The Term Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutava !!

The entire story started with foreigners and it seems that they themselves have become the matter of an "end" to it. What do I mean by an end is the end of "foreign culture" and restoration of the "Hindu Culture". Let me peep a bit into the past before I start my "Blah Blah Blah", as they (so called the real Hindus) say it.

The term Hindu was derived from Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was a historical name of the river Indus. This name was given, as produced, by the Persians to the people living by the side of this river. So, in other words, Hindu is more a geographical word and has nothing to do with religion. Only with the passage of time it got itself transitioned to a completely different purpose. Perhaps, before "Hindu" became a religion of India, what was religion of India is itself debatable. From 1500 B.C. to 1000 B.C. it was Rig Vedic age and from 1000 B.C. to 600 B.C. it was later Vedic Age. The term Hindu evolved only after 12th Century A.D. if we follow texts and not rhetoric.

Hinduism and Hindutva

Next is Hinduism. If we follow our own Constitution, then Hinduism is collectively used for the religions that got evolved in India (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism). But the parody is this that Hinduism is completely different perception today even though legally its projected as a cluster of religions. This by many is seen as a part of creation of utopian society. For me and for any other democrat, Hinduism is a way of life which has evolved in thousands of year, learning from mistakes and boasting on its dominant past which is being rubbed by its so called advocates. These advocates relate Hinduism to Nationalism, and everything else as "Invasion".

Hindutva was coined by V.D. Savarkar in 1923 pamphlet "Hindutva: Who is Hindu?" It was one of the first set of movements that advocated Hindu Nationalism. According to Britannica Encyclopedia, "Hindutva is an ideology that sought to define Indian culture in Hindu Values". This definition is upto many extent correct because by these Hindu Nationalist, everything else than "Hindu" is not a part of Indian Culture. For e.g. they will never count the Mughal arts as Indian because they were not Hindus. 

V.D. Savarkar said that Hindutva is in itself the glorious history, the period of which no member in his own cadre has been able to define. Everything before Afghan invasion is accounted for the Hindutva history though most of the places of Harappan civilisation and Indus civilisation find its place in Modern Pakistan. They forget or perhaps ignore the concept of diverse and flourishing culture over here because it does not suite their interest.

Culture and Heritage

It is worth mentioning the difference between culture and heritage over here. Heritage is a part of culture, culture which one has acquired from his/her forefathers and Culture is Heritage along with the changes which one will adapt with his/her own generation and the generation about to come. For e.g. the Internet culture which we are living in is not our Heritage.
Now what does it imply is that we should respect our forefathers and in order to do it most respectfully and effectively, we need to obey and respect their Heritage and ours too. But the fact of the matter is, that in order to protect our Heritage, we should not become over-sensitive and emotional which may lead to the erosion of others Heritage. The word "threat" is used to describe the foreign influence on ours by these extremists. Alas they forget the difference between the two that culture evolves greatly with time, only Heritage remains constant. Heritage changes very slowly.

So whenever these outfits claim that they want to protect Indian Culture, then they put themselves behind the backdrop as they are speaking about Heritage and not Culture. Its just beyond the capabilities of these outfits to understand the richness of Heritage and the balance of Culture which exists in our nation. Off-course I do agree that some correction is needed when the youths give more weightage to Halloween and less to Indianisation (respecting Indian culture and its Heritage), but that does not mean that things need to be taken this way.

Conclusion

Hindu is not a religion which just imbibes the traditions which were developed in Modern India, perhaps much of it what we know was practiced and written in many parts of present Pakistan. The migrants called Aryan can not claim that what only they did and practiced is "Hindu", they should keep well in mind that as the evidence suggests, they themselves belonged to Central Asia. So what they are telling as purely Indian is itself a mix of Central Asia and the then India. If they are ready to engulf this fact then what stops them from accepting the influence of other foreign culture on this rich diversity. Is it about dominance only? Because facts present contrary, one needs to analyse these terms separately and with completely different perception.

