It’s interesting to note that during the colonial period, some Britishers were aware of the prejudices against Hindus, which is why the term Hinduphobia was coined here in the UK back in the 1860s and was even in use in the UK media further in the 1880s. But somehow ‘miraculously’, the term vanished like climbing up the Indian rope trick, where now the same media/academia/political class now claim Hinduphobia is made up by imaginary ‘Hindu Nationalists’, stolen from Islamophobia, when it’s the other way round.
These prejudices are very deep and have many variations, as we have seen Indians being violently attacked and even killed by racists, and then there’s the Hinduphobic religious hate that all Hindus, including white Hindus, black Hindus, Latino Hindus, Hispanic Hindus and many other races who have converted to Hinduism face.
But the root of it, is looking through an out-of-date lens known as the Colonial Gaze, something both the left and right with their loyal subservient servants the brown faced Gunga Dins unite looking through, with shock and horror seeing those ‘Hindu heathen pagan savages’ jumping up and down they need to civilise, Pandit Satish Sharma here exposes the history of the Colonial Gaze even further.
