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…

  • 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.