For me Hindu is a geographical name of people, Hinduism a way of life and Hindutva a political statement, a political gimmick which has exactly the same corrosive power which the Verna system (four fold caste system) in Later Vedic Age had. That system not only introduced inequality among different sects but gender in the same sect too. I fear the same may not happen in case of "Hindu, Hindusim and Hindutva", till now the events have only endorsed this fear. Let us hope not it escalate further.

The Myth of Indian Rapes

Whenever I board a bus or talk to a girl or a guy, they show their serious concern about the rapes in India. Well this is welcome but at the same time it hurts me when they, without checking the facts, declare that in UK or USA rapes are not that frequent as they are in India. I am not a "Big Boss" but at the same time I am quite aware that I am not surrounded by goons and perhaps I may prove to be a very helpful element in making themselves aware of the reality. I had expected myself to write about this but I was not ready, for only statistical knowledge is not the core. This came to my mind when I saw one BBC footage and many international videos making hue and cry over the Rapes in India, particularly many African nations, Britain and USA. There could be many but I saw frequently those.

This article is not a comparison but presentation of few hardcore facts which one needs to understand. The conclusion, this time, is up to you...

The Myth

The convention is that girls are not safe in India and rapes in India are quite frequent as compared to developed nations. The former part I agree but the second part I not only reject it but I also think that it's an aspersion, a process of tarnishing the Indian image in international media while hiding itself cleverly because Indian mass is reactive while others remain inert despite a chaos nearby.

Delhi, is the crime capital of India and reports the highest number of rapes among all the cities. But fact conveys something else. In 2013, almost 40% of the registered cases were filed by parents of the girl in those cases where the alleged rapist was either the boy-friend of the girl with whom the girl had eloped and married or the consensual sex had resulted into pregnancy. In these cases conviction rates are very low. Only those cases are considered where the girl is a minor. In another 25% of the cases, the rapes are filed because there is a "breach of promise". The boy denies to marry the girl after consensual sex leading to the filing of FIR. In these too, the conviction rates are very low because in many cases the girl doesn't know that the man has a wife or even if he is unmarried, it happens with the consensus of the two. In the rest of the cases, irrespective of level/power/money of the person involved, the conviction rate was too high. It could be understood from the fact that overall conviction rate stands at nearly 26%, it means out of the remaining 35%, 26% are convicted (more than 80% of the 35%)

The case is similar over entire India. The highest conviction rate was observed in Manipur in 2011 where there was 100% conviction.  In North, UP had the highest conviction rate of 56.4% followed by Delhi at 41.5%. For more details please refer

 http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/04/statistics-conviction-rates-for-rape-across-india/

The overall conviction rate stood at 26.4%. Now this was about the Indian Scenario and I must say, it's too bad. But what about the developed world which are praised and hailed particularly by the youths because they think that they are far better than their country, and their country is developing and is not hi-fi.

Fatcs reveal something else. As per reported rape, in India per 1 lakh people there are 1.8 rapes where as in USA - 27.3 ; UK - 28.8 ; Sweden - 63.5 ; South Africa - 120. Remember. this 1.8 takes into account the false rape cases too. Also, one has to take into account that the number of reported cases will be less in India as compared to the developed nations. But, even if we magnify the data by 10 times, still it will be less. More than that, the conviction rate in few of these countries is quite disparaging. UK stands with a very feeble conviction rate of as low as 5.7-6.6 %. 

As I said the conclusion is up to you.

Why India is Unsafe

Perhaps this is because the crime against women in India are quite high as compared to other nations such as eve-teasing, passing derogatory comments, DOWRY, marital rapes etc. These things are the major causes which makes India unsafe for the Girls and not Rapes!! Perhaps in 98% of the rape cases girls know the convict very well !!!

India's Dream Girl : Israel !!

