Thread by @dikgaj

1) What follows in this thread will sting everyone across parties, ideologies, sects, "spiritual paths" in some way: but stinging is not the intention. I have suffered socially for not being able to stop plain-speaking and what I see clearly. This is just plain-speaking.

2) The best way to understand whats going on in BD on Hindus is to grasp the peculiarities of Hindu society as it evolved through the last two invasions. A portion of power seeking Hindus converted, another portion didnt convert, but collaborated. This is the more fatal part.

3) The collaborator "elite" Hindu, had and will always feel threatened by the common Hindu's numbers - and as in every other elite wd seek to differentiate their rites/rituals as somehow superior to that of the commons they fear.

4) The theory of superiority is created to justify the screwing they give to the common Hindu. The detachment both the fear and claim of superiority generate, helps in being unaffected by the suffering of the common Hindu in the hands of the invaders they collaborate with.

5) This detachment in "power" Hindu mindset sees the land, ppl, culture, especially culture of the "folk", ultimately even family members and women demanded by invaders - all tradable commodities. Jihad on common Hindus therefore doesnt really touch a Nehru or a Paramvrata.

6) The "power Hindu" who doesnt convert, but de facto protects the jihadis tandav, as well as lies to whitewash the ideology of jihad that has remained consistent over centuries, is actually seeking the "middleman" arbitrator role - an opportunist, low cost but profitable role.

7) the arbitrator middleman won't convert to mullah side as that wd make it difficult to sway Hindus that he is supposedly also looking after Hindu interests and rights. But s/he will also not look after Hindu rights as that wd make it difficult to curry favour with mullah side.

8) if over time his role is exposed to either side, he will threaten Hindus that if they dont support him he cant/won't "soften" jihadis. He will also threaten mullahs that without him, the Hindus wd no longer be checked and their superior numbers may just clean out jihad forever

9) every invader to Bharat correctly recognize that eliminating the "Hindu" won't be as easy as in their previous conquests and strategy is needed. just as invader jihadis picked out the best candidates to be the "middleman" to play this game, the Brits picked out similar.

10) thus invader "power Hindu" axis develops in their common interest, and in fear of the common Hindu - and what gives common Hindus their strengths - their folk practices, festivals, rites, everything that brings them together, or allows them to see their own strength.

11) British - "power Hindu" axis developed in fear of Marathas, Sikhs, and also of Bengalis - for even if much of their struggles against Brit scum from 18th c is successfully erased - they showed the possibilities of resistance Brits feared. Each zone was taken up separately.

12) MacAuliff's project was to isolate the "Sikh" from the Hindu, and he did his best to create that sense of separation in an elite that survived the last sparks at Chillianwallah. To break Marathas, Brits successfully used "caste". Breaking Bengal needed mullahs.

13) Noting that none of the three projects entirely succeeded, Brits adapted and first hoped "softroaders" (narampanthis) wd win over "hardroaders" (I dont approve the word "charampanthi"), but when it failed at hands of a Maratha-Bengali axis - their hopes rested on Gandhi.

14) Gandhi and Gandhians represent the epitome of middleman arbitrator "power Hindu" in a colonial-post-colonial setting: their fear of the common Hindu remarkably picked up exactly on what the Brits feared - the "hardroaders", and political base of Punjab and Bengal Hindus.

15) in the 1920's British police had cleared the field of all the grassroots leaders thrown up from common Hindu ranks in the UP peasant movements - handing it all effectively in a platter to cronies of Gandhi. So UP henceforth wdnt be a problem.

16) But parts of Sikh/Hindu Punjab and Bengal remained unbroken in spirit. So ultimate solution to unleash mullahs on both. This was successful, by covert arms and preparation for jihad which obviously Brit intel knew as they proved to hv penetrated almost every armed movements.

17) Partition was the ultimate step in "power Hindu" politics that had a shared vision with the Brits and equally hated and sought to destroy the political basis of its deemed "enemies" through engineered demographic disaster supplemented by judicial and legislative repression.

