Bhanwari Devi Rape Case in the Liberal Democracy of the Indian State-Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla

 

Bhanwari Devi Rape Case in the Liberal Democracy of the Indian State-Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla

 Here I want to talk about the judiciary and its important role in upholding brutal violence against the most vulnerable sections of society in general and third world societies in particular, where caste, race, ethnicity, and religion rule. The class theory of Marxism would be irrelevant in caste, race, ethnic, or religious-based societies, and states. Where caste-based rule does not exist, Marxism is irrelevant. is very important in the West. Third-world societies, particularly South Asian and neighboring societies, as well as Japanese societies, are based on caste, race, untouchability, and religion, and Marxism, Communism, or any elite ism would not work in any violence.

Now I want to focus on how Indian society and its institutions, mainly the judiciary, play a very significant role in upholding hegemonic ideology against every moment of humiliation, degradation, persecution, repulsion, reduction, and rejection of untouchable castes by local confirmation powers. We have local, regional, national, and international configurations of powers that are known as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, or Muslims to uphold thousands of years of Manu-smriti ideology against untouchables of their societies. Manu-smriti is written by Manuvu, a Brahmin by caste, thousands of years before Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

The Brahmin Manuvu laid the foundation stone of brutal genocidal persecutions against untouchable castes, sexual minorities, women, children, dwarfs, critics, science, equality, freedom, liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, or in present terminology, the universal declaration of human rights. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were just agents of the age of Brahmin ideology. White supremacy and western racism are both manifestations of age-old Manu-smriti. They are just by-products of Hindutva’s Brahmin Aryan ideology. His symbol is the Swastika. Manuvu or Brahmin or Pundit was the first lawmaker and giver by separating humans into untouchable and touchable humans, or higher humans and untouchable humans, or brutal ideology, etc. This is the status quo of caste-based societies.

After thousands of years, Muslims and the British ruled India, but they never changed the status quo of untouchable caste status. Moreover, colonial rulers had legally established caste hierarchies with the blessings of their equal Brahmin advocates. Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, an untouchable caste Mahar, with his Colombia University and London School of Economics Ph.D. degrees, tried to change this status quo of untouchable castes, but he also brought them back to the Hindutva fold with his incarnation of Buddhist ideology. Buddhism is another form of Hinduism. Hence, both ancient lawgiver Manu and modern lawgiver Dr.B.R.Ambedkar put the status quo of untouchables in their place. Ambedkar and Manuvu used different religious identities to enslave untouchables, despite having the same ideology. Ambedkar’s Buddhism is a new wine in an old bottle. Ambedkar is a staunch Hindu practitioner, so one can’t expect miracles from him.

After gaining independence from the British, India established its institutions to govern its caste-based society without offending the feelings and sentiments of its majority religious population. The practice of caste system, untouchability, racism, exclusion, xenophobia, degradation, repulsion, rejection, reduction, rape, lynching, killing, Devadasi system, forced arranged marriages, spiritual fascism, yoga, meditation, vegetarian ideology, dowry system, female infanticides, honour killings, Devadasi system, forced arranged marriages, spiritual fascism, yoga, meditation, vegetarian ideology, dowry system, female infanticide.

In the contemporary period of India, open caste practices, untouchability, honour killings, humiliation, social boycott, maiming for life, institutionalized untouchability, discrimination, caste-based bullying, caste slurs, racial slurs, gang-raping, massacres, lynchings for eating cow meat, exclusion, isolation, separation, humiliation, etc are tried to be challenged by untouchable caste people in the judiciary. The Indian judiciary, from local courts to the Apex Court of India or Supreme Court of India, is filled with heavy practitioners of Justices, Advocates, Lawyers, Jurists, Counsels, etc. Every judge is part and parcel of Hinduism and its ideology.

When a Hindu practices open untouchability, casteism, racism, violence, hate, rape, killing, etc. against untouchables, the untouchable never treats them as equals with them. Instead, he is ready to go to court since he knows that the Indian Judiciary is nothing but a Hindu judiciary where Hindu knowledge minds are sitting, monitoring, and implementing Manu-smritis ideology against untouchables. An ordinary Hindu never compromises with the Constitution of India in terms of treating untouchables as equal to him. He is ready to go to court instead of accepting equality as a human being. A Hindu never agrees that an untouchable is equal to him. He is ready to spend money on courts, lawyers, fees, etc. to show that even the judiciary never agreed to equality of untouchables on par with Hindus. The Indian judiciary upholds caste-based vertical hierarchies when they deliver justice, where untouchables lose every case where they want to treat them equally with Hindus. A Hindu Justice would never remove an untouchable from his position.

If an untouchable caste person challenges a Hindu in a local, regional, national, or municipal court, district court, high court, or supreme court, the judges start questioning an untouchable victim by saying, "How come an upper-caste Hindu can rape an untouchable woman since touching an untouchable is not our culture?" For example, Bhanwari Devi, an untouchable illiterate woman, was gang-raped by 5 Hindu men after killing her husband in Rajasthan a quarter-century ago and went to the High Court and Supreme Court of India where Brahmin judges ruled that it is not a Hindu man's culture to touch an untouchable, thus she was not touched by any Hindu, so the rapists were released. This is a controversial judgment of the Indian judiciary. How do we understand the pathetic condition of untouchables in the hands of civil, state, judiciary, bureaucratic, and parliamentary bodies?

How to understand an untouchable lawmaker who is selected by people to refuse to sit in a chair in front of a Hindu lawmaker with a fear of life threat many times? How to understand a Hindu judge who purified a seat after the retirement of the chief justice of India, who is untouchable by caste? How to understand an Indian state and its Brahmin priest who purified Rashtrapathi Bhavan after the President of India retired from the rank of the first person in India who is untouchable by caste? If this is happening to the untouchables who are holding high positions in Indian society, one can understand the pathetic condition of the untouchables. How do we understand this spectrum of caste systems, untouchability, and racism that are produced by the Hindu religion?

Let me conclude by arguing that India will never accept the universal declaration of human rights in terms of untouchable castes as long as the Hindu religion exists. There is no question of equality in front of the moral law in a morally-less Hindu community.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhanwari_Devi

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39265653