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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
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Dec 19, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Anyone who uses the following terms to "explain" India is deeply colonized. They are using memes fabricated by the British for subjugation and narrative control. Which memes:

1. Caste
2. Brahmanism
3. "Aryan" race/Aryan Invasion
4. "Adivasi"/"tribal"
5. "Dravidian" as a "race"
These terms simply did not exist in pre-colonial Indian conception or they were distorted to serve imperialism in colonial scholarship. Resist and reclaim the narrative.

The "theory" of the "Caste System" is based on a fervent belief in Black Magic. 😏

Usually a scientific theory would be discarded when evidence shows that it doesn't work. Because these memes are not based on scientific theories but on colonial projection of Eurocentric dogma, they forever mutate on evidence, can't be disproven.

There are no biological markers that distinguish so-called "adivasis/tribals" from other Indians. "Adivasi" is a made-up word, a translation of aboriginal, trying to map European colonialism to India (to show "caste Hindus" colonized India.). It's a fake.
newscientist.com/article/dn1470… Image
Similarly there is no "Dravidian race" The DNA of Indians is completely mixed—a DNA test could not determine what language someone speaks in India. "Race" itself is an unscientific construction with roots in Biblical theology. At best, there are language families in India.
We don't even need all these "DNA studies." These memes simply did not exist in this way in pre-colonial India. To free India from the grip of colonial scholarship, we need to look at the range of vocabulary & experience of Indians free of the assumptions in these colonial ideas.
People are asking, explain what was there. Here is a preliminary thread.
Of course, pretty much every institution of the Indian State is colonial. They are the worst offenders. And no "babudom" cannot fix it. They are recruited on this basis. And trained for it.

Since we are talking about the state:
A thread on European race theory and its Orientalist construction of India.
One can add

6. Fascism

to the list of terms.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
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An Indian Muslim @ShoaibIND put out this tweet.

How did other Muslims respond to it? A 🧵 Image
Can't be happy cope.

If you seek to be happy, loved and prosperous who have failed the "main mission" of a Muslim.

How can we stop insulting others' gods, even prophet did it. Image
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How @theliverdr pushes ideologically motivated garbage.

In a long post he claims that “science says” Giloy caused liver toxicity; in the same post he dismisses a study on Ashwagandha as garbage.

For the case against Giloy his reference is the propaganda rag, @thewire_in! 😏 Image
The Wire article further references an “observational study” which has a total sample size of 6 people!

No doubt this study is conducted by other Liver doctors trained in allopathy alone; and specifically targeting Giloy “twigs.”

Other than the limited sample size, the AYUSH response states that it is very easy to confuse Giloy with a similar, but toxic, plant; the “scientific” study didn’t actually even check if the correct plant was used.Image
So this 6-person study with any randomized control or double-blind test, where motivated researchers isolate a perhaps pre-determined conclusion is called “science.” Now let’s see what this doctor calls “underpowered garbage” which was “never done methodically.” Image
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Jan 16
Europeans, particularly Germans, were so desperate for an “Aryan” identity based on Hindu texts because they had very little history or identity of their own.

The Germanic tribes were barbarians with little durable language or culture. To lay claim to Sanskrit and related knowledge allows them to attach to a glorious history.
The Germans weren't successors of Rome. The Italians had history, the Greeks had history, even the British could harken to a Celtic history, what did the Germans have?

This is how they became "Aryan" laying claiming to Sanskrit and Indo-European origins.

Lol, not Hitler was born and died a Christian. He was merely continuing anti-semitic policies of Popes in the past.

"Aryan" was not a religion to him, but a "race." Race itself is a construction of Europe, and he claimed to belong to the "Aryan race."

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Jan 5
Some direct excerpts from the translation of "al-jabr" by Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, from which the term Algebra comes.

Note this translation is from 1831. After 1857 British and Western scholarship started denigrating Indian knowledge as an explicit policy. Image
Firstly, the translator Frederic Rosen makes explicit that Al Khwarizmi did not invent Algebra, and that this was "well-established" in scholarship, but that he was the "first Mohammedan" to write upon it. 2/ Image
That Al Khwarizmi did not invent Algebra is attested by many, and even by the Al Khwarizmi himself in the preface where he states that the Caliph Al Mamun, encouraged him to write a popular work on the topic, implying that there were existing works he would use. Which were these?

Translator himself concludes that "at least part of the information is drawn from an Indian Source", based on his knowledge alone.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
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45 years ago “science” said ghee was terrible and my father switched us to dalda, marketed as a substitute, from ghee.

Now science tells us ghee is good and hydrogenated oil is the worst.

Lesson: Don’t follow 2-year old “science” studies. Follow 1000-yr old tradition.
See my thread on this.
Traditions (not religions) are scientific knowledge tested and passed down over generations.

Scientific studies are time-limited and ephemeral; their results are easily overturned by the next study and are in many cases irreproducible.
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Medical arrogance.

Many "modern" medicine are also extracts of herbs. But the pharma industry relies on dismissing the original because it can't be patented and yields much less profit.

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Let's dive into it.mcgill.ca/oss/article/he…Image
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In this article he cites a single study to back his claims, saying "drinking more water did not offer any benefit for kidney function."

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