M S Golwalkar was a racist who took pride in the supremacy of Aryan/Brahmin blood that he himself belonged to. He was invited to address the student community of the School of Social Science of Gujarat University on December 17, 1960. In the speech he made there he expressed his firm belief in the Race Theory, he touched the subject of cross-breeding of human beings that happened in the Indian society across ages. He said:
“Today experiments in cross-breeding are made only on animals. But the courage to make such experiments on human beings is not shown even by the so-called modern scientist of today. If some human cross-breeding is seen today it is the result not of scientific experiments but of carnal lust. Now let us see the experiments our ancestors made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahamanas of the North were settled in Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri family could marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kashtriya or Shudra communities of Kerala. Another still more courageous rule was that the first off-spring of a married woman of any class must be fathered by a Namboodri Brahman and then she could beget children by her husband. Today this experiment will be called adultery but it was not so, as it was limited to the first child.”
[M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, p 5]
The above words of Golwalkar is extremely upsetting in many respects. First and foremost, it tries to prove that India had a superior Race or breed and also an inferior Race which needed to be improved through cross-breeding.
Secondly, a more worrying aspect was his belief that Brahmans of the North (India) and specially Namboodri Brahamans, belonged to a superior Race. Due to this quality, Namboodris (Brahmins) were sent from the North to Kerala to ‘improve’ the breed of inferior Hindus there. It is interesting that this pathetic racist view was held by a person who said to have upheld the unity of Hindus world over.
Thirdly, Golwalkar as a male chauvinist believed that a Namboodri Brahman male belonging to a superior Race from the North only could improve the ‘inferior human’ Race from the South. For him wombs of Kerala’s Hindu women had no sanctity and were simply meant for improving breed through intercourse with Namboodri Brahamanas who in no way were related to them.
Thus, what Golwalkar thought was, in fact, confirming the allegation that in the past male dominated high caste society forced newly-wedded women of other castes into allowing a namboothiri man, a superior caste male, to have sex with her, instead of her groom.
Golwalkar in this lecture supported the much despised regime of Casteism with no space for ambiguity. During his speech he stated:
“Today we try to run down the Varna system through ignorance. But it was through this system that a great effort to control possessiveness could be made…In society some people are intellectuals, some are expert in production and earning of wealth and some have the capacity to labour. Our ancestors saw these four broad divisions in the society. The Varna systemmeans nothing else but a proper co-ordination of these divisions and an enabling of the individual to serve the society to the best of his ability through a hereditary development of the functions for which he is best suited. If this system continues a means of livelihood is already reserved for every individual from his birth.”
[M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, pp 5 & 16]
Golwalkar expressed these appalling and provocative Racist, anti-women and anti-egalitarian views not in the presence of some uneducated and ignorant crowd, but before a noble gathering which had the faculty and students of a prime university in Gujarat as audience members. In fact, Golwalkar was welcomed by Dr B R Shenoy, Director of the School while he arrived at the auditorium. The press reports make it clear that there was no murmur of protest against such fascist and ridiculous ideas that he openly expressed. It shows the degree of respectability which high caste oratory enjoyed in Gujarat and explains why pro-caste ideologies of RSS and other hindutwa elements could make inroads in this part of the country.
It is not surprising that despite keeping ideas and principles which openly denigrated women and society of Kerala, RSS has been able to penetrate into the minds of the people of Kerala, thanks to the State’s already caste-bent social frame work. There is no denying the fact that after Gujarat and Orissa, it is in Kerala where RSS has most number of Shakhas, units. It is remarkable that when RSS published the collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi in 2004 under the title—Shri Guruji Samagr—in 12 volumes it simply omitted the above degenerated ideas. The volume 5 carries (item number 10) the above speech of Golwalkar (pages 28-32), minus two paragraphs which contained the above thesis of Golwalkar.
Organizer, 2 January, 1961
Though the modern-time hindutwa avatars did everything to remove all the inconvenient parts of his speeches and writings to make a clean read for the much changed times, the old copies of Organizer at the libraries of RSS happened to attract the uninvited inconvenient intellectuals. The caste care-takers missed on these copies to remove and keep the attention of people away from the poisonous statements. This was a fatal omission for them, of course.
