In present-day India, it has come to a point where anyone can openly abuse Brahmins. The “anti-Brahmin” ideology created by European missionary Bishop Robert Caldwell to sow discord in India, combined with the “Aryan-Dravidian” divide manufactured by self-proclaimed Indologists, has been weaponized politically. As a result, bashing Brahmins has become a defining hallmark of being “progressive.” Intellectuals have relentlessly painted this picture and hammered it into the public consciousness. Terms like “Brahminya” (Brahminhood), “Brahminism,” “Brahminike,” and “Madivantike” (orthodoxy/purity rituals) have been systematically weaponized into derogatory slurs.
Originally, the Varnas were based on an individual’s nature (Svabhava) and choice of occupation (Karma). They were fluid and changeable. Many sages (Rishis) who revealed the Vedic mantras were not Brahmins by birth or community; they were Brahmins by virtue of their spiritual realization (Brahmajnana). From an economic standpoint, “caste” in India was perceived in the form of communities practicing diverse trades. Sometimes, the traditional occupations of these communities would change.
It was the British who, for the first time in India, conducted caste-wise division and classification, thereby creating a new model of the “caste system.” As long as Sanskrit education thrived, India remained the intellectual leader of the world. It is common knowledge that Thomas Macaulay abolished Sanskrit and implemented the monolingual formula of English education to erase this heritage.
The Evolution of the Anti-Brahmin Narrative
Brahmin-hatred was intense during the Mughal era. Declaring “we killed this many Brahmins” was considered a matter of pride. During Tipu Sultan’s reign in the Old Mysore region, the word “Bomman” came into usage as a derogatory term. However, it was the 19th-century European missionary Robert Caldwell who elevated it to the level of a “sophisticated theory” and gave it the dimension of a political movement. The divisive social theory he conceived fractured the country’s politics on the imaginary lines of an Aryan-Dravidian divide.
E.V. Ramasamy’s Justice Party added a new hue to the country’s politics based on castes and sub-castes. Its remnants, the “Dravidian” parties, did not stop at just caste; they birthed a whole new “race theory,” after which the political mobilization of castes truly began. Once these groups label something as “social justice,” the matter ends there, and no one is allowed to question it.
Just as Karl Marx created the theory of perpetual class struggle, a political theory of perpetual caste conflict is being formulated today, asserting:
“Different castes can never unite; continuous conflict is inevitable between the most backward, the backward, the slightly backward, and the not-backward-at-all castes.”
Just as the colonizers previously wrote imaginary social theories to suit their whims and claimed “this is the truth,” modern woke-liberals are creating new “social theories” and spinning sub-theories to fit their own “social engineering” agendas.
Blind Faith and the Indian Tradition of Intellectual Freedom
Is there a greater superstition than the foolish belief that “the thoughts of a Karl Marx or a Mao Zedong are flawless; they are suitable for all times, all countries, and all situations; and they must be established everywhere by any means”? Can any human thought be eternally flawless? Do those thoughts not require modification, reform, and criticism?
Those who first surrendered their intellectual freedom to Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, subsequently pushed—and continue to try to push—others into the same plight. To them, this is “revolution”! This is nothing but personality worship. These leaders and intellectuals, who revere Marx and Mao like gods or prophets, are merely the priests of the Marxist temple. There is no greater superstition than an innocent belief in a “permanent revolution.”
Compare this with the Indian context, which values intellectual freedom. Here, Buddha came and questioned the Mimamsakas. To question Buddha, several Acharyas emerged. To question those past Acharyas, many new Acharyas arrived. What does this mean? The principle and innate nature ingrained in the Indian psyche is that “no human thought is flawless or final.” Here, people presented their ideas without violence. They debated and discussed. People had—and still have—the freedom to accept what resonates with them and reject everything else. This is possible only in mature societies like India.
India never had a Western-style “Papacy” (Popeocracy). Here, philosophy is not stagnant water; it is a flowing, living stream without any authoritarian masters (Donnayanyakaru). Here, there are as many philosophies (Darshanas) as there are people. Even tomorrow, a new Acharya may arise. No one stops them from rising, and no political party’s permission is required. Yet, communists tried to spread the lie that an administrative system called “priestocracy” (Purohitashahi) existed in India. They borrowed the communist tactics and maneuvers used against the “priesthood” in Europe and imported them here.
