Recent notes on the White House Trade Peter Navarr that “Brahmins” “profile” from Indian oil trade with Russia are “at best, reflection of his total ignorance” and “in the worst, clear racist”, says Suhag A. Shukla
With American cities such as Seattle and Fresno including caste for their anti -discrimination regulations and California, the first states in a country that banned caste discrimination, the Hindu American foundation was at the forefront of resisting the ongoing efforts to express as a protected class in the US
The essence of its arguments was that discrimination based on caste is recognized as part of the Hindu faith, creating a category of crimes that would always be exclusively focused on hindy, which they claimed to be discriminatory against the Hindes. In July this year, the California court refused to accept this argument.
Mrs. Shukla, who responded to the Hindus questionnaire on Mr. Navarr’s notes, said that the White House advisor “framed with complex international problems with inaccurate and reduced oriental stereotypes”. She said the notes were made within one week, when Mr. Navarro published a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Saffron and meditated: “It suggests that Indian elections are somehow irrational, back or uncaturated”.
“Rather than setting up their arguments about the logic or healthy reasoning, as every American public official should show, the preference to Sykophance in combination with racist colonial stereotypes,” she said.
Mrs. Shukla said that while HAF is not planned to issue a public statement on these notes, “may consider the communications of our fears directly to the administration”. She said that in hateful expressions against Indians online from the “right right”, which she claimed that “recycled caste tropics originally pushed extremely left”, there was also a “disturbing steep”.
Within a few hours after Mr. Navarr’s notes, which he made during the Fox News interview on business relations in the US-India on Monday, there was a debate in India what he meant, how deliberate were his notes and what was the level of his understanding, with political leaders of both BJPs and opposition parties commenting on it.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey indicated that Mr. Navarr’s rhetoric came from the “unconscious script” of the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, while the leader of the Congress Trinamool insisted that the White House advisor should refer to the general elite, equivalent to American expressions as “Boston Brahmins”. Congress leader Pawan Kher condemned Mr. Navarr’s notes.
The leader of Dalit and Chandra Shekhar Azad, while claiming his wish to reject comments on foreign leaders about “internal affairs” of India, also took advantage of this opportunity and spoke of studies that showed how wealth, resources and much remain in the country among the very small number of caste. Yet other commentators on the social media counted Mr. Navarr confusing “Brahmins” and “Baniyas”.
In the middle of the Shukla, Mrs. Shukl also responded to Mr. Navarr’s notes on the X Social Media platform, saying that the Indians “heard” his notes like “slur”, which further claimed that his commentary on “brahmins” was similar to the Indian business negotiator saying, “I want Americans to understand what is happening.
Mrs. Shukla said in her e -mail to Hindu questions that there was “shocks and attacks” over Mr. Navarr’s notes and added that it was not “surprising” for “observers like us in the HAF).
“False and negative stereotypes about Indian and Hindus persist through our educational systems-basic and secondary, as well as secondary-when India is too often reduced to the country of rituals and superstitions, social backgrounds and moral degradation,” she said.
“Moreover, we have witnessed the disturbing increase in hateful rhetoric online towards Indian immigrants from far -right persons. But the fact is that often recycling caste tropics originally pushed to the left, especially in recent years, because the marginal South Asian activists have sought discriminatory caste policy.
The reactions to some political leaders insist that Mr. Navarro wanted to refer to the elite class in India, just like the term “Boston Brahmins” was used at one point in New England, Mrs. Shukla said, “Attempts to rationalize his notes in India The fact that it is thoughtfully, and it seems to be for rationalization and it seems to be for rationalization and it is for rationalization and it is for rationalization.
Published – 3 September 2025 22:14 is
