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Reply to "Dr Bato on a Rage..."

Ramharaks frustrations stems from the fact that he has a false narrative about who is the indian and what are their cultural prerogatives.

 

He sees a homogeneous entity with a unitary path and a singular purpose ( conserving "Indian" identity) but miss the fact the Indian are themselves a plural culture with internal identities separate and apart and each competing for political space.

 

He also fails to acknowledge that the core group of Hindus are not particularly receptive to Hindutva and cannot be regimented into a Guyanese RSS militancy by supposed articulation of sacred traditions.

 

They know that whatever is sacred to them is what they forged in Guyana. The Bharat Mata they left was not a salutary cradle to their emergence as humans but was a brutal step mother touting  Brahmanism ass sacred  creed and the laws of Manu the whip and the source of the deep wounds on  on their soul making sure they remain as dirt.

 

Amerindians have no kinship in struggle or in identity or in culture to Indians. Amerindians receive the similar level if not more of contempt from Indians as any. Their position at the bottom rung of the Guyanese social ladder is not on account of being in alliance with one or the other dominant groups. They are there because of a complete failure of other groups to recognize their natural patrimony and that they have cultural relevance.

 

I also do not see black people seeking Afrocentric militancy as their dominant position to sue for political recognition. The monochromatic view he has of our political reality is seeded in the manner and mode of his own emergence as a "hindu activist". It is artificial and as fictive as his view of what ails us.

FM
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