Annihilation Of Caste (Part VI-VII)

Part VI

Caste Prevents Hindus from Forming a “Real Society”

First and foremost, Hindu society is a myth. The Hindu name itself is a foreign name given by Mohammedans to the natives for the purpose of distinguishing themselves.  And this name is also not found in any Sanskrit work before the attack of Mohammedans.

 Hindu society does not exist at all. It is simply a collection of castes in which each caste has no affiliation with the other caste except when there are Hindu Muslim riots. On all other occasions each caste remains separate from the other. Each caste dines and marries within itself.

The ideal Hindu, in fact, is like a rat, which always lives in its own hole, and also, has no contact with others. This is the reason why Hindus can never form a society or a nation.

In India, it is claimed that Hindus have a fundamental unity despite diversity, which is visible in their habits, customs, beliefs and thoughts.

Similarity in habits, customs, beliefs and thoughts does not make constitute a person into a society because, just as bricks can be carried from one place to another, so habits, customs, beliefs and thought can be taken from one group to another. Therefore, culture spreads by diffusion and that is why one finds similarity between various groups.

 Therefore, Similarity in some things is not enough to constitute a society. Men build a society because they have such things in common.

The existence of the same thing is completely different from the existence of ordinary things. And the only way by which humans can keep things in common with each other is by being in communication with each other.

A person becomes involved in society when he is a participant in the activity concerned and his success is seen as success and his failure as failure.

The caste system prevents common activity and by preventing common activity it has prevented Hindus from becoming a society with a unified life and consciousness of their own being.

 

Part VII

The Worst Feature Of Caste System is “Anti- Social Spirit”

Hindus often complain of the isolation and exclusivity of a gang or a clique and blame them for anti-social spirit. But they easily forget that this anti-social spirits the worst feature of their own caste system.

The literature of Hindus is full of caste genealogy in which one caste has been shown to be inferior and the other is shown as great.

Sahyadrikhand is a notorious example of this class of literature. This anti-social spirit is not limited to caste only. Rather, this anti-social spirit can also be seen in the inter-caste relations.

An antisocial spirit found where a group has "self-interests" that prevent it from full interaction with other groups, so that its prevailing objective is to be with itself, in order to protect it.

This anti-social spirit is to protect the interests of one's own group, in which different castes live in isolation from each other, like the isolated nations.

The primary concern of a Brahmin is to protect "his interests" against that of non-Brahmins and the primary concern of non-Brahmins is to defend their interests against the interests of Brahmins.

Hindus are not just a group of castes, but they are many warring groups, each living for himself and for his own selfish ideal.