“Indian
Janus faces and their western agents in the colonial and contemporary periods: Franz
Fanon referred to them as Black Skin, White Masks, while social/political
theorist Gopal Guru referred to them as Janus faces.” Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla
Indian
Janus faces and their western agents in the colonial and contemporary periods:
The Indian National Movement and its leaders, as well as their Janus-face
philosophies and activism during the Colonial period, are studied-Dr.Suryaraju
Mattimalla
There
is a wealth of literature produced by local, regional, national, and
international publishing houses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press, Verso, Progressive, Yale University Press, Colombia
University Press, London University Press, and Stanford University Press, as
well as the so-called theoretical journals that have spent centuries glorifying
the Indian national movement, its leaders, and their philosophies and
activities.
It
is no surprise that tens of thousands of white western men and women joined the
national movement against the British Raj or colonial masters to free India
from them. The white western world liberated India
from its colonial rule without any opposition from Indian leaders.
From moderate
Indian leaders to terrorist (Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh etc) leaders to
nationalist leaders to colonial Nobel prize winners, poets, writers,
intellectuals, activists, anti-colonial philosophers, and scholars, they
participated in anti-colonial agitation to maintain their self-respect and dignity.
They
felt that their self-respect, dignity, human worth, respect, and high reverence
had been damaged by their colonial masters in the name of the race.
Finally,
they ended up achieving independence from their colonial masters in 1947. Now
their self-respect is re-installed to gain back lost human status, dignity,
human worth, etc. This is the Janus face of any Indian who fought against the
colonial configuration of power. On the ground or intellectually, such as
Rabindranath Tagor or Bankimchandra Chattoppadyaya, who fought against the
British Raj in the name of Bengal Self-Respect or Indian Self-Respect or
National Movement or Hindu Self-Rule or Civil disobedience.
Many
white western people, scholars, and writers, intellectuals like Annie Besant
joined this Janus-face ideology even though colonial rule treated Brahmins and
their Aryan agents equally.
Now
let me briefly explain to you these Janus faces and their agents.
The nationalist
leaders of India have practiced rigid caste systems, untouchability, racism,
xenophobia, repulsion, exclusion, reduction, rejection, hate, extremism,
persecution, genocide, etc. against untouchables for tens of thousands of
years. The colonial rulers in India never raped, killed, or used violence
against any Indian, but instead established institutions to give fair treatment
to any Indian, regardless of caste or social background, were below or above,
Hindu or Muslim leaders had problems because colonial rules treated Hindu, Muslim,
or untouchable leaders equally.
The equality of untouchables with Hindus and
Muslims paved the way for the formation of numerous cultural, spiritual,
religious, casteist, and racist organizations opposing colonial rule, but they
used different pet languages, such as colonial rulers' English, freedom,
democracy, independence, oppression, liberty, equality, peace, love, and white,
foreign, material masters, and so on.
The
colonial rule allowed untouchable modernity to combat thousands of years of
caste system, untouchability, racism, genocide, xenophobia, and sexism
perpetrated by Hindus and their nationalist leaders and Nobel laureates. The
above or below listed Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, or Parsi leaders
never opened their mouths against the local configuration of powers because
they are part and parcel of this local configuration of powers that dehumanize,
sub-humanize, and persecute the untouchable caste women and men. Sexual
minorities of untouchable castes are more vulnerable than cisgender untouchable
castes.
The
colonial masters in India never even punished an innocent or practiced caste
system, untouchability, or racism against untouchable castes or mainstream
Brahmin castes. They even recruited Brahmins and their foot-soldiers as their
advocates and preserved Hindu religious purity and impurity ideologies
throughout their colonial rule, without which they couldn't rule.
When we see these
above and below mentioned leaders, it looks radical outside and conservative
inside.
Unfortunately,
we have western agencies like Britannica, Wikipedia, BBC, CNN, UNO, Nobel Prize
committees, Commonwealth, NASA, universities, publication houses, political
offices, recognitions, scholarships, fellowships, and awards established for
these Janus faces across time and space to recognize them as the greatest human
beings on earth.
