I have seen Rajput men proudly blabbering about how women were treated in Rajput kingdoms.
Infamous Karni Sena also made a ruckus around the way rajput queen was portrayed in movies.
So I actually read & want to share the condition of Women in Rajputana Kingdoms (Thread).
1.Although the honor of women was much defined & matter of utter dignity to the Rajput’s yet they lived in an unauthentic & handicapped society.
The lower caste women suffered the animosities of feudal lords who looked upon them like vultures & preying on them with lust.
2.The Rajput women of low class were denied education.
The laws for women were very stingy.They were supposed to follow higher ideals in terms to their men and society.
They were limited to house and could not roam freely as men & were punished severely if broke any such law.
3.While the Rajput queen enjoyed the virtue of swayamvar the lower caste often got their daughters married at the age of 9-10 to mid aged men.
Rajput society followed female infanticide very evidently.
The society favored men over women even though they preached something else.
Women had to follow 'purdah' where no man except her husband & immediate family members should see her face.
The married women had to forcefully follow 'sati' if her husband dies.
Many of the societal norms that plagues our North Indian society can be traced back to Rajput times.
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Story of Dalit Injustices in UP: Unnao case (Thread)
17 August 2017 dalit girl sent an open letter to the CM of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, saying she had been raped on 4 June in the house of Kuldeep Sengar,MLA of Uttar Pradesh from Unnao and a member of the BJP by 5 men.
On 5 April 2018, the woman's father was arrested and he was assaulted by supporters of Sengar led by Sengar's brother Atul.
On 9 April, her father died in hospital of his injuries in police custody!
The victim attempted to immolate herself in front of CM residence for lack of police action against the accused and death of her father.
The death and the immolation attempt led to widespread outrage, after which an FIR was registered against Sengar.
People calling for a hindu nation should know how the hindu nation in the past looked like for the lower castes especially dalits.
When Maratha empire reached its epitome and the dream of a hindu rashtra was almost becoming real.
The Peshwas were the real rulers of the empire.
The Peshwas were Brahmins of a particularly orthodox bent & infamous for their brutality against dalits & other lower castes.
The Mahars a low caste community were made to tie brooms behind their backs to wipe out their footprints & pots on their necks to collect their spit.
Although the first Maratha ruler, Shivaji, freely recruited Mahars in his army, two centuries later, by the time of the Peshwas, the status of Mahars was lower than ever.
The Mahars were forbidden to move in public spaces and punished atrociously for disrespecting regulations.