
theology was the ideological scaffolding to justify the subjugation of lower castes, and the categorization of jatis to specific castes, and the gradual calcification of their social standing, occupation etc…religion doesn’t exist in a vacuum and this is pretty reductive because the hierarchies were a natural outcome of the feudal order that we descended into as zamindari kinship-land systems emerged.
i hate hindutva, like any other person, bc of the genocidal pogroms my family has endured, as well as the demographic engineering and genocides aided by collaborators with the british but i recognize that no religion exists in a vacuum, in a separate historical and material plane, but rather exists transposed upon the material conditions. even when we left hinduism, the caste system followed us. namasudras emerged. ashraf-aljaf-arzal triad hierarchies. kammis mazhabis pasmandas.
if people can retain caste after converting to roman catholicism, sanskritize groups within the subcontinent and codify their jati into a rigid caste irrespective of whether they were considered vedic or subsumed by the brahmanical ‘hinduism’ label, then is it really about hinduism itself? other religions have asserted the same supremacy in states where they have been foundational for the ethnostate majoritarian logic they operate through. so if the indian subcontinent secularized…
would the caste system cease to exist? this is not a defense of hinduism—an incoherent label in of itself because the rigveda contradicts itself many times and many subaltern bahujan indigenous beliefs were subsumed as the religion became more organized. shamanist/animist faiths were also either called zoroastrian/hinduism when they were neither and yet they were subsumed by that or they lived on through ‘sufi’ orders within islam
buddhism - 1. 180,000+ tamil hindus genocided in sri lanka. they destroyed so much rich tamil hindu literature and portrayed tamil hindus as non-indigenous fo justify settler colonizing tamil eelam land and genociding them ^ mullaivakkal model deployed in rafah. gaza. sri lanka armed by israel
2. rohingya genocide in myanmar. also pogroms of christians and other minorities. 3. lhotshampa peoples ethnically cleansed by the hundreds of thousands from bhutan into nepal. sexual violence and pogroms used to accelerate the ethnic cleansing. 4. they no longer exist but buddhist paramilitaries in central asia would skin muslims alive and store the body parts so! should i generalize? no!
hinduism 1. dogra raj massacres and the holocaust of jammu (the dogra raj, backed and armed by the RSS, had , like the sikh empire, been taxing muslims. think of reverse jizya, this is why a lot of koshurs/kashmiris settled in panjab or were ethnically cleansed fo there. they wanted to make a hindu majority uniform subject to make the princely state of jammu & kashmir easier to manage so that its integration into india would be easier). 2. the invasion of the independent state of hyderaba
hyderabadi dakhnis were genocided, the nizam-afaqi class that were ousted by the revolutionaries in the communist telangana rebellion were instrumentalized by the indian army to give the locations of these revolutionaries. every muslim was collapsed into a razakar although there were def razakars there but there wasn’t a need to massacre over 100,000+ dakhnis. also, tribals like godavaris were massacred; adivasis had helped make the revolution successful.
the indian state and the so-called ‘socialist’ nehru instated feudalism. nehru suppressed the findings. until 2013 and some whistleblowers before revealed that during the invasion, the army lined muslim men, shot them, buried them in mass graves, raped the women, slaughtered families and bloodlines in telangana. but this is what armies do sooo. 1984 sikh genocide, manipur kuki-zo genocide
occupation of kashmir, mass graves, serial rape of kashmiri women like Konan Poshpura. the indian army has used IOF-esque tactics actually, raping the men with metal r0ds. the goal is emasculation so they kts from humiliation. just don’t resist that’s the goal. destroy the family. the man seen as the start of the bloodline? then he ends up in an unnamed mass grave in baramulla.
but i hate pakistan too so don’t whataboutism this india is a bureacratic democracy and was historically more left….but eventually the berlin wall fell, and there was no need to geopolitically posture. we were duplicitous. meeting yasser arafat while using israeli arms in the indo china war, and using mossad training to massacre sikhs in 1984 pogroms. 6.2 million men sterilized in the 1975 emergency also
the JKLF sought funding from oakisfan almost like kurds seeking funding from the USA. naturally both would be betrayed. pakistan had already armed lashkar mercenaries along with the british who didn’t gaf. the lashkars came in and successfully genocided mirpur’ṣ sikh and hindu population. the lashkar mercenaries took advantage of the muslim rebellion against the dogra raj. they protested against the taxes. this instability from the uprising in poonch was how they entered and did the gcde
the JKLF had many kashmiri pandit communists too along with muslims pakistan saw this obviously as a liability and wanted to incporate them into the state the JKLF knew this but pakistan kept adding islamist nationalists into the JKLF, and tried to hollow the Marxist leninist secular foundation through that
this was how they were able to get the kashmiri pandits ethnically cleansed by hijacking kashmiri liberation and using kashmiri muslims as fodder for years hundreds of thousands have been massacred for the greed of two bloodthirsty ethnostates. one is a U.S.-saudi-GCC proxy, the other is a democracy. the difference is immaterial to us. zia-ul-haq after the CIA and military coup did a shia genocide in gilgit baltistan formerly the princely state of kashmir. 1988. shia identity was seen as
- a threat to panjabi sunni agrarian elite structure and their majoritarian ethnonationalism. so they put trauma in GB ensuring the shia noorbakshi population would never separate operation green hunt (adivasi genocide) is sometimes justified through religious lenses, but that is just to exacerbate class antagonisms. we all know the ‘counterinsurgency’ for naxalbari is a genocide to get the land. they rebelled because their indigenous lands were exploited. with no return. ecocide.
and manipur - meitei militants given carte blanche for ages. kuki genocide. christians. more churches leveled than ISIS in jezireh and sham/levant northeastern india has always been treated as an expendable frontier for military operations even bengali identity is policed and ppl are being stripped from databases. but as i went down the list, more of it has to do with our feudal order and our capitalist state incorporating the peripheries into the market economy.
final thing i’ll say is that india being a democracy never stopped it from engaging in genocide. same with amerika, but i’m not gonna say that we south asians are regressive in blood and body and that ohhh christians better nah. i know that both hinduism and christianity have been used as vessels to racialize other populations like native americans as impure. same with bahujans also doing genocide in the andaman nicobar islands. boarding schools. population replacement. + shompen. settlers
lmaoo she pmo she wS a self-described “anti-capitalist” who was so enlightened she believed usa could magically “withdraw itself” from a war between two “equal sides” who were “always fighting” 💀💀 this is the average dharmic religion exceptionalist / we call them “savarna” feminists bcecause when they talk about patriarchy they speak over dalit women, sometimes LARP, and lowk the white feminist type within india
i bet if i asked her whether she supported eelam tamil self determination, she’d say sri lankan territorial integrity is more important than a peoples’ survival (who are india-hating terrorists in her eyes) but she’s the eternal victim of “transhistorical islamism” (now u can see how the racialized islamophobia baked into hindutva makes us as bad as zionist wow!)