This article is a result of heated debate between me and my friends, dumb facebook posts (comments in particular) which are specifically based on baseless facts. We all know that Pakistan is our foe more than it is our neighbour. So many youths, who look for a peaceful India, prefer a repressive measures similar to what is being used by Israel over it's neighbouring Palestine. They compare the situation and its consequences on a single platform. They argue that Palestine has been made so weak by the Israel forces that it cannot dare to attack Israel. People in Israel, they sleep well in the night. But India, continues to face the vicious attacks from the side of Pakistan, regular violations of ceasefire from this neighbour and much more. They think and believe that Israel through its bold step has retained its control over the terrorists. 

I, seriously, feel sorry for them because they are so dumb that they don't know that they are comparing between apples and oranges !!!

The Myth

The myth among Indian mass is this that Palestine is a nation that has provoked terrorist activities in Israel, the price for which it has paid very well because Israel is so bold in keeping the rights of its citizens protected. Israel knows very well that what has to be done in order to bring peace and feeling of safety among Israeli mob. But the reality is far away from this. Reality is that Israel-Palestine conflict is the matter of colonizer and colonized and the India-Pakistan conflict is matter of control over a disputed region, and terrorist activities are products of imposition of blind extremism.

The story started in 1917 with Balfour Declaration favouring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and the creation of British Mandate of Palestine. The British proposals dissatisfied both the Arabs and the Jews. The Arabs' opposition developed into the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The Jewish resistance developed into the Jewish insurgency in Palestine(1944–1947), These ongoing tensions erupted on 30 November 1947 into civil war between the Arab and Jewish populations in response to the UN Partition Plan to divide Palestine into three areas: an Arab state, a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. 

The tensions escalated and resulted in a war between the Arab States and Israel, with Israel retaining what it was proposed and in addition to that a further control over or annexation of 60% area of what was proposed to Arab State. This conflict is as old as our own Independence.

So.... my dear Blind and Dumb Indian fellowmen/women, in other words, what it means is that Israel colonized the Palestine and till now Palestine is fighting for it's freedom. Hamas is similar to our Congress Extremist wing where they have used weapons to fight for their right (which is wrong, non-violent methods are the best weapon to fight the oppressor). The Congress extremist and other Extremist such as Chndrashekhar Azad were referred as terrorist by the Britishers and I am not calling Hamas as Chandrashekhar Azad, it's just the perspective. And the poor people of Palestine are paying the price for what Hamas is using to liberate Palestine from Israel regime. This may sound very absurd to you but I would be pleased if you start researching, JUST A BIT.

Israel as India's Dream Girl

With the rise of right wing extremism, and many followers adding to its strength, a concept has already developed into, unfortunately, many Indian heads. Many of the Indians think that if India follows the same strategy for Pakistan to end cross border terrorism and put an end to border conflicts, it should go violent, similar to Israel over Palestine. Many, perhaps, advocate this strategy and has made Israel as their dream girl... Mind you!! first of all, the situation is entirely different, one is about border conflict and the other is about colonisation. Second, your claim that same methodology will bring peace stands completely absurd as Israel has been fighting for its annexed state since 1948. This method has not been able to bring peace to Israel itself, since Palestine is colonised state so it has loosed more than Israel, does not mean that Israel stands harmless. Third, Israel has international support whereas Palestine has nothing which is just the reverse of what is in the case of other coloniser and colonised states.

There is no doubt about it that Israel has become a role model for many of the Indians, but I must warn, there will be serious consequences as Pakistan is not a colonised state of India and Indians cannot behave like Israel (Israelis Seen Clapping And Eating Popcorn While Watching Bombs Drop On Gaza) , meanwhile Israeli ministries making statement that hospitals of Gaza should be bombed down as they are saving those who are getting injured during the massacre.   

