Thread by @ruchirsharma_1

"Found her way" sure is a strange way to say "abducted at age 12, enslaved, groomed, and trafficked" to the Epstein of the time.

While the world protests to end the glorification of slave-owners, Sahib whitewashes both, because we savage natives cannot be trusted with the truth.

https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/1284913803923259398

As Dr Martin Luther King said, "The great stumbling block in [our] stride toward freedom is ... the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."

According to our eminent intellectuals, the African-American community weren't enslaved, killed, and raped, they just "found their way" across the Atlantic?

Epstein's victims weren't groomed and trafficked to a ring of powerful men, they just "found their way" to their bedrooms?

Native Americans just "found their way" off their ancestral lands, reduced to living in poverty and neglect on reservations, didn't they, Sahib?

Aboriginals just "found their way" to horrifying institutions designed to 'breed the black out of them', didn't they, your lordship?

Instead of whitewashing, remember this article.

"The nine-year-olds taken as sex slaves by Christopher Columbus were not like ‘this is a great guy’. While they were being raped or beaten and thrown overboard, they certainly knew that these men were bad."

medium.com/@indica/by-the…

"When people say, 'we can’t judge historical figures by the standard of our time'...they mean 'the monsters did not think themselves monstrous'. What they mean is 'colonised lives don’t matter'."

The victims, living at the very same time, certainly knew that these were monsters.

"Yet we treat them as if they are the only people in history. It’s as if we write about serial killers, but only from the perspective of serial killers ...

Even today, we only consider the perspectives of their oppressors, their abusers, their killers. Never them."

"How would you have experienced that time?

If you had your child ripped away from you and sold, would you shrug and say ‘by historical standards, my baby is just property’?

No. The heart of a mother cries out throughout time, and it never heals."

"If you were in the Uva Province of SL, watching British soldiers murder all the men, slaughter the livestock, and destroy the irrigation systems, would you calmly tell your children, “Given our historical milieu, we can’t judge these men”.

No. You would be angry. We still are."

"These perspectives matter. All of the lives that were silenced by the whip or the noose before, are silenced by armchair historians today.

People talk about a whites-only history where only white feelings mattered and because white people didn’t feel bad, it simply wasn’t bad."

Cannot even claim it is out of ignorance, having discovered this story himself, and yet choosing to whitewash slavery and trafficking.

Another self-appointed, one-man Truth & Reconciliation Commission, protecting the "secular fabric of the Idea of India" from the savage natives.

When Sultanate and Mughal court chroniclers describe with pride how they enslaved and sold hundreds and thousands of infidels as war booty or in lieu of taxes; when Aurangzeb's Fatwa-i-Alamgiri enshrined dehumanisation of slaves, whitesplainers dismiss it as mere "exaggeration".

White colonisers and their native compradors have a huge Mughal fetish because it helps create a narrative to justify their rule - that the history of India is the history of successive invaders "civilising" the meek natives, who had no military, naval, or cultural achievements.

That's why today, we don't learn about Rajendra Cholan and his cultural impact on our civilisational brethren in Champa, Kambuj, Ayutthaya, and Majapahit.

Or that of the Ahom kings or of Vijayanagara.

Even Samrat Hemchandra Vikramaditya is reduced to "Hemu" the grocer's son.

Today, this heinous alliance of neo-imperial colonisers and brown sepoys, by whitewashing the horrors of our past, empower modern leaders who say, "900 saal tujhe ghulam banake rakha tha, yeh mat bhoolna".

Or to use infantile Western analogies, "India's Confederates/Rhodesians".

Which is one more reason why he pussyfooted around the abduction, enslavement, grooming, and forced conversion aspect.

He doesn't want to get cancelled by his own cabal for undermining their new narrative - reversing which community were slaves and who were slaveowners in India.

अफ्रीकी क्रांतिकारी संकारा कहते थे, "जनशत्रु वोह है, जो जनता को अज्ञानी रखता है।"

जब तक हमारे देश में ऐसे इतिहास के स्वयंनियुक्त ठेकेदारों और फिरंगी उपनिवेशवाद के नमूनों की इबादत रहेगी, तब तक हमारी स्वतंत्रता संपूर्ण नही होगी।

स्वराज और स्वाभिमान के बिना, स्वतंत्रता अधूरी है!

मोरारजी देसाई ने ऐसे उपनिवेशवादियों और उनके भृथक सिपाहियों के बारे में भी कहा था,

"भारत में कुछ ऐसे लोग हैं, जो भारत को जानते नहीं। यह पश्चिमी प्रभाव का नतीजा है ... लेकिन हमारे देश के अनपढ़ों को भी जीवन की वास्तविकताओं की ऐसी समझ है, जो एक पढ़े-लिखे फिरंगी के पास भी नहीं।"