2. The Two Forces Behind Sanskrit Propagation

3. Because it is Their Father Language

Postscript

1. Introduction

Government of India is spending billions of Rupees on the development and propagation of a language that is known to less than 0.01% of the population. (According to the 1991 census 49,736 out of the total Indian population of 838,583,988 people knew that language). Indian Government spends more on that language than any other language except for Hindi. In fact, the Indian Government spends more money on that language than it spends on all other languages combined with the exception of Hindi, although many of those languages are spoken by tens of millions of people each, some close to 100 million people. This language that is getting such pampering is Sanskrit. Some specific details on what the Government of India is doing for Sanskrit propagation are mentioned in Section 3 of the article "Hindi Imposition and Sanskrit Imperialism", TAMIL TRIBUNE, July 2000.

2. The Two Forces Behind Sanskrit Propagation

Why is Government of India spending taxpayer monies so lavishly on a language known to less than 0.01 % of the people? Two forces are behind it. First, the Brahmin supremacists who hold high positions in the Indian Government bureaucracy. Top bureaucrats can nudge the system to some extent to go their way. But in the final count, in a democracy, it is the politicians who set the course. Thus the Brahmin supremacists in the Indian Government bureaucracy cannot by themselves allocate huge sums for Sanskrit. Therein comes the second force that controls the Indian Government and its purse strings. This second force is the Hindian politicians who dominate and control the Indian Government because they form the single largest group in the parliament. These two forces, together, are behind the lavish spending of taxpayer monies on Sanskrit.

Why do Hindian politicians and Brahmin supremacists want to spend so much on Sanskrit that less than 0.01% of the population know? Most of the Hindian politicians and many of the Brahmin supremacists do not know the language either. It is not their mother tongue. Hindi is the mother tongue of Hindians. Brahmins' mother tongue is the language of the state or region where they live. Tamil Brahmins speak Tamil at home, Telugu Brahmins Telugu, Kerala Brahmins Malayalam, etc. Then why are Hindian politicians and Brahmin supremacists so keen on propagating Sanskrit?

3. Because it is their Father Language

Hindian politicians and Brahmin supremacists think of Sanskrit as their father language. They consider themselves heirs to the Aryans who migrated into South Asia a few millennia ago. Most of these migrants were males. They married the local women. Hindians and Brahmins are (or at least consider themselves to be) offsprings of such unions.

Sanskrit was never a "live" language; that is, it was never spoken in the house or in day-to-day social interactions. Thus Brahmins used the local language of the people at home and in daily social interaction for millennia. Sanskrit was used in some royal courts and in Hindu temples (the Aryans fooled the people that it is the language of the gods and only prayers in Sanskrit would be heard by gods). Though Sanskrit was never used in day-to-day affairs and though most Brahmins today do not know Sanskrit, still they have a fondness and affection for it as the language of their fore fathers. Now Hindians also think that Sanskrit is their father language or ancestral language. Whether there is much truth to it or not, this is rather a new phenomenon that crept in around the time the British left India, and is to a great extent due to Brahmin supremacist propaganda and the many Sanskrit words found in Hindi. As discussed in " Hindi Imposition and Sanskrit Imperialism" (TAMIL TRIBUNE, July 2000) this is a calculated effort by Brahmin supremacist to get the support of Hindian politicians for Sanskrit development and propagation.

The ultimate goal of the Indian Government dominated and controlled by Hindian politicians is to destroy all other cultures-languages and Hindianize-Sanskritize the artificial "Indian Union". While this process of cultural-linguistic imperialism is going on steadily ever since the British left a half a century ago, wealth from most non-Hindi states of the "Indian Union" is also systematically transferred to Hindi regions, the so-called Hindi belt or Hindi heartland, through carefully constructed Indian Government schemes of central government taxation, central grants to states and price-setting for agricultural, raw material and industrial products that all favor Hindi regions.

It is this economic plunder and cultural-linguistic imperialism/domination that are fueling freedom struggles in such diverse areas as Assam, Bodoland, Kashmir, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, etc. Though these freedom seeking peoples have different cultures-languages and are geographically distant, there is one thing in common. They are all economically exploited and culturally dominated by the Hindian-controlled Indian Government.

It is time that all freedom seeking peoples in the artificial "Indian Union" join hands and fight the common enemy, the Hindians who rules us from New Delhi, and establish our own independent nations of Assom, Bodoland, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, etc.

Postscript:

DNA studies conducted by the Genome Diversity in Indian Population Project (GENDIP) concluded that the various ethnic Indian populations are homogeneous with respect to maternal (female) genomic lineages [as revealed by maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms], but very heterogeneous in terms of paternal (male) genomic lineages [as revealed by paternally inherited Y-chromosomal DNA polymorphisms]. This supports our theory that the various migrants (like the Aryans) and invaders (like the Moguls) were primarily males and they united with the local female population. Thus the theory of Sanskrit being the "father language" of Brahmins and possibly Hindians.