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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...

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[-] dlpkl@lemmy.world 37 points 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@feddit.it 8 points 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 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 points 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 points 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.

[-] dlpkl@lemmy.world 2 points 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@feddit.it 4 points 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.

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[-] tasty4skin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] beard_hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

Outrage???? I am from India. I have seen whataboutism to conspiracy against Govt as reasons used by BJP supporters.

Hell some are outright supporting it. We are doomed.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago
[-] beard_hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , a right wing political party which is current ruling party in Indian Parliament.

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