18)Even within the Sikhs or Bengali Hindus, one might see the "power Hindu" fears in how it differently treats segments: the police will be very polite to a proud killer of "religion insult" while they will unleash bullets to the "lower/folk" more common segments of the same.

19) Between the Sikhs and Bengali Hindus, Bengali Hindus are hated and feared even more by the "power Hindu". There cd be various reasons, geographical proximity of Sikhs to what "power Hindu" considers its "true homeland", and therefore useful bodyguard ag the very collaborators

20) a shared or fostered by invaders racial prejudice over the Bengali Hindu, (with little real basis), but probably most crucially the belief in the capacity of the Bengali Hindu of innovating politically and ideologically to hoped-not claim to national power.

21) Thus protecting the mullah base on both sides of the border in WB and BD will be a key policy goal of any "power Hindu" rising in the "western/northern" reaches of the land. Its the jihadi when totally protected by the country govs that can stall the Bengali Hindu.

22) Does it mean the sun has set for the Bengali Hindu? Not if some critical questions asked and consensus answer developed. Erasure of the Bengali Hindu will signal erasure of the resistant strains of the Hindu. Temples, rituals hv never proved capable of protecting themselves.

23) Bengali Hindus must realize that they must control or construct a modern nation state power committed to protecting Hindus and their practices, and not just within its own borders. If it can only be done within own borders, expand borders to include those under alien rule.

24) Bengali Hindus best trajectory is not to go alone, not allow the "power Hindu" to hijack the narrative to isolate them more - but build links to others within the existing nation. At the same time not to go the other extreme of giving up on identity to appease.

25) Start a strict identification and labeling of voices and everywhere around in society : those who don't support the primacy of protecting the Hindu are not Hindu, they don't "belong". Try and make them feel they don't belong. This mental and social rejection is a first step.

26) Refuse to accept the demand that Hindus must not exercise the right to defend themselves physically in whatever way they can when attacked. Isolate and expose any ldr, think-tankie, admin or judicial voice that says otherwise.

27) Look at how to cut resource routes that supply the enemy. Many of them go through India. Identify institutions, companies, personnel involved. Take measures to neutralize their activity. Use these resources to build up your own infrastructure. Jihadis grew on same sources.

28) difficulty Bengali Hindus will face is the hyperactive "power Hindu" admin/intel that will intervene very actively to prevent them acquiring capabilities of defence - something that "power Hindu" are pretty relaxed on when it comes to jihadis given latter's rampage.

29) funding will be another issue: this is why own enterprises, and collections will be important. Taking over revenue streams that fund the enemy, is important. Presence in admin/intel/judiciary is important. Pretend to be secular if necessary to get in. Help the cause once in.

30) rituals, festivals important, but they can't protect themselves. They need muscles of living humans to continue. Disengagement no solution. Bengali Hindus need to be part of the state structures while keeping their underlying cause sacrosanct. Everyone's contribution matters.

31) Corruption and betrayal perverts the course of many national movements or movements of reassertion. This has to be fought at both practical and ideological level. If Bengali Hindus can commit to this nation-state building goal, all the other obstacles can be overcome.

32) Bengali Hindus will find it difficult to go all alone: best to make it a project of refounding of the nation - a task left incomplete by the transfer of power. You will need the resources of the current state to refound the nation and thereby achieve what you need.

33) the "power Hindu" will obstruct creation of safe zones or autonomous or independent territories for Bangladeshi Hindus - or even them acquiring defensive capabilities. One of the reasons, anti-Bengali Hindu sentiments are protected in NE. That doesnt mean they hv to surrender

34) the "power Hindu" agenda for controlling the Bengali Hindu extends to de facto protecting fanning of anti-Bengali Hindu sentiments in entire NE so that the Bangladeshi Hindu can't escape the killing fields. This has to be subverted. That zone is ideal for this path.

35) "Virbhogya vasundhara": but buddhi, ranakaushal, kutaniti play an equal role. Nothing is unachievable. If there is commitment.