Foes within and without!

Breaking India - Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines (2011)
Authors: Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan

When Europeans reached the shores of India for the first time, they were mesmerised. It was the era of romanticism. The Europeans just could not have enough of India's exotic mysticism, wealth and knowledge. We all know what happened afterwards.

To become the masters to the hosts who welcomed them into their abode, they had to dig deep their bag of trick to break India up. They invented the now well-known 'divide and rule' strategy. Unfortunately, even 300 years later, these breaking India forces are still at it to create divisions amongst its people to push forward their self-serving agendas.

In the 1870s, as the British advanced deep into the periphery, they encountered resistance from the tribal people who were just protecting their land. The invaders quickly created a narrative about heartless local robbers who strangled their victims with kerchiefs. They were named Thuggees based on their diety. The British passed enactment to legalise tribal genocide. Long story short, they not only appropriated their lands but made 'thug' an English word.

The Europeans justified their atrocities on natives by revisiting the story of Noah and his sons. The white-skinned conquerers are the Descendents of Japheth, Shem's went to Asia and the Middle East while the dark-skinned cursed Ham's downlines were sent to Africa and probably to Southern part of India. Japheth's enlightened sons need to educate cursed Ham's people.

The scholars of the time also sold the idea of the existence of a big landmass named Lemuria or Kumari Kandam which connected Africa, India and Australia. Even though it was never proven, they claim that this land housed an advanced civilisation which spread as far as Persia. The advancing tribes of uncultured Aryans from the North pushed them down south. They also shoved Hinduism down their throats to make them subservient to the Aryan descendants. 

In the late 19th century, pseudo-scientist delved into dubious experimentations and fashionable non-sciences to convince the people of South India and the tribal people that they were different from the rest of India. They were Dravidians, a great race suppressed by the Northerners and the evil Brahmins. The now-defunct 'Nasal Index' was used by Herbert Risley to prove his two-race theory and implementation of the caste system in Indian society. This was mentioned in Rig Veda, it seems. This 'discovery' was shown to support Max Muller's Aryan migration/ invasion theory. The Aryans from the Caucasus migrated down south to downgrade after marriages with the local while the wave of Aryans who went off to start the Greek and Germanic civilisations reached great heights. And the arrival of Europeans to the Indian shores is a time of reconnection.

See how this propagation of Aryan race created problems the world over. In Europe, it went on to Hitler, WW2 and devastation. In South India, it created the Dravidian movements that go on till today. In a way, it helped to flare the animosity between the Aryan-Buddhist-Singhalese and the Non-Aryan Jaffenese Tamils. 

In Africa, the Hamitic mythology condones slavery and categorised communities to races which eventually spurred the genocide in Rwanda. 

In 'God's Country'

One of Jesus' disciples, St Thomas, is said to have reached the Malabar shores in 52AD. Others attribute a Syrian, Thomas of Cana, to be the first evangelist. He was martyred during one of his conversion stints when he was speared by a local tribesman.

Robert Caldwell, a bishop and a grammarian, proposed a racial divide along with linguistics. The South Indian languages were etymologically different from Sanskrit, further sub classifying Indians by class, race and caste by profiling.

According to the authors, Christian missionaries have been active in the conversion ever since the first missionaries touched. They have found many ingenious ways to connect with the locals. They dress like them, live with them and be the first to be by their side when they are wronged or go through a calamity. They receive substantial international financial support from the Southern Baptist Churches in the US, the Lutheran Churches, many philanthropic foundations like The Ford Foundation, Pew Trust, Carnegie Trust and many more. Under the guise of humanitarian aid, they are active in the conversion of the members in the fringe of society. Through their scholarship programmes, they have created local firebrand leaders who have no qualms discrediting their motherland to serve their masters. They form the Fifth Column who subversively weaken the nation from within.

Many of the scholars have reinterpreted Hindu text and appropriated them to fit the Biblical events. Many historical dates had been altered to make it appear that Christianity predated Hindu philosophy. They try to impress the unassuming congregation that the earlier Tamil scriptures were actually inspired by Christianity and its teachings. They claim that the Kural written by Valluvar and Saiva Siddhanta is based on Christian teachings. It is claimed that idolatry is a Hinduism construct and that Dravidians were not idol worshippers. The bashing continues subtly through media and films. 

John Allen Chau, an evangelist
Killed by Sentinelese tribe in North Sentinel, near Andaman.

It is said that the atheistic nature of Tamil Nadu politics was inspired by this Brahmin bashing trend that was prevailing in the mid 20th century when Periyar took Tamil Nadu out of the Congress Party. It continues to date. 

The authors bring to light how seemingly opposing forces, as there are seen elsewhere, unite with the single aim to control India. Maoists, Marxists, Urban Naxalites, leftists, intellectuals, Communists, Jihadis aligned with Islam and Christian evangelists all have no qualms in setting aside their differences to fight their common enemy, the Hindutva movement, which has arisen to put back its forgotten history and facts in the right place.

As it stands today, India has to be wary against many internal centrifugal and external forces who are intertwined with each other to balkanise the country. They depict India as an opposed of freedom and a fascist state filled with horrors of Hindu savagery blurred between Islamic terrorism and violation by India against Muslims, Christians and Dalits.

What is the purpose of all these? They are of two folds. One is for political control to obtain a chaotic country with cheap labour. Secondly, there is a dire theological need to pulverise the last pagan civilisation standing to replace it with a monotheistic religion.

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