Untouchable God lives up to the author's reputation and delivers fantastic stories of India's fight for justice.
April 4 2013
By Grant McFarland –
Published on Amazon.com
Untouchable God is another hit from an author that has so well chronicled the hypocrisies of Brahminical culture and at the same time glorified the working, productive castes to which the Brahmins have assigned abusive and derogatory names. In every story someone from the low or out castes of India dreams of equality and justice before being beaten and abused by the schemes of India's wily Brahmin national leaders. From Muslims being the victims of Tilak's conspiratorial Ganpati scheme to connive the OBCs into believing the lie that they are Hindu, to the Untouchable mixed caste Gurram Jashuva who was kidnapped by Krishnamurthy in order to steal his poems, Kancha narrates vivid and realistic accounts of the corrupt and deceitful Brahminical mindset, while portraying the harrowing tales of the victims of these wicked plots and highlighting their refusal to accept this injustice as being their destiny in life.
The "Untouchable God" is identified as simply the God that touches the Untouchables, whether that be Allah, who saved a 7 year old boy from an assassination plot, or Jesus, who rescued an Untouchable whose only crime was thinking about equality and whether or not the same God that made dogs, who eat from both Shudra and Untouchable houses, also made humans who would never behave so honorably. Kancha contrasts this God with whichever god was responsible for creating the Rig Veda, which divides humans into castes and assigns to them different worths and values based on the part of his body he used for their creation.
Kancha moves all throughout India, highlighting the differences between particular Brahmin practices, but expounding the commonality they share of their refusal to treat low and out castes with dignity, respect or honor. Each chapter is pretty well standalone once the first chapter has been read, and this allows the author to show how different religions, ideas and concepts, from Christianity in the South to Socialism in the North East, have all been co-opted by the Brahmins and have failed to produce any substantive movements towards the annihilation of caste and the restoration of dignity and justice to India's 800 million low and out caste slaves.
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