by Moin Ansari
Bharati states are based on language. The current rioting in Mumbai and Maharashtra was inevitable. The formation of states on the basis of language and ethnicity was wrong. Bharat had 560 states. It tried to amalgamate the states into linguistic havens. The Language based havens have not become xenophobic forcing Delhi to form fifty such states-each seeking its own agenda and all seeking some distance from Delhi in terms of sovereignty and secession. Kashmir and Assam for example want total independence from Delhi. Othe states are in varying degrees of confusion and chaos-putting the entire idea of "India" into flux.
The current rioting has been stirred up by Shiv Sena which is leading the "Mumbai for Maharashtra" campaign forcing others to learn the language or leave Mumbai.
There is intense anti-Hindi feeling in the Bharati (aka Indian) state of Maharashtra. This is not new-this is decades old. Letters sent to many Maharashtra cities if written with Hindi addresses end up in the garbage can. Official letters sent in Hindi are not responded to. Some sort of English has been used to bridge the gap between the center and state.
The rise of [...]insular forces began in the mid-1960s when the Shiv Sena, known for its Marathi chauvinism, began to make its presence felt, mainly through the vituperative utterances of its leader, Bal Thackeray, against outsiders. Now, a breakaway group, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), led by Bal Thackeray's nephew, Raj, has made its appearance.
Claiming to stand for the Marathi manoos (men), their politics of sub-nationalism is marked by violence against immigrants and perceived "aliens" - whether south Indians in the 1960s, Muslims in the nineties or north Indians today.
Historically, of course, such fascistic groups are known to have the support of the lumpen proletariat, who use street violence to establish themselves as gang leaders, and the lower middle classes, which fear the loss of employment opportunity by the inflow of people from other states.
But the scene in Mumbai and, indeed, in India is complicated by the decline of national parties with their broad-minded outlook. Since the Congress can be said to be the only national party in India considering that the other party which claims to be one - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - is itself guided by an anti-minority philosophy, it is the Congress's degeneration which is primarily responsible for the rise of the xenophobic outfits. Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. He can be reached at aganguli@mail.com). Indo Asian News
There are three major Hinuist parties in Bharat today. The Shiv Sena, the RSS and the BJP. All three are ethnic, and religious based parties who want to end the farce of "secularism" in Bharat and begin the task of building a religious theocracy. All three have million of followeres ain all echolons of Bharati society including the Bharati Army. Colonel Prihot who used his army sources, connections, and sponsors to use Army explosives and blow up the Samjhota Express is one prime example of the inflitration of this theology in Bharat.
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This disturbing development is not confined to Mumbai and Maharashtra alone. Regional parties driven solely by caste or community or state-level loyalties have appeared virtually all over the country. They include parties like the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Samajwadi Party championing the cause of the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in the Hindi heartland, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) favouring the Dalits, the Akali Dal of the Sikhs, the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) claiming to represent the Tamils and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) standing for the Assamese.
The situation in Mumbai, however, is different for two reasons. One is that the Shiv Sena and the MNS base their politics only on violently attacking the immigrants. This isn't the case with the others, which may favour one caste or community but do not always target the others.
The second reason is their influence in Mumbai, which is India's commercial capital and No. 2 metropolis. In the years when New Delhi was no more than a dull town of bureaucrats and politicians, Mumbai, or Bombay as it was known then, was a thriving city known for its night life, the glamorous Hindi film world and an urbane, cultured population comprising people from different backgrounds - Parsis, Christians, "Madrasis", Hindi-speaking north Indians and, of course, the Marathis.
The "Maximum City", as a best-seller called it, was, like all major cities, a magnet for people looking for jobs. These were available for all - from the jet-setting corporate executives to aspiring film stars to lowly manual labourers. Not surprisingly, the city also had the largest slum in Asia in Dharavi and a violent underworld with the mafia dons acquiring a nationwide notoriety.
It is the volatile combination of an unending influx of people from other states, especially those like Bihar which suffered from a severe economic downturn, and the violence of the gang leaders, which fuelled the growth of the provincial organisations.
They were also aided by the cynicism of major parties like the Congress, which used the Shiv Sena in the sixties to target the communist trade unions, and has been mollycoddling the MNS in recent years to divide the anti-Congress vote.
Till now, the silence of the responsible citizens over the depredations of the narrow-minded 'kupmanduks' (frogs in the well), either out of fear or because of their general political insignificance, encouraged the chauvinists to strut about with impudence.
It is a matter of satisfaction, therefore, that at last eminent personalities like Tendulkar and Ambani have decided to speak out. They probably felt that the crude parochialism of uncle Bal and nephew Raj have reached a stage where Mumbai was earning a bad name.
