There is ample historical evidence that the Dalits “the Untouchables” were themselves a creation of the Anglican Colonialists of the Church of England –

Legalizing The Caste Conspiracy

The castes and tribes “notified” under the 1871 Act were labelled as Criminal Tribes for their so-called “criminal tendencies”. As a result, anyone born in these communities across the country was presumed a “born criminal”, irrespective of their criminal precedents. This gave the police sweeping powers to arrest them, control them, and monitor their movements. Once a tribe was officially notified, its members had no recourse to repeal such notices under the judicial system. From then on, their movements were monitored through a system of compulsory registration and passes, which specified where the holders could travel and reside, and district magistrates were required to maintain records of all such people. However, when they tried to make a living like everybody else, they did not find work outside the settlement because of public prejudice and ostracisation and this has continued to this day. The British rulers enforced this law for almost 100 years, with the determination, meticulous attention to detail and diligence which has become the hallmark of “Britishness” with vast numbers being removed from their ancestral communities and culture and being marginalised in society, on the outskirts of towns and villages. Madras alone saw 273 tribes being grouped as criminal in one fell swoop of the British Legislators pen. When India gained freedom from the British in 1947, thirteen million people in 127 “criminal by birth” communities faced search and arrest if any member of the group was found outside the area prescribed to them, by Anglicans. 

This was the genesis of the Dalit or ‘untouchable’. This masterfully destructive British legislation of 1871, precisely like the Lord Harries’ amendment, was posed widely as a social reform measure, which reformed ‘by-birth criminals’ through work. The Colonial racist agents of the Church of England created the Untouchable Caste and today wring their hands in shared compassion and solidarity with the self-same ‘Dalits’, supporting them in their hour of need, against the terrible wrongs done to them by those ‘demonic Brahmins’, those educated Hindus who had the temerity to challenge the predator priests of the Church of England, then and now.

The Tribes that challenged the British with physical force and were crushed to become the downtrodden, the Brahmins challenged the Anglicans with knowledge and were vilified and denigrated and portrayed globally, as the oppressors of the Dalits, “divide et impera”… divide and rule.

It beggars belief that decades later we are still hearing the same reasoning from such luminaries as Lord Harries, and yet almost all of the British establishment are quite happy to accept without scrutiny, the reasonableness of what is being proposed. This implies that even today it’s perfectly natural to assume that such reasoning only applies to “brown non-Christian folk”. If “criminal-by- birth” were universally applicable the present day descendants of the Slave Traders and Colonialists, almost all of European “nobility” and certainly the Bishops of the Upper Chamber, are guilty of crimes against humanity on such a scale that whole continents would have to be converted into prisons to contain all of them.

The horrors inflicted upon Hindus by the strategies and social experimentation of the Anglican invaders were so grave that when Emily Eden arrived in India accompanying another agent of cultural genocide, Lord Auckland, she wrote back to her relatives in England “I wonder how we are allowed to keep this country a week …. Why don’t they cut all our heads off and say nothing about it?”

The answer to the question “who created the “Dalits/Untouchables” is that the radical Anglicans  of the British Raj created the Dalits/Untouchables with the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. The Church of England is responsible for this crime against humanity and to be held accountable. 

Caste & the Creation of a Hinduphobic Hate Brand

The Right Honourable Lords further ignored the manner in which the evangelical Church has carefully and diligently developed the word “Caste” into the global, ultimate anti-Hindu, Hinduphobic brand, the use of which can be relied upon to instantaneously trigger Hinduphobia – it was crafted with this purpose in mind by Anglican missionaries and is knowingly and unknowingly leveraged by them to this day. It is now a trigger word, a word which can, like ‘nigger’, ‘paki’, ‘chink’ and ‘wog’ before it, be relied upon with Pavlovian predictability, to create feelings of contempt for all things non-white, foreign, Hindu or Indian, so much so that like all advertising brands the faculties of thought, reason and the need for supporting evidence, are not even considered necessary or even relevant.