A few video Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lsmFS75ed4&list=PLnTnrbrXbXI_fu20QHvQ4MZbDd4Dkna1N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1SqKm2PjSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciLhljopRQ&index=11&list=PLVOgwA_DiGzoqQsGjmamTu6f453RWpm_I

Talking Menstruation

What is Mensuration?? I am sure a biologist will answer a better definition than what I will present here, but just for formality let me provide for the same. Menstruation is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue (the endometrium) from the uterus and vagina. It is one of the property which is reason for, perhaps, the birth of a life from a woman's womb. But, since, from my childhood I have an itch with the traditional definitions, I have found my own definition for this taboo too. For me, Menstruation is a periodic phenomenon which is responsible for  illness, shame, the loss of educational and economic opportunity, and even violence for the female class.

Due to lack of accessibility, most of the females are left on to depend on with unhygienic clothes with no access to basic medical precautions such as soaps, private toilets etc. More than that, during this period they are treated as an outcast from the society, making them deprived of their basic rights such as debarring them from entering the house of "God" (thank "God", I am an agnostic), debarring them from washing and using public hand-pumps, interacting with their kith and kin and so on. In most of the cases, the woman wait for the night to fall so that to maintain her privacy, she may step outside and wash, putting herself at risk of rape and assault.

The first time I heard this word, I was in my 9th Standard but I am lucky because my friends openly took it and soon it became a topic of "nothing to hide about". There was nothing odd about it except making fun of our teacher when he/she used to mention the term 4th "period" or 5th "period". If this is so critical to women safety and her empowerment, then why don't we hear about it at all? Why it is the thing of maintaining "confidentiality", even among those who are "educated". I remember well, the middle aged educated people reacted in an unpleasant manner when I mentioned it during my train trip from home to Rajasthan. Few were in a cultural shock, few were amused and busy in neglecting me with a gentle smile and the ladies faces were as if I had asked them to demonstrate it.

For me, this issue can be tackled only if we debate it, when required like the other ones, openly and properly. For example, only 12% of the women have accessibility to commercial sanitary products while rest 88% depend on, in strict words, garbage. Innovative companies and organisations developing inexpensive, reusable sanitary products like the AFRI pad can help close this gap and must be supported. Government must priorities this. A study in Karachi, Pakistan, found that half of girls aged 14 to 17 knew nothing about menstruation and were scared of their periods, believing they were ill or dying. I am pretty sure, similar survey in India will reveal nothing astronomically deviating.

Conclusion

It's not that the wave for changing the circumstances are absent. Organisations such as Utthan is busy providing rural woman accessibility to basic sanitary products. The Indian government amended the national sanitation policy to include language on menstrual hygiene management. But it's too slow, not only because of the pace with which these legal changes are being brought about but also because that even educated sector of contemporary India is not ready to take this openly.

Well I have tried my best to take it openly, wherever I went as a volunteer for free at any NGO, I took classes on related issues but through my article I am asking you also to join the same.

Voting for What, Voting on What !!

Contemporary India has been a debatable chapter in it's all ages. Turn the pages of History, the concept has never been uniform, it has always fought for the survival of different philosophies. The different civilisations which came from an alien world, settled here and got absorbed, taught something , learned something and got some new name in a newer dimension. But what I find controversial now, is the survival of a concept which has neither morphed itself nor it seems that it will put an end to itself soon.

Going briefly through the parties' manifesto, I find their proposed issues to tackle development in various sectors such as economic, social, educational, health etc. in a well strategic and determined way. It's not a new story what happens just after the big picture of election. But I want all of us to focus on a different dimension. I think it's not actually corruption, unwillingness, leakages, unawareness etc. as the major cause for the problems which this contemporary India is facing. I find rather that the basis "for" which we vote is completely different "on" the basis of which we vote.

