KAILASA - The Grand Narrative of Hinduism

III. State Persecution of Hindu religious minorities

A. Origins and History of anti-Hindu law and policies in the Hindu sub-continent

16. China's persecution of, and interference in Tibetan Buddhist institutions is relatively well-known thanks to the tireless efforts of human rights organizations, the United Nations, the Tibetan diaspora, and the efforts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself to bring it to the attention of the international community. However, a very similar, albeit virtually unknown destruction has been done by state actors in Bharat to undermine and control ancient Hindu religious institutions for political purposes. This assault on religious freedom is part and parcel of broader authoritarian, anti-democratic trends taking place in Bharat that have only recently been acknowledged by the international community.
17. Hinduism is a vast and heterogenous religion that comprises various spiritual traditions and lineages referred to as sampradayas. Many of these Sampradayas (religious Sects) date back thousands of years and are led by individuals who are regarded to be Avatars, or incarnations of divine beings, in an unbroken succession whereby a new leader or Gurumahasannidanam is selected and coronated by his immediate predecessor, the current Gurumahasannidanam. In this regard, these Hindu Sampradayas operate in a manner very similar to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of ritualistically selecting and installing new Guru Mahasannidhanams who are believed to be reincarnations and living manifestations of divine beings.
18. In Hinduism spiritual lineage can be passed to the next generation only through lifelong, multigenerational spiritual practice, mentoring, and initiation by the Guru (or Gurumahasannidanam). Hindu spiritual practices involve yogic processes which cause a conscious mutation at a physical, physiological, psychological, and neurological level, allowing practitioners to maintain meditative states of consciousness (Samadhi) for prolonged durations. These meditative states are essential for the Hindu religion. Some short-duration experiences of these

Kāmikāgama Uttara Pada Chapter 25 verses 5-7, 8-11, 39-41

34 Srimad Karana Agama, Purva bhaga (Part), Patala (Chapter) 71 , (Section) Sakalotpatti Vidhi, Shloka (Verse) 8-9, "इत्येवं मनष्कळं प्रोिं िरं भावमिमत स्मृति्। सृमिस्थं लोकरक्षाथंलोकस्योत्पमिकारणि्॥ साधकानां मिताथंतुस्वेच्छया गृह्णतेतनुः ।", "In this way (Shiva) who is Nishkala - without any body and parts, who is the Ultimate Supreme Being, who is established in the Creation, who is the Cause of the creation of the Universe, assumes a body out of His Free Will for the protection of the Universe, and for the welfare of the Spiritual seekers and Devotees."

35 Kularnava Tantra, 14th Ullasa, verse 8 – "तस्मात्सववप्रयत्नेन साक्षात्परमशवोमिति्। सम्प्रिायिमवमिन्नं सिा कु यावत्गुरः मप्रये॥ ८॥" - "Therefore, O My Beloved! One should seek with all efforts to have a Guru of unbroken tradition originating from Para Siva Himself."

Regarding ādiśaiva the Kāmikāgama says that they are born in the family of sages such as Kauśika who were initiated directly by Śiva immediately after the creation of the world. Therefore, they are qualified to undertake all the rites [as prescribed in the āgamas] such as consecration, installation [in the temple], worship in public and expounding the [āgamas] (vyākhyāna). The Kāraṇāgama and the Santānāgama also state that only the ādiśaiva is qualified to do these rites and if the rites are done by others it will bring only calamity[.

