Is the increasing wealth gap in India, that's worse than during British rule a sign of a second colonisation attempt by Gujarati billionaires? (lemy.lol)

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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The question you've asked makes use of wrong terms, if I had to be honest.

Your question is loaded under the assumption that Gujarati billionaires are colonizers - but that is not what colonialism is. Gujarat is a state, formed after the breaking down of Bombay province into multiple other states, including Maharashtra and Karnataka.

If you're talking about the hoarding of wealth, mostly by upper-caste/class Gujarati people (be it Parsi, Gujjar or Marwadi) who have formed the equivalent of chaebol, or what we call in Hindi as व्यावसायिक समूह (business groups), then it's crony capitalism, not colonial capitalism.

[-] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obviously this is not about Gujarati people. They are just the same people as anywhere else in India.

I have specifically mentioned Gujarati billionaires. You know which guys I am talking about.

There are many recent incidents to think of which points in a similar direction.

In Varanasi the livelihood of small boaters is being taken away by large steamers owned by Gujarati billionaires.

In Ayodhya 4500 houses and shops of poor people were bulldozed to build five star hotels owned by Gujarati property tycoons.

In Ahmedabad the biggest semiconductor plant is being built predominantly funded by tax money and low interest loans from Public sector banks but owned by Adani. I mean they literally own the country at this point and if you are paying taxes you are working for them.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Also add the apartheid in Mumbai towards Marathi natives and large-scale hording of Dalit lands in Mysuru.

But nonetheless, what you're talking about is actually text-book capitalism - as is described by most communist writers.

I'll recommend that you give the Das Capital manga a read. Or read the original, English translated version of it. It is a really hard book to read, but you'll understand as you go on, word-by-word, page-by-pqge.

[-] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

Sure I will. Thankyou.

[-] Shialac@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

nah, thats just capitalism

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

sign of second colonization

OP thinks he will achieve something by labelling the current situation of country as "colonization"

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

The terms OP has used is wrong, but the ground-reality is that Gujarati merchants are making a fooling of the naivety and illiteracy of lower-caste small-land owners from other parts of India, and bribing district commissioners.

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Gujrati merchant are making a fooling of nativity and illiteracy of lowe..

Why "gujrati" needs to be there ?

Surely all kind of people all over India do it.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Maybe ask !india@lemmy.run or !india@lemmy.ml or !indianews@lemmy.run

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