Why caste was created

by MulaiAzhagi Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:17 pm

Only in India, thanks to its fairly flat geography in the Indo-Gangetic plain, did we discover the need for a salad bowl approach to nationhood. We have developed a natural resistance to what Rajiv Malhotra calls “difference-anxiety” – that we must all be similar to constitute a nation. Malhotra explains this in his book Being Different: An Indian challenge to Western Universalism. The book explains why western universalism is really suspect, since it wants to erase differences between peoples by any means instead of acknowledging and engaging with “others” as equals. (To view a conversation between Malhotra and Mark Tully on the book, click here)

Assam is a symbol of our own “difference anxieties” in India, and solving Assam will help us get back to our old strengths of unity in diversity. AP
The west created uniformity through brutality and extermination as it saw diversity as a threat. Ernest Renan, the 19th century French philosopher and historian, has asserted that unity is created by violence. He said: “Unity is ever achieved by brutality. The union of northern and southern France was the result of an extermination, and of a reign of terror that lasted for nearly a hundred years.” The early Americans achieved unity by exterminating the Red Indians, and the early Australians by finishing off the aborigines and so on.

No such brutality is ever recorded in Indian history – at least in the cause of achieving unity as a nation. In India, we had additionally enabled diversity through caste. Contrary to our present-day understanding of caste, it wasn’t invented to oppress people. It was to create a cocoon of kinship to allow diverse cultures and peoples to flourish with their identities intact. That caste has become a system of oppression is another matter, but our history shows that diversity is in out DNA.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/assam-violence-bangladeshis-and-multiple-states-of-denial-420944.html

by Kayalvizhi Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:27 am

>> our old strengths of unity in diversity

What old strengths of unity in diversity is this pseudo intellectual is talking about? Can you tell me on time in all history the so called "Indians" had unity except for a brirf period when they all wanted the common British rule to end? This is all nonsense.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:35 am

Kayalvizhi wrote:>> our old strengths of unity in diversity

What old strengths of unity in diversity is this pseudo intellectual is talking about? Can you tell me on time in all history the so called "Indians" had unity except for a brirf period when they all wanted the common British rule to end? This is all nonsense.

Neither did tamilians...Chera, chola, Pandya Naadu; Pallavas, etc..etc...all through life. There was NOT a single entity called TamiZH naadu.

Utter non-sense from delusional devotees of The Butcher.

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