India's Psychological Warfare on Minorities and lack of Academic Resistance
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Resistance
Wednesday 24th of October 2007
A. Soni, Hertfordshire, UK
It is not a coincidence that every minority region under Indian rule
whether it is Kashmir or Tripura is facing the threat of demographic
change. Tripura is the most extreme victim of this enforced altering
of demographics where the indigenous Borok are now a mere 30% of their
ancestral homeland whereas in 1947 the Indian-Bengali population in
Tripura was minuscule if non-existent. Because India has an enormous
poverty and homeless stricken population it is too easy for the GOI to
shift large numbers of their poor people into the minority and
occupied regions under the false pretence of 'economic migration' and
to make fabricated claims that the poor Indian migrants are 'integral'
to the economy of these regions.
We hear the word "integral" used all too frequently by the Indians;
Kashmir is an "integral" part of India, Bihrai or Bengali migrants are
"integral" to the economies of Punjab or Assam and so on. This is all
apart of India's psychological warfare against the minorities it has
subjugated. One has to wonder is there anything of Indian origin not
considered to be integral to the existence and survival of the non-
Indian and non-Hindu peoples living on the fringe of the Indian
mainland like the Nagas, Boros etc or outside the orbit of the Hindu
civilization like the Sikhs of Punjab and the Muslims of Kashmir?
Evidently none of what India claims to be integral to itself or
integral to the survival and prosperity of the homelands of smaller
nations it occupies is in fact, true. No one would ever question
whether a place like Gujarat or some Patna, Bihar is integral to India
or not. If such a question ever did arise it wouldn't even be met with
a serious response let alone the type of insecure and shaken adamancy
of "integralness" to India one hears from Indians when the
relationship between India and Kashmir or India and Arunachal Pradesh
is questioned. So an Indian would never need to declare that Mumbai is
an "integral part of India", why? Because Mumbai IS India, as much as
any Calcutta or Lucknow is. It would be an idiotic assertion to make.
So then what is the logic behind Indian politicians and 'journalists'
making such statements when it comes to Kashmir being "integral" to
India or the Sikhs being "integral" to the Hindus if all of this was
true? Frankly there wouldn't be any logic to make such blanket
statements if they were true. Therefore when an Indian does
officially declare something to be "integral" to India we can safely
assume he (or she) is lying
Afterall should blurting out adamant statements that something is
integral to India or that Indians are integral to something make
Kashmiris or Boro's feel special now (considering that Biharis or
UPites are never bestowed the 'honour' of being integral to India) or
is it a clear indication of India's insecurity towards those who it
occupies and tries to forcibly assimilate?
We often hear the present regime in Iran lash out at the Western media
and Western governments for what it calls "psychological warfare"
against the Islamic Republic (and even the broader Iranian nation
itself). But for a long time now there have been (though often muted)
voices from India's suppressed and occupied nationalities of the
"psychological warfare" they are enduring from the Indian state and
right-wing Hindu nationalists in the Indian media. The oldest of these
challenges to Brahmanical psychological warfare has come from the
Sikhs who have borne the brunt of this assault ever since the fall of
their Kingdom to the British Empire in the 19th century. But with the
forcible military annexation and annexation under duress of
independent nations such as the Nagas, Manipuris and Kashmiris into
post-independent India the targets of India's psychological warfare
have grown as have the challenges to Indian-Hindu hegemony come in
from new quarters, but to no real success on the intellectual front.
The conflicts minority peoples and nations are engaged in with India
is as much intellectual and psychological as they are political and
physical. But increasingly it appears as though the intellectual fight
against India is becoming the sole domain of political and
revolutionary factions, legitimate academics seem almost absent from
the fight. Perhaps most academics would rather remain a-political but
then where is the justice in leaving the psychological warfare of the
Indian state unanswered?
There was a time and a century not too long ago when the driving force
and spark that ignited successful revolutions and resistance movements
was lit in large part by academics and political thinkers rather than
actual politicians. Perhaps it is time for those resisting the
onslaught of the Indian state to ponder why this key component of any
successful revolutionary or liberation movement has drifted into
obscurity whether it be in Kashmir, Nagalim, Boroland or Khalistan.
In the Punjab state the Dal Khalsa is planning a 2-day ''Punjab Jagao
March' from October 31st to November 1st under the theme of 'Punjab
for Punjabis'. During the march the Dal Khalsa will be addressing the
issue of the "chanakya mind of the Delhi rulers", primarily in
relation to the "dilution of the Sikh majority in Punjab because of
migration from other states" which has been "engineered" by Delhi
according to a recent Dal Khalsa statement. For many years now the
Punjab's leading English-daily, the Tribune (under the control of
biased right-wing Hindu nationalists) has been reporting that the
migrant labourers to Punjab are "integral" to the economy of the
state, and by implication, "integral" to the prosperity of the Sikh's
and their homeland of Khalistan. So for this the Dal Khalsa must be
congratulated for undertaking this latest overt challenge against this
one aspect of the psychological warfare of the Indian state. However,
addressing these "lies" from a political podium is all well and good,
but has the Dal Khalsa attempted to have the "lies" addressed from an
academic platform too? For any lasting and successful intellectual
campaign the Dal Khalsa must question where does the true credibility
in attacking the "changing demographics of Punjab" issue lie? Is it
through the mouthpiece of the political factions, or through that of
the academics? Time will only tell.
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