A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on so...

A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on so…

  • dlpkl@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 year ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva

    Hindu nationalists (Hindutvas) have been slaughtering minorities for decades now. With the current BJP government (who are the political wing of the RSS, a paramilitary organization that literally fashioned themselves after the Nazis) in power, they’re not only unchecked, but encouraged. I’m not exaggerating any of this.

    • itchy_lizard
      9·
      1 year ago

      The RSS wasfounderd around the same time as the American Eugenics Society and Hitler Youth. Theose orgs have been abandoned, but RSS is still around

      Unfortunatelyy, fascism is actually the most popular brand of party in India

    • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
      32·
      1 year ago

      Maybe the British forcibly separating a long United nation along religious lines wasn’t the greatest idea. Well, unless their goal was to stoke religious animosity and prevent any meaningful coalition forming between the two against the west… Then I’d say it worked pretty well.

      • dlpkl@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        It’s interesting to speculate what the relationship between Muslims and Hindus would have been if partition never occurred, but given that Hindus have been terrorising other Hindus along ethnic and state lines, as well as other religious minorities altogether, I don’t think it would have been too different.

        • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
          2·
          1 year ago

          Hindu nationalism developed as a response to British Colonialism, and, Hindutva was first elaborated in 1923, as tensions were rising within the colonial British Raj.

          • GBU_28@lemm.ee
            51·
            1 year ago

            British colonialism bad. Get that out of the way first.

            But conflict along ethnic and regional lines has been occurring in India, between Hindus, for a LONG time.

            • beard_hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              41·
              1 year ago

              Let’s list the effects of British Colonalism

              • High taxation on local products and agriculture leading to indentured servitude.
              • Ending royal patronage of artisans causing mass unemployment.
              • Artificial famines as foodgrains exported to Europe during European wars.
              • Labelling of particular tribes or ethnicity criminals for perpetuity.
              • Forcing puritism on ethnic populations.

              For more read: -This -This -This

              And yes. Religious and ethnic problems were already here but Brits exacerbated it.

              • GBU_28@lemm.ee
                11·
                1 year ago

                Yeah I said that more concisely. The British empire is bad. So, it’s irrelevant to the point I made.

                There are documented wars older than the country of Britain.

          • dlpkl@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            For sure, but that’s in addition to the intercaste, interfaith, and intrafaith conflicts that have existed occurred for thousands of years. British colonization was terrible ofc, but it definitely wasn’t the lone or even major cause of the problems occurring today.

      • itchy_lizard
        4·
        1 year ago

        Both Pakistan and India voted against the plan yo partition Palestine in 1948. Sadly, the vote wasn’t even given to the Palestinians.

        Anyway, its remarkable to see Pakistan and India agree on something: the British coming-in and making borders in another country is a bad thing.