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meditative states are studied by contemporary western scientists in various groups of meditators, martial artists, and athletes. Hindu spiritual processes and initiation by the enlightened Guru make the attainment of these meditative states of consciousness accessible to every practitioner, and not just to an accomplished group of people. As per the Hindu religious laws prescribed in Veda-Agamas (scriptures), only the ordained supreme pontiff (Guru or Gurumahasannidanam) can initiate their native Hindu community members into the practice of these yogic sciences, lifestyle sciences, knowledge system sciences, and sciences of ritual. ```

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 8 (2) declares, "States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for: (a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;". Killing the Gurus (or Gurumahasannidanam), or breaking the lineage of Gurus, irreversibly disrupts the continuation of the spiritual tradition to the next generation, destroys the distinct identity of indigenous Hindu traditions, and leads to their permanent destruction. This is how the majority of the 8,000 of the 10,000 indigenous enlightenment ecosystems were destroyed, and less than 2,000 of them remain now. The distinct religious practices of the ASMT are extremely vulnerable to this irreversible destruction. Just like the destruction of Lamas in Buddhism is the destruction of Buddhism as the yogic bodies of the Lamas are the repository of Buddhahood, Hinduism in its entirety and not just some traditions of Hinduism will permanently be destroyed after the extermination of the lineages of the Gurus.

UN-Res.-260(III) Prevention of Crime of Genocide, Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Destruction of the lineage of Gurus does not only destroy the religion but also the entire Hindu society in totality. The Agama scriptures are voluminous. As per Hindu scriptural records, there are 10,000 Agamas for the ASMT alone. In totality, all Agamas and sourcebook scriptures of Hinduism put together are more than 100 million, of which only 20 million remain today.

"Centuries of history of discrimination, exploitation, dispossession, and colonization have led to the loss of traditional knowledge. Traditional knowledge is under threat and is being misused and misappropriated …"

"Indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge has been developed over generations through daily life practices and a close understanding of local environments. It can offer valuable responses to climate change, food insecurity, reducing inequalities and other challenges that we are trying to resolve …"

18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

The mastery over the magnanimous volume of Veda-Agamic scriptures is achieved by specializing in a branch of Veda-Agama scripture over multiple generations. Hindu sects and schools specialize and systematically practice a particular branch (Shakha) of the Veda-Agamas and continue the tradition over thousands of years. It is considered nearly impossible for a single group to master the Veda-Agamas (Hindu scriptures) in its entirety, and thus each Hindu sect or school (Shakha or Sampradaya) is interdependent on other schools (Shakha) for practice and application of the entirety of Hinduism. The loss of one lineage, or school (Shakha or Sampradaya) is not just a loss for the respective Hindu sect but entire Hinduism. Therefore, the persecution of a Hindu Guru is not limited to the destruction of His lineage alone but of an integral body of Hinduism in its entirety.

The destruction of the lineage of Gurus destroys several thousands of years of scholarly research and practice of the Veda-Agamas. The Veda-Agamas is not just the repository of ancient spiritual and religious knowledge, they are a repository of a phenomenal volume of ancient Human knowledge and expertise, in various fields such as State Policies, Politics & Statecraft, Law , Banking & Accounting, Architecture & Civil Engineering, Performing Arts, Medicine , Surgery, Botany, Chemistry and Metallurgy, Music, Agriculture, Astrology , Shipbuilding , Manufacturing, Food sciences, etc. The entire Hindu education is done and supervised by the enlightened Guru. The Hindu knowledge in various fields is unique, unlike their modern counterparts. The Veda Agamas (Hindu scriptures) enable not just excellence in the profession but the attainment of spiritual liberation even through the mere practice of the profession. This is why, for example, the science of archery in Hinduism (Dhanurvidya), does not just deal with archery alone but also with the attainment of liberation. The Acharyas (Hindu scholars and teachers) can transmit some portion of the domain expertise, but only the Guru guides into the science of liberation that is even realized while practicing a particular trade or profession without necessarily mandating additional spiritual practices. The destruction of the Guru's lineage destroys this possibility for every Hindu.

Two such ancient Hindu sampradayas are the Madurai Adheenam of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and the Thondai Mandala Adheenam of Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. Thondaimandala Aadheenam is one of the oldest Shaivite Mutts (monasteries), established originally by Paramashiva Himself, in the form of Adi Nathar, and 5000 years ago . Madurai Aadheenam was established by incarnations of Paramashiva and Devi themselves as Lord Sundareshwara and His consort Divine Mother Meenakshi.

