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Savarkar's Hidden Agenda was to Arrest Shudra/Dalit Liberation After Mahatma Phule's Anti-Caste Movement | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2026-02-15T09:29:32Z

The RSS/BJP Government of India started to take several steps to change the basic structure of the present political system in the light of the Hindutva thesis proposed by their father of the modern nation, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Savarkar's main thesis in his book Essential of Hindutva though appears to be anti-Muslim and anti-Christian, its hidden agenda is to arrest the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi liberation in the post-colonial India. It were the ancestors of these people who built this (…)

- 2026

if The Shudras Do Not Rebel, the Hindu Rastra Will Be Established For Their Peril | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2022-06-17T19:54:54Z

The modern Indian state, with such vast tracts of land and a massive population of 1.3 billion, is unique in history. Before 1947, or even after partition, a single government with absolute sovereign power from one national capital did not rule the country's entire population. Not even the British Governor General ruled as many people as the present Prime Minister of India rules. However, even with a modern democratic constitution, the massive number of people living in such a vast land may (…)

- 2022

How Dalits Were Separated from Shudras? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2022-01-21T22:37:55Z

Dalits are historical Shudras. They were part of the Harappans who built the pre-Aryan agrarian and urban civilization by 3000 BCE. But now in our times despite the fact that we all live in modern constitutional democracy, not only the Dwijas, but Shudras also treat them as untouchable. There is no social cohesion among Indians in spite of the fact that this great democratic constitution was given to us by Dr.B.R Ambedkar who was born as an untouchable. But later he liberated himself and (…)

- 2022

Is The RSS Stronger or Weaker After 100 Years? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2021-12-17T20:56:20Z

There is an interesting discussion taking place in a section of the media that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 100 years existence will be celebrated in 2025 like the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100 years existence on this planet.No doubt the RSS is also in power at Delhi and in many states, if not exactly like the CPC. The nation knows though a proxy political network, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is said to be in power the actual power operator in India is the RSS. This (…)

- 2021

The Shudra Kings and Brahmins: A mirror image of history | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2021-09-03T14:13:37Z

But for the accidental reading of Shahu Maharaj's letter to the retired Governor of Bombay presidency, Lord Sydenham, written in 1918, I would not have thought of writing this essay. In my life time experience of writing about the Brahmin-Bania power in contemporary times at the expense of life threats and cases in various levels of courts the Dwija pundits tried to dismiss my arguments about the Brahmin-Bania power over the society and state in post-independence times and in the (…)

- 2021

Shudras And The Central Universities | Kanch Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2021-04-02T18:19:10Z

A well-known Dalit scholar Gopal Guru, presently editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, once wrote that “Indian Social Science represents a pernicious divide between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras' (2002). But Shudras did not get much attention in his, otherwise useful article. He immediately shifted his argument to the question of Dalits. Nowhere he elaborated his understanding of the Shudra question in a historical sense. Maybe this was a conscious forbearance. Since he (…)

- 2021

How Aakar Patel Under-Read The Character of Hindu Rashtra? A Review Article | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2021-01-29T18:46:31Z

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here by Aakar Patel Westland Publication, 2020 Pages 368 Price 699 Aakar Patel starts his timely and well-researched book Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here with a sentence “Majoritarianism is primitive and easy to do”. He surmises that establishment of Hindu Rashtra, which has only one meaning, that a Kshatriya king should rule the Hindu Rashtra under the supervision of a Brahmin head priest. Such a Hindu (…)

- 2021

The Shudra Civilization | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2021-01-02T12:28:56Z

India is a nation of second largest population in the world. China is the first largest populated nation with a land size bigger than India. India's population according to 2011 census was 1210.2 million and China's population was 1347.3 million. India's land size is 3.287 million KMs, whereas China's land size is 9.597 million KMs. China's land size is three times bigger than that of India.
Within a small land size with a massive population India has been producing food, goods and (…)

- 2021

Caste in Heaven: Can Shudras find Moksha in Bhahmanism? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2020-10-31T19:38:40Z

I kept watching the funerals of people killed by the brutal coronavirus in the global pandemic of Covid-19 on TV channels and read about them in newspapers. Those dead bodies who are described as Hindu are being quickly burnt without anybody around. The usual presence of the Brahmin priest to recite slokas are nowhere to be seen. Only the rich upper castes seem to have the wherewithal to have Brahmin priests, but that was also not seen in the times of pandemic.
The Christians and Muslims (…)

- 2020

Why Vegetarianism Is Anti-national

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — 2016-08-28T10:47:02Z

“Human beings are not pure vegetarians like sheep, nor are they pure meatarians like tigers. They need to eat both.”
—A farmer of my village, Papaiahpet, Warangal district, Telangana
When I said in some of my speeches and writings that the kind of vegetarianism that the Sangh Parivar, the Bharatiya Janata Party headed State governments, its central leadership, apart from the Hindu priestcraft, are trying to project as national is wrong and it is in fact anti-national, a lot of dust was (…)

- 2016