As evidence of this pinnacle of the achievements of the Anglican clergy, I submit the following incident which occurred as recently as 29^th May 2016 and which was broadcast upon the BBC’s national television channel BBC1 and in which I was participating as a Hindu representative. The subject of this TV programme was “Did Man Create God?” and as one can rightly assume, Caste has no relevance and should never even have entered the course of the dialogue. The reality was however starkly different; when I was receiving a degree of audience support for the Hindu view, the host Nicky Campbell true to his no doubt unconscious conditioning, immediately interjected “But you Hindus have the Caste system”… again the principle of the Pavlovian dogs at work, because as everyone knows, “Hindu” automatically equates with Caste. Unconscious conditioning is the most favoured weapon of the supremacist racist and I could almost hear the Bishops in their gilded Palaces clapping their hands with delight.

The fundamentalists of the Anglican tradition are at this very instant, fully engaged in grooming and radicalising the least educated and most vulnerable, sowing discord and creating an “army of the discontented” in India and now it would seem, here in the Britain of the 21st Century.

Archbishop Justin Welby trumpeted his desire to concentrate upon Evangelism, which to non- Anglicans means “grooming in preparation for radicalisation”. The most despicable but wholly critical and vital aspect of this strategy, includes repeatedly blaming the “high castes” for the poverty in India, ignoring all of the evidence which indicates that over 240 TRILLION POUNDS of wealth was siphoned out of India during the heady days of the Anglican jihad.

It should be further noted that the maximum number of conversions has been amongst the least educated and least knowledgeable and also the most innocent and most vulnerable and these are the peoples who are even today being groomed and radicalised by the Christian proselytisers in India’s hospitals and schools and other places where vulnerable desperate souls can be coerced and converted. Even a cursory inspection reveals the favoured strategy of the plunderer at work – “Divide et Impera”, divide and rule, in full flow and being sustained by the present day Church of England.

There is one key fact which the Hinduphobic manipulators of Lambeth Palace rapidly skip, hoping that no one will ever ask: What is the metric by which a Hindu was classified as high caste or low caste? It wasn’t money, the Brahmins were always traditionally poor having taken a vow of simplicity. It wasn’t political power or land because when the Anglican plunderers arrived in India, two thirds of the country was ruled by Shudra kings and Queens. So what metric was used to denote whether a person was “High” or “Low”?

There is only one metric which applies consistently to every occurrence of “caste measurement” and that is simply this – the threat level to the Church of England. The educated spiritual priests and intellectuals were all banded together into one and labelled ‘highest caste’ because they represented the ‘highest threat’ to Anglican domination and those who represented the ‘lowest threat’ to the Anglican jihadis were pushed into the ‘lowest caste’. It then became a simple task of applying the weapon of cultural genocide ‘divide et impera’  and the rest, as they say is history.

The Colonialist Anglicans having built their religious empire in Britain by leveraging physical force and fear, found in India religious ideas which, if shared with their flock, would reveal the shallow emotional and intellectual manipulation of the Church’s ideology. They discovered, like thousands of pilgrims to India before them, teachings and wisdom which celebrated and elevated humanity as inherently and intrinsically, divine and not sinful. They found concepts which applauded exuberant human creativity and ingenuity and which above all, worshipped as divine, the human sibling faculties of ‘Jnana’ and ‘Bhakti’, reason and devotion, in a unique union, a wholeness of blissful tranquillity, a natural state called Yoga.

The late Huh Shih, nationalist scholar, diplomat and one of the legendary leaders of Chinese thought, in a paper presented at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Science in 1936, made a fundamental observation on India’s contribution to the evolution of Chinese civilisation.

 “India”, argued Huh, “conquered and dominated China culturally for two thousand years without ever having to send a single soldier across the border. Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. Like a poor beggar suddenly halting before a magnificent storehouse of precious stones of dazzling brilliancy and splendor, China was overwhelmed, baffled and overjoyed. She begged and borrowed freely from this munificent giver. China’s indebtedness to India can never be fully told.”

