Abhiyan, that is the whole point of this reply to these Neo-leftist intellectuals.
In this country, for the last few thousand years, upper casteism has enforced its dominance over a large section of humanity using their textual intelligence and linguistic abilities, its control, and manipulations. Their command over the so-called "educated language" using the privileged political positioning was one of the biggest precipitators of social segregations in this country by defining what constitute the social hierarchy in society, like classical vs folk, developed vs tribal, progressive vs primitive.
For the larger mass of marginalised and oppressed including Dalits, this linguistic power positioning by Brahminical order of Hinduism has only one consequence to their life- Oppression and Caste discrimination. Using this linguistic poly, the upper casteism has took away the entire dignity of language, culture, beliefs, arts and visual culture and life itself of Dalits and Marginalised or the larger section of Indian society, by convincing them their folk, tribal and primitiveness(?)of their possessions and existence (!). That is exactly the reason, the Manuvadi’s wanted pour molten led into learned shudra’s throat.
Today, at a time, when Dalits and Marginalised in this country are deriving their political identity through collective conscience and democratic struggle, strangely we find the same old linguistic power players of upper casteism are back in actions as the new found neo-leftists, their linguistic interpretations and institutional criticisms of Dalits and marginalized ( as you rightly pointed out that Dalits and Bahujans are never looking at Ambedkar or their existence like that) as colonial, post-colonial, modern, post-modern and contemporary studies to appropriate again their icons and possessions for social elitism and hierarchy. The recent urge to appropriate Ambedkar by right left and socialist wings should be seen in this backdrop.
Also my work that states, I reject these linguistic inferences of Ambedkar is also born out of this. That is exactly the reason, I have pointed out in the post- I do not reject Ambedkar but their interpretation.
Today, in India, Ambedkar stands as a messiah- the last hope of millions of socially discriminated Dalits and marginalized. He stands for their fundamental dignity reclaimed after hundreds of centuries that was deviously taken away by the upper casteism through their linguistic manipulations. At this juncture of Indian history, Ambedkar as a faith is more important than Ambedkar as rationality. Let him not be appropriated by these textual intellectuals of the upper caste, like the way they did it in the past with Dalit’s and marginalised’s art, craft, culture, God, and Faith. Let Ambedkar continued to be the Dalit and Bahujan possession, culture, faith, and dignity and at the same time, it is important to expand the base by including more and more people from other cultures, castes, and religion, by rejecting the exclusionist idea of socially discriminated disciples of Manuvadi methodology. For the same reason, the leader of Dalits should come only from Dalits and not from other cultures.
In this country, for the last few thousand years, upper casteism has enforced its dominance over a large section of humanity using their textual intelligence and linguistic abilities, its control, and manipulations. Their command over the so-called "educated language" using the privileged political positioning was one of the biggest precipitators of social segregations in this country by defining what constitute the social hierarchy in society, like classical vs folk, developed vs tribal, progressive vs primitive.
For the larger mass of marginalised and oppressed including Dalits, this linguistic power positioning by Brahminical order of Hinduism has only one consequence to their life- Oppression and Caste discrimination. Using this linguistic poly, the upper casteism has took away the entire dignity of language, culture, beliefs, arts and visual culture and life itself of Dalits and Marginalised or the larger section of Indian society, by convincing them their folk, tribal and primitiveness(?)of their possessions and existence (!). That is exactly the reason, the Manuvadi’s wanted pour molten led into learned shudra’s throat.
Today, at a time, when Dalits and Marginalised in this country are deriving their political identity through collective conscience and democratic struggle, strangely we find the same old linguistic power players of upper casteism are back in actions as the new found neo-leftists, their linguistic interpretations and institutional criticisms of Dalits and marginalized ( as you rightly pointed out that Dalits and Bahujans are never looking at Ambedkar or their existence like that) as colonial, post-colonial, modern, post-modern and contemporary studies to appropriate again their icons and possessions for social elitism and hierarchy. The recent urge to appropriate Ambedkar by right left and socialist wings should be seen in this backdrop.
Also my work that states, I reject these linguistic inferences of Ambedkar is also born out of this. That is exactly the reason, I have pointed out in the post- I do not reject Ambedkar but their interpretation.
Today, in India, Ambedkar stands as a messiah- the last hope of millions of socially discriminated Dalits and marginalized. He stands for their fundamental dignity reclaimed after hundreds of centuries that was deviously taken away by the upper casteism through their linguistic manipulations. At this juncture of Indian history, Ambedkar as a faith is more important than Ambedkar as rationality. Let him not be appropriated by these textual intellectuals of the upper caste, like the way they did it in the past with Dalit’s and marginalised’s art, craft, culture, God, and Faith. Let Ambedkar continued to be the Dalit and Bahujan possession, culture, faith, and dignity and at the same time, it is important to expand the base by including more and more people from other cultures, castes, and religion, by rejecting the exclusionist idea of socially discriminated disciples of Manuvadi methodology. For the same reason, the leader of Dalits should come only from Dalits and not from other cultures.
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