The Colonial Era Laws and Policies on Hindu temples

In 1817, the colonial government of Bharat enacted the Madras Regulation VII and nationalized temples of minority Hindu sects taking over their wealth and assets. However, in 1840, Christian missionaries lobbied and forced the government to issue a directive to return the Hindu temples to their trustees. By 1845, the responsibility of the management of temples was returned to traditional trustees and in the case of prominent temples to Mutts (monasteries). The State Board of Revenue, however, supervised the administration of large temples. In 1863, the Religious Endowments Act was enacted which completely handed over temple administration to the trustees from the State and subsequently, the government played little or no role in supervising them. Trustees ran the temple following the tenets applicable to the temple. The colonial government also recognized the sovereignty of the heads of Hindu monasteries – for example on 3 Jan 1893 the Guru Maha Sannidhanam of Madurai Aadheenam was conferred with the title of Rao Bahadur , a title given to Kings by the British Empire, and also had sovereign immunity from

arrests and appearances in the court. Thus, the religious rights of Hindus to manage their temples and religious succession rights were by large protected during colonial rule.

Pre-Independence Era Diarchal Government

The British colonial era in Bharat was brutal, wherein the government created several man-made famines that killed more than 35 million people in Bharat by starvation and starvation-related diseases. It was a silent holocaust forgotten just like much of the Hindu Holocaust. June 1918, the Spanish flue spread in Bharat with at a scale and severity not to be seen again until the next 101 years with the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. The famines, the Spanish flu, the cruel-and-inhumane government policies had completely broken the backbone and spirit of the people of Bharat. In 1914, during World War 1, the British colonial empire in Bharat promised to give self-governance (Swaraj) at the end of the war like Canada or Australia with the status of "dominion" within the British Empire. Bharat supported the British Colonial Empire during the First World War with 1.3 million soldiers and vast sums of money collected from a country completely broken by the famines inflicted by the colonial government and Spanish flu. 11 November 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany abdicated on 9 November and Germany signed an armistice on, ending the World War I. Contrary to fulfilling their commitment of giving self-governance to the people of Bharat, the British colonial government chose to reimpose the wartime era prohibitions on freedom of the press freedom of assembly freedom of speech and declared Martial Law.

On 13 April 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place. A large but peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to celebrate the Hindu festival of Baisakhi (solar new year) which is celebrated in several states of Bharat. A British Brigadier-General Dyer surrounded the Bagh with his soldiers and decided to punish the people for breaking the martial law which did not allow more than five people to assemble. He did not order the people to disperse, did not even fire a warning shot, he just ordered his soldiers to assemble at the gates – the sole entrance and exit to the garden and to open fire on these unarmed civilians. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted – a total of 1656 bullets.

Judicial Department proceedings of Madras Government, Letters from the Collector of Madura, dated 4 Sep. 1880; No. 2712; order thereon 15 Sep 1880, No. 2240, "Under Section 641 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Governor-in-Council is pleased to exempt Saiva Samayachariar Tirugnana Sambanda Pandara Sannadhi Avergal, the Saiva High Priest of Madurai from personal appearance in the Courts of the Presidency." G. Stokes (For Chief Secretary) – மதுசர ஆதீன வரலாறு – History of Madurai Aadheenam

With few exceptions such as in Hindu Rebellion of 1857 which got incited because State forced

27. During an inquiry, Brigadier-General Dyer even boasted that not even a single bullet was wasted because he had surrounded all the exits. At least 379 people were killed and over 1,200 other people were injured of whom 192 were seriously injured. The people were left to die in the hot April sun for 24 hours. Those still alive or wailing piteously for water were ordered to crawl on their bellies on a side lane. There was an uproar during a colonial government commission of inquiry in the House of Commons which censured Brigadier-General Dyer, but the House of Lords did not only exonerated him but also praised him with some members of parliament addressing him as the man who saved Bharat. Brigadier-General Dyer was awarded a quarter of a million pounds and a bejeweled sword. The Human rights of citizens were grossly violated during the British colonial era. Despite this, the religious rights of Hindus to manage their temples and religious succession rights were by large much more protected during colonial rule than after the upcoming era after World War one, when the colonial government created the Diarchal form of Government.
28. Diarchy is a form of government characterized by co-rule, with two people ruling a polity together either lawfully or de facto, by collusion and force. The leaders of such a system are usually known as co-rulers. Historically, diarchy particularly referred to the system of shared rule in British Bharat established by the Government of Bharat Acts 1919 and 1935, which devolved some powers to local councils, which had included native Hindu representation under the Hindu Councils Act 1892. This group of native Hindu representatives were extremely intolerant towards Hinduism and started the destruction of Hindu temples. The anti-Hindu sentiment amongst the political circles that still prevail in the entire Hindu subcontinent took roots during this era.

With few exceptions such as in Hindu Rebellion of 1857 which got incited because State forced

29. In 1917, following the Bolshevik Revolution the State of the USSR deprived the formerly official church of its status of legal personhood, the right to own property or to teach religion, especially in schools. During 1921 – 1928, there was another anti-religious campaign against churches and believers by the State of USSR, wherein the State terrorized certain religious sects with policies to deprive them of legal means of existence aimed at the elimination of most religions and its replacement with the atheistic world view of the state. Though the State of USSR never made it illegal to be a believer or to have religion, the activities of this campaign were often veiled under other pretexts that the state invoked or invented to justify State-sponsored religious persecution. The Bolshevik revolution and developments that followed were much admired by several Hindu political leaders of the time, some of whom even went to Moscow, and met Russian leaders to greet them following the revolution. Similar anti-religion laws were implemented in Bharat during this same period. On 18 December 1922, during the colonial diarchy, the Hindu Religious Endowment bill was introduced by the government of Madras Presidency led by the Chief Minister, Ramarayaningar, to bring all religious institutions under State control. Ramarayaningar was one of the first native Hindu Chief Ministers ruling the State of Madras Presidency under the Government of Bharat Acts 1919 and the Hindu Councils Act 1892. In 1925, the bill was enacted as "The Madras Religious and Charitable Endowments Act (1925)". Similar to the anti-religion campaigns in the USSR, wherein the State of the USSR made policies that suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents only depending upon State interests, the anti-religion laws in Bharat, targeted certain religious communities more. Immediately after the Act (1925) came into force, Muslim and Christian communities massively protested, challenging the legislature citing that it was not validly passed, and forced the antireligion act of 1925 to be redrafted. The act was redrafted as "The Madras Hindu Religious and Endowments Act (1927)" to be made applicable only to Hindu places of worship, it also excluded few other religious sects for which the State had a different set of laws allowing these religious communities to self-regulate their religious institutes and temples. Some Hindu religious leaders, that had their religious institutes out of the purview of the Act, though expressed apprehensions on some of its provisions, also supported the bill. Religious institutes of minority Hindu sects, such as the Adi Shaivite Minority Tradition (ASMT) that were unable to escape falling into the

ASMT (Adi Shaiva Minority Tradition) is the sect of Hinduism which worships Lord Paramashiva, as per the Hindu scriptures (Vedagamas). The most ancient Agamas - the Kāmikāgama, known to be more than 60,000 years old mentions that Ādiśaivites are born in the family of sages such as Kauśika who were initiated directly by Śiva (Paramashiva)

ambit of the Act were nationalized and forcibly brought under State control to be headed by a politically nominated state executive officer called the Commissioner of the Hindu Religious Endowment Board.

30. The political leaders that ruled the Madras Presidency, such as Panaganti Ramarayaningar (1920-26), during the colonial rule of Bharat and such as Karunanidhi subsequently after the independence of Bharat, had antagonistic views on indigenous Hindu culture such as Hindu feminism, Hindu worship of divine as Mother, indigenous Gurukul education, and traditional decentralized self-governance institutes that administered villages and temples. As the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, Panaganti Ramarayaningar banned the distribution of poems on indigenous forms of governance, Hindu education, Hindu feminism, women empowerment, and religious freedom.

The origin of the anti-Hindu caste system in Bharat – a colonial-era census

31. The cause of Hindu antagonistic views of Hindu leaders of the pre-colonial (and even post-independence era) such as Ramarayaningar or Karunanidhi can be understood by a study of the setting under which they grew. From the 1840s up until 1925, the Hindu State under the colonial government evolved a pseudo-identity framework which faultily generalized the demographic census data into what was called castes, a Spanish word "casta", used to mean a "lineage, tribe or class". This categorization of colonial citizens based on a faultily generalized identity that has resulted in violence is a global phenomenon as seen in the Rwanda Genocide which killed 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsis with total estimated death at 1,100,000. The origin of this classification both in Bharat and Rwanda was not native to these countries, but a colonial trope. The Rwanda Genocide that involved Hutu and Tutsi people, for example, was caused by a faulty classification system developed during a colonial census. The definitions of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" people have changed through time and location. Even during colonial times under Belgian rule, social structures were fluid throughout Rwanda. The Tutsi aristocracy or elite was distinguished from Tutsi commoners, and wealthy Hutu were often indistinguishable from upper-class Tutsi. When the Belgian colonists conducted censuses, they wanted to identify the people throughout Rwanda-Burundi according to a simple classification scheme. They defined "Tutsi" as anyone owning more than ten cows (a sign of wealth) or with the physical feature of a longer nose, or a longer neck, commonly associated with the Tutsi. The Hutu and Tutsi spoke the same language, practiced the same religion, and participated in the same government, and having lived together for at least 400

immediately after the creation of the world, and therefore they are qualified to undertake all the rites as prescribed in the āgamas, such as consecration, installation in the temple, worship in public and expounding the āgamas (vyākhyāna). The Kāraṇāgama and the Santānāgama also state that only the Ādiśaiva is qualified to do these customary rites. The Adishaivas run and administer ancient temples and monasteries, some of which are more than 3000 years old.

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years, had considerable intermingling and intermarrying, such that ethnographers claim that the two groups "cannot be called distinct ethnic groups". Rather, the two terms in the contemporary setting merely referred to a colonial pseudo-identity framework in which the Hutu were primarily farmers and the Tutsi were primarily herdsmen. In a similar way, until the colonialization of Bharat, the word caste in the present context was unknown to not just Bharat but also the world. Until 1569, the Spanish word casta implying "lineage, tribe or class", did not even exist in English, and was used only to describe mixed-race individuals in New Spain. In 1844, the word "caste" in Bharat meant indigenous social structures that were seen by foreign evangelicals as "a wonderful institution" of guilds "merging in the wisdom and craft of man" . In 1871, the word "caste" was used by the colonial government to force-fit people groups in a pseudo-identity framework based on surname, appearances, facial features, etc. The 1871 census data was used to create legislatures such as the Criminal Tribes Act (1871) that made prejudicial negative stereotypes, which arbitrarily declared any person a criminal by the very nature of his birth in a certain people's group, or by his professing a certain surname. The Criminal Tribes Act (CTA 1871) deprived several people groups of their inalienable universal human right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty (UN UDHR Article 11). While the four Varnas that are defined based on Karmas (actions motivated by individual worldview and pursuits of life) and Gunas (activism, that is, number of active working hours per day) are a form of self-declaration and subjective fluid classification, and the 3000 Jatis are endogamous people groups with 25,000 Upjatis that include exogamous Gotra groups, the 1871 census and later literature faultily generalized the 25,000 people groups into a force-fitted classification using the same verbiage as of four Varnas which was contrary to both practical indigenous lifestyle experience and written scriptures. This faulty generalization is described by William Robert Cornish, who supervised colonial government census operations in the Madras Presidency in 1871, as "Whether there was ever a period in which the Hindus were composed of four classes is exceedingly doubtful". Such faulty generalizations coupled with

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चातुववर्ण्यंिया सृिंगुणकिवमवभागशः ॥ तस्य कतावरिमि िां मवद्ध्यकतावरिव्ययