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The Dangers of Hindu Nationalism

#india #hindu #narendramodi #gandhi #pakistan #bangladesh Created using http://revid.ai/ The resurgence of Christian Nationalism in the USA has, amongst other things, fostered the rise of Donald Trump, and culminated in the attack on the capital by Neo-confederate terrorists on January 6. But this kind of propaganda based lunacy is not limited to white America. A similar wave of fanaticism has also been sweeping across the worlds largest democracy in India. Only this time, it’s in the name of Hinduism. Hinduism has been practiced for 1000’s of years and around 80% of India’s population are members. However, In the more recent centuries they have been under the control of Non-Hindu imperialists. Commencing in 1526, the Muslim based Mughal Empire, from modern day Uzbekistan, ruled India and the surrounding regions until 1720 (It was they who built the Taj Mahal). This period produced a lot of economic prosperity and modernisation throughout India, but it was still a collection of independent provinces rather than one united nation. This textile rich part of the world inevitably attracted the attention of the Europeans, with the cunning British East India Company eventually outmanoeuvring its Dutch, French and Portuguese rivals, and successfully colonising the Indian territories around 1757. They started with Bengal and then gradually acquired the rest one piece at a time, by keeping the various ethnic groups seperate (divide and conquer), and growing its security forces into a private army of 200,000 troops (twice the size of the regular British Army). But like all super-rich multinational corporations, the British East India Company was brought down by greed – pure unadulterated greed. When the resources had all been plundered and millions of people starved to death, a massive rebellion occurred in 1857. Although it was suppressed, it did lead to the termination of the East India Company, and in 1858, the governance of India became the responsibility of the British Government, right up until the conclusion of the second world war. During this period, 3 major political movements took shape. The most famous is of course the Anti-colonial secularist movement of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru (India’s 1st Prime Minister). Their goal was for an independent India which was inclusive of all its different faiths and ethnicities. They soon became friends with the second of these movements, which had a goal of Muslim separatism. Their leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, felt that the islamic contingent of India’s massive population of 1 billion people, would be safer and happier if they were able to carve out their own independent, muslim homeland. Both of these groups would end up getting, more or less, exactly what they wanted. India, and the newly created Pakistan, finally achieved independence in 1950. Which brings us to the third and final movement, the Hindu Nationalists. This group despised the new India that Gandhi had given them. They disapproved of his pluralistic approach and were furious that a piece of the country was sliced off and turned into a muslim homeland...........