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12 Feb, 11 tweets, 4 min read
As I’ve said before India is even lagging Africa in decolonization.
Can anyone explain why India lagsAfrica in decolonization?

Apparently we never communicated with each other before the British ruled us and forced English on us. 😁

The government is the problem. It has always been. You can communicate with the European Union govt in any of the 24 languages of the union. In India it is English-Hindi, English-Hindi, but actually just English-English.

Absolutely. The Government of India needs to completely embrace multilingualism in all the scheduled languages.

Yes, that is what I have been advocating. The government must serve citizens in their own language. This is basic customer service.

Yes, this is much easier than it was in 1947.

This is one of the myths about English I dismantle in my book. Less than 10% of the world speaks English, it is no "lingua franca." And that number would drop even lower but for India.

The French are fluent in English? 😂 Did you spend much time in France?

Though it is a bit more in Paris in recent times, but very little outside it.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
13 Feb
Interesting perspective from a long-term RSS Swayamsevak on the deracination of BJP/RSS.

What is the response of others in the Sangh to this? Does aversion to rituals and grihasth ashram deracinate? khullamkhulla.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/pat…
The language is a bit harsh and I’m not endorsing the viewpoint.

But it is true that RSS is largely a reformist and not a traditional org, unlike what its critics allege.

So it is worth a samvad about this issue.
What’s the source of this?
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
10 Feb
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
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
6 Feb
Brahmin-hate was created by colonizers because they saw them as obstacles to conversion of Hindus.

I'm not a (jaati) Brahmin, but I oppose their demonization.

Paraphrasing a meme:
"They're not after Brahmins, they're after Hindus. Brahmins were just in the way."
Hindu society was organized so that everyone thought they were "on top." It was a heterarchy not hierarchy. Brahmins assented to this colonial meme because *like everyone else* they also think they were "on top." So they went with the colonial narrative.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
4 Feb
Farmers in US & Canada have the right to sell anywhere. Indian farmers didn’t have this right before the new laws empowered them.

I hope #WorldSupportsIndianFarmers means it supports the new laws and freedom from State control which their farmers enjoy.

#IndiaRejectsPropaganda
Every day a new "explanation" is spun up to oppose the laws. Just plain spin and bs'ing.

Fact is that the laws are being opposed for a singular reason. To oppose the government, to agitate and to burn the country down.

What about the vast majority of farmers who are happy with the laws and not protesting? You want a few anarchists to hold them to ransom? Elections are the way to decide if people and farmers support the laws.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
2 Feb
Marco Polo's observation about India. From Venice, he travelled extensively in the Middle East and China. Of course, take accounts with a grain of salt.

But of India, likely Tanjore, "it is the richest and most splendid province in the world." This from the Court of Kublai Khan.
Also observed by other ancient travellers. That people in India do not drink alcohol. Another traveller (I forget which) said that this is considered "low" because it causes loss of awareness. At the same time sexual pleasure is not "sinful." (Sex as sin comes from Christianity).
This quote that led me to the book—in India dark skin is a sign of beauty. "God and saints are black, devils are all white."

He is using a Christian lens, but this is certainly true as deities go. Vishnu, Rama. Krishna, are all dark. White-preference happens after colonialism.
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
2 Feb
Good thread. We must understand the motivations of Europeans in spinning “Greek” origins.

The Church was in a war for supremacy with Islam in the Middle East. And Europe.

The advent of Christianity and its destruction of pagan knowledge had led Europe into the Dark Ages. 1/
The persecution of Greek philosophers by Christians led to them fleeing to the Middle East. From the 8th to 14th c there was a flourishing of knowledge in Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate, building on pagan knowledge.

(Ref: Greek destruction here)

indiafacts.org/dahi-handi-deb…
As @MeruPrastara documents, the flourishing of knowledge during this period had little to do with Islam per se but was a continuation of earlier pagan knowledge built up by the Arab & Persians, from Greek sources and knowledge from India and China. 2/

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