Comparison of matrifocal legacy of India with that of Europe

Europe was under influence of matrifocal ideas...for nearly 3000 years. India was subject to matrifocal ideas, before the warriors came, for about 1400 years, say from about 3200 B.C. to 1800 B.C., in the North West. The technically and military superior warrior nomads Aryans, Shakas, Hunas, Turks, Pathans and Moghuls overwhelmed matrifocal ideas and submerged them, as in Japan.

Where these warriors went later and in lesser numbers, e.g. Bengal, matrifocal ideas are stronger.

Did you know that the famous Marxist Historian R.M. Eaton's doctoral thesis “which debunks the pious fable of the Sufis as peace-loving humanists (in reality they were hate-mongers and spies)” was banned in India.

voiceofdharma.org/books/foe/ch13… Later Eaton wrote his famous book on desecration & destruction of Hindu temples in medieval India, maintaining the popular 'secularist' stance that temple destruction wasn't theologically motivated by Islam, and that Hindu rulers equally destroyed temples.

Apart form the disgusting smell of Benares, Nehru Ji's mind was filled with image of “the Buddha preaching at Sarnath 2,500 years ago”.

Varanasi finds mention as early as the RgVeda as "luminous city as an eminent seat of learning", & is a v.important place in Hindu mythology. “In the first decade after Indian independence...the secular Indian state projected a vision of itself as being guided by...the nation’s ancient Buddhist past...[It was] entirely the outcome of the political and social visions of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.”

I'll give you 3 things

1) What Savarkar did in (revolutionary) freedom movement (post '21).
2) Savarkar's writings
3) How the British saw him & the Mahasabha.

(Giving chronologically, information belongs to all three categories.)

A. November, 1924 :

https://twitter.com/t_d_h_nair/status/1564267227729145856

B. 16 February, 1928

He remorsed on the waste of opportunity of WW1 for Indian freedom, and also suggested ways that India could use to use the probable WW2 in its favour.

“The underground Indian revolutionaries could join them to UPROOT the British regime in India.”

Don't know why but people always misquote Prof. K.T.S. Sarao.

This ‘Power struggle b/w Hinduism & Buddhism = Arab invasion of Sindh’ is far away from his hypothesis of decline of Buddhism in Sindh.

Atleast have the integrity to quote the sources rightly.

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https://twitter.com/yusufpore/status/1560911200451698688

He says that the Buddhists fluorished in Sindh due to their fluorishing trade. Sassanian control over maritime routes & introduction of sericulture in Byzantine empire led to downfall of trade and hence downfall of viharas which depended on them.

Savarkar's Hindu Militarisation is one of the least studied areas. Free India without a large military would have been a disaster of unfathomable scale.

It was for Savarkar's militarisation that India was able to maintain its sovereignty in the early years of independence.

https://twitter.com/feludamitter/status/1559468563307855877

The 2nd World War highly Indianized the British Indian Army (BIA), apart from making it large and modern.

The size increased from 1.8 lakh to 25 lakh, and the number of Indians at officer posts became 14,000.

SAVARKAR FROM THE MEMOIRS OF M. Asaf Ali, a prominent leader of Muslim Nationalist Party, and also of Congress. He was jailed in Ahmednagar Fort during the Quit India movement along with other Congress leaders.

He met Savarkar in London which he frequented as an ICS aspirant. He remembers Savarkar as a very impactful orator, with rather careless English.

In another incident, he remembers Savarkar's dazzling speech on Rama vs Ravana & Righteousness vs Unrighteousness, when 'Mr. Gandhi' was the guest of honour.

A lesser known aspect from Savarkar's life.

Hyderabad under the Nizam Osam Ali was a staunch anti-Hindu state. In 1938, widespread rioting took place, which served as the last nail in its coffin.

The Hindu subjects rose for their rights & started getting organized. Different organizations including Savarkar's Hindu Mahasabha supported this movement.

Senapati Bapat gave an ultimatum to end the tyranny of Nizam, else a large Civil Disobedience movement would start.

When not heard, he reached Hyderabad for protest, & was arrested.

In a civil debate, you must first accept that you misquoted Prof. Thapar, who may/may not be wrong.

Now going into the argument, you again have selectively quoted Prof. Sarao.

This repeated misquoting/selective quoting makes the attempt of a constructive debate futile.🧵

https://twitter.com/TenzingLamsang/status/1529724781561802752

1. Prof. Sarao's stand & your selective quoting
2. Romila Thapar's 1961 book
3. Archaeological Evidence
4. Political nature of alleged animosity

Sadly you cherrypicked even from the small analysis of Dr. Upinder Singh - she herself wrongly confined the Buddhist appropriation of Vedic/Brahmanical deities in one paragraph, highlighting the opposite side.

Will you call the things in following 🧵as Buddhist appropriation?

https://twitter.com/TenzingLamsang/status/1529423144821604352

A. Brahma
B. Indra
C. Vishnu, Ram and Krishna
D. The renouncing royals of Videha

The tragedy of Hindutva side is that they never mainstreamed Sitaram Goel and other Voice of India writers. What it has done is that the *exact* same arguments that were given against Ram Janmabhumi are being given now, even when they have been answered beyond doubt then only. The main argument is “Brahmanical persecution of Buddhists and Jains” - but the problem is that they don't give the exact instances.

The scanty instances they give don't stand historical scrutiny. Let us see some major instances🧵

Jaipur Dialogues website (thejaipurdialogues.com/books/) has some brilliant books to read. My recommendation:

1. Pakistan- The Garrison State
2. Sikh Separatism
3. Kuran in 2 Hours
4. Understanding Mohammad
5. The Sindh Story Also, this BJP elibrary (library.bjp.org/jspui/) has some really awesome books.

1. All books of Jadunath Sarkar (Absolute authority on Aurengzeb) : library.bjp.org/jspui/handle/1…
(To know abt Jadunath Sarkar, read this essay : dharmadispatch.in/history/achary…)