#gujarat riots

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Beti Bachao

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Its absolutely terrifying how India is possibly in the beginning stages of a full blown genocide of muslims and dalits and other non Hindus and no one is talking about it. All the major news channels are controlled by the media, the prime minister hasn't given a single press conference in the nine years that he's ruled, one of the major opposition MPs was recently outsed from parliament in a bullshit move and BJP party members and supporters are openly lynching people and raising genocidal slogans publicly. And no one is talking about it

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The real story of prosecution of minorities by Hitler & the resemblance

Credit: quora The prosecution of minorities under Hitler’s regime, particularly targeting Jews, is a dark chapter in history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party implemented policies of systematic discrimination, persecution, and ultimately extermination of various minority groups, most notably Jews, but also including Romani people, disabled individuals, homosexuals, and others. The persecution…

[coquettesamosa]

also it just gets to me how the govt is leveraging india's general (past) 'perception' as a secular democracy to build up goodwill and a good reputation for itself externally while it's doing everything thing it can to stifle democracy internally

[tdsci]

BBC Documentary On PM Modi "Propaganda Piece", "Colonial Mindset": India

The BBC series called “India: The Modi Question” has provoked sharp reactions. (File) The government today slammed a BBC series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “propaganda piece with bias” that shouldn’t be “dignified” with a response. “The documentary is a reflection on the agency that has made it. We think it is a propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative. The…

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Trigger Warning: Rape, murder and communal violence.

This is really a grim day for bilkis bano because one of her petitions has been rejected by the supreme Court of India. She was raped and her family was murdered during the 2002 gujarat riots and her 11 rapists have been set free by the gujarat government under the current ruling party at the centre under 'good behaviour' and the bjp leaders said that they were "good sanskari brahmin men". This really shows the apathy and insensitivity of the supreme Court of India and how Muslim women face injustice in india.

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Gujarat Elections 2022: BJP releases manifesto, promises 1 lakh jobs for women, hospitals, world class sports infra

Gujarat Elections 2022: BJP releases manifesto, promises 1 lakh jobs for women, hospitals, world class sports infra

Gujarat elections: Five days before the crucial first phase of Gujarat elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its ‘Sankalp Patra’ or manifesto in Gandhinagar. Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, BJP national president JP Nadda and state party president CR Paatil were present at the party’s manifesto launch. The Gujarat elections will be held in two phases on December 1…

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Bilkis Bano Rape Case

Bilkis Bano Rape Case

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it is genuinely grotesque when hindutva fascists repeat the story about a pregnant woman being targetted by hamas with gory details to bait the outrage of zionists because. the story they're actually echoing is of an indian muslim woman called bilkis bano. her rapists were freed this year and they were garlanded and feted by local bjp workers. the riots this occured during were aided and abetted by narendra modi in 2002 when he was gujarat cm, and this was why he was not permitted a visa to many countries.

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Indigo Revolt

The Indigo Revolt (aka Indigo Riots or Blue Mutiny) of 1859-60 in Bengal, India, involved indigo growers going on strike in protest at working conditions and pay. The subsequent violence was aimed at exploitative European plantation owners, but the cause was, during and after, taken up by anti-colonial Indian liberals as an example of the necessity for independence.

The Indigo Trade

India was known for its cotton textiles through the Middle Ages, and by the mid-16th century Gujarat in northwest India was major a source of indigo, the deep blue-violet dye used to colour cotton and other materials. Indigo was in high demand by the European trading companies, including the British East India Company (EIC) which made large profits from its export. The EIC used well the long-standing expertise of Indian indigo growers and dyers, particularly in centres such as Sarkhej in Gujarat and Bayana in neighbouring Rajasthan, both in northeast India.

The making of indigo dye was a long and labour-intensive process. The plant cuttings were harvested once a year in June or July before the onset of the rainy season. These were then taken to a factory by cart where they were emptied into large vats to steep in water. The dyed water and mash was then boiled as this brought out a richer colour in the indigo grains, which then had to be strained out. The grains were next pressed into dried cakes, which were in turn pressed into barrels or, alternatively, the mass was cut into cubes and packed into chests ready for transportation. Most indigo was shipped to Calcutta (Kolkata) for sale to merchants who then organised shipment to England or the Americas where it was used to colour textiles. From the late 18th century, Bengal became the major centre for indigo production, accounting for 67% of London's total imports of the dye in 1796 (around 2 million kilograms) and then rising further into the 19th century.

