casteism cannot be vanished in india?

The caste system had been in practice for thousands of years and cannot be removed, it will get back in different name and different ages and times.

This caste system and affluent in U.S of Indian origin have disassociated themselves from other Indians. Their groupism is striking.

This groupism among U.S based Indians, is evident based on their social status, education, affluence, language, culture, religion, caste, groups, location. It is much worse than, what is in India and the new generation is perplexed and cannot join the mainstream of U.S society.

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THE CANCER OF CASTEISM IN INDIA

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The progressive, resurgent and developing India, sixty years after it ceased to be a Brititsh Colony, stil suffers from many ills. The three of the greatest cancers that are consuming and gradually killing this great nation are Corruption, Casteism and Chamchgiri/Cronyism.

Even though the Constituent Assembly opted for reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes, the learned members of that august Assembly wanted the reservations only for twenty five years and we should remeber that the Secretary of the Constituent Assembly was himself a Dalit Baba Saheb Amdekar.

In twenty five years the Republic's Parliament was bereft of any statesman and only politicians remained, who ceased the opportunity to garner votes by making Casteism a vote garner. Today India is the only nation in the world, where more and more citizens are agitating to be labelled backward. Shame! Utter shame.

Recently, the national daily "The Hindu" - Madras Edition (I still prefer Madras to Chennai, Calcutta to Kolkata and Bombay to Mumbai), carried a few letters from their archives "Letters To Editors" Written by the nationalist Tamil patriot and poet C.Subhramanya Bharathi. I do not know how many of the members of FOTN would have heard or read about him. A prolific poet, he was a great patriot, hounded by the British, he fled to the French territory of Pondicherry where he was close to another saintly patriot Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

The most moving work of this poet is "Panchali Sabhadam" (Panchali's Oath) which is about the oath draupadi took in the Hastinapur Court when Dushasan tried to humiliate her by disrobing her in the full assembly of people. Apart from the usual aspects of the Mahabharata story, the poem is an exhortation to women to rise, revolt and put down their oppressors, and please remeber Bharathi died in December 1921 at the young age of 32 years.

Coming back to the topic in hand, I reproduce below a leter puublished in THE HINDU on 27th december 1904 in which the poet defends Mr. Sankar Nair's views on social reform and political freedom. He roundly criticizes the social milieu of his day and saysSocial slaves can never really understand political liberty. His views on the caste problem is stil as relevant to India, 86 years after his death and more than a century after he raised his voice against casteism. do enjoy his profound writing and flowery English, the letter is a pleasure to read.

"Sir, - The inteligent and well-intentioned critic, Mr. Plainspeaker, who discussed in saturday's Hindu, the memorable pronouncement of Mr.Sankaran Nair's on the necessity of Social Reform from bringing about political regeneration, has been a little misguided by those treacherous things, viz., words. Mr.Plainspeaker waxed indignant at hearing of 'those great principles of equality and brotherhood upon which the British government is based.'

I understand and respect the feelings of Mr.Plainspeaker, aye, even as I respect the indignant feelings of the down trodden {today we refer to them as Dalits} when he hearsthat Hinduism proclaims (I quote Mr.Plainspeaker) the 'one-ness of life' and the 'brother-hood of man.'

'Talk of the one-ness of life, the brother-hood ofman' exclaims the down-trodden, 'when yonder Brahman, who would bowlow to an Englishman as if to a God, believes that my very shadow would pollute him.'

I entirely agree with Mr.Plainspeaker in his righteous protest agianst British-Indian regulations.

But all this does not in the least affect Mr.Sankaran Nair's position. what the eminent social reformer means to say is simply this:

There can be no political emancipation without the feeling of nationality. There can be no feeling of nationality where the caste system is prevalent or, rather, say (as some hyper-critical men want us to believe that the caste system is present in all human communities) where the jati system is prevalent, the wonderful system which makes a down-trodden philanthrophist inferior to a Brahmin go between. (Emphasis added by me).

Is it doubted in any quarterthat, in England, a cobbler boy with necessary merit finds his path clear to the Premiership?

And is it not treason in I

Difficult. But it should be ignored under broad Umbrella of Indianness.