Presenting... 'The Dravidian Maze'. How Dravidian politics leads us into a maze, and keeps us going round in circles. And how we never ever questioned it. This is the art of fighting against caste system, untouchability, and other evils without actually doing anything! Without being, in any way, responsible for our own actions and attitudes. When they say "I am like this (casteist) because of X", and that statement is unquestioned, they can wash their hands off any wrongdoings on their part. They become immune to being scrutinized. They can follow the very thing they claim oppose, and still get away with it. They can be casteist. No problem.They are casteist because of Hinduism, and that's what they are fighting!!!
So, whats the timeline for what they oppose?? They say they are against hinduism because, apparently, it was Hinduism which "created caste system". Lets, for a second, agree to that. Ok. So what next? Whats the plan? Are they claiming they are going to "destroy caste system" through awareness? Is that possible? Do they even understand caste system?
What they will do is...they will say
"We tried our level best. But Periyar and dravidian movement operated only for 50-100 years, but caste system is 2000 yrs old, and brahmins' cunning is very deep. No matter how great Periyar is, no matter how critically dravidian movement analysed caste system and inequality, 70-100 yrs of it cannot undo 2000 years of caste. So, alas, we are slipping back into old times. But just remember, the greatest blow to the brahminical tyranny, and the deep rooted prejudices and inequality and caste system came from the dravidian movement. Came from a man called thanthai periyar."
This is what they will say. That 100 years of drav cant uproot 2000 years of caste system. Very smart. Dravidian propaganda is the stuff that tamil people created and believed, to fool themselves. First and foremost, I have a problem with "caste evil entered into society AGAIN". They always used these wordings in their public speeches. "sadhi ulley nuzhaindhu vidum...". What the fish? Did dravidian movement and periyar hold caste system in abeyance, for 100 years? Was there extensive intermarriage between upper caste women and lower caste men?
Its futile to expect sense and logic in this because there is none. First, the propaganda that tamils believed, to fool themselves. Caste is not a thing that can be "created", or destroyed. You dont need Dr.Ambedkar to tell you this. Your own common sense ought to be enough. But Dr. Ambedkar, in the midst of all his rain of arrows on brahmins, has mentioned this conclusively...
"[34] I first propose to handle the law-giver of India. Every country has its law-giver, who arises as an incarnation (avatar) in times of emergency to set right a sinning humanity and give it the laws of justice and morality. Manu, the law-giver of India, if he did exist, was certainly an audacious person. If the story that he gave the law of caste be credited, then Manu must have been a dare-devil fellow and the humanity that accepted his dispensation must be a humanity quite different from the one we are acquainted with. It is unimaginable that the law of caste was given. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Manu could not have outlived his law, for what is that class that can submit to be degraded to the status of brutes by the pen of a man, and suffer him to raise another class to the pinnacle? Unless he was a tyrant who held all the population in subjection it cannot be imagined that he could have been allowed to dispense his patronage in this grossly unjust manner, as may be easily seen by a mere glance at his "Institutes." I may seem hard on Manu, but I am sure my force is not strong enough to kill his ghost. He lives like a disembodied spirit and is appealed to, and I am afraid will yet live long. One thing I want to impress upon you is that Manu did not give the law of Caste and that he could not do so. Caste existed long before Manu. He was an upholder of it and therefore philosophised about it, but certainly he did not and could not ordain the present order of Hindu Society. His work ended with the codification of existing caste rules and the preaching of Caste Dharma. The spread and growth of the Caste system is too gigantic a task to be achieved by the power or cunning of an individual or of a class. Similar in argument is the theory that the Brahmins created the Caste. After what I have said regarding Manu, I need hardly say anything more, except to point out that it is incorrect in thought and malicious in intent. The Brahmins may have been guilty of many things, and I dare say they were, but the imposing of the caste system on the non-Brahmin population was beyond their mettle. They may have helped the process by their glib philosophy, but they certainly could not have pushed their scheme beyond their own confines. To fashion society after one's own pattern! How glorious! How hard! One can take pleasure and eulogize its furtherance; but cannot further it very far. The vehemence of my attack may seem to be unnecessary; but I can assure you that it is not uncalled for. There is a strong belief in the mind of orthodox Hindus that the Hindu Society was somehow moulded into the framework of the Caste System and that it is an organization consciously created by the Shastras. Not only does this belief exist, but it is being justified on the ground that it cannot but be good, because it is ordained by the Shastras and the Shastras cannot be wrong. I have urged so much on the adverse side of this attitude, not because the religious sanctity is grounded on scientific basis, nor to help those reformers who are preaching against it. Preaching did not make the caste system; neither will it unmake it. My aim is to show the falsity of the attitude that has exalted religious sanction to the position of a scientific explanation."
- CASTES IN INDIA:
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
by B. R. Ambedkar
Paper presented at an Anthropology Seminar
taught by Dr. A. A. Goldenweizer
Columbia University
9th May 1916
"Preaching did not make the caste system; neither will it unmake it."
That is all we need. But there are multiple layers in this. This is made so complex not because caste system is complex, but because of the deception and trickery of dravidian movement. It will suffice to say that what they (dravidian idealogues) are currently doing will NOT DESTROY CASTE. Their strategy was wrong from day#1, and we have to see that it was never their intention to destroy caste. Their intention was different. Politics. We will look into this further...
