Evaluating India's Options
Ahmad Faruqui, Dawn (Pakistan) | January 5, 2009
A few months after the Mumbai terrorist attacks and in a climate of growing suspicion that Pakistani groups are responsible, India is still uncertain of how to respond. ++ The ramifications of the military option could stretch from a negative shift in the balance of power between the Pakistani secular community and the military elite, to a large scale war between two nuclear powers. ++ While all options are still on the table, the safest choice for India and the world would be to seek a multilateral solution through the UNSC.
Thu, Jul 30th 2009, 17:43
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Now a small refresher course into the comprehensions by the Indian elites into their favoured way to combat terrorism:
Disintegral Tribalism and disintegral tribal forces - a term used by Benjamin R Barber to delineate the nature of forces of a particular psychological bent that is an immediate threat to the democratic world.
Who are the educated amongst the Indian elites to take an umbrage to its usage by an Indian scholar specializing in that area?
The Indian christians and the assorted Christian Tribal groups within India. That scholar is not a tribal and is a high-caste brahmin. Together that immediately spells into a scheduled caste/scheduled tribe war against that scholar and his family. And supported by its universities that most belabour under the 'flower-children' generation aspirations towards becoming a part of the global civil society! Incidentally the work upon Combating International Terrorism was completed in one of New Delhi's and even India's premier university and named after India's first Prime Minister.
Now how do these forces gain access to that work by the Indian scholar? Another area touched by the scholar's analysis was something that is known as the politics of ressentiment within the studies over social capital of states and societies - an area again touched upon by many scholars within Europe and the Americas, including the Nordic world.
The idea of a politics of ressentiment as a erosive force within democracies as well as lending towards alienation immediately gets the attention of the same forces mentioned above.
When war is declared by the Indian state (its police forced ostensibly draw their salaries from the tax-payers' money that forms the corpus for the Indian state's revenues) against that scholar's family and that scholar, can private issues like marriage etc. be left far far behind?
Within such dynamics of ethno-linguistic terrorism that favours certain elements within the Indian political spectrum (the slow socialization of people from that scholar's private life into ostesible prostitution/escort service industry perhaps forms the final statement by the Indian political elites of the confession of the real dynamics of the Indian state! including the scholarship by its elites and of its elites!
When faced with this piquant situation, what do the Indian elites do? Try and frame the scholar into many other criminal activities - with foresight being the catchword for that scholar's specialization in International Terrrorism. The European Union Studies' Project (where the scholar completed his pre-doctoral degree with his specialization in International Terrorism) had elements (again from within the Indian police forces and elements of the Indian state) that actually begn to see his foresight (otherwise a declared offender and criminal perhaps if only they can nail him) - in his family where his father also happened to be an officer with the Indian military - another crime alongwith him being a school teacher and another proof of the scholar having sufficient foresight (except ensuring for himself a life of the elites -in standards and creature comforts)!
Religious bigots of the Hindutva Brigade (largely identified as the criminal nexus of the Indian political class across the spectrum) and Indian elites? But where does the United States come in here - if we know who are the kites that so fly in the US embassy?
The source has been two: Indian jesuits and other people seeking to find a copy of his work. Now the Indian state as the most terrorist-battered state or something else. Appeals by the same scholar to its elites including the then ruling Junta that is continuing even now - speaks of something terribly wrong with a state that assumes terrorism as a problem.
With such comprehensions as noted above - Pakistan and India show an equal propensity towards becoming the classic cases of failed states thriving upon the socialization of disintegral tribalism that Benjamin R Barber so warns about in his book McWorld vs Jehad, with the additional notations by R. Scott Appleby of the elemnts that can easily be replacing the Jehad factors - the McWorld vs Crusade factors and which Mark Juergensmeyer has identified earlier as the rise of the religious nationalism as a direct challenge to the secular liberal world order.
Terrorism and South Asia: as the underground theatre for a medieval crusade because its champions do not understand academic notions of disintegral tribalism? This combination of the forces warned against by Benjamin R Barber, R. Scott Appleby and Mark Juergensmeyer - amidst a plethora of scholars including the hapless scholar whose work upon International terrorism so spawned an underground war gainst those of his ilk - as some interesting "Aryan Hunting" by select European and American elements - speaks volumes about not only South Asia but those states that have exported such radical elements. For a better idea of the networks that form this nexus - you can read an article about the free radicals by this author, though considered too revealing by this portal to be evn published as his opinion piece.
Do we know what is rotten with South Asia? It houses these forces and expects the democratic world to take it seriously when one speaks of and about International Terrorism.
Its police and 'elites' often confusing these free radical exports from Europe and the Americas as representations of their states. Perhaps those states have closed their embassies in New Delhi, India for such a claroty of views.
Disintegral Tribalism as an excuse for a domestic caste-war. Ask the Donkeys - they know best. Yes, Mr. Barack Obama?Must be 1947 for South Asia at play here... when one talks of South Asia and terrorism.