We vote for issues which reflect a technocratic, capitalist and "Mission Mars" India but we vote on the basis of a Feudal India, a India which was perhaps the reason for being conquered at the foreign hands.
When we vote, what matters for us is the domicile of the candidate, and not the knowledge of the candidate, the knowledge which he/she will use for making his/her party manifesto a reality for the concerned constituency which may have a completely different demographic, density, amenities, dimension etc. I had very high hopes from the youths of today but it seems that it has distilled in the very beginning itself. Many of them are against the present government because they think that the present government could have delivered more, but what makes me to walk on a different line is the way they have taken these issues in public places. They have not only started posting or speaking derogatory comments which could hurt someone's interest but also they have started branding people as communist, fascist or whatever they consider as "bad"when the concerned person tries to bring into it's ambit a different picture.

I must say, they may not agree, but whatever they are doing to impose what they want is completely Feudal, a Fedualism being presented in a completely different fashion, it may not be "zamindari" but it's more than "atyachaari".

Shall we blast them ? !!!

Recently I had a very heated debate with one of my friend over the stand of today's India, particularly the press and publications, on the issue of religion, globalisation and the kind of western culture support in the ambit of Indian society. According to him, this all is a conspiracy against Indian subcontinent to dissolve away it's great history, tradition and diversity. Well no charge is wrong untill it's proven wrong. So I asked him for his reasons to make such an argument, and to my knowledge, whatever he told me and the kind of solution he proposed, it seriously, raised my eyebrows. I was feeling not only disgust but even morally down because he is my colleague and a part of this "Institute of National Importance."

As per his views, different religious community are working in order to draw fault-lines within this country. I agree to this charge as I had written about it earlier, but there is a strong difference of opinion over it as far as I am concerned. He not only said that certain community should be kicked out or just wiped out of this State because we have a lot of issues just because of this community but he also made this derisory statement  that sex done else than for the purpose of reproduction is a sin, a crime. I am glad that he, atleast agreed to that even he will commit such crime.

Taking on his later argument first, I again want to remind this fact that sex is not just for reproduction. The same Hindu Upnishads which he was talking about, observe sex as one of the reasons which they call as divine property of human beings, a property through which you can find yourself nearer to God. Though it does not say whether it is about reproduction or not. Well he resisted this argument and went on saying that it should not be the way it is in Upanishads, and I am seriously glad that the same person had said earlier while debating that religion must not be challenged because it's Religion, countering my argument that religion is nothing more than a philosophy which ought to be challenged with changing times.

His first argument regarding some community made me laugh (seriously) when I counter acted on those. And to my surprise, not only he changed his stand but even declared him to be Fascist and walked away from my room. What I said was very simple," We have such a huge population, with an average density of 346 people per sq. km which is much higher than world average (46 people per sq. km). Now, with such a high population and limited technology to garner our resources, it poses a lot of problem like malnutrition, low ranking in HDI (136 out of 187 countries), 9% growth rate in unemployment and many other countless problems. Also it is the majority which is to be blamed because they constitute to 80% of the population and you cannot blame the rest 20% for 346 vs 46 person per sq. km. Definitely majority has to play a major role. So, as per your solution government must kick out the unwanted. But since the number is high they will create foreign policy issues. So the best is : BLAST THEM ALL !!!"

I don't know about the response of the readers but his response was crystal clear : Government should go for family planning initiatives and perhaps, give chances to stand. I was successful in distinguishing the two tongues : one for himself and the rest for others.

Seriously dude, you need a medic !!

Statue of Unity or Goonity ?

When India got it's independence and started framing it's own constitution, parallely two great men were working for the stability of acoustic India which was hit by a major pogrom during those days. People across border were chopping themselves as a butcher chops meat into pieces. The purpose was "political" and had nothing to do theoretically with "Sapno ka Pakistan". These two great men, one being Nehru and the other Sardar Patel, two chosen, quite wisely in a combo pack by a sage named Gandhi, tried their best to contain these riots and let not out-breach it so that it may lead to demand of separate "Khalistan".