The indigo industry was a volatile one. Too much or too little rain greatly affected the quantity and quality of the dye produced each year, and in boom years, overproduction brought a crash in the price. Still, for the long-term investor, indigo could be a very lucrative industry indeed. Unfortunately, the financial speculation that resulted in such a crop with potential for large gains was another source of instability. Finally, the location of many indigo plantations made them prone to flooding, which not only damaged the crop but often swept away the factory facilities.

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i find it extremely funny that indian news outlets are expressing such great outrage over how unprincipled it is that narendra modi and chief justice chandrachud celebrated ganesh chaturthi together. were we expecting the architect of the gujarat riots and the chief justice that legalized the violent incorporation of kashmir into the indian nation state to be men of integrity and principle?

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I'd say your selective opposition to ethnostates is hypocrisy, but you at least do make it clear that you'll tolerate an enormous amount of nationalist or ethnoreligious violence and repression, so long as it's coming from "nonwhite" (by your standards) people acting in the service of "decolonization."

I don't think I have a selective tolerance of ethnostates. I think I've been pretty clear in my opposition to non-white ethnonationalism, including Hindutva and Japanese nationalism (both of which I've talked about recently) and Han Chinese nationalism (which I haven't talked about recently, but which you can find posts on way back in the archives).

I don't think ethnonationalism is infinitely bad; that is to say that if there were e.g. a group of ethnic nationalists who also credibly claimed to support some form of democracy, and they were engaged in a civil conflict against an autocratic state, I might very well think they were the lesser of two evils. Someone described Rojava as an ethnostate the other day—I don't think it is, either nominally or in practice, but even if it was I would be pretty sympathetic to their cause, given that they're attempting to break away from Assad's Syria. None of that means that I think ethnonationalist policies are good.

Beyond that, I would say that "ethnonationalism" gets used pretty freely on here, for sets of policies that don't materially resemble each other very much. People trying to revive the Welsh language and the BJP trying to eliminate Muslims from India both sometimes get described "ethnonationalism", even though I don't think they actually have much in common at all as policy agendas. The most you could say is that perhaps at some level there are similar emotional motivations involved for certain supporters, but like... who cares? I don't think that's a great basis on which to judge a set of policies. Uncharitably, I think people opposed to policies of the former sort often call them "ethnonationalism" precisely to associate them with policies of the latter sort, as a cheap rhetorical trick. Even if you feel the description is technically accurate in both cases, "preservation of Welsh is just like the 2002 Gujarat riots" does not really work as an argument...

Anyway, I'm a pretty strong supporter of people's endeavors to express and partake in culture that matters to them, and I see "coordinating endeavors that matter to people" as one of the main functions of our (public and private) institutions. So I'm exceedingly sympathetic to "let's dog-ear some money in the budget to help keep Welsh alive", and I suppose if that makes me an ethnonationalist then so be it. But I don't think it does. And in any case, as you can see by my choice of example here, this applies exactly the same to white and non-white people.

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The real story of prosecution of minorities by Hitler & the resemblance

Credit: quora The prosecution of minorities under Hitler’s regime, particularly targeting Jews, is a dark chapter in history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party implemented policies of systematic discrimination, persecution, and ultimately extermination of various minority groups, most notably Jews, but also including Romani people, disabled individuals, homosexuals, and others. The persecution…

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When the BJP-led NDA came to power in 1998, the government of India's human resource development minister Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi included 'Priesthood and Ritualism' into school curriculum. During his time, astrology began to be taught instead of science-based astronomy. Learning how to perform the Putrakameshthi Yajna, a (Vedic) ritual to get a male child was also introduced. They are inculcating unfounded beliefs and foolishness into children's minds. Recalling Golwalkar's call for involvement in RSS activities to be essentially devoid of any critical thinking and discernment, once they are in power, they have set about implementing this in children's education. Recently, CBSE has removed several topics from their syllabus. Of these, topics such as democracy and diversity, impact of globalization on agriculture, popular (mass), movements and communalism were removed from the Class 10 syllabus. It is for this kind of school curriculum excisions that the RSS has nurtured one of its offsprings, the 'Shiksha Sanskriti Uttahn Nyas. It has consistently been pressurizing NCERT to remove from textbooks, allusions to 'the former prime minister Manmohan Singh's magnanimous apology for the Sikh riots', and the 'killing of around two thousand Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat riots'. This is their chicanery.

Devanuru Mahadeva, 'RSS: Depth & Breadth'

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21 Jan 23