Now Indians Divide and Rule India with Reservations
There was a time when the Mughals invaded India and plundered, slaughtered and converted. Thus came about Indian Muslims.
Then the British invaded India and plundered more, slaughtered less and converted too. But what they did best was they divided India along all sorts of lines - religion, caste, language, region etc. But again they introduced Indians to English and Modernisation.
And Indians despised the British Raj for this.
And then they all left, the Mughals got assimilated and the British left India to the dark-skinned wogs. All this we call history.
But what does not seem to have left us is the British policy. Not only in all public spheres as economy, law, education and government do we ape them, but we also seem to have clung on to their very undesirable policy of Divide-and-Rule.
Best seen in the political sphere, which therefore influences everything else, India’s lawmakers are very keen to carve votes out of Bharat Mata by slicing and mutilating her.
Reservations. One thing that the politicians have learnt is to reserve quotas in education and employment for all those communities that stick together to form vote banks. So the communities that are very well-knit such as the tribals, many occupational castes, and the lucrative chunk of Muslims get covered.
So Congress tells Muslims that Hindus are ill-treating them; BSP, RJD, DMK etc. tell the “lower” castes that they have to fight the “higher” castes; regional parties ask their people to fight those from other states such as Shiv Sena is against Biharis; and DMK asks the Tamilians to fight Hindi-speaking North India!
And yet we have the temerity to harp on “Unity in Diversity”. Whither unity? With what in mind are we flooding every page of school textbooks with this meaningless phrase “Unity in Diversity”?
The latest to attack this evanescent unity is the Congress Party’s or Arjun Singh’s pet theme of reservations for Muslims and the so-called “lower” castes in IITs, IIMs and other Central Universities, preceded by the fervent race to give Aligarh Muslim University “minority” status.
How many more Pakistans and Bangladeshs are going to be carved out of India?