Fearing a similar fate, the Anglican Church fathers however adopted a pathology most akin to cancer, they attacked the physical, spiritual, academic and linguistic organs of the civilization, with a level of meticulous determination, which if applied to learning with love and honesty, would have seen a global evolutionary leap of all of humanity, but the price to be paid, being the death and possible resurrection of the Church of Empire, was deemed too high. Seeing this dire threat to their multi- national, transgenerational religious “Ponzi” scheme, they set about the deconstruction of the very being of India and chose a path of destruction of the best of all things human.

The Shame by the Lords of Britain

Sustained denigration of all Hindu scholars, priests and educated families and guilds was as critical to the success of this cancerous assault as was undermining the Dharmic teachings themselves and Anglican scholars did this by deliberately conflating and mistranslating texts that had been unchanged for over 4 thousand years. Suddenly the fluid, supportive empowering social structures which had created the greatest, most harmonious and unwarlike civilisation, were gleefully misrepresented as vehicles for social injustice, sustainers of discrimination and oppression.

Within a hundred years of Anglican domination, millions of Hindus had died of famine and poverty and her economic infrastructure had been all but dismantled, converted into a resource extraction process of unyielding torture, horror and genocide. As computed by Brooks Adams in the 57 years from 1783 the Anglican pirates extorted or simply stole between 2.5 Billion and 5 Billion US Dollars out of India. Indeed records show that Robert Clive, the Anglican 1st Baron of Plassey sent 4 million dollars of plunder to Calcutta in one shipment alone, remarking “When I think of the marvellous riches of that country, and the comparatively small part which I took away, I am astonished at my own moderation.” One can’t help recalling Lord Debens’ remarks about traditional British values. 

The inherently fluid and naturally life-embracing wisdom of Varna, Jati, and Kul were deliberately and maliciously transmuted into clinically corrosive Caste and the cultural and religious deconstruction of the oldest living indigenous civilisation, the last remaining threat to global domination of the Church of Empire, began. In Lord Harries’s amendment, it continues unabated, even today.

Caste, Varna, Jati & Kul

As to ‘Caste’ – It first appears in mid-16th century Europe (in the general sense of ‘race, breed’): from the Spanish and Portuguese casta ‘lineage, race, breed’, feminine of casto ‘pure, unmixed’, from Latin castus ‘chaste’. Modern day Caste is defined as having three attributes – “hierarchical, endogamous & hereditary”, and was the word describing the Portuguese and European social structure of Pope/Cardinals, Aristocracy, Merchants and ‘Peasants’. There is no equivalent word or concept in the Hindu Scriptures and no identical structure either recorded or promoted in Hindu Scriptures.

As to ‘Varna’ – This is a Sanskrit word which means “type, order, colour or class.” It more precisely means “variations/variety, choice from a varied selection.” As in Varmala – the Garland of choice used by a Hindu Princess at her SwayamVar (“self choice”) to declare to all her chosen suitor, the Varnmala ie the alphabet – a garland of variations ie different sounds. Var like so many Sanskrit roots has found its way into English as in variation and variety.

In the context of the often misquoted core Hindu Scripture the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krshna says “I have created 4 variations of person – the intellectual, the warrior, the trader and the labourer”. There is no connection in the verse quoted with birth, no mention of hierarchy and no connection with endogamy. Indeed there are verses clearly denying the hereditary and hierarchical claims. Varna clearly does not mean a hereditary, hierarchical, endogamous social structure which is what the word “caste” means.

Historically, in India, just as in any nation anywhere in the world throughout history, sons and daughters followed in the footsteps of their fathers and a whole community was dedicated to single professions, preserving and refining the knowledge capital of a civilisation. But this is a universal social phenomena, whether it is the coal miners of America’s Appalachian mountains or the cattle ranchers of Africa’s nomadic tribes. There is also social injustice along these class/guild lines in many different countries not to mention the fault lines between Celtic and Rangers, Catholics and Protestants and so on. But the Anglican British social engineers, by their own admission, were largely responsible for the deliberate transmutation, stratification and ossification of the Caste system in India, as we have it today.

