As Ranbir exposes Sunil Sharma in this thread, for going into Gunga Din mode to appease the ‘Right Wing’, blaming foreign nationalism and multiculturalism on GB News for Hindu protests in London recently, when in reality the protests were against Pakistan’s backing of Islamists who killed Hindus in Kashmir
But it gets worse where Sunil was recently on Heretics with Andrew Gold, where he was justifying British colonial rule, especially how it banned Sati all across India. Which is a distorted myth, but repeated nonstop to become a truth.
India produced some of the greatest female indigenous Hindu warriors in the world, whose stories are yet to be told, which is why Hinduism is not in the museum with other ancients.
So this myth of female oppression and being thrown to the funeral pyre with their dead husbands was started by Christian missionaries hell bent on destroying ‘pagan’ heathen’ Hinduism, where even now these hinduphobic racist narratives are presently taught by the left wing and right wing academics like Sam Bidwell who think eating a few pot nooddle currys makes them not only experts on Hindu cusine but also on Hindu history and its deep spiritual culture.
The ‘we stopped sati myth’ gets exposed here..
In this enlightening episode of Immortal India with Amish, author Amish Tripathi explores the misunderstood history of Sati, joined by renowned historian Padma Shri Prof. Meenakshi Jain. Together, they unravel the myths surrounding Sati and its colonial misrepresentation as a widespread, scripture-mandated practice. Prof. Jain provides compelling evidence, highlighting how British propaganda presented Sati to portray Indian culture as barbaric and justify colonial rule.
A simple list of widows in the Ramayan & the Mahabharat, who did not commit Sati, would make it clear that Sati was not a scriptural practice of ancient India.
Prof Jain & Amish discuss rare instances of ritual suicide in ancient India—practised by both men and women—as acts of personal choice. And how Colonial propagandists presented the female suicides among them as Sati (while conveniently ignoring the ritual male suicides). They also speak of mischievous mistranslations of ancient Indian scriptures by the British to show some ancient justification for Sati.