Untouchable leaders
never line up with Indian nationalist leaders against any colonial masters, but
if we see any Wikipedia and its information, it says untouchable leaders such
as Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, the knowledge center is projected as anti-colonial. None of
the untouchables, including myself, are anti-colonial masters because they have
created conditions in which I can be visible in public or receive equal
treatment in the face of caste, untouchability, racism, persecution, rape,
killing, injustice, hate, violence, humiliation, lynching, or social boycott.
Colonial
institutions in India are fair and justice against any form of oppression. Why
should I fight against colonial rule when they are trying to give me human
status? I lost human status in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
and Japan for the last 6000 years. Why should we fight our colonial masters
when they are creating conditions where the untouchable or sexual minority can
gain human status?
However,
contemporary Janus-face organizations are well-established to treat their
colonial-time Janus-face leaders and their organizations with international
recognition for their brave and bold fight against colonial configuration of
powers for self-respect and dignity.
Untouchables fight against caste-based, untouchability-based, religious-based,
and race-based local configurations of power that have disappeared from the
contemporary Janus-face organizations to which even global human rights bodies
belong.
Indian
and Western Janus faces: Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, Bankimchandra, Bose, Bahgat,
Annie Besant, UNO, BBC, CNN, Britanica, Wikipedia, Cambridge/Oxford University
Press, Verso, British, West, Nobel Prize, NASA, etc.
Throughout history, below guys and
their tags by Indians and their western agents have been used. These guys and
their tags are stagnant. One can’t even question their tags. One can see the
Janus face lists below or the List of Indian freedom fighters at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_independence_activists
1.
Gandhi
2.
Kunwar Singh
3.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
5.
Tantia Tope
6.
K. M. Munshi
7.
Jawaharlal Nehru
8.
Ashfaqulla Khan
9.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
10.
Lala Lajpat Rai
11.
Ram Prasad Bismil
13.
Rani Lakshmi Bai
14.
Bipin Chandra Pal
15.
Chittaranjan Das
16.
Begum Hazrat Mahal
17.
Bhagat Singh
18.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
19.
Nana Sahib
20.
Chandra Shekhar Azad
21.
C. Rajagopalachari
22.
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah
24.
Mangal Pandey
25.
Sukhdev
Mahatma Gandhi |
Father of the Nation |
Kunwar Singh |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar |
Leading figures of Hindu Mahasabha and formulator of Hindu
Nationalist Philosophy |
Dadabhai Naoroji |
Unofficial Ambassador of India |
Tantia Tope |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
K. M. Munshi |
Founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Preeminent fighter |
Ashfaqulla Khan |
Member of Hindustan Republican Association |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement |
Lala Lajpat Rai |
Punjab Kesari |
Ram Prasad Bismil |
Founding Member of Hindustan Republican Association |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
The Maker of Modern India |
Rani Lakshmi Bai |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Bipin Chandra Pal |
Father of Revolutionary Thoughts |
Chittaranjan Das |
Leader in Non-cooperation
Movement from Bengal and Founder of Swaraj party |
Begum Hazrat Mahal |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Bhagat Singh |
One of the Most Influential Revolutionary |
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
White
Revolution |
Nana Sahib |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Chandra Shekhar Azad |
reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under
its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association |
C. Rajagopalachari |
Last Governor-General of India |
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah |
Revolutionary Writer |
Subhash Chandra Bose |
World War II |
Only
the untouchable caste of human beings in Asia, South Asia, the Pacific, or
wherever caste-based societies exist are aware of the Janus face of casteists,
untouchability practitioners, racists, religious fundamentalists, nationalists,
jingoists, phony intellectuals, activists, and so on.
Ref:
Humiliation : claims and context. Author: Gopal Guru. Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009
Franz
Fanon referred to them as Black Skin, White Masks
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