Nehru, being modern, worked as a Prime Minister and went on establishing schools, colleges, research institutions, industries etc. Patel being a Home Minister proved his legacy and worthiness for that job by adding the princely states, all of them (an impossible task according to the then Viceroy of India himself), defeating and pushing the invading forces out of this country in the peaceful valley of Kashmir.

In-spite of differences over several issues, these two men worked like blood brothers, which the Mother India had dreamt about. Definitely, if you are working for similar purpose, difference of opinion is liable to occur. But few goons took it as if Patel was being sided and intentionally neglected over several issues despite this fact that Nehru, don't know how many numbers of times, yielded to the ideas of Patel.

The Story of the Successor 

Patel belonged to Gujarat and a politician, who is a prime ministerial candidate this time, also belongs to the same state. He has proposed a statue in the honour of Patel who unified India and kept India intact, under one umbrella. The statue will be 182 metre statue at Sadhu Bet island near the Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat. The site is stunning, on the far bank, about 400 metre away, the land is still untouched. In order to set up this land, Kevadia Area Development Authority (KADA) has been created. The KADA project is supposed to affect around 70 villages which is almost equal to 67 sq. km of Narmada district and the nearby area is majorly inhabited by tribal population. The rule is this that a land owned by a tribal person can only be sold to another tribal person. But under KADA, agricultural land can be declared  N.A. (non-agricultural) Once done, as according to the farmers residing nearby, they will be left with no other option than to sell their lands.

If this happens then government drop them off as PAP (project-affected-people). And hence, no compensation because it is not the government which has moved them, they themselves sold their land and moved away because it was N.A. More than that the local activist maintain this fact that the norms of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2006 has also not been meted out.

The areas of concerns are too many, it's difficult to mention them all here, since most of you who are reading this have "matured", I just want to give you a very small advice for free, you have internet and trust-able media groups such as Economic and Political Weekly, Frontline etc. Being a voter, you should search it out.

More than that, this successor claimed that there were always difference of opinions and Sardar was always sided away. I don't know how this Sardar went on correcting Nehru on countless issues when he was always sided. They cited few books which mentioned the differences over opinions. Well, I must say ," Sir !! that's not enough. I always have difference of opinion with my best friends when we discuss something of our common interest." I can't say what is in common interest of yours but I must conclude that mocking these great souls, which you could never be, is perhaps your hobby. And I also admit by observing the number of shares and likes on your promoted video of so called "Statue of Unity" that Katju was not wrong when he said, "90% of Indians are fools." Indeed these observations made him the number 6th judge of Supreme Court and the present Chairman of Press Council of India. And you must admit, these are responsibility which one doesn't get by making the mockery of this great democracy as you did.

Conclusion

Your project costs 2500 crore and you claimed yourself to be successor of Patel who unified this country. I pose this challenge to you, he unified all the princely states which was considered to be impossible, can you unify these Rivers which could put an end to the droughts and can become the jeevandayini for the farmers who depend on the market traders for their livelihood? Come-on Sir, this job is considered as "Possible".

I must not say anymore but the kind of support which your project has got, I must say again, Katju was no wrong. For me it does not represents "Unity" but it definitely represents " Goonity". Patel must be turning in his grave !!!

West, The Holy Bible and India

The intent of this article is not to hurt any Christian sentiment but it is an attempt to expose to the reader the another version which is very less talked about, though, it’s impact is unmeasurable like the Hindu extremism and Islam extremism.

When I was in higher school and going through the ancient history of India, I came across two terms, "Aryans" and "Dravidian". A basic delve will reveal that Aryans were those who resided in Northern part of India and Dravidians were those who had loosed at the hands of Aryans and pushed to the Southern part of India. Aryans being a very-very talented race, outperformed the Dravidian and became the ruler of this country of great diversity called India. 

One question which arose in my mind later was, "Why there is no mentioning of such history in the ancient transcripts? Why do I find them only in the modern history books? Is there any transcript or manuscript which talks about such version? If it is then why doesn't it find it's stand in the present days as a proof ?"

