3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

by Rishi Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:20 pm

What is being touted as globalisation is largely the westernisation of the globe. All too often, cricket, Bollywood and a few traditional symbols (carried forward from Bharat, discussed below) comprise the shallow sense of Indian identity among this class. They crave mimicry of the west. A person’s westernisation has become the measure of superiority over his fellow Indians.

Many local battles have erupted over the appropriation of lands and natural resources by Sensex India and its foreign collaborators. The Hollywood movie, Avatar, depicts a fictional account of the capitalist exploitation of natives, which resembles many of the issues at stake here. When I saw that movie, I was also imagining the story of the genocide of Native Americans by Europeans after the so-called “discovery” by Columbus (which was really a conquest of the cruellest kind).

The origin of this clash between western-style “civilisation” and the natives of the soil had its origins long ago. It crystallised in legal terms when the British classified many local jatis (traditional communities) that resisted colonial presence as “criminal tribes”. The notorious Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 was later extended and further consolidated in 1876, 1911 and 1924. Even though India repealed it after independence, many structures that it produced have endured, such as the category “tribe” which is a derogatory western term. In the terminology of Bharat, all these so-called tribes are jatis. The only difference is that these jatis were too different from western norms and resisted (often with violence) the attempts to encroach into their territories and sacred spaces.

http://www.firstpost.com/blogs/3-indias-at-war-sensex-india-maoist-india-and-bharat-876705.html

by Merlot Daruwala Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:28 am

Bwahaha..another woolly-headed yearning for some fictitious, glorious age of Bharatiya sanskriti when mankind lived in perfect harmony with the environment a la the Na'avis of Pandora.

All these jokers should be given a spinning wheel and interned for life on Gandhi's ashram in Sabarmati along with a herd of goats so they can finally live out that oh-so-sustainable lifestyle they keep fantasizing about.

3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

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