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Whenever we hear the word 'Nazi', it reminds us of The Holocaust. It reminds us how a wrong propaganda was used to target a minority.
Contrary to what many people believe that it was Hitler's hatred for Jews which led to holocaust, I believe that it was Hitler's hunger for power which led to holocaust.
Targeting a successful minority group is a widely used tactic used by world leaders from time immemorial to rise through ranks and become a messiah of the ‘so called oppressed’.
Hitler used the same propanganda. He utilised his remarkable speaking skills to turn the defeated and impoverished Germans against the Jews. Jews were a small but a prominent group among his opposing parties which included Bolsheviks, socialists, social democrats. He blamed them for the German defeat in World War I and thus used the Jewish blood to etch his name in history. The other explanation of ‘a superior race’ was just a superficial move to enhance the hatred and division.
Tamilnadu is facing a similar scenario on a smaller scale. Let me first give you the background of the whole story about some people who are using 'hate politics' to gain power.
Periyar Ramasamy
(Disclaimer: Periyar was a great personality who brought several social reforms but I believe that his principles were wrongly utilised to justify hatred against a whole community in South India.)
Born in a wealthy Indian family, Periyar faced discrimination from some Brahmins when he visited Kashi temple. To vent out his anger, he started criticizing the entire Brahmin community for the exploitation of people (like Hitler targeted Jews). He preached that the Brahmins had monopolised and cheated other communities for decades and deprived them of self-respect.
His followers (DMK party like Nazi party) started advocating the thesis that the Tamil language was much richer than Sanskrit and Hindi and hence started targeting the Brahmins in the name of Sanskrit (like Hitler preached superiority of Aryans). Periyar also stated that if words of North Indian origin (Sanskrit) are removed from Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, only Tamil will be left.
What he did not preach about the community that constitutes just 5% of India’s population:
- There is no SINGLE Brahmin god in Hinduism! All gods are from backward castes, dalits and tribals. Brahmins never created the concept of Gods in Hinduism.
- Vedic literature was mostly written by non-Brahmins! The Manusmriti which was used to criticize Brahmins was written by Manu, a non-Brahmin. Ramayana was writen by a tribal Valmiki and Mahabharata was written by Vyasa who was born to a fisherwoman.
- Historical evidences show that poor hapless Brahmins were beheaded by Arabian invaders, crucified in Goa by the Portuguese Inquisition, vilified by British missionaries, and morally crucified today by their own brothers and sisters. Then how can one claim that just a particular community faced oppression?
What was the result?
The anti-Brahmin theory was planned and successfully planted by hostile invaders, colonialist and missionaries of conversion and by politicians to keep the public blind and at the same time gain power. The same tactic was employed by Hilter to gain power - ‘Create Hate and Rule’.
Like in many other revolutions, if anger and aggression had evolved organically, it should have been the wealthy landowning / ruling castes on the receiving end of all this anger. But in the case of Tamil Nadu, this movement had a political agenda whereby they just chose Brahmins as the punching bag. They were easy targets because they were economically weakest relative to other forward castes, literally owned no land (except may be delta region), but still were the most visible, since many of them worked as civil servants in the British era. The result is that Brahmin population is a shrinking demographic in Tamil Nadu, and will be extinct soon.
The more depressing fact is that even the educated masses are attracted by this movement. Still there is a hope that people will realize their folly and move above the caste barriers.
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