu) tradition, the heirs of Bali 
Raja and Shambuk, will not do such politics. But in 
order that the Hindutvavadis should recognise the 
consequence of their politics and stop their activities, 
there is a need to remind them of the traditions of Hindu 
culture.

 

Ram, BJP and Power

When Advani led the "Ramrath Yatra," BJP’s equation of 
Ram and power became clear. Nor did the BJP hide their 
aims. The organisers of the Rath Yatra did not forget to 
paint the lotus electoral symbol of the BJP on the "chariot." 
Today the BJP has no alternative to the Congress for solving 
the problems faced by the country. They can give no 
alternative path for ending the sorrows faced by toilers in 
villages and cities. They have not an inkling of a practical 
and concrete remedy for the terrible diseases of poverty, 
starvation, unemployment, indebtedness price-rise, 
pollution, drought and desertification. They want to keep 
the exploitative statist system as it is and only give it the 
form of Hindutva. With no alternative path to gain 
government power, they have chosen the path of 
Ramjanmabhoomi.

They want political power to bury Bali Raja again in the 
earth. They want to exclude Shambuk from attempting 
tapascharya and to close the path of knowledge for 
women. They want to bring back the raj modeled on a 
religion which makes a guiltless Sita abandoned. They 
want to bring back the system of Manu which throws 
women into slavery. They want to bring back 
chaturvarnya in a new, subtle form. By limiting education 
they want to re-establish the old system on which was 
based the saying, "Knowledge in the house of the 
Brahmans, grain in the house of the Kunbis (peasants), 
and songs for the Mahars and Mangs (dalits)." 

In the context of the situation today the Sangh family 
and Muslim fundamentalist mullahs and Imam Bukhari 
are of one coin. In the Shahbano case the Supreme Court 
ruled on the side of giving maintenance. The Muslim 
fundamentalists raised a huge outcry. The Congress 
government which was doing opportunistic "vote bank" 
politics overturned the Supreme Court decision by 
amending the Constitution! The Sangh family is yelling 
that this shows how Muslims are pampered. But it was a 
huge injustice to Muslim women. It was the fundamentalists 
who were pampered. To say that taking away the rights 
of women is the "pampering of Muslims" is to say that 
pampering is equivalent to withholding the 

maintenance to abandoned women. The Sangh parivar 
feels this is pampering, since they also want to take away 
the rights of women. The Muslim fundamentalists are 
playing the cruel game of taking advantage of the sorrows 
of the extremely poor Muslim masses to keep them in 
their clutches. Though there is no caste system in Islam 
still there is some caste among Indian Muslims. Both sides 
are bloodsuckers. 

In the ancient matricentric equalitarian tribal society there 
was no exploitation of either men or women. The 
brahmanical religious tradition and the looting exploitative 
kings first imposed slavery on women, and then as the 
next step on the majority of toiling men. In the Mahabharat 
there is a memory of nearly this society: 

"Neither kingdoms nor kings nor punishment nor 

punished: through the religion of humanity (dharma) they 

protect each other."

Here the Sanskrit word "dharma’ means the rules guiding 
human behavior. Such a dream was reflected in the very 
organization of the Buddhist Sangha. The workers and 
toilers of all religions and all castes in India want such a 
society founded on the prosperity of science, "where there 
is no kingdom, no king, no punishment or punished and 
the citizens themselves protect each other through the laws 
of humanity."

If we want to keep alive the old traditions and old heritage, 
then the defeated tradition of the tribal mother has to be 
recalled. The model of Sita, whose name means ploughed 
land and who struggled against the imposition of slavery 
on the four varnas and on women, has to be brought forward.

In the Ramayana, Rama kills Tataka, the queen of the 
Malad-Kurush matricentric tribe. Vishwamitra tells Rama, 
who hesitates in the decision to kill Tataka, that 

"Na hi te strivadhkrut ghruna karya narottam,

Chaturvarnya hitah hi kartavya rajsununa"

("O Purushottam! It is not proper to feel squeamish about 
killing a woman. A raja’s duty is to struggle for the 
advancement of chaturvarnya" (cited in Sharad Patil, Das 
Shudra Gulamgiri, 1986, p. 2).

This is the teaching that aims to establish the four varna 
system and make all toiling men and women into slaves 
through the defeat of the equalitarian matricentric tribal 
state. Here we have to note that Vishwamitra does not tell 
Rama that "since Tataka is a rakshasa, she is bad, 
therefore you should kill her." 

In contrast, Sita says to Rama in the Ramayana,

"To commit violence against other lives who are not your 
enemies is a third addiction which you have gotten into. 
Because, O hero! You have taken a vow to kill rakshasas in 
a war for the security of the rishis living in Dankaranya
People 
will not approve of the killing of guiltless rakshasas."

Ram answers,

"O daughter of Janak! I have vowed to observe all the 
orders of the rishis of Dandakaranya. I have always desired 
truth. O Sita! I will sacrifice Lakshman, my life or even you, 
but I will not renounce the vows that were given and especially 
the promises given to Brahmans
." (cited Patil, p. 18).

In the name of Hindutva and Ramjanmabhoomi, the RSS 
and BJP are today attacking Muslims. Their final attack will
 be on the majority of Indians of Hindu (Sindhu) religion in 
order to tighten the slavery of women, in order to increase 
the exploitation of the old varna-based jati system.

But we have confidence that the majority of the Indian 
people who are of Hindu (Sindhu) religion of the tradition 
of Bali Raja will understand this conspiracy of the heirs of 
Waman. For they are the true heirs of Sita and Shambuk.

 
 

"Time will submit to slavery

from illusion's bonds we'll be free

everyone will be

powerful and prosperous --

Brahman, Ksatriya, Vaishya, Shudra

and Chandala all have rights

women, children, male and female

and even prostitutes"

--Tuka (Tukaram), 17th cent. Marathi Sant of India

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