tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320628892565328183.post4719074567343262488..comments2023-10-07T06:39:55.892-07:00Comments on Brown Pundits: Coastal Leader for a prosperous India Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320628892565328183.post-67388827088958861052014-05-24T23:08:20.215-07:002014-05-24T23:08:20.215-07:00Yes, anti Dalit Dravidian supremacism is the dirti...Yes, anti Dalit Dravidian supremacism is the dirtiest secret of the Dravidian movement. The Dravidian movement was always led by higher castes be it Annadurai and Periyar(descedent of Telugu Kshatriya elites). Their reputation for being pro dark skinned aside, they are even more vicious racists than Manuvaadis. Congressite Kamaraj was derided as an African ape due to his very dark skin. The faces of dark leaders in posters and placard are whitewashed with fair skin and red cheeks<br /><br />Interestingly you dont meet a lot of Tamils with Portuguese names like Joe D Cruz, they are only in the West coast for obvious reasons. I knew one guy in high school with last name D Sena, he was fairer than a Pathan but he claimed zero Portuguese or other foreign ancestry.<br /><br />There are many Dalits including one guys name I forget who referred to Arundhati Roy as a bored houswife who welcome a laissez faire approach to life be it economics,diet ,sexual relations and are very pro Western. But OTOH they are still very pro reservation/quotas which is a shame<br /><br />His perception that the northerners werent traders or sea farers is sound as not only this fits in with Gangetic and Yamuna based empires giving scant attention to blue water naval matters or best outsourced it to their tributaries- the Mughals are the most extreme example, the Guptas the most extreme exception. Northerners were influenced by Persians with regard to empire building and court culture picked up their prejudice against salt water(who Persians believed was the abode of the devil and hence were a land based empire).<br />The south Indian vratyas(fallen Kshatriyas) had no such qualms as one can see from the naval successes of the Satavahanas,Pandyas, Cholas, etc<br /><br />His views however come with some caveats re Arabian Sea peoples and Bay of Bengal peoples. The Bay of Bengal types used to be entreprenuerial and adventurous but the Telugus, Tamils and Bengalis these days tend to be land lubbers and somewhat orthodox in their outlook.<br />The Gujs,Punjabis(whose empires controlled the Makran in the past), Sindhis, Kannadigas,Tulus and Malayalees are more likely to fulfill his criteria.<br />ysv_raohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078517736366792665noreply@blogger.com