On Their "Leave This Place Or I Shoot" Theory Of Society

There are two items in the news today pertaining to our indigenous tribal forest dwellers. The first says that they are to be moved out of their homelands to make space for The Tiger. An incentive of Rs. 100,000 is being offered – but not all want to move out.

This is a recurrent theme in socialist India: people have to physically move homes and hearths for the greater common good. During the Partition, my own people had to shift from East to West Bengal – for “democracy,” I presume. Or was it for majoritarianism? Or even “hindootva”? I wonder. In exactly the same way, millions moved from West Punjab and Sind. And millions moved the other way. And after all this mass movement, the greater common good still eludes us.

Indigenous tribal communities have had a bad time under The Socialist Chacha State because their great Constitution, which does not recognize Private Property as absolute, abets “legal plunder” – as in the case of “nationalization.” These tribals have been asked to move out of their homelands for various reasons ranging from saving The Tiger, to building dams, to quarrying, and so on. This must end. Property must rule.

However, Chacha is going the other way. There is news that says The Chacha State is declaring perpetual war against our forest-dwellers. A report in HT today says that 60,000 armed State policemen are to be unleashed upon the tribals of Bastar. The report is titled “Tribal Bastar prepares for War.” This bit from the report tells of the enormity of the task:

Bastar, 10 times the size of Kashmir Valley, includes the Maoists’ liberated zone — the sprawling, out-of-bounds 4,000 sq km expanse called Abujhmarh (the unknown forest).

What is also worth noting is this remark of the commander-in-chief of these operations:

“Five years,” said Vishwa Ranjan, Chhattisgarh’s director-general of police. “In five years, they will have to leave this area.”

“Leave this area?”

For what? So that State licensees can plunder their mineral-rich lands?

And 5 years of internal war?

I suggest an immediate and unilateral recognition of Property – on the part of the Chacha State. I suggest “political” solutions to this uprising. I oppose this internal war. And, most importantly, I must add that I do not think our poor, ill-equipped constables should be sacrificed thus, at the altar of The Chacha State. This is a political problem that needs politicians to solve, not policemen. But none at the Centre are “politicians” in any sense of the word, are they?

Democracy without politics?

Ha ha. What a JOKE!