Does social injustice that falls along class lines exist in India? Of course, as it does in Great Britain and in the US, where they have a prison population of 85% black men, yet no one places this problem at the feet of Christianity, even though a clear connection can be made to certain verses in the Bible, slavery and even current day race relations in many countries. The Rockefellers and Lords of London are not dining with the janitors of London while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Unlike the case of India and Hindus, no one ascribes this social injustice to a religion. The Lords are not troubled by the horrific racism statistics propelling America’s #BlackLivesMatter initiative and yet the mission of elevating the British Hindus out of their backward ways, like a lodestone drawing iron filings, perennially draws all of their attention – and we are asked to believe that it has nothing to do with conversion.

“ No aspect of Indian society is as poorly understood as its social organization. The caste system, as described in Indian textbooks, is a creation of the anthropologists and sociologists of the nineteenth century who were then studying the bewildering complexity of Indian society. The informants of these social scientists used the theories of the archaic Dharma Sastras to fit the communities in a four-varna model. Although such classification was wrong, it has been used by generations of Indologists and filtering into popular books it has, by endless repetition, received a certain validity and authority. In an example of reality being fashioned in the image of a simulacrum, many Indians have started believing in the enduring truth of the classification (Subhash Kak,1994)”

Caste as a concept and practice and social cancer is purely and exclusively a European creation, and has no roots nor support an any Hindu ideology. The Church of England is both responsible and accountable.

Conclusion

It should now be clear that by entrenching a falsified concept of Caste into Law, the Church of England sought to protect its centuries old anti-Hindu branding project. The “divide and rule” policy being so skilfully executed to separate and maintain distance between Dharmic communities along the lines of Caste required the concept of Caste to be enshrined in law. This would allowing Christian Clergy the world over to leverage the concept as a platform from which to denigrate the oldest most tranquil spiritual tradition in the world, thereby facilitating “easy conversionary pickings” year after year, generation after generation.

It’s also self-evident that only in a world where Dharmic ideals are providing guidance (as was the case in pre-Abrahamic days) can intercultural harmony exist. We must recognise that

• none are deemed sinners at birth,

• none claim exclusive entry to higher realms of consciousness,

• no theocracy is required for humanity to exist according to our naturally endowed higher qualities and aspirations,
• Divinity can be found in the deepest heart of all people simply by sustained tranquil introspection,
• thus all are truly equal in the eyes of Divinity.

Consider a possibly extreme, light hearted example. Even if you think that the Hare Krishna’s are a little “dynamic” in their devotion, it is certain that if all humanity were “Hare Krishna’s”, there would be food for all, more dancing and singing and no religious warfare! And the same applies to all members of the Dharmic family of spiritual traditions. The record (as opposed to the marketing literature) of the Abrahamic traditions of enforcing with violence, their exclusivist, aggressive insistence on uniformity and submission over 2,000 years, rests in stark contrast and is also plain to see.

Recalling the words of the ancient Hindu Mundaka Upanishad, and the Indian national motto, Satyam Eva Jayate – “truth/reality alone triumphs”, recalling also St Augustine’s pronouncement “truth does not need to be defended, it is a lion and merely needs to be released”, we present our understanding of the truth of the Bishop Lord Harries “Caste Amendment”.

The permanent solution to eradicating any discrimination is to erase the Colonial concept of Caste from Consciousness altogether and clearly not to preserve and sustain it, by enshrining it in Law.

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A ‘Real World’ Hate Crime Scene

The hate-crime scene had been set. His co-conspirators were also prepared, having been briefed in the dark corners of the palace, having been given ample opportunity to prepare their own ammunition and choice of weapons and having been briefed on the strategy itself. They too took up their places to both help prepare the minds of the gathering and also to launch their projectiles in support of the impending assault. At a time of tranquillity, in a setting when the assault was least expected, he deployed his lethal projectile and at his signal. His co-conspirators launched their volleys in rapid succession, raining down a hail of hatred upon the wholly unsuspecting victims.

