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Originally posted by aneeshm
Molly - are you quoting Max Muller ?
Molly - are you quoting Max Muller ?
And previously I've also instanced research carried out by the University of Andhra Pradesh- not renowned for its Nazi ideology or Euro-fetishization of supposed Aryan ancestors- into the genes of modern India's inhabitants.
I don't suppose the fact that the religious texts refer to the people being displaced as being dark or the dark ones has any relevance in an India whose southern inhabitants are notably darker than its northern inhabitants, does it ?
Also- to anyone who hasn't seen the story of Phoolan Devi- 'Bandit Queen'- I'd like to recommend it, as I would her life story.
Rape as punishment isn't confined to Muslims raping Hindus in the Islamic world:
A number of sexual assault cases have recently seen quick trials, thanks to fast-track courts. But for every such handful, there are thousands which lie buried in dusty files. A new law is in the works but it may come too late for those forgotten few who are still waiting for justice. Saira Kurup reports.
Bhanwari Devi
Raped September 22, 1992
She may be a Dalit, hailing from a poor, potter's family, but in the last decade, Bhanwari Devi has become a torchbearer for the women's movement in the country.
Though everyone remembers the name, few know that even 14 years after she was gangraped by upper-caste villagers for attempting to stop a child marriage in her village, Bhateri, about 45 km from Jaipur, this "icon" still hasn't got justice.
Bhanwari Devi
Raped September 22, 1992
She may be a Dalit, hailing from a poor, potter's family, but in the last decade, Bhanwari Devi has become a torchbearer for the women's movement in the country.
Though everyone remembers the name, few know that even 14 years after she was gangraped by upper-caste villagers for attempting to stop a child marriage in her village, Bhateri, about 45 km from Jaipur, this "icon" still hasn't got justice.
and:
IX. ATTACKS ON DALIT WOMEN: A PATTERN OF IMPUNITY
Throughout this report, Human Rights Watch has documented the use of sexual abuse and other forms of violence against Dalit women as tools by landlords and the police to inflict political “lessons” and crush dissent and labor movements within Dalit communities. In Laxmanpur-Bathe, Bihar, women were raped and mutilated before being massacred by members of the Ranvir Sena in 1997; in Bihar and Tamil Nadu, women have been beaten, arrested, and sometimes tortured during violent search and raid operations on Dalit villages in recent years. Like other Indian women whose relatives are sought by the police, Dalit women have also been arrested and raped in custody as a means of punishing their male relatives who are hiding from the police. As very young women, they are forced into prostitution in temples under the devadasi system.
Aaah, religion, gimme that old time religion:
(06-23) 04:00 PDT New Delhi -- A San Francisco professor has become embroiled in a dispute with militant Hindu activists who, she says, threatened to parade her naked in the streets and rape her because she was working with a local organization investigating religious and caste tensions in eastern India.
Angana Chatterji, an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, says the threats against her and other female members of the Indian People's Tribunal on the Environment and Human Rights were made last week as they took testimony from residents in impoverished Orissa state.
Over the past few years, Orissa has become a focal point in a campaign by Hindu fundamentalists to turn secular India into a Hindu nation ruled by Hindutva, a set of strict Brahmin principles. The campaign has heated up into a simmering "war for souls" as Hindu nationalists struggle to halt conversions to Islam and Christianity among the state's impoverished lower castes and classes.
Angana Chatterji, an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, says the threats against her and other female members of the Indian People's Tribunal on the Environment and Human Rights were made last week as they took testimony from residents in impoverished Orissa state.
Over the past few years, Orissa has become a focal point in a campaign by Hindu fundamentalists to turn secular India into a Hindu nation ruled by Hindutva, a set of strict Brahmin principles. The campaign has heated up into a simmering "war for souls" as Hindu nationalists struggle to halt conversions to Islam and Christianity among the state's impoverished lower castes and classes.
Let's all chant: Muslims bad, Hindus good, Muslims bad, Hindus good.....
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