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“Today experiments in cross-breeding are made only on animals. But the courage to make such experiments on human beings is not shown even by the so-called modern scientist of today. If some human cross-breeding is seen today it is the result not of scientific experiments but of carnal lust. Now let us see the experiments our ancestors made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahamanas of the North were settled in Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri family could marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kashtriya or Shudra communities of Kerala. Another still more courageous rule was that the first off-spring of a married woman of any class must be fathered by a Namboodri Brahman and then she could beget children by her husband. Today this experiment will be called adultery but it was not so, as it was limited to the first child.”
[M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, p 5]
The above words of Golwalkar is extremely upsetting in many respects. First and foremost, it tries to prove that India had a superior Race or breed and also an inferior Race which needed to be improved through cross-breeding.
Secondly, a more worrying aspect was his belief that Brahmans of the North (India) and specially Namboodri Brahamans, belonged to a superior Race. Due to this quality, Namboodris (Brahmins) were sent from the North to Kerala to ‘improve’ the breed of inferior Hindus there. It is interesting that this pathetic racist view was held by a person who said to have upheld the unity of Hindus world over.
Thirdly, Golwalkar as a male chauvinist believed that a Namboodri Brahman male belonging to a superior Race from the North only could improve the ‘inferior human’ Race from the South. For him wombs of Kerala’s Hindu women had no sanctity and were simply meant for improving breed through intercourse with Namboodri Brahamanas who in no way were related to them.
Thus, what Golwalkar thought was, in fact, confirming the allegation that in the past male dominated high caste society forced newly-wedded women of other castes into allowing a namboothiri man, a superior caste male, to have sex with her, instead of her groom.
Golwalkar in this lecture supported the much despised regime of Casteism with no space for ambiguity. During his speech he stated:
“Today we try to run down the Varna system through ignorance. But it was through this system that a great effort to control possessiveness could be made…In society some people are intellectuals, some are expert in production and earning of wealth and some have the capacity to labour. Our ancestors saw these four broad divisions in the society. The Varna systemmeans nothing else but a proper co-ordination of these divisions and an enabling of the individual to serve the society to the best of his ability through a hereditary development of the functions for which he is best suited. If this system continues a means of livelihood is already reserved for every individual from his birth.”
[M. S. Golwalkar cited in Organizer, January 2, 1961, pp 5 & 16]
Golwalkar expressed these appalling and provocative Racist, anti-women and anti-egalitarian views not in the presence of some uneducated and ignorant crowd, but before a noble gathering which had the faculty and students of a prime university in Gujarat as audience members. In fact, Golwalkar was welcomed by Dr B R Shenoy, Director of the School while he arrived at the auditorium. The press reports make it clear that there was no murmur of protest against such fascist and ridiculous ideas that he openly expressed. It shows the degree of respectability which high caste oratory enjoyed in Gujarat and explains why pro-caste ideologies of RSS and other hindutwa elements could make inroads in this part of the country.
It is not surprising that despite keeping ideas and principles which openly denigrated women and society of Kerala, RSS has been able to penetrate into the minds of the people of Kerala, thanks to the State’s already caste-bent social frame work. There is no denying the fact that after Gujarat and Orissa, it is in Kerala where RSS has most number of Shakhas, units. It is remarkable that when RSS published the collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi in 2004 under the title—Shri Guruji Samagr—in 12 volumes it simply omitted the above degenerated ideas. The volume 5 carries (item number 10) the above speech of Golwalkar (pages 28-32), minus two paragraphs which contained the above thesis of Golwalkar.
Though the modern-time hindutwa avatars did everything to remove all the inconvenient parts of his speeches and writings to make a clean read for the much changed times, the old copies of Organizer at the libraries of RSS happened to attract the uninvited inconvenient intellectuals. The caste care-takers missed on these copies to remove and keep the attention of people away from the poisonous statements. This was a fatal omission for them, of course.
http://www.nastiknation.org/news/20...hat-preached-act-of-sex-to-purify-low-castes/
