[PDF]It has been rather a fashion for long to say that Brahamins and Brahaminwaad continue to rule the country and it is they who are responsible for the majority of the problems of the country, especially the plight of the deprived sections of society. We have failed to realise that the balance has changed quite some time back. While the Upper Caste Hindus continue to monopolise India’s socio-economic structure and their hegemony is ever on the increase, it is not Brahamins and Brahaminwaad but banyas (Vaishyas) or Baniyawqaad that now reign supreme. All the propaganda about “Appeasement” of Muslims, and to a lesser extent about the schemes favouring Dalits and OBC Hindus, emanate from the desire to continue the centuries-old domination of Upper Caste Hindus. In the remote past, Kshatriyas ruled with the help of the intellectual power of Brahamins and the Money Power of Baniyas (Vaishyas). Then Brahamins started ruling the country with the help of the money power of Baniyas and the Muscle power of Kshatriyas. More recently, Baniyas have taken the reins in their hands turning democracy into Corporatocracy, with the help of the intellectual power of a section (not all) of Brahamins and the muscle power of Kshatriysa. This is the most dangerous phase because when the money rules, morality soon gets cremated with full honours. In Indian terms, my now well-known phrase of “economic fundamentalism” can easily be translated into “Baniyawaad” and Baniyas as the biggest economic fundamentalists. Brahamainwaad represented dominance of the power of “knowledge”, Baniyawaad represents dominance of the power of “money” I am giving below the list 0f 100 richest Indians (Forbes List) and leave it for the readers to count how many of them are from minorities and how many from Hindu castes other than Vaishyas. Please also add their combined wealth. This will give an idea of just how Baniya community has already monopolised India’s wealth, and to perpetuate it, they will of course try to use politicians, media and bureaucrats.
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Table 1 List Of 100 richest Indians (Forbes List)
Rank
Name
Net Worth
Age
Origin of Wealth
#1
Mukesh Ambani
$18.9 B
59
petrochemicals, oil & gas
#2
Dilip Shanghvi
$18 B
60
pharmaceuticals
#3
Azim Premji
$15.9 B
70
software services
#4
Hinduja family
$14.8 B
-
diversified
#5
Pallonji Mistry
$14.7 B
87
construction
#6
Shiv Nadar
$12.9 B
71
software services
#7
Godrej family
$11.4 B
119
Consumer products
#8
Lakshmi Mittal
$11.2 B
66
steel
#9
Cyrus Poonawalla
$7.9 B
75
vaccines
#10
Kumar Birla
$7.8 B
49
commodities
#11
Gautam Adani
$7 B
54
commodities, infrastructure
#12
Uday Kotak
$6.5 B
57
banking
#13
Sunil Mittal
$6.2 B
58
telecom
#14
Desh Bandhu Gupta
$5.9 B
78
pharmaceuticals
#15
Shashi & Ravi Ruia
$5.8 B
-
diversified
#16
Anand Burman
$5.5 B
64
Consumer goods
#17
Micky Jagtiani
$5.3 B
64
retail
#18
Subhash Chandra
$4.8 B
65
media
#19
Bajaj Family
$4.4 B
-
Motorcycles
#20
Vikram Lai
$4.3 B
74
motorcycles
#21
Pankaj Patel
$4.1 B
63
pharmaceuticals
#22
Benu Gopal Bangur
$3.9 B
85
cement
#23
Savitri Jindal
$3.8 B
66
steel
#24
M.A. Yusuff Ali
$3.7 B
60
retail
#25
Sudhir & Samir Mehta
$3.3 B
-
diversified
#26
Madhukar Parekh
$3.1 B
70
