india since its inception has been selling itself as a democratic, secular state. Indian state has been successful in selling this idea that it were them who introduced secularism to india via their constitution post partitions. If are to take india as a state post partition only, then and then only we can say that their claim is truthful, but is that the reality?
A people who follow castes within their own belief system, who categorize people based on superior caste, inferior caste, who are gender biased, commit female infanticide and are a fond of light skin color........ how can one accept their claim of 'them being founders of secularism in india?'. In my opinion this is a sheer blatant disregard of india's pre partition history and a try at stealing credit from its previous rulers.
No matter how vigorously they deny (specially their current government) and how enthusiastically they try telling the outside world and their young kids, that india's pre partition rulers were evil who hated Hindus and Hinduism, but they won't be able to justify the fact that how come Hindus have always remained the majority in this region. If the Muslim rulers who ruled india for centuries were spreading Islam by swords then how did such a huge majority escape that? Do historical counts provide any evidence or telling of mass exodus of Hindus from india to any other adjoining territory / country? It is unbelievable how india has quickly transformed into an intolerant extremist majority within some 70 years of majority rule. How they have nourished such hate for faith and beliefs of their previous rulers Muslim / British i.e. Islam and Christians. This in itself is evidence enough that as long as there were people who lived during those rules this majority kept its hate and intolerance hidden, but now just in two successive tenures of a Hindu nationalist party, we see triumphs and trials at rewriting and manipulating the history, hate being spewed for people like Tipu Sultan (who had majority Hindu citizenry living in his domain), cries that Taj Mahal was built on so and so holy Hindu place, demolishing of historic worship structures including Babri masjid.
If what I say above is hogwash then how one denies the naked truth that, the ideology that killed Gandhi has been voted twice to run the government, second time with majority numbers. The religious hatred being spread from the highest levels with inciting their followers for the lowest possible acts of raping dead Muslim women, burning of Churches, raping their own women, disciplining the women who try celebrating valentines day etc. Cow protection and vigilantes, lynching people for their eating habits. And the worst "wishing to marry white skinned Kashmiri women after removal of 370" are all signs and indicators of a highly intolerant majority that doesn't accept anything else but submission to their beliefs and ways. No democratic or secular state would ever impose a curfew for more than 54 days on people who haven't even started any protests yet, no civil sensible people can ever think of injuring young children by pellet guns, no tolerant civilised people can imagine burning / lynching / killing minority and capturing that on tape for pleasure of others. This happens only in india of RSS followers, india of modi, india of BJP .......... they are not secular, they are not democratic, they are not even civilised by any modern measures.
This myth of being secular is legacy of india's pre partition rulers and testimony of how tolerant those rulers have been of the majority beliefs, no matter how backward and superstitious they were and are.
@Mangus Ortus Novem @Khafee @The Sandman @BATMAN
@Dubious @AliYusuf @Mingle @Mastankhan @PakSword
A people who follow castes within their own belief system, who categorize people based on superior caste, inferior caste, who are gender biased, commit female infanticide and are a fond of light skin color........ how can one accept their claim of 'them being founders of secularism in india?'. In my opinion this is a sheer blatant disregard of india's pre partition history and a try at stealing credit from its previous rulers.
No matter how vigorously they deny (specially their current government) and how enthusiastically they try telling the outside world and their young kids, that india's pre partition rulers were evil who hated Hindus and Hinduism, but they won't be able to justify the fact that how come Hindus have always remained the majority in this region. If the Muslim rulers who ruled india for centuries were spreading Islam by swords then how did such a huge majority escape that? Do historical counts provide any evidence or telling of mass exodus of Hindus from india to any other adjoining territory / country? It is unbelievable how india has quickly transformed into an intolerant extremist majority within some 70 years of majority rule. How they have nourished such hate for faith and beliefs of their previous rulers Muslim / British i.e. Islam and Christians. This in itself is evidence enough that as long as there were people who lived during those rules this majority kept its hate and intolerance hidden, but now just in two successive tenures of a Hindu nationalist party, we see triumphs and trials at rewriting and manipulating the history, hate being spewed for people like Tipu Sultan (who had majority Hindu citizenry living in his domain), cries that Taj Mahal was built on so and so holy Hindu place, demolishing of historic worship structures including Babri masjid.
If what I say above is hogwash then how one denies the naked truth that, the ideology that killed Gandhi has been voted twice to run the government, second time with majority numbers. The religious hatred being spread from the highest levels with inciting their followers for the lowest possible acts of raping dead Muslim women, burning of Churches, raping their own women, disciplining the women who try celebrating valentines day etc. Cow protection and vigilantes, lynching people for their eating habits. And the worst "wishing to marry white skinned Kashmiri women after removal of 370" are all signs and indicators of a highly intolerant majority that doesn't accept anything else but submission to their beliefs and ways. No democratic or secular state would ever impose a curfew for more than 54 days on people who haven't even started any protests yet, no civil sensible people can ever think of injuring young children by pellet guns, no tolerant civilised people can imagine burning / lynching / killing minority and capturing that on tape for pleasure of others. This happens only in india of RSS followers, india of modi, india of BJP .......... they are not secular, they are not democratic, they are not even civilised by any modern measures.
This myth of being secular is legacy of india's pre partition rulers and testimony of how tolerant those rulers have been of the majority beliefs, no matter how backward and superstitious they were and are.
@Mangus Ortus Novem @Khafee @The Sandman @BATMAN
@Dubious @AliYusuf @Mingle @Mastankhan @PakSword