“The Social Contract” – the first line of this book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is – “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.” This is the very point that separates us Indians from Western and Islamic thought. The Sanatan Indian society has always been such a democratic, disciplined system that progresses toward improvement, freedom, and spiritual practice. This spiritual practice accompanies us in many forms. This is a journey that moves from inertia to consciousness. Western thought, in most cases, goes from consciousness to inertia, a glaring example of which is the ‘World Tribal Day’ on August 9, created for political reasons. This is a sinister attempt to bind the entire world to its voice, its perspective, its deception, its prejudice. This is a malicious effort to throw chili in the eyes of tribal societies worldwide. This is such a villainous act filled with deceptive beauty that the tribal society of the entire world is getting trapped in its web.
World Tribal Day celebration is a beautiful spider’s exquisite web. This event is a conspiracy to make people forget the horrific genocide of their own ancestors and a malicious intent to celebrate this day of mourning as a day of pride! In the vulture-like gaze of this International Tribal Day, there is the consciousness of nearly two hundred tribal groups. It is on the genocide of their ancestors embedded in their consciousness. The Western society’s fashionable yet sinister attempt is to erase from the tribal psyche worldwide their genocide, holocaust, massacre, mass slaughtering, bloodbath, annihilation, mass murdering from their memory or cause amnesia. This is a bizarre acrobatics to establish the tribal discourse in a strange way. The West has been a skilled player in the deceptive war of establishing fake discourses.
Tribal brothers living in the remote, inland forests of countries like Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Venezuela, and India, who consider nature itself as God and protect it. This day is a malicious attempt to erase their memory. After the whole world, now Western powers are trying to establish this controversy in India as well. Foreign powers are using Indigenous Day to fragment Indian society. August 9 is, in reality, a day of large, barbaric genocide by Western imperialists. This is a conspiracy to make the oppressed, suppressed, and annihilated forest-dwellers celebrate this day of mourning as a day of pride! In reality, this day of August 9 should be a day of repentance, sorrow, and apology by external invaders like America, Germany, Spain, and all those Western countries.
On this day, European invaders should seek forgiveness from the indigenous people whom they brutally expelled from their homeland or nearly exterminated. See the prowess of the Western intellectual world that the exact opposite happened; they completely reversed the form, intent, and meaning of this day! The surprising thing is that we Indians too have been trapped in this hollow discourse. This Indigenous Day has no concern with us. If we must celebrate a tribal day, we have a rich history of thousands of tribal warriors from Lord Birsa Munda to Tantya Mama Bhil who ran many glorious campaigns for our entire Indian society. These warriors sacrificed their lives to free Mother India.
In India’s villages and cities, there has been an ancient tradition of protecting and developing the prestige of the forest-dwelling society. In India’s urban and rural society and forest-dwelling society, there has been a wonderful yet unwritten balanced tendency of mutual dependence and mutual responsibility. Nature worship was received from the Vedas, toward which the tribal society has been more insistent than the urban society. Indian tribal society is not a subject of protection but has been the protector of the rest of society and the nation. When talking about Indigenous Day, it comes to mind that our Narmada Valley itself has been the birthplace of the human race. In this civilization born on the banks of the Narmada, both the urban and forest-dwelling brothers had their own importance and roles. Both societies, based on their productions and occupations, lived by the principle of mutual dependence, following Vedic religion in different forms.
Shiva worship has been an inseparable part of Vedic religion. Forest-dwellers and urban society both advanced Shiva worship. This day, also celebrated as Columbus Day, should actually be observed as a day for the British to acknowledge their guilt. The Indigenous Day is a day of Western repentance for the story of brutally exterminating the native inhabitants of America. In reality, this new divisive line based on the indigenous concept is being brought to India under a new conspiracy, and India needs to be cautious of it. Today, India is forging new dimensions of social harmony. This is not acceptable to some anti-India elements. Some anti-India and divisive people work to sow poison in this positive environment of change. Behind the agenda of Indigenous Day, many people with foreign mindsets have stood up and are sowing seeds of division in the minds of India’s innocent tribal society.
Communism, Islam, and Christianity’s conspiracy is the new version of indigenism! Connecting Indian Dalits and tribals to Western concepts and searching for new centers of division in Indian society in the name of indigenism has begun. Under the influence of this Western conspiracy, some so-called Dalit and tribal leaders have started saying that external Aryans enslaved India’s original inhabitants (Dalits) and imposed the Hindu caste system here. Babasaheb, in his writings, strongly denies the so-called Aryan and tribal conflict. Babasaheb wrote – “The false tale of Aryan invasion was created by Western writers, for which there is no evidence. From analyzing this Western theory, the conclusion I have reached is – there is no mention of Aryan racialism in the Vedas, nor is there any evidence in the Vedas of Aryans conquering Dalits and tribals.”
In reality, the mastermind of this new conspiracy is Western capitalism. The unnecessary narrative that Aryans came from outside has been repeatedly propagated. This misleading concept has greatly harmed Indian culture. This idea, generating mutual hatred, Aryan-non-Aryan thought, and the North-South sentiment in the Indian psyche, is being systematically propagated by foreigners and heretics for immediate political gain.
