Impacts of colonization on Hindu society and reviving its dynamic structure.

While we pride ourselves in inheriting the legacy of a great unbroken Hindu civilization, the last 1200 years have been a history of bitter truths – of losing to the deceitful and asymmetrical tactics of warfare utilized by theopolitical creeds of middleast.

There is much that has become obfuscated in our history, and a large chunk of it is the twisting and distortion of our customs and social structure.

Specifically, how the sections of our society that resisted foreign aggression were enslaved and forced to bottom of our society.

Throughout the world, great empires and civilizations crumbled in front of Islam and Christianity, but the legendary warriors of Bharatvarsh fought hard for 600 years to keep the barbarians at bay.

The first crack appeared in Afghanistan, where the barbarians kept attacking the RAJPUT kingdoms till they uprooted it, while the kings of Afghan states barely received help from mainland of Bharat owing to the difficult terrain and them being in the frontiers.

Then came the conversion of the king of Kashmir in the 9th century.
(While Sindh was the first frontier state to be attacked, Afghan states were first to collapse under the Islamist onslaught.
This is where the cautionary tale of repeated exodus of Kashmiri Pandits began, as they refused Islam.

Still, the kingdoms of northern Bharat kept the Islamist invaders at bay till the end of 12th century.
However, from Muhammad of Ghor onwards, a series of Islamist invaders ravaged the heartland of Aryavart.

We have read this and the many atrocities these marauders committed.

What the Hindu nationalist easily picks up is the violence committed on all sections of Hindu society. What she or he cannot wrap her/his head around is the indignities all Hindu Jatis were made to suffer.

The first aspect of it was the systematic destruction of our knowledge centers, beginning with the campaign of Jalaluddin Khalji. The Islamists systematically destroyed universities, burned libraries which contained millions of unique manuscripts with irreplaceable knowledge.

Along with this they killed and anslaved all academics who were source of all that knowledge, restricting its flow in society. The only gurus left were those outside of the universities and major institutions, still being a substantial lot, but not as capable as the Masters.

This meant the creation of a knowledge vacuum in society, which the missionaries of Islam could exploit to confuse and convert the most vulnerable Hindus – the regular working class or the Shudras.

Islam being the antithesis of Sanatan sanskriti, defines quality of income in the exact opposite way.
While Hindu teachings stress on honest earning through hardwork, the best kind of income in Islam is considered from the work of slaves.

This ethic was pushed hard upon the subjects by the Islamists, as their was no slavery in Bharat before them, and they saw Hindus as lowly people who did all their work by their own hands.

This ethic meant a fundamental change in Hindu society – instead of a symbiotic relationship between all Hindu jatis, this ethic of abhoring hard work meant those who work with their hands in vocational skills went to the bottom of a Jati hierarchy.

Over the course of 6 centuries, this hierarchical social structure became formalised in Hindu society, as every new generation of Hindus were taught these values by their elders, who didn't know any better.

Despite this distortion, till the time the British conquered Bharat, people of different Jatis could easily change their trade, and enter another "Biradari".
This can be clearly seen in biography of Raja Ramamohan Roy.

The British took the distortion of Hindu society a step further, forcing the freezing of family professions from the first census onward.

It was the British that created the Scheduled Castes.

The other aspect of distortion of Hindu society was "untouchability" becoming commonplace.

As per our original social structure, people of the four Varnas – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra were part of the respectable society.

Only outcast criminals and Chandals – people who lived in filth, had no manners and consumed meat indiscrimately – were untouchable.

When Islamists enslaved Bharat, they often force fed beef to the captured people, leading to them being labelled untouchables.

Eventually as these captured Jatis were released with the aim of causing more 'pollution' in society, and it was essentially impossible to figure out who was force fed beef and who wasn't, the whole Jati would get branded as "untouchable" after being captured by Mlechchhas.

The combined effect of the destruction of dignity of labour, expansion of untouchability, and the freezing of Jatis has left Hindu society in paralysis, and is the toxin that has been killing it, slowly but surely.

While we may never be able to regain the lost knowledge of ancient universities like Nalanda, it is imperative that we identify these 3 factors in Hindu society and begin transforming it into and equitable and dynamic community.

1. We must teach our youth to respect hardwork and skills of hands. This will ensure both an economically stronger community and preservation of traditional crafts.

2. While untouchability has been mostly removed in society by force of law, chauvinistic attitudes and looking down upon Shudra Jatis needs to be uprooted completely. This can be helped by reestablishing the Sanskars in these Jatis.

3. The crypto-Christian colonial state of "Republic of India" reinforces "Caste" by asking the Jati of our ancestors. We can easily turn it on its head by registering our Jati based on our profession, and not passing it to our children unless they take the same profession as us.

Finally, we must stop looking at bureaucracy, law enforcement and government to improve our lot, as the ball is in our court.