“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: 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

4.    Dadabhai Naoroji

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

12.                      Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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

23.                      Subhash Chandra Bose

24.                      Mangal Pandey

25.                      Sukhdev

Mahatma Gandhi	Father of the Nation Civil Rights Activist in South Africa Satyagraha Civil Disobedience Movement Quit India Movement
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 First Prime Minister of India
Ashfaqulla Khan	Member of Hindustan Republican Association
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement Unification of India
Lala Lajpat Rai	Punjab Kesari Against Simon Commission
Ram Prasad Bismil	Founding Member of Hindustan Republican Association
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	The Maker of Modern India Swadeshi Movement
Rani Lakshmi Bai	Indian Rebellion of 1857
Bipin Chandra Pal	Father of Revolutionary Thoughts Swadeshi Movement
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 Green Revolution Second Prime Minister of India
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 Leader of Indian National Congress
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah	Revolutionary Writer
Subhash Chandra Bose	World War II Indian National Congress

 

 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