For Ambani, there was perhaps an economic compulsion as well. If Mumbai comes to be known as a city where outsiders are not safe, both high-flying executives and the humble taxi drivers will tend to avoid it with damaging consequences for the business world.
Hence Ambani's observation that "we in the corporate sector got out of the licence raj, but the poor taxiwallah is still stuck in the licence raj". The reference was to the state government's notification making only those who had lived in Maharashtra for 15 years and could speak Marathi eligible for taxi licences.
The document was later modified following a public outcry to include Gujarati and Hindi among the language which the taxi driver must know. But it was another instance of the Congress-led government playing the parochial card.
Since the national parties are seemingly reluctant to take a bold stand against divisive politics, the regional parties can only be checked if distinguished citizens start speaking out against them. (30-01-2010-Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. He can be reached at aganguli@mail.com). Indo Asian News
Right now the Shiv Sena is at odds with the RSS on the amount of and level of autonomy that Maharashtra should have. The xenophobic RSS wants Ram Raj in the state and the country. To this end, it is opposed to the Hindu speaking Northern Bharatis. The language barrier is only the tip of the iceberg. The Shiv Sena has led the "Mumbai for natives" and the "Mumbai for Maharashtrians" campaigns that remind the world of the Serbian ethnic cleanisng of areas that they controlled. The campaign is directed against all those who do not belong to the particular gods that the Shiv Sena worships. Language, and ethnicty is the core of the Shiv Sena campaign.
The RSS's Saffron Brigade wants Ram Raj in Bharat, but it wants to portray their soft image in other states where they want to win elections.
There are many cracks in Bharat-geographic, caste, ethnic, socio-economic, religious, and theocratic. This is just the begining of the bankanaization of Bharat. Top 3 Wanted Murderers
Failed States. The Shev Sena vials of hate about "Mumbai for Maharashtrians only" is more insidious than the most vocal Nazi racism that was built on ethnic cleansing and deportation of "aliens". The Shiv Sena "war against North-Indian's" is more profound than the chauvinistic malevolence of the KKK that propagates the racial superiority of a race. The Thakaray's supremacy vitriol against the "Italians" is actually rhetoric against all Christians. When the ignoble Sena bans Australian cricketers from Mumbai-it is actually spewing malignity and malicious venom against all people of European origin. The villainous Sena's ethnocentrism opposing Mayawati is really its misogynic policy of continued enslavement of the Dalits. The Sena's obnoxious diatribes against Jews and the Chinese are not isolated murmers-they are part and parcel of the Swastika heralding philosophy that sees Hindu dominance over all other faiths and races. The Shiv Sena vitriol against Muslims is disguised as a tirade against the Khans. While the press reports and the Shiv Sena TV and newspaper outlets simply mention "Khan", the term term "Khan" implies all Muslims. Shiv Sen'a odious campaign against "foreigners" in Mumbai is to displace and move out all Muslims and all North Indians from Maharashtra, by coercion, and intimidation. The Shiv Sena squalid outbursts against all Australians, Nepalese, and Bangladeshis is an outburst against humanity. India intoxicated by meager success is blind to real self-portrait of caste infested penury and balkanization
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Cracks in India: 40% of "India" not under Government control. Blaming the ISI cannot dampen the 89 Indigenous Indian insurgencies. The Thackerays are using the Gujerat model where the blatant genocide of 3000 Muslims forced out 300,000 Muslims. mr. Modi's machine ensures that hese poor souls cannot return to their villages.
The current virulence of the Shiv Sena is nothing new to South Asia. Shiv Sena's KKK type of philosophers Lala Hardayal said this in the 40s-and this part and parcel of the Thakaray philosophy:-
"I declare that the future of the Hindu race, of Hindustan and of the Punjab, rests on these four pillars:
(1) Hindu Sangathan [extermination by murder or deportation],
(2) Hindu Raj,
(3) Shuddhi [conversion] of Moslems, and
(4) Conquest and Shuddhi of Afghanistan and the Frontiers.
So long as the Hindu nation does not accomplish these four things, the safely of our children and great-grandchildren will be ever in danger, and the safety of the Hindu race will be impossible. The Hindu race has but one history, and its institutions are homogeneous. But the Musalmans and Christians are far removed from the confines of Hindustan, for their religions are alien and they love Persian, Arab and European institutions. Thus, just as one removes foreign matter from the eye, Shuddhi must be made of these two religions. Afghanistan and the hilly regions of the frontier were formerly part of India, but are at present under the domination of Islam. . . .Lala Hardayal in Pratap of Lahore.
The venomousness of the Shiv Sena and related bodies have to be seen in the light of the philosophy of those that the Thakarays worship.
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