The Foreign Roots of Divisive Geopolitics
The opposing forces know very well that unless they deeply root Brahmin-hatred, it will be difficult to fracture Indian society. In reality, this is not Brahmin-hatred; it is India-hatred. Its roots lie in foreign soil; what we see here are merely the aerial roots. This is the exact same divide-and-rule strategy that the British followed. Suspicions have now arisen that Chinese, Pakistani, and American liberal forces might have woven this strategy to divide and erase.
Forces like Pakistan’s ISI can exploit any malicious act committed by miscreants in India, manipulate it as they please, and turn it against the country itself to whip up an anti-India wave. Previously, the ISI-fueled “Dalitstan” movement was aggressive. It was a highly active movement at a time when the Punjab (Pak-sponsored) “Khalistan” movement had failed (though it is being revived again now). Suddenly, the slogan “Dalit-Muslim” started echoing across the country. The argument that “Dalits and Muslims must unite and secede from India” began to be heard frequently. A website was even created in the name of Dalitstan (which was later banned).
Other forces also jumped into the arena to exploit “Dalit politics.” The conspiracy to break India grew to the extent of claiming:
“Dalits are the black Negroes of India; they alone are the original inhabitants of India; theirs is a separate biological race; they are being tyrannized and ruled by other Aryans; they need to establish their own homeland.”
“Caste” vs. the Indigenous Identity
The word “caste” originates from the word “casta” in Portuguese (and Spanish). Casta is a word that carries a biological, racist meaning. In India, words like Varna, Jati, and Kula were not racist. There were no permanent walls between them. They were concepts based on individual skills and community occupations. That is why one can see thousands of Jatis. If Jati meant “race,” one would have to say “thousands of races exist”!
There are plenty of examples where Jatis changed. Many great sages (Maharshis) who gave the Vedic mantras to the world came from diverse communities of society:
- Dirghatamas was born blind.
- Vishwamitra was initially a Kshatriya.
- Veda Vyasa was the son of a fisherwoman.
- Valmiki belonged to the hunter community.
- Agastya was born from a pot (Kumbha).
- Satyakama Jabali did not know who his father was.
The list is long. That is why it is said, “One should not look into a Rishi’s origins; one should look at their knowledge.”
Therefore, the biological, race-based concept of “caste” did not exist in India. Yet, the British introduced the crazy notion of treating every single Jati as a distinct “caste.” They turned castes into permanent identities and erased the scenarios where they could change. They cleverly propagated the idea that “caste” was an indigenous Indian concept. Even today, Westerners and “woke liberals” continue this mischief.
The core of the new, intolerant “wokeism” movement currently raging in the West is a woke-rationalism called “Critical Race Theory.” They are applying this exact theory to every country, era, and context to manufacture and spread new narratives.
Religious Conversions and Academic Indoctrination
The argument that “as long as the caste system exists among Hindus, conversions will keep happening” was manufactured long ago. If that were the case, why did the missionary Church crush and obliterate the world-famous Greek civilization? Did “flaws” like the caste system exist there? Missionaries give different reasons in different countries to justify their religious expansion, and the foolish, self-destructive elements of those countries support them. It is worth noting how churches are now targeting Buddhism in South Korea. In the last 10 years, the number of Christians in that country has increased significantly, and the administration of foreign churches has been largely established.
Ever since “ideological indoctrination”—meaning the stuffing of religious and political ideologies into students’ heads—intensified in universities, they have ceased to be mere centers of learning. Today, many “prestigious” universities have become playgrounds for political parties, laboratories for politically-motivated NGOs, and destinations for foreign powers and religious organizations. Parents sending their children from home to college now live in anxiety, wondering which professor will brainwash their son or daughter, which organizations they will join, which politician’s pawn they will become, and what “movement” they will plunge into.
According to some analysts, America is now cleverly using left-wing intellectuals as its intellectual invaders! The CIA covertly funds various foundations and NGOs; these entities utilize left-wing intellectuals and missionaries for specific objectives in various countries. Money also flows to these intellectuals through various organizations in the guise of awards.
Today, there is a growing trend to “analyze” all mundane and spiritual phenomena through the lenses of caste, religion, gender, and sexuality. The ultimate hope of the creators of these theories is that today’s intellectual analyses will become tomorrow’s street struggles. In short, courtesy of such people, no sector in the country can live in peace. There is no space where their “social engineering” has not set foot.
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