కులాలు వేరు, కుల వ్యవస్థ వేరు, కుల వ్యవస్థ స్థిరీకరణ, కులవివక్ష స్థాపన వేరు. యూరోపియన్లు, బ్రిటిష్ వారు కులవివక్షను ఏవిధంగా రేపి, తమ ప్రయోజనాలకోసం విభజించారో ఈ విశ్లేషణలలో వున్నది ఈ కోణం కూడా చూడవచ్చు…
Shahi Tharoor considered the British responsible for giving a final shape to the caste system. He said,
“We had castes, we did not have the caste system. The British were the ones who had actually codified, entrenched and classified our country and our people in the way that we have since then started self-defining ourselves in ways that the British did for us.”
He further said, “Caste had been much fuzzier, a much more fungible identity in the past. The whole notion of the Chatur Varna system being imposed as the only way India was supposed to be was because of the British looked at it that way. So the Brits in the entire process of trying to understand India, classified and codified things – it was a means for controlling India.”.....
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/british-perfected-caste-system-in-india/articleshow/56341540.cms
బ్రాహ్మణులే ఈ కులతత్త్వానికి మూలం అనే విద్వేష, బూటకపు భావజాలాన్ని, మనువే కులవ్యవస్థకి మూలం అనే తప్పుడు అవగాహనని, సమాజంలో కులాల కుంపట్లు మరింత ఎగదోయడానికి తప్పితే పీడితజనోద్ధరణకు, స్వావలంబనకు హేట్రెడ్ రాజకీయ లక్ష్యాలతో తీసిన ఏ సినిమా ఉపకరించదు. ఈ అమానుష కులవ్యవస్థకు కారణం బ్రాహ్మణులు కారు, మనువూ కాదు, ఏ స్మృతీ కాదు, ఏ రాజూ కాదు, శాసనమూ కాదు అని అంబేడ్కర్ తాను కొలంబియా యూనివర్శిటీకి సమర్పించిన తన పెిహెచ్ డి పరిశోధనా పత్రంలో స్పష్టంగా పేర్కొన్నారు. అంబేడ్కర్ పరిశీలన: కులవ్యవస్థకి మూలం మనువు కాదు, బ్రాహ్మణులు కాదు. ఇంత మహావిస్తారమైన కులవ్యవస్థని ఏర్పాటు చేయడం ఏ ఒక్క మనిషి వల్లనో, ఏ ఒక్క గ్రంథం వల్లనో, ఏ ఒక్క స్మృతి వల్లనో, ఏ ఒక్క కులం, పురోహితవర్గం వల్లనో అయ్యే పని కాదు. ఈ విషయమై ఆయన కొలంబియా యూనిర్శిటీకి యిచ్చిన థీసిస్ పేపర్….
One thing I want to impress upon you is that Manu did not give the law of Caste and that he could not do so. Caste existed long before Manu. He was an upholder of it and therefore philosophised about it, but certainly he did not and could not ordain the present order of Hindu Society. His work ended with the codification of existing caste rules and the preaching of Caste Dharma. The spread and growth of the Caste system is too gigantic a task to be achieved by the power or cunning of an individual or of a class. Similar in argument is the theory that the Brahmins created the Caste. After what I have said regarding Manu, I need hardly say anything more, except to point out that it is incorrect in thought and malicious in intent. The Brahmins may have been guilty of many things, and I dare say they were, but the imposing of the caste system on the non-Brahmin population was beyond their mettle. They may have helped the process by their glib philosophy, but they certainly could not have pushed their scheme beyond their own confines. To fashion society after one’s own pattern! How glorious! How hard! One can take pleasure and eulogize its furtherance; but cannot further it very far. The vehemence of my attack may seem to be unnecessary; but I can assure you that it is not uncalled for. There is a strong belief in the mind of orthodox Hindus that the Hindu Society was somehow moulded into the framework of the Caste System and that it is an organization consciously created by the Shastras. Not only does this belief exist, but it is being justified on the ground that it cannot but be good, because it is ordained by the Shastras and the Shastras cannot be wrong. I have urged so much on the adverse side of this attitude, not because the religious sanctity is grounded on scientific basis, nor to help those reformers who are preaching against it. Preaching did not make the caste system; neither will it unmake it. My aim is to show the falsity of the attitude that has exalted religious sanction to the position of a scientific explanation.
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis, and Development, by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/txt_ambedkar_castes.html
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