lets start the whole discussion with the definition of Manumission: formal emancipation from slavery(click). It is very important to understand the dimension of slavery that exist in our society. With a limited capacity of understanding that i have about Indian society and as an individual about myself, i will try to focus on the issues related to internal and external slavery. What we can see around us is the social system, which includes a stratification with respect to either caste/clan or economical disparities.
And whenever there is inequality and non-equitableness we(conscious citizen) think about fairness and justice. i would like to capture the whole scuttle slavery that has been introduced in our society since post Aryan or post Mouryan era. It has a nature of deriving utility of aristocracy,
since the people who were living in the territory bounded with Indus,
Himalaya and Brahmaputra were not aware about philosophical evolution in
the west. This slavery was different from the exclusive slavery that existed in Confederate United States(Southern United States). Some thing that was going to come from the countries(Europe), who have been living in dark ages(almost) and poverty since 1400A.D. Thomas Mun(1571–1641) brought the idea of balance of trade and mercantile system. Which gave thrust to Europe to expand their manufacturing, international trade, and building colony across the globe. But the involved negative externalities in this ambition was scarcity of man power and their military capability helped them to conquer the less military equipped countries and penetrated the psychology of hierarchy on the basis of skin color. The voyagers' guts help them in this task. They took black color human from Africa and put in to their plantation and etc. to fight the scarcity of manpower for their ambitions.
I will not spend much of details which can explain how the whole Aryan system that was based on division of types of work. And how that system was escalated to extreme caste system and unaccountability. When British came to this part of the world they brought their defined slavery. And then our own so called Indian(was called by western) started differentiating themselves to find aristocracy. In the beginning the whole aristocracy was associated with kings and then it started percolated to lower levels and every second person wanted some landholding and workers on that land to project themselves as aristocrat.
Now what is the present situation, the reluctance for change to break old school of thoughts is our internal slavery. However USA had worst slavery but they also broke their internal slavery and the example is of an Afro-American president. We need to understand how we are slave to our own thoughts of looking around for some kind of special treatment. That start from not standing in the queue for tickets to disrespecting women. why i m bringing these examples because we think that we aristocrat and how can we stand in a queue, because queue is for slaves. Also as a matter of fact an aristocrat should and can sleep with so many women by his will that leads them exhibiting machismo and try to seduce women and further to disrespect by doing heinous act of rape and assault.
These all are resultant of our internal(psychological) slavery that has been grown a lot. And need for a psychological manumission.
