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Estelle Platini“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a>, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> hat-tip <a href="https://mastodon.world/@markvonwahlde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@markvonwahlde</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberalism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/castism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/raceMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raceMaking</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hindouism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hindouism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/beliefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beliefs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/brutalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brutalization</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ethnic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethnic</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#islamophobia</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IndianSubcontinent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianSubcontinent</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pakistan</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bangladesh</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#British</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/preBritish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preBritish</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BritishRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishRule</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bookStodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookStodon</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CarolineElkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarolineElkins</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Y'ALL! we need the South Asian delegation to step up to the plate & talk about the phenomenon of folks like Usha Chilukuri, Vivek Ramaswami and Nimrata Haley. About how some of your peoples are caste grifters; selling themselves —with woo-woo mythologies and wads of cash—, as a sort of pre-European whiteness. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/castism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castism</a> is a helluva a drug; and there's a fucked up strain of castism that techbros aggressively sought out & imported in the guise of outsourcing jobs to India.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2024Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2024Elections</a>

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