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Hindu Nationalism has been present in India since British times. In Punjab, they used to be called Arya Samaj (Society of the Aryans) and majority of their idea
by iamshs 7y ago
Hindu Nationalism has been present in India since British times. In Punjab, they used to be called Arya Samaj (Society of the Aryans) and majority of their ideas have been adapted today by RSS. In 1984, anti Sikh pogrom Hindu Nationalists supported killings of Sikhs on the ground, supporting such acts by distributing motivated pamphlets among politicians, and by calling for ‘de-Turbanization of Sikhs’. In 1992, Babri mosque was demolished by Hindu Nationalists. 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims was perpetrated by Hindu Nationalists.
It is disingenuous to say that Hindu Nationalism is a recent phenomenon of last 7 years. It has a long history by now in India.
- yumraj 7y agoMinor corrections: Arya Samaj has nothing to do with RSS. It's a Hindu reformist religious movement. 1984 was perpetrated by Congress supporters, not BJP. Babri mosque, like many other sites, was built after demolishing Hindu sites. Don't Hindus have any rights? Gujrat riots happened after train full of Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, was burnt by Muslims.
- iamshs 7y agoArya Samaj started as a reformist movement but very quickly morphed into a Hindu Nationalism movement. RSS shares its ideological underpinnings with arya samaj. 1984 was supported by Hindu Nationalists, RSS idealogue Nanaji Deshmukh wrote that Sikhs need to be taught lesson and the pogrom was a right lesson for them. No support has been found that Babri Mosque was built on a demolished Hindu site. Even if it is, democracy doesn’t work to please majority. To you are justifying Gujarat riots? Each point of yours is whataboutism.
- readme3 7y agoUnfortunate you use the word arya and then fud it just like the Aryan invasion theory that is stoked up to prop up the Dravidian nationalism. The word Arya is different from the racial Aryan. Arya in sanskrit means , the seeker of truth. I dont want to go into the details here , but there are places where seekers are called arya or arya-puthras (kind of ties down to oh-sons-of-truth as referenced in the Gita).
- iamshs 7y agoArya Samaj themselves claim to be Aryans. Lala Lajpat Rai, one of its heads, explains it in detail in his book explaining Arya Samaj to the western world. He wrote the first book in English tailored towards western audience, and he himself said that.