15/03/10
kancha ilaiah: why he is a telangani
students force kancha ilaiah to say 'jai telangana':
Nearly 20 students stormed into the apartment of Ilaiah and demanded
that he withdraw the `Manya Seema' demand which he voiced at a time
when the agitation for Telangana State was at its peak. The students
demanded that the professor support separate Telangana and raise the
slogan of `Jai Telangana.' Taken aback, Ilaiah reportedly chanted `Jai
Samajika Telangana' but that too did not go down well with the
students who said that the same slogan was taken up by Praja Rajyam
Party (PRP) but was later dumped by the party. Ilaiah then reportedly
raised the slogan of `Jai BC Telangana' too which did not pacify the
students and they forced the professor to raise `Jai Telangana' slogan
in the end.
The professor, however, insisted that a at least separate district be
created for tribals if separate Telangana is carved out, to which the
students agreed.
``We don't mind Ilaiah leading the ongoing Telangana movement. But we
are against the Manya Seema or any other slogan,'' OU Students Joint
Action Committee (JAC) leader Manavatha Ray said.
The students left the place after painting the walls of the entire
apartment with slogans of `Jai Telangana' and `Manya Seema vaddura (We
don't want Manya Seema).
i'd pointed out in many posts (please read this), that the separatist
movement has a majoritarian agenda because its core philosophy is
essentially of upper caste hindu origin and telangani-ness now (like
hindutva), and in the future (if a new state is formed) shall be
defined according to upper caste norms. so why would the telangani
separatists like the idea of adivasis in andhra pradesh demanding a
state of their own? as i had warned in this post, the separatists own
the adivasis now, their history and their homeland. i had also said in
this post:
slowly, but surely, i see all kinds of diverse minorities bowing down
to the hectoring of this new, unexpected majoritarianism: from various
obc caste groups to the madiga rights' activists to muslims in the
villages. will they really have any say in shaping a new telangana?
ilaiah had said, when he received the lisa book award in london:
This award has come at a time when I was going through a crisis of
confidence. I have begun to think, of late, whether the Dalitbahujan
people, for the sake of whose transformation I have been writing and
fighting, would ever use the material I and others write and are
writing, to change their status and position in India and in the
world. As a person who constantly keeps working towards, what I call,
Thought Reform, in a country where the thought process of the people I
write for and work for, has never been recognized, I began to become
rather nervous.
and:
For a people who had no identity of their own for centuries, the
struggle for identity becomes central in the realms of both thought
and action. This is a historical process that remained invisible for
centuries. Their actions for identity were met with violence and
counter violence. Blood was spilt but most of it was of Dalitbahujan.
Brahminic ideological forces deployed several mechanisms of
violence—spiritual, social and political—to keep the Dalitbahujan
under control or under their hegemony. Brahminic hegemony was so
encompassing that the Dalitbahujan had no historical agencies to
liberate them for a long time.
now, at home, the people 'for the sake of whose transformation' he'd
been 'writing and fighting' seem to be rejecting the historical
agencies he offered them.
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