28/06/2025
I have been repeatedly saying that the RSS essentially is a Brahmin-Baniya organization with strong ideological and historical roots in Brahmanism. Mohan Bhagwat and Dattatreya Hosabole being Brahmins from Maharatra and Karnataka respectively have serious ideological, political, cultural and philosophical opposition to the idea of equality and castelessness in India. Their repeated statements against the fundamental principles of equality and de-Brahmanization of Indian society are clear to all. The recent statement by Dattatreya, who said that the concept of secularism and socialism, not just words, should be removed from the preamble of the constitution, comes from their cultural and historical roots.
If these two persons are replaced by Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi individuals in the same organization as head, he/she would talk about secularism and socialism as concepts like that? But that very change of a Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi heading the RSS seems to be impossible because of the very same historical heritage.
Secularism in India refers to casteless secular social relations in the society. An inter- caste marriage or heading a Hindu temple by a Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi is a process of making Hinduism as a secular religion by removing its historical casteist control. A Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi heading the RSS would make a beginning of secularization of that organization.
The idea of socialism in India evolved far more differently than what Marx and Engels envisaged. It is an idea of democratic socialism that allows the Dalit/Adivasi/OBC/Shudras to acquire their own share of wealth based on their number and also contribution of labour power to the production of wealth in the nation. Such a change was arrested by Kautilya and Manu, both Brahmin thinkers, who wrote the most influential books, Artha Shatra and Manu Dharmashastra in ancient India.
Mohan Bhagwat and Dattareya are working to arrest such a change now. No Shudra, even a man of Sardar Vallabai Patel’s stature, whom the RSS owns, would not accept those two thinkers nor would he accept what Mohan Bhagwat and Dattatreya Hosabole repeatedly talk about secularism and democratic socialism.
Unfortunately there is no Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi man or woman of Patel’s stature in that organization nor would they allow anybody to grow like him in that structure.
Hence I strongly condemn Dattatreya’s statement and appeal to Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi leaders and intellectuals, living outside and inside the RSS to oppose such proposals in the interest of their future generations.
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 