Fragmenting Hindus ....and India (Added)

M J Akbar in his editorial writes, what in my view is one of most significant aspect and intention (implicit or explicit) of this policy of providing reservation.

"The British divided Hindus and Muslims in order to survive. Dr Manmohan Singh's government is pouring acid on the divisions of Hindu society in order to protect its power."

This fragmentation has two aspects.

One for politician, by transforming political process in terms of caste identities, he is relieved of (comparatively) uphill task of framing competent policies and delievering result.

However the other reason is that of resident marxists or europhiles, they at best are dismissive of Indic civilization (and at worst they abhor it). They have implicity or explicity internalized western civilization as the only path to human progress. They wish to transform India in terms of western tradition. In this they face obstacles in form of adherence of masses to tradition.
By encouraging fragmentation they weaken the unity and hence the bond. Also this enable them to capture the power of the state which they use to undermine Indian ethos.

PS. However this is not only about Hindus, this sort of mentality is infectious and ends up in fragmentation of whole society.

This is not to say that Indian society is not inherently fragmented, however the ideal should be to unite rather than divide further

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