South Asia How Brahmins and the British Created India's Hindu Majority

[Bilal9]

Date of Event: Nov 6, 2021

Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-L4eOLl98 Short Summary: When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...

When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...


Sources

1:15 - Lubin, Timothy, et al., editors. Hinduism and Law: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2010
1:15 - Viswanathan, Gauri. “Colonialism and the Construction of Hinduism.” The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2003.
1:36 - Thapar, Romila. “The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics.” Social Scientist, 1996.
1:52 - Jha, D. N. Rethinking Hindu Identity. Equinox Pub, 2009.
2:39 - Cohn, Bernard S. Law and the Colonial State in India. Cornell University Press, 2018
2:52 - Bhattacharya, Neeladri. “Remaking Custom : The Discourse and Practice of Colonial Codification.” Tradition, Dissent and Ideology: Essays in Honour of Romila Thapar, edited by R. Champakalakshmi and Sarvepalli Gopal, Oxford University Press, 1996.
3:26 - Cohn, Bernard S. Law and the Colonial State in India. Cornell University Press, 2018
3:33 - MALLAMPALLI, CHANDRA. “Escaping the Grip of Personal Law in Colonial India: Proving Custom, Negotiating Hindu-Ness.” Law and History Review, 2010
3:55 - Rocher, Ludo. “Law Books in an Oral Culture: The Indian ‘Dharmaśāstras.’” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1993.
4:58 - Rocher, Ludo. “Can a Murderer Inherit His Victim’s Estate? British Responses to Troublesome Questions in Hindu Law.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1987.
5:50 - Carroll, Lucy. “Law, Custom, and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856.” The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1983.
7:26 - Chakravarti, Uma. “Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past.” Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History, edited by Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, Rutgers University Press, 1990.
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9:35 - Barrier, N. Gerald, and Kenneth Jones, editors. “Religious Identity and the Indian Census.” The Census in British India: New Perspectives, Manohar, 1981.10:05 - Omvedt, Gail. Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. Sage Publications, 1994.
11:42 - Sundar, Nandini. “Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology.” Current Sociology, 2000.
11:42 - Donald, Nidhin. Religion as ‘unsettled’: Notes from Census and Anti-Caste Mobilizations. Prabuddha: Journal of Social Equality, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 68-77, may 2018. https://prabuddha.us/index.php/pjse/a...
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12:59 - Census of India 1901 Volume 1 Part 1. 1901, http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ideol....
12:59 - Philips, C. H. The Evolution of India and Pakistan, 1858 to 1947; Select Documents. Oxford University Press, 1962.
13:20 - Samarendra, Padmanabh. “Between Number and Knowledge: Career of Caste in Colonial Census.” Caste in History, edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Oxford University Press, 2010.
13:45,
14:20 - Rai, Lajpat. Arya Samaj. 1915, http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.d....
14:52 - Jaffrelot, Christophe. India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. Columbia University Press, 2003.
15:25 - Omvedt, Gail (See 10:05)
15:40 - Ram, Kanshi. The Chamcha Age: Era of the Stooges. 1982, https://archive.org/details/TheChamch....
17:05 - Jaffrelot, Christophe, and Prannv Dhawan. “Can BJP Balance Caste Aspirations of Voters with Its Core Hindutva Appeal?” https://bit.ly/3o4E1cs.
18:33 - https://bit.ly/3kg5eaT, https://bit.ly/3GZi8DY, https://bit.ly/3BY0MU6

 

[Mainerik]

@Krishna with Flute

 

[Krishna with Flute]

When the 19th century began, no one was sure of who or what a Hindu was. But by the end of the 20th century, it seemed like the majority of India's population was Hindu since the beginning of time. This is the story of what happened in between...


