Thread by @sankrant

Cultivation of Hindu hate comes from the needs of colonialism and evangelism, which seeded the academic memes to study India in the last 150 years.

Colonialism fashioned a "Sikh identity" in opposition to "Hindu" to serve the needs of the British army.

To control a Hindu civilizational state, different groups had to be split to regard the Hindu as the "other." "Sikh" creation was literally done via the army, which excluded non-keshadharis and even non-jats.

This is Macauliffe on the British Army fashioning the "Sikh religion."

Similarly, for the conversion of Indian, the evangelicals had to set up different groups in opposition. People were rooted in their own traditions. To cut roots, hate was necessary.

So you say:
1. "Tribals" were never Hindu
2. Hindus oppressed you
3. "Hinduism" is for Brahmins

This gets extended to the manufacture of "Dravidians" vs "Aryans." To justify White colonialism and Christian evangelism, you create themes like"

4. "Aryans" colonized Dravidians.
5. "Dravidian gods" vs"Brahminical" ones.
6. Brahmins oppressed you, Whites "saved" you.

The entire "scholarship" peddled in colonial academia today is for the needs of Christian evangelism. The "Periyarite" movement was a prime example of this. These narratives of imperialism fundamentally distort the Indic experience. Hindu hate is a necessity for proselytism.

The manufactured of the "Aryan Invasion Theory" was key to the Eurocentric racist construction of "caste." The extent of the narrative control is evident in the actual historical record of #ChristoIslamic invasions being subordinated to a mythical one.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/975268957681729536?s=20

When "missionaries" come to "save tribals", the aim is to ultimately destroy the tribal traditions. Hindu hate is a stepping stone, the target is each community (including Sikhs). The real hate is for all indigenous traditions not controlled by the Church.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/935017100011343872?s=20

Separatist movements are rooted in colonial scholarship. It's not a "law and order problem." They start with messing up the mind. It is all about the narrative. Unfortunately the Indian govt has done very little to challenge these narratives, since the govt is itself colonial.

If missionaries succeed India will become a Rwanda with warring "ethnic" groups.

When Indian "seculars" aim to erase Hinduism, they should check out the fate of Rwanda or Nigeria. No Hindus, no "caste", merely the perpetual war of Christianity and Islam.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1282709534981541888?s=20

This is the kind of result of missionary education.

Irrational hate combined with ignorance.

https://twitter.com/jayahar_ma/status/1359018714624970753?s=20