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Kancha Ilaiah es un activista social y escritor indio. Es presidente del departamento de ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Osmania, budista y una figura importante en el movimiento ideológico contra el sistema de castas indio. Su posición es a menudo llamado anti-hindú, como se ha señalado por sus críticos. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. octubre 1952
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“El hinduismo ha destruido todos los elementos positivos que existen normalmente en el ser humano. Durante el período post-colonial sus energías fueron desviados a manipular la educación, el empleo, la producción y el desarrollo sutilmente. Sus mentes se envenenan con la idea de que el trabajo productivo es la media y que las castas productivas son inferiores. Ninguna clase dominante en el mundo es tan deshumanizado como las castas indias brahmínicas. Pueden ser rehumanized sólo empujándolos hacia el trabajo productivo y por completo desviar su atención del templo, la oficina, la búsqueda de poder, y así sucesivamente.”

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Extracto de Por qué no soy un hindú: una crítica de la filosofía Sudra Hindutva, Cultura y Economía Política (1996)

“El hinduismo es una religión de violencia. Todos los dioses hindúes mataron a sus enemigos y se convirtieron en imágenes heroicas. Esta es la única religión en el mundo en el que el asesino se convierte en dios. ¿A quién mataron? De Brahma a Krishna, quienes murieron eran Dalitbahujans. Ahora estas imágenes y las historias y narrativas y todo está ahí fuera en la sociedad civil. Ahora, debido a esto, la conciencia de adorar al asesino o adorar la violencia no dio ningún espacio a los derechos del Islám. Así que mi pregunta es el discurso de los derechos humanos debe comenzar con una posición anti-guerrero.”

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"El Estado de la Movilización Dalit: Una entrevista con Kancha Ilaiah" en Ghadar vol. 1, N º 3 (26 de noviembre de 1997)

“Hinduismo siempre se utiliza la violencia como credo. Para el hinduismo, por dharma hindú, la resolución de un conflicto es sólo por matar. No hay otro discurso. El debate no está ahí. Tienes que matar al enemigo. Considerando que el Buda creía en el discurso y la resolución del conflicto. Así que en un sistema en el que tienen las dos corrientes de pensamiento, el debate y el discurso, los derechos humanos y los derechos anti-humanos, incluso la izquierda tiene que tomar esa tradición histórica y examinar su potencial y utilizarlo para sus sistemas de propaganda. Es en este contexto en el que he estado diciendo que no sirve de nada si simplemente pedir prestado conceptos de Occidente. El cristianismo tiene una ética diferente, era una ética del sacrificio. Crucifixión de Cristo es un símbolo de sacrificio, no es un símbolo de muerte. El cordero es un símbolo productivo.”

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"El Estado de la Movilización Dalit: Una entrevista con Kancha Ilaiah" en Ghadar vol. 1, N º 3 (26 de noviembre de 1997)

“Tengo la sensación de que si un estado Dalitist se establezca será un modelo mucho mejor Socialista para el mundo que los otros modelos que ya se habían establecido Dalitbahujan porque la sociedad no era tan religioso fundamentalista, no existe una religión tal como la construcción, tiene sido mucho más espontánea, y han vivido durante tanto tiempo con ese tipo de pensamiento. Así que de eso a un tipo de conciencia educada sistema socialista Dalitist, creo que las fuerzas productivas se liberan miles de veces, y la igualdad vendrá mucho mejor, pero debe ser bajo el liderazgo de Dalit. Ahora bien, si bajo el liderazgo de mujeres Dalit si un estado Dalitist y la sociedad se establece Creo que vamos a ver un futuro muy brillante para todo el país.”

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"El Estado de la Movilización Dalit: Una entrevista con Kancha Ilaiah" en Ghadar vol. 1, N º 3 (26 de noviembre de 1997)

“Sí, no me gusta el hinduismo. El hinduismo no es nuestro, está en contra de nosotros. Si tenemos que llegar a ser hindúes, los brahmanes tendrá que cambiar los textos completos religiosos, nuestros hábitos alimenticios, nuestros dioses y diosas y las imágenes. Estoy enojado con los dioses hindúes.”

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“Mira las imágenes de dioses hindúes. Ellos empuñar armas. Leemos que los dioses hindúes mataron a nuestros propios antepasados. ¿Cómo puedo adorar a los asesinos como divino? ¿Qué clase de religión es? Hay tres grandes religiones - budismo, el cristianismo y el Islam. Estas religiones principales fueron construidos por los profetas que han sacrificado y luchado en la vida por la liberación de las personas. Todas estas tres religiones nunca dijo que las secciones más amplias de sus pueblos nacieron de los pies de Dios.”