Sources

1:15 - Lubin, Timothy, et al., editors. Hinduism and Law: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2010
1:15 - Viswanathan, Gauri. “Colonialism and the Construction of Hinduism.” The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2003.
1:36 - Thapar, Romila. “The Theory of Aryan Race and India: History and Politics.” Social Scientist, 1996.
1:52 - Jha, D. N. Rethinking Hindu Identity. Equinox Pub, 2009.
2:39 - Cohn, Bernard S. Law and the Colonial State in India. Cornell University Press, 2018
2:52 - Bhattacharya, Neeladri. “Remaking Custom : The Discourse and Practice of Colonial Codification.” Tradition, Dissent and Ideology: Essays in Honour of Romila Thapar, edited by R. Champakalakshmi and Sarvepalli Gopal, Oxford University Press, 1996.
3:26 - Cohn, Bernard S. Law and the Colonial State in India. Cornell University Press, 2018
3:33 - MALLAMPALLI, CHANDRA. “Escaping the Grip of Personal Law in Colonial India: Proving Custom, Negotiating Hindu-Ness.” Law and History Review, 2010
3:55 - Rocher, Ludo. “Law Books in an Oral Culture: The Indian ‘Dharmaśāstras.’” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1993.
4:58 - Rocher, Ludo. “Can a Murderer Inherit His Victim’s Estate? British Responses to Troublesome Questions in Hindu Law.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1987.
5:50 - Carroll, Lucy. “Law, Custom, and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856.” The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1983.
7:26 - Chakravarti, Uma. “Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past.” Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History, edited by Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, Rutgers University Press, 1990.
8:10 - Leopold, Joan. “British Applications of the Aryan Theory of Race to India, 1850-1870.” The English Historical Review, 1974.
8:39 - Chakravarti, Uma [Refer 7:26]8.39 - Trautmann, Thomas R. Aryans and British India. University of California Press, 1997.
9:06 - Vivekananda, Swami. BUDDHISTIC INDIA - The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. 1900, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Co....
9:13 - Radhakrishnan, S. The Hindu View of Life. 2015. https://www.vifindia.org/sites/defaul...
9:18 - Tilak, Bal Gangadhar. The Arctic Home in the Vedas. 1903.
9:35 - Barrier, N. Gerald, and Kenneth Jones, editors. “Religious Identity and the Indian Census.” The Census in British India: New Perspectives, Manohar, 1981.10:05 - Omvedt, Gail. Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. Sage Publications, 1994.
11:42 - Sundar, Nandini. “Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology.” Current Sociology, 2000.
11:42 - Donald, Nidhin. Religion as ‘unsettled’: Notes from Census and Anti-Caste Mobilizations. Prabuddha: Journal of Social Equality, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 68-77, may 2018. https://prabuddha.us/index.php/pjse/a...
12:04 - Waterfield, Henry, and Great Britain. India Office. Statistics and Commerce Department. Memorandum on the Census of British India of 1871-72. https://jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.250....
12:13 - Census of India (Madras) Volume XIII Part 1. 1921, https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.d....
12:59 - Census of India 1901 Volume 1 Part 1. 1901, http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/ideol....
12:59 - Philips, C. H. The Evolution of India and Pakistan, 1858 to 1947; Select Documents. Oxford University Press, 1962.
13:20 - Samarendra, Padmanabh. “Between Number and Knowledge: Career of Caste in Colonial Census.” Caste in History, edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Oxford University Press, 2010.
13:45,
14:20 - Rai, Lajpat. Arya Samaj. 1915, http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.d....
14:52 - Jaffrelot, Christophe. India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. Columbia University Press, 2003.
15:25 - Omvedt, Gail (See 10:05)
15:40 - Ram, Kanshi. The Chamcha Age: Era of the Stooges. 1982, https://archive.org/details/TheChamch....
17:05 - Jaffrelot, Christophe, and Prannv Dhawan. “Can BJP Balance Caste Aspirations of Voters with Its Core Hindutva Appeal?” https://bit.ly/3o4E1cs.
18:33 - https://bit.ly/3kg5eaT, https://bit.ly/3GZi8DY, https://bit.ly/3BY0MU6

Now a days, word which is getting popular is Sanatan in place of Hindus. Hindu is basically a geographical word rather than the cultural one.

A popular shloka that defines "Bhārata Varṣa" — the land between the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean. Here is the complete shloka:

यावदिन्दुसरः पारी, यावत् हिमवतः श्रियः।
तद् देव निर्मितं देशं, हिन्दुस्थानं प्रचक्षते॥

Transliteration:
Yāvad indu-saraḥ pāri, yāvat himavataḥ śriyaḥ।
Tad deva nirmitam deśam, hindusthānaṁ pracakṣate॥

Meaning:
The land that extends from the Indu-saras (the Indian Ocean) to the Himalayas — that is the divine land created by the gods, and it is known as Hindusthāna (or Bhārata Varṣa).

 

[Sharma Ji]

There was vedic dharm earlier, some of those texts date back a very long time. It has evolved over time.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

@Krishna with Flute

Typical communist treachery. No Brahmin allied with Britisher. The word Dalit is a newly coined word. It was not anywhere before Hundred years ago. Indian society was divided in 4 varna according to their skill and competence. Brahmin had a big responsibility on their shoulders. They, inspite of being most knowledgeable and powerful, can not enjoy the wealth and luxury. They will have to do learning and teaching all the time. They can not accumulate any wealth. Kshatriya will protect the society. They will fight with enemy and enjoy lacture. Vaishya will do trade and generate wealth. Kshudra Will have land, they will do farming and other locations.

Jati (Cast and sub cast) came very late. Kshudras were not untouchable in vaidik or pauranik period. They become untouchable after Mughals arrived who forced them to clean *&*&*&*& of their begams. Ambedkar has noted that in their book. This traitor communist twisted the history to divide Hindu society. They coined the phrase Jai bhim Jay meem to align Muslims and Dalits together.