Tales of  Socio Analysis; The Empirical Brahmin waging an Epistemic War

You all must be aware of Gopal Guru’s articulation whereas he has split the academic world into Empirical Shudras and Theoretical Brahmans.

Guru has went to a great extent to berate Dalits of lacking the discipline and rigor of doing theory and on the other hand in a sense of academic superiority he places unto himself seems to be in awe of the theoretical rigor of Brahmins.

What shall I say? He goes on to say Poetry written by Dalits might not be Theoretical enough for Indian Social Sciences. He has relegated the Untouchables into a realm of phenomenological angst. A people who can’t produce high theory like Guhas and Chatterjee.

In doing so, he has gravely overlook his own people’s history.

This is what happens when you try to pander to the Brahmin Gaze in academia and try to project yourself as some sort of a high theorist as against their own people’s history of Epistemic Battles against the Brahmin.

This is a problem with a section of Mahars who have inculcated western imperial academic notions without apt scrutiny.

What is theory? The articulation Guru tries to situate reeks of Brahmin appeasement . Maybe for him, high theory is writing articles in EPW and not irking the ganglords of Brahmin Academia. He has this becomes a victim of his own identity shoved into him by the Brahmin.

I have read Ambedkar closely, he has nowehere expressed his concern for Dalits lacking expertise to do theory. On the other hand Ambedkar’s articulation are a condensation of his allegiance to how own people. It is not for nothing that he dedicates his writings to Raidas and Chokhamela.

Trained in a Marxist infested Brahmin Academia, Guru has limited Dalits into their material conditions. It is a very sorry understanding that those who labour and are materially bereft can’t produce theory.

The very demarcation of theory from labour is a Brahmin enterprise.

Kabir and Raidas were both into labour to earn their livelihood and produced theories which the Indian Academia can’t even think even in their orgasmic dreams.

कुछ तो मजबूरियां रहीं होंगी गुरु,
यूं ही कोई अपनों के प्रति बेवफा नहीं होता!