manusmriti

LAWS OF MANU
and secular lines requires an uncompromising struggle against the caste-based Hindu
society and its culture. There is no question of secular democracy, not to speak of
socialism, unless the very citadel of India’s ‘age-old’ civilisation and culture - the
division of society into a hierarchy of castes - is broken. In other words, the struggle
for radical democracy and socialism cannot be separated from the struggle against
caste society.”
“The essence of social organisation based on the hierarchy of castes and sub-castes
is the monotonous repetition of the same job from generation to generation. Each
person is allotted the job which is supposed to be his or her caste’s (or sub-caste’s).
Here, therefore, there is no room for innovation, which is the essence of technological
development. This is all the more true of a social organisation which has, besides
caste, the village community and joint family as its two other pillars”
“In attacking the inequalities of the caste system and caste consciousness the anticaste
non-Brahmin leaders were attacking the ideology and the super-structure of the
earlier feudal age. The ideology and consciousness had to be attacked and the
superstructure had to be exposed and undermined, if society were to change. It can
be nobody's argument - let the economic situation gradually change, let new economic
realities and new classes emerge and the caste-system and caste-consciousness will
automatically be eliminated” (Ranadive, B. T., “Caste, Class and Property Relations”,
Economic and Political Weekly, 1979, 14 (7-8)).
Anyone who have lived in India knows that the same degrading treatment continues
even today. Coming of the British Colonialist to exploit Indian resources - or for
whatever reason - has opened up education to the down trodden and have made an
impact. Today even the staunch Hindu proponents are ashamed of these laws which
betray the religion of Hinduism as a Casteist, Brahminist Supremacy Conspiracy.
Thus even the scholars today agree that these laws were manipulated and
extrapolated for the purpose of subjugating and keeping the working class (Shudras
and the Avarnas now generally called Dalits) ignorant and powerless.
The new explanation is as follows:
“The current Manu Smriti is full of interpolated/ adulterated verses that were
added much later for various reasons. Almost 50% of Manu Smriti is actually
fake.”
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