From: dchatterjee@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Karl Marx on Brahmans and Hindus
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:56:17 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

  There are some persons - who have *heard* some fierce "speeches" from some
  unknown, frustrated "intellectual" and then those men of straw (hearer) do 
  try to excrete the same towards those who are proselytes of lower abilities
  and lesser creed. Such people, do exist in alarmingly dangerous numbers in the
  feudal countries where religious "fanaticsm" is often a way of emancipation 
  and fortitude. Often, these mouthpieces have no knowledge of what is right or
  wrong, and, suffer from the inability to be analytical and most unfortunately
  turn out to be flat liars or at best as obfuscators. Yes, one of such persons
  who fall into the above category is Sanjeev Mahajan - who has in all 
  probability accepted the apprenticeship under the politically unknown 
  Dr.T.Jayaraman. Many storms in a teacup have waxed and waned, but, the utter
  falsehood that has engulfed Sanjeev Mahajan remains as an unsolved mystery.

  Mahajan and his guru, in a recent trashy article, go to the extent of making
  Marxist claims that Hinduism and Brahmanical culture is baleful to the real
  progress of the Indian society. I have asserted that Sanjeev Mahajan is 
  a flat liar, and thus doubt the cerdibility of his "guru" because I have now
  come across a "strange" writing of Dr.Karl Marx - where Dr.Marx hold in the
  highest esteem the Brahmanical culture and intellect. To cut the long story
  short, I reproduce in verbatim the exact quote from the works of Karl Marx
  himself. (The reference, from where this is abstracted, is provided in its
  complete details - below.)   

  ".... At all events, we may safely expect to see, at a more or less remote
   period, the regeneration of that great and interesting country, whose gentle
   natives are, to use the expression of Prince Soltykov, even in the most
   inferior classes, " plus fins et adroits que les Italiens " (more subtle and
   adroit than the Italians), whose submission even is counterbalanced by a
   certain calm nobility, who, notwithstanding their natural langor, have
   astonished the British officers by their bravery, whose country has been the
   source of our languages, our religions, and who represent the type of the
   ancient German in the Jat, and the type of the ancient Greek in the Brahmin."
   
   (The above quote shows the respect that Karl Marx - originator of the most
   charming Stalinist theories had for the Brahminical intellect in India. the
   quote appears in [1, p. 221].)  
 
  So when Sanjeev tries his best to denigrate the Brahmins and the Hindu way
  of life, please *DO NOT* pay attention. What has Mahajan and his guru to say
  now ? Another rebuttal from Stalin ?
  
  Similarly on the Islamic rule in India, Dr.Marx writes,

  " Arabs, Turks, Tartars, Moguls, who had successively overrun India, soon
  became Hindooized, the barbarian conquerors being, by an eternal law of
  history, conquered themselves by the superior civilization of their subjects."

  (See [1, p.218].) 

  I think that both the quotes explicitly states what Dr.Marx himself thought
  of India, Hindus and Brahmins and the Islamic invasions in India. 
  
  Therefore I think that the IPSG members, and, Sanjeev Mahajan are guilty of
  spreading falsehood and obfuscation amongst informed readers. What is most
  shameful is that many uninformed foreigners reading the arguments from the
  guru of Sanjeev Mahajan will be fooled. This must be taken seriously. I also
  appeal to all Hindus, to read the works of Dr.Marx and verify for themselves
  how respectful, one of the *greatest* social scientists in this world, Dr.Karl
  Marx, was towards the ancient Hindu culture or the Sanatan Hindu Dharma.

   - regards,

     deb chatterjee
   (a good samaritan)


                            REFERENCE
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  [1] Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, (collected works: 1853-'54, vol. 12),
      Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1979, England: ISBN 0 85315 357 4. (The
      article is titled " The Future Results of British Rule in India ".)

      [At most Universities the call number is HX 39.5.A224 1975C]
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