Once the weapon had been deployed and the assault completed, the settling emotional and intellectual dust revealed three casualties – every Hindu ever born (including my children) and yet to be born had been injured, the reputation of all British Hindus lay slaughtered, and the dignity and reputation of the institution itself as a seat of “evidence based debate & reasoning” had been, in the eyes of all rational observers, crucified.

The masterful assailant who executed this act of religious persecution, was Baron Lord Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford. The scene was the British House of Lords. The devastating weapon, a favourite of centuries of Hinduphobics and other spiritually corrosive “assassins of indigenous traditions”, was the word CASTE. “

The Anatomy of the Hate Crime

On the 5th March 2013, a debate was underway in the Upper Chamber of the British Parliament. A debate on the Governments proposals concerning Business and Enterprise. It was a dry and business like subject, one which hadn’t drawn particularly significant interest from outside of the House. But it was a debate that was well attended and was important for the Government to see successfully concluded.

Lord Harries of Pentregarth stood to participate in the debate and introduced what has since become commonly known as the “Lord Harries Caste Amendment”. In the hour that followed, in a performance worthy of the best of Shakespearean actors, Lord Harries demanded, pleaded, cajoled and implored the gathered Peers to rush to act and to protect 480,000 of her Majesty’s subjects who did not have the protection of the Law and suffered on a daily basis.

Lord Harries demanded that the word Caste be swiftly added to the list of “protected characteristics” already included in the Equality Act of 2010, i.e. Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Marriage and civil partnership, Pregnancy and maternity, Race, Religion or belief, Sex, and Sexual orientation.

What followed was a masterful execution of “vilification and denigration by association”, co- ordinated with generous helpings of entirely unjustified indignation, self-righteousness and the unrelenting flagellation of the British Hindu community. With manipulation and orchestration worthy of Machiavelli, clothed in cloying false piety, Lord Harries skilfully and deliberately misrepresented data, which if true, branded 50% i.e. 1 in 2 of all British Hindus, as being guilty of being born prejudiced, perpetrators of discrimination on a daily basis.

The baton was eagerly taken up by Lord Inderjit Singh, who deceitfully and in a manner of betrayal reminiscent of the quintessential traitor Raja Jaichand, brought shame to both the Sikh and Hindu tradition by abandoning Satya, “Reality” in a thinly veiled act of religious persecution.

This perfidy was achieved by misrepresenting the fully humanist teachings of the oldest scriptures of humanity, the ancient Vedas. In a speech which brought shame to the memory of Guru Teg Bahadur (Tyagi Mall) revered by Hindus and Sikhs alike, Lord Singh wielded hearsay and religious prejudice itself in successfully connecting Lord Harries’ unevidenced, fabricated deluge of Hindu crimes directly with the Hindu scriptures, completely avoiding the inconvenient truth that over 90% of the cases referred to in the report being contemptuously brandished under his nose by Lord Harries, named his own Sikh brethren and their institutions as guilty of the self-same charge.

In a parade which called longingly to the glory days, when Bible brandishing Anglicans delighted in pouring contempt on Pagans and Heathens alike from their elevated pulpits, Baroness Lady Thornton, who co-sponsored the amendment, pronounced: “Studies confirm the caste system exists in the UK, with over 850,000 people affected”, not for a moment feeling the need to consult census data or evidence.

Lord Deben called to a mythical imaginary past, populated by those Anglican British saviours who had magnanimously passed legislation to protect non-whites while the former Bishop of Oxford, was that day standing as the saviour of the downtrodden brown folk of India, the so called “Dalit” community.

Lord Harries basked in the glory of being the Saviour to whom the community, whose largely converted Anglican descendants and their Anglican co-religionists, had turned in despair. With arms outstretched, they beseeched his Lordship to free them from the shackles of the notoriously discriminatory British Hindu community with its abhorrent Hindu caste system, or so everyone was led to believe.