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Entrevista a rediff.com (17 de enero de 2000)

“Así como los brahmanes están gritando Hinduise India, deberíamos gritar Dalitise India. Grita que odiamos el hinduismo, odiamos brahmanismo. La captura de los templos hindúes expulsando a los brahmanes de ellos. … El odiado debe odiar. Deben ser poderoso y organizado. Quiero crear ira.”

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Citado en "El Pundit terroso" en OutlookIndia (25 de diciembre de 2000)

Kancha Ilaiah: Frases en inglés

“Large number of tribes, Dalits and Backward Castes have a historical food culture of beef. The anti-beef agenda has been in the Brahmanical fold. It began with the South Indian Brahmins and then spread to the North and became part of the Gandhian movement. My question is, how can the state impose a certain food culture on people? The state has nothing to do with food. They can give certain food to people depending on the market, but cannot impose that you can or cannot eat certain food items. If beef eating is bad for Brahmins or Baniyas or certain upper castes, then the state is imposing that on the rest of the society. So the state is actually becoming a theocratic state.”

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Quoted in DNA India (04 March 2015) http://www.dnaindia.com/india/interview-maharashtra-s-beef-ban-is-not-merely-communal-it-is-theocratic-kancha-ilaiah-2066223.

“The fight for rights and assertion is almost over. Now the fight is for intellectual equality, and that is where everything becomes controversial or problematic for upper castes.”

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Quoted in "Caste discrimination: Invisible but omnipresent" in The Indian Express (01 February 2016) http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/caste-discrimination-invisible-but-omnipresent/.

“Hinduism always used violence as creed. For Hinduism, for Hindu dharma, resolving of a conflict is only by killing. There is no other discourse. Debate is not there. You have to kill the enemy. Whereas Buddha believed in discourse and resolving the conflict. So in a system where you have the two streams of thought, debate and discourse, human rights and anti-human rights, even the left has to take that historical tradition and examine its potential and use it for its propaganda systems. It is in this context that I have been saying that there is no use if you simply borrow concepts from the West. Christianity has a different ethic; it was an ethic of sacrifice. Christ's crucifixion is a symbol of sacrifice, it is not a killing symbol. The lamb is a productive symbol.”

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"The State of Dalit Mobilization : An Interview with Kancha Ilaiah" in Ghadar Vol. 1, No. 3 (26 November 1997).

“How do you change ancient prejudices in any society? You do it through repositioning caste at childhood. If young children are taught respect over a bedtime story or in class, that could help enormously”

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Quoted in "One Man Takes Aim At Prejudice With Storybook" at The Washington Post (20 January 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/19/AR2008011902412.html.

“Reform your texts, reform your history. Say leather is not untouchable to God, the barber's knife is not untouchable to God. Take a Dalit priest and a Brahmin priest to celebrations. Do these symbolic things. Let them (high-caste Hindus) come and sit with Dalits in their huts and eat with them”

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Quoted in "War against Ignorance" at The Hindu (01 February 2010) http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/war-against-ignorance/article98547.ece.

“A careful reading of the Gita would show anyone that it fully supports the enslavement of Shudras and OBCs, a process initiated by the Rig Veda itself. Rig Veda formulated the caste structure in Purusha Suktha and the Gita upheld it.”

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"The Gita and OBCs" in Deccan Chronicle (20 December 2014) http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141220/commentary-op-ed/article/gita-and-obcs.

“Hinduism has destroyed all positive elements that normally exist in a human being. During the post-colonial period their energies were diverted to manipulate education, employment, production and development subtly. Their minds are poisoned with the notion that productive work is mean and that productive castes are inferior. No ruling class in the world is as dehumanized as the Indian brahminical castes. They can be rehumanized only by pushing them into productive work and by completely diverting their attention from the temple, the office, power-seeking, and so on.”

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Excerpt from Why I Am Not A Hindu : A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy (1996) http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/resources_ilaiah.htm.

“For centuries the so called goddess of education was against the dalit learning, reading and writing in any language. She was the goddess of education of only the high castes — mainly of the brahmins and baniayas.”

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"Dalits and English" in Tehelka (15 February 2011) http://www.deccanherald.com/content/137777/dalits-english.html.

“Buddhism today is a dalitist religion and Hinduism is a brahminic religion with oppositional spiritual positions about human equality and man-woman relations.”

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"Chinese lesson for RSS" in Deccan Chronicle (05 May 2015) http://www.deccanchronicle.com/150505/commentary-columnists/article/chinese-lesson-rss.

“Where is the honour in killing someone? Why are caste-based murders being labelled as honour killings? Dalits are being killed for their caste, so these are caste hatred killings and they should be called that.”

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Quoted in Scroll.in (21 September 2018) https://scroll.in/latest/895332/telangana-do-not-describe-caste-based-murders-as-honour-killings-say-activists.

“In ancient and medieval India, no Hindu priest would subjugate himself to the rule of law. That was the basic reason why no Hindu institution could evolve a spiritual democratic culture within the religion. We are now living in a borrowed system of political democracy.”