The questions were too much and I don't remember them all, but as I grew these questions got modified. "Is it just a simple version of history to make the things more clearer? Is it just an attempt to make us understand about the times through which our ancestors have gone? Or is it something else ?? "

These questions got a "push" factor when I came to Kerala, God's own Country. As I researched on this, I found answers which did not only shaken me up from toe to head but also forced me to think, " The amount which many of us fund to many missionaries without prior research analysis about them, does it make it worth of it or it goes in drawing fault-lines in my own country? " The answer perhaps turned out that a few institutions in the name of the Holy-Bible are not only promoting evangelism in the name of few perks but also jeoparadising the integrity of India.

Aryans and Dravidian

The term Aryans and Dravidians (as a historical concept) are not Indian. They were introduced and promoted by Britishers itself. These two terms got there significant impact in the syllabus of few recognized South Indian University. The funda of the westerners at that time was very simple "Divide and Rule", and that is what they did. Research were organized by them in a sequential pattern for drawing fault-lines :  first they, with the help of old testament of the Holy Bible, proved slave trade, punishing slave etc. legal and few Christian priests endorsed them. (http://www.amazon.in/Bible-Defense-Slavery-Origin-History/dp/1151170895/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382187235&sr=1-2&keywords=bible+defense+of+slavery) They used this as a tool wherever they went. When they came to India, they took the advantage of it's diversity.Lord Risley, Monier Williams, Karl Wilhelm Freidrich Schlegel were few of the people who were busy in giving shape to this fact that Aryans were of European origin, few of them migrated to India and with their great skills pushed the "locals". But later their great culture decayed because they got mixed with inferior race. Paralley, the Church evangelists were busy in creating a "dravidian" race which had to be basically based on Christian philosophies and not Indian. Such was their desperation that they got many Tamilian scholars as their supporters and a reknown tamilian scholar, M.S. Purnalingam Pillai's book, A Premier of Tamil Literature(1904) took the missionary thesis as the basis. This book was written specifically to fulfill the university examination needs, and even included an appendix with sample questions for students. 

Pillai assigned the Kural(this book is considered as a holy scripture by the South Indians and indeed, it is) to the Sangam period upto 100 CE, which he claimed was the most influential Tamil period and free from the influence from Aryans and Sanskrit. Alexander D. Campbell and Francis Whyte Ellis, then collector of Madras wrote Campbell-Ellis book, Grammar of Teloogoo Language (1816), opened doors by arguing that Tamil and Telugu had common non-Sanskrit ancestor. No Indian thinker had made such a claim before. (for details read Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines).  

The Criminal Tribes Act was passed in 1871 which made it lawful to perform genocide against a list of tribes who were deemed to be "criminal", endorsing the slave argument in the Old Testaments of the Holy Bible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery). They were executing every action to justify their culture and prove this to Dravidians that they were considered as slaves by the Aryans and treated according to Bible in a "Holy" way.

Veena Oldenburg's book, Dowry Murder has given details on how Britishers through there convoluted logic promoted dowry and it was during British times that dowry gained its ground in India and not before that. What they had done was very simple, they took away women's traditional right.

Everything here was being done on the name of Churches, which were meant to be for social cause, and the Holy Bible, but the story was completely based on self-interest and easy expansion, no matter it follows genocide or worse than that.

Attempts were made by many great Indians to demonize this theory and they succeeded to much extent but could not eliminate it. B.R, Ambedkar rejected the "Nasal Index" theory of Britishers which was a parameter for distinguishing the Aryans and Non-Aryans but the story still carries on. 

Conclusion

Definitely one need to re-look over this concept of Aryans and Dravidians or Dasyus and if necessary, eliminate it not from the text necessarily, but from our soul which was implanted by foreign powers who ruled us for 200 years. More than that one can definitely argue that untill and unless we could not free ourselves from this concept and keep on believing these Missionaries (not all of them) which have still kept us in British India, we are "not free India".