An honourable Lord of Pakistani descent, Lord Sheikh launched into a further targeted act of Hinduphobia, whilst completely overlooking his own traditions’ ongoing genocide of minority communities, a tradition which has seen Christian, Sikh and most noticeably Hindus, ethnically cleansed in multiple acts of genocide, in both Pakistan and Bangladesh, in even this decade. In the spirit of public service both Lords Deben and Baroness Flather, flamboyantly prideful in their air of Lordly infallibility and supremacy, concluded by pouring scorn and contempt upon democratically elected representatives and the religious leaders of the British Hindu Community.

The remaining Peers bathed in the joy of their most rejuvenating and nourishing pastime, shouldering Kipling’s ‘White Man’s Burden’ and saving the British Hindus, the dark skinned heathen of the 21st Century, from the ravages of their uncultured unbridled passions and prejudices.

The members of the Lower House led by Labour MP Virendra Sharma, a few weeks later regaled their audience with tales of woe and sorrow, tales which inconveniently conflicted with the grass roots experience and personal evidence of many MP’s, critically even those from the most Indian of constituencies, and which conflicted also with my own experience of having lived in this country for over 50 years.

Lord Harries’ assault reached into the very heart of my home and disrupted the tranquillity of my family and my community, it cast a cloud over my children’s future, British children born in Ascot and educated in British schools in Berkshire, and fully decent gentle members of our British community.

The Official Statistics on Hindu Community in England 

As a member of the British Hindu community that with only 2% of the population, contributes 6% of GDP, has the second lowest rates of arrest, trial or imprisonment at 0.5% i.e. only 421 Hindus in prison nationally (after British Jews’ 0.3%) I was stunned to learn of this allegation against us.

According to the United Kingdom’s Office of National Statistics, of all ethnic minorities in Britain, the British Hindus had the highest rate of economic activity in 2011 whilst suffering disproportionate levels of institutional prejudice and discrimination. Scholars state that the Hindu community in the United Kingdom, and Europe in general, has consistently faced discrimination in immigration policies adopted by the local governments.

In local councils, construction or expansion permits for Hindu temples and community centres have been turned down for years, while Muslim mosques and Christian churches have been approved by the same councils and built.

Nearly 50% of Hindu children, both boys and girls, in British schools have reported to being victims of bullying for being Hindu and their religious heritage.

To emphasize the level of discrimination, the recent much publicised Hate Crime policy, focussed entirely upon the Muslim and Christian communities on all the 40+ pages, with no mention of discrimination to the Hindu, Sikh and other non-abrahamic traditions a single time!

All of this and yet, with NO reliable evidence, no social impact analysis, no public consultation and no genuine participation from the targeted minority community – how was it possible that such a Hindu phobic amendment had found its way to the floor of the House of Lords?

The impact of this legislation, the unrestrained hatred towards and denigration of my minority religious community and also the torrent of pain being expressed by so called “Dalits”, all caused me to stop, dumbfounded in my tracks. A detailed review of the process which climaxed that day in the Lords, uncovered even more deeply troubling and wholly unexpected revelations.

In today’s sadly not so Great Britain, a Britain where in 2016

• a Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been condemned in the strongest of terms for initiating an illegal war, amidst calls for him to be tried as a War Criminal, 

• where a Chief Constable is on record as declaring that there are probably in excess of 750,000 paedophiles inflicting incalculable harm upon vulnerable citizens at this very moment,
• where the latest report reveals that in excess of 50% of all girls are sexually harassed in schools, 

• where surveys have indicated that 1 in 3 of the indigenous British population are racist,

• where we are now on the 4th attempt to conduct an Enquiry into the INSTITUTIONALISED sexual abuse of vulnerable adults and the wholesale grooming of Hindu, Sikh and White young girls spanning a period of 30 years, 

• where the Church of England is on record as admitting that it has repeatedly failed to protect vulnerable children entrusted to their care, 

• where the Archbishop of Canterbury has accepted that sexual abuse, Bullying, Sexism and Racism are rife and are systemic problems in the ‘by law established’ Church of England, 

• where Parliament has been rocked by a succession of scandals concerning abuse and bullying…

How on Earth was it possible, in the midst of all of these devastating social and religious challenges, with so much work for decent Parliamentarians to deal with, that the British Hindu community would be been singled out for such generous attention and be targeted for such an insidious corrosive assault? 