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"Hinduism And Its Moral Dilemma" in Tehelka (29 January 2005) http://www.tehelka.com/2005/01/hinduism-and-its-moral-dilemma/.

“The dalit's main agenda is not reservations. My way of equality is English education. Even if 10% of our children got English education, the intellectual field would have changed. This country would have changed. My hope is education, not reservation — and I emphasize, English education”

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Quoted in at The Times Of India (15 February 2013) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/interviews/Kancha-Ilaiah-Even-if-10-dalit-children-got-English-education-India-would-change/articleshow/18503625.cms.

“Yes, I hate Hinduism. Hinduism is not ours, it is against us. If we have to become Hindus, the Brahmins will have to change the entire religious texts, our food habits, our gods and goddesses and images. I am angry at the Hindu gods.
Look at the images of Hindu gods. They wield weapons. We read that Hindu gods killed our own ancestors. How can I worship the killers as divine? What kind of a religion is it? There are three major religions — Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. These major religions were constructed by prophets who sacrificed and struggled in life for people's liberation. All these three religions never said that the larger sections of their people were born from the feet of God.”

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Interview at rediff.com (17 January 2000) http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jan/17inter.htm.

“I have a feeling that if a Dalitist state gets established it will be a far better Socialist model for the world than the other models which were already established because Dalitbahujan society was never so religiously fundamentalist, there is no such constructed religion like that, it has been much more spontaneous, and they have lived for such a long time with that kind of a thinking. So from that to a kind of conscious educated Dalitist socialist system, I think that the productive forces would get released a thousand times, and equality will come much better but it should be under Dalit leadership. Now if under Dalit women leadership if a Dalitist state and society is established I think we will see a very bright future for the whole country.”

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"The State of Dalit Mobilization : An Interview with Kancha Ilaiah" in Ghadar Vol. 1, No. 3 (26 November 1997).

“If the God believed by a person doesn’t have democratic values, where will this person get those democratic values from? In fact, shouldn’t they explain why they create such Gods who are violent, undemocratic and anti-women?”

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Quoted in Scroll.in (13 March 2016) http://scroll.in/article/731416/case-filed-against-social-scientist-kancha-ilaiah-for-asking-is-god-a-democrat.

“The practice of untouchability brutalises human self beyond repair. The nation’s energies are being destroyed by this practice, which has spiritual, moral, ethical and ideological sanction of the Hindu religion.”

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"Prejudice in Manu’s India" in Deccan Chronicle (06 December 2014) http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141205/commentary-op-ed/article/prejudice-manu%E2%80%99s-india.

“Just as the Brahmins are shouting Hinduise India, we should shout Dalitise India. Shout that we hate Hinduism, we hate Brahmanism. Capture the Hindu temples by expelling the Brahmins from them. … The hated must hate. They must become powerful and organised. I want to create anger.”

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Quoted in "The Earthy Pundit" at OutlookIndia (25 December 2000) http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20001225&fname=Ilaiah+Profile+%28F%29&sid=1.

“Hinduism is a religion of violence. All. Now, because of this, the consciousness of worshipping the killer or worshipping violence did not give any space for human rights. So my question is the human rights discourse must start with an anti-warrior position.”

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"The State of Dalit Mobilization : An Interview with Kancha Ilaiah" in Ghadar Vol. 1, No. 3 (26 November 1997) http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v1n2/ilaiah.html.

“Since Ambedkar embraced Buddhism in 1956, almost all Buddhist viharas in India are headed by dalits as monks worshipping Buddha in Pali language. And if the brahmins convert to Buddhism, they will be equals with dalits in all spheres of Buddhist religion.”

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"No one can convert Ambedkar" in Deccan Chronicle (14 April 2015) http://www.deccanchronicle.com/150414/commentary-op-ed/article/no-one-can-convert-ambedkar-0.

“The opposition to the habits of those who eat beef is cultural fascism. Certain sections of the elite are still not ready to accept the food habits of the vast majority of Dalits and other socially oppressed”

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Quoted in "The Beef Eaters of Osmania" The Sunday Guardian (22 April 2012) http://www.sunday-guardian.com/investigation/the-beef-eaters-of-osmania.

“Hinduism is a religion of violence. All Hindu gods killed their enemies and became heroic images. This is the only religion in the world where the killer becomes god. Whom did they kill? From Brahma to Krishna, those who were killed were Dalitbahujans. Now these images and the stories and narratives and everything is out there in the civil society. Now, because of this, the consciousness of worshipping the killer or worshipping violence did not give any space for human rights. So my question is the human rights discourse must start with an anti-warrior position.”

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"The State of Dalit Mobilization : An Interview with Kancha Ilaiah" in Ghadar Vol. 1, No. 3 (26 November 1997) http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v1n2/ilaiah.html.