Adhesives
#27
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
$3 B
93
motorcycles
#28
Yusuf Hamied
$2.95 B
79
pharmaceuticals
#29
Anil Ambani
$2.9 B
57
diversified
#30
P.V. Ramprasad Reddy
$2.8 B
58
pharmaceuticals
#31
Vijay Chauhan
$2.7 B
80
Biscuits
#32
Kalanithi Maran
$2.65 B
50
media
#33
Reddy Family
$2.61 B
-
Pharma
#34
Kushal Pal Singh
$2.6 B
84
real estate
#35
Harsh Mariwala
$2.59 B
65
consumer goods
#36
Vivek Chaand Sehgal
$2.5 B
59
auto parts
#37
Amalgamations family
$2.45 B
-
tractors
#38
Kapil & Rahul Bhatia
$2.4 B
-
Airlines
#39
Kuldip Singh & Gurbachan
Singh Dhingra
$2.38 B
-
paints
#40
Ravi Pillai
$2.35 B
62
construction
#41
Baba Kalyani
$2.3 B
67
engineering
#42
Murali Divi
$2.28 B
65
pharmaceuticals
#43
Ashwin Dani
$2.2 B
73
paints
#44
Chandru Raheja
$2.1 B
75
real estate
#45
Mangal Prabhat Lodha
$2.05 B
60
real estate
#46
Rajan Raheja
$2.03 B
62
diversified
#47
Sunny Varkey
$2.02 B
59
education
#48
Sunil Vaswani
$2 B
53
diversified
#49
Samprada Singh
$1.98 B
89
Pharma
#50
Glenn Saldanha
$1.97 B
45
Pharmaceuticals
#51
Anil Agarwal
$1.96 B
62
mining, metals
#52
Lachhman Das Mittal
$1.95 B
85
tractors
#53
N.R. Narayana Murthy
$1.92 B
69
software services
#54
Leena Tewari
$1.9 B
58
pharmaceuticals
#55
Ashwin Choksi
$1.89 B
73
Paints
#56
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
$1.86 B
56
investments
#57
Indu Jain
$1.85 B
79
media
#58
Rajendra Agarwal
$1.84 B
-
pharmaceuticals
#59
Habil Khorakiwala
$1.83 B
73
pharmaceuticals
#60
Abhay Vakil
$1.82 B
65
Paints
#61
Venugopal Dhoot
$1.8 B
64
electronics
#62
Ajay Piramal
$1.78 B
60
pharmaceuticals
#63
Malvinder & Shivinder Singh
$1.77 B
-
healthcare
#64
Ranjan Pai
$1.75 B
43
education
#65
Rajesh Mehta
$1.7 B
52
Gold
#66
B.R. Shetty
$1.69 B
74
healthcare
#67
Senapathy Gopalakrishnan
$1.67 B
61
software services
#68
Jitendra Virwani
$1.65 B
50
real estate
#69
Nandan Nilekani
$1.61 B
61
software services
#70
Rakesh Gangwal
$1.6 B
63
Airlines
#71
Devendra Jain
$1.59 B
87
chemicals
#72
Dilip & Anand Surana
$1.58 B
-
pharmaceuticals
#73
Ravi Jaipuria
$1.57 B
61
soft drinks
#74
Vinod Gupta
$1.56 B
70
electrical equipment
#75
Radhe Shyam Agarwal
$1.55 B
71
consumer goods
#75
Radhe Shyam Goenka
$1.55 B
70
consumer goods
#77
Ramesh Juneja
$1.54 B
60
pharmaceuticals
#78
Mofatraj Mu not
$1.53 B
71
real estate
#79
Harsh Goenka
$1.51 B
58
diversified
#80
Sameer Gehlaut
$1.5 B
42
finance
#81
Azad Moopen
$1.45 B
63
healthcare
#82
Nirav Modi
$1.4 B
45
diamond jewelry
#83
Balkrishan Goenka
$1.37 B
49
-
#84
Mannalal Agrawal
$1.35 B
69
pharmaceuticals
#85
Shishir Bajaj
$1.31 B
68
consumer goods
#86
Binny Bansal
$1.3 B
33
flipkart
#86
Sachin Bansal
$1.3 B
34
flipkart
#88
Abhay Firodia
$1.27 B
71
automobiles
#89
Achal Bakeri
$1.26 B
56
air coolers
#90
Salil Singhal
$1.25 B
69
agrochemicals
#91
P.N.C. Menon
$1.24 B
67
real estate
#92
Murli Dhar & Bimal
Gyanchandani
$1.23 B
-
Detergents
#93
Chirayu Amin
$1.22 B
69
pharmaceuticals
#94
Hari & Shyam Bhartia
$1.21 B
63
Diversified
#95
Sunder Genomal
$1.2 B
62
garments
#96
K. Dinesh
$1.19 B
62
software services
#97
Sanjiv Goenka
$1.17 B
55
diversified
#98
Radhakishan Damani
$1.15 B
61
investments, retail
#99
Anand Mahindra
$1.12 B
61
automobiles
#100
Raghuvinder Kataria
$1.1 B
67
diversified