The Labour Party, the traditional darling of all British Indians, was approached but in response, they deployed the ultimate ‘weapon of mass compliance’ (traditionally very sparingly used as a coercion of last resort, used only to force MP’s to toe the party line despite their own assessments). The draconian 3 line Parliamentary Whip itself was summoned to ensure that this legislation was passed, carried on a wave of indignant self-righteousness, without detailed Labour party scrutiny nor consultation with its Hindu community representatives, and yet there was no reliable evidence to support the dire need nor the desperate urgency, merely Lord Harries’ masterful manipulation of the Parliamentary process. 


The famous Anglican fundamentalist Wilberforce, in 1813 addressed the Commons saying “Our religion is sublime, pure and beneficent, theirs (the Hindus) is mean, licentious and cruel.” Whilst James Canning standing tall on the Anglicans belief in their own superiority, told a gathering of Hindus, “You are all a parcel of poor ignorant semi barbarians, you do not even understand your own language and system as well as we enlightened Englishmen who have been at regular Grammar schools…” All whilst Bishop Heber was crafting a hymn chanting “The heathen in his blindness, bows down to wood and stone…can we whose souls are lighted with wisdom from on high, can we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny”? Judging from the words of Lord Deben, one has to ask whether the ‘racist orientation of old’ of the House of Lords, with its assumed superiority over even grass roots community organizations, is still alive and well, thriving and active covertly if not overtly. Has so little changed in the Upper chamber in over 200 years? 


Who Created the Modern Version Caste System and How

I wondered about the consequences to Interfaith when it became common knowledge, that the Caste system which Lord Harries was railing about, was itself an official creation and imposition of white Anglican Colonialist missionaries. There were indeed then, as now a very small minority of decent men, who abhorred their own creation seeing its destructive effect, whilst continuing to impose it. 

The Lords did not refer to the annotation made by the white Anglican ML Middleton “We pigeon holed everyone by caste and if we could not find a true caste for them, labelled them with the name of hereditary occupation. We deplore the caste system and its effect on social and economic problems, but we are largely responsible for the system we deplore. ML Middleton, ICS, Superintendent of the Government of India, in the Census 1911 Report for Punjab and Delhi (Vol. 15, Part I, p. 343).”

Lord Harries, graced with the mantle of academic rigour associated with a Dean of Kings College, moulded in scholarship by Selwyn College Cambridge, and a Gresham Professor of Divinity, can be expected to know what most informed Hindus know, that amongst the educated Hindus it is accepted that the Anglican plunderers, known romantically as “Colonialists”, created the modern day caste system in India. In doing so in India, the social engineers of the Anglican Church were recreating the horrific power structures which they, as the religious and moral force in Victorian Britain, had also created in Britain and successfully inflicted upon the British population in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

And here in the 21^st century, an Anglican Bishop was once again, blackening whole swathes of a minority British community, using the same philosophy, only this time he was bringing home one of Colonialist Britain’s most successful exports, the concept and ideology of Caste.

“The British colonial administration supported and sustained, she argues, the caste system because it echoed the subtle and deeply entrenched social hierarchy already prevalent among the British themselves. Subsequently, the colonial state deliberately raised the caste consciousness of the sepoys of the Bengal army, encouraging Brahmins among them to regard themselves as elite and to become more particular about the preparation and eating of their food. Doniger has noted that the notions of caste, which in India had traditionally been relatively fluid and secondary, became rigid because the sepoys were made to understand the caste as being central to their notions of self identity and respect. Subsequently, the idea that the caste is the basis of the Indian social order and that to be a Hindu is to be a member of a caste became a dominant colonial axiom (Doniger 2009).  

The answer to the question “Who created the Caste system?” is that the Anglican Jihadis of the British Raj created the Caste system. The Church of England is both responsible for its existence and to be held accountable. Are they also responsible for manufacturing the concepts of untouchables, dalits, etc?

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