Nice thread by @BharadwajSpeaks. There is a long tradition of record-keeping by the Brahmins at Haridwar etc. This is a rich source of historical record which has not really been tapped.

It will be interesting to find the purohit of the "Sikh" Sodhis and when the records stop.
Exactly, this is what I meant. I suspect that it is only after Macaullife-Sikhi made by the British that they stopped going to Haridwar. Before that all records must be present of their purohits.

Yes, I went and got my ancestral records on my father's death. As a "modern English-educated" Indian I had no idea all this even existed.

Hindus are supposed to have no sense of history. Yet we've preserved meticulous ancestral records for generations.

How many places in India are ancestral record preserved?

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17 Feb
Imagine a world:

Where our shilpkaras would teach art, not those who passed a few exams.

Our traditional architects would teach in architecture schools.

Where children would learn skills in apprenticeship, and not be jobless after 15 years of education, having learnt nothing.
Can someone described the German apprenticeship model in detail. I've heard about it in passing.

Indian intellectuals, like clockwork, kept studying “caste discrimination”, just like their colonial masters had taught them to.

But the real axis of discrimination today in India is English class and those who go to dysfunctional government schools vs expensive private schools.
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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.
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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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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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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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