MODERN DAY SLAVERY !!!! WHO CARES !?

Modernity of European origin  has almost succeeded in painting the pre-Modern India as mostly savage and barbaric. India was portrayed as a dark land without any civilizational values where people were cruelly oppressed by the INSTITUTION OF CASTE !!!Anything good that is happening in India, they claim is the result of our being enslaved by Imperial Britain  and some even say by the introduction of NEW Christian Religion. Thus, according to taught wisdom, our forcible subjugation by  them, paved the way for obeying them unquestioningly in all matters of public interest and thus coming in close contact with them, we finally benefitted by  improving our living conditions.

Based on the above assertion, which almost all modern Indians who had English style education had accepted and internalized, it now becomes easy for the West to make Indians of all classes, even those having the ‘highest’ English education, to do SLAVE  WORK. Since we have moved away from an agricultural economy, modern industry which is machine oriented requires lot of investment, which  we are unable to raise internally. So this has necessarily to come from abroad, usually funneled to India, led by  US based financial institutions. Thus viewed from another point , INDIAN SLAVERY is not benefitting neither India or Indians. And the negative consequences are too many, like pollution, cornering of all resources by MNCs like land, water etc, getting all sorts of Govt. incentives at the cost of native Indians etc. Even if it may be argued that Indian slavery had benefitted select Indians in the past, it cannot be denied in any way that the ‘commons’ were left intact, benefitting all and at nil cost. Today after a hard days work, you have to pay for each and everything and still have no guarantee that you are getting pesticide  free  water and food items etc. The atmospheric air, free and pollution free then , is free now at this moment, but polluted.  

Thus Indians even the so called highly English educated ones, had  willingly put on the blinders, similar to the one used on horses. These blinders by way of English education  were designed by our erstwhile English Masters, and they had enticed as well as forced the natives through various means to wear one, which by any standards is a great crime. For the conduct of a King in Victory is clearly spelt out in The MANUSMRITHI, the ancient Hindu Law code . “ After the victory the king should pay homage to gods, and righteous Brahmins, grant exemptions;  and issue proclamations of amnesty. After ascertaining the collective wishes of them all, he should install there a relation of the enemy king and draw up a treaty; make the LAWS commonly held among them authoritative; and honor the new ruler, together with his chief officials, with precious gifts.” (Chapter 7, Verses 201, 202, 203). Here Imperial Britian brought into force new LAWS, and in addition to this denigrated and disparaged our traditions  like-learning, knowledge, customs and manners -in all possible ways. (eg. Nadars & Devil Worship)

India was thus a great crime scene, of various crimes committed by the Protestant British.  But any criminal will leave certain clues, which will finally implicate the criminal and prove him guilty. Let us examine one such clue

Let us consider a statement about  the Cherumars of Malabar (Kerala) at the beginning of the 19^th century (1800’s), as recorded by a Catholic Missionary “But the landed proprietors do not usually sell their slaves except in cases of great emergency; and even then they can only sell them within the borders of their own country. In no case have they a right to export them for sale to foreigners.

……….They (landowners) treat them usually in the most humane manner.  They give  them only such work as their age or strength permits; feed them  on the same rice that they themselves eat; give them in marriage when they come of age; and every year provide them with clothing  four or five yards of cloth for the women and a coarse woolen blanket for the men.” – page 58,Part I , Chapter V, Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, by Abbe J.A.Dubois.  This book available in the public domain.

So here in India we see that men were behaving with each other in the MOST HUMANE MANNER. Agriculture, the main occupation was/is not a very tedious job, when compared to many modern industrial jobs, because the soil was fertile, and the inputs in pre-modern times were only locally available materials, like panchagavya, whose usage was minimal. During the sowing/planting time and during harvesting work will be continuous but this will be about four times in a year. Moreover commercial plantations were absent in India till the Britishers came.  From all this we can infer that slavery (back-breaking work without any form of remuneration or proportional remuneration and in horrifying working environments) was absent in India, in contrast to those which existed in ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and  pre-modern and modern Europe and America.

Unfortunately, since modern English Educated Indians, with BLINKERS are at the helm of affairs (Governance & Management)  now, MODERN DAY SLAVERY is happening in India. Read this link from today’s newspapers to know the plight of NURSES. They have to do continuous work extending to weeks without proper rest. Do they have a choice !? http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/no-cure-for-nurses-troubles-in-state/article6003354.ece

Further I had seen a talk-show a couple of days back, about the working conditions of women in textile-shops in Kerala. Do They have a human right to sit at work !!?? Women workers of textile shops in Sweet Meat Street, Kozhikode staged a ‘sit-down’ strike on May Day. They were protesting against the callous attitude of their bosses who do not allow them to sit during a 10-hour shift. No trade unions or political parties have taken up their cause. The Labour department officials stage farcical inspections by informing shop-owners of their visit. Owners then block access, which is meekly obeyed by the officials. Not a single police complaint is filed for preventing a government servant from discharging public duty.

- See more at: http://mathrubhuminews.in/ee/Programs/Episode/6688/let-them-sit-in-work/E#sthash.M8Fi2YUv.dpuf

Some women’s faces were not revealed , probably because of fear of losing jobs.

Because of the BLINDERS, in the fashion of the West, we  also celebrate Mothers Day etc. For the West it is only a tokenism, like the public show of candle-light vigil. They pretend to  exude values always, but it is all a one-day show.  Amongst the Nurses and Textile sales women, there will be mothers, grand-mothers, pregnant wives etc.

This slavery is not limited to health & textile field , but exists in IT. In  pre-modern days, during distress or emergency, when he cannot fend for them, the land-lord is forced to  transfer his farm-hands to others who may require them, for which they would have got some consideration. The same thing is happening in modern day  industry. Employees in IT companies ‘fish’ out  resume(bio-data) of potential candidates, which they pass on to the HR Department.  If hiring is done based on these forwarded bio-data, the employee gets a generous reward(bonous) in cash. At least in olden days such practices were out of dire necessity. But today it is for PROFIT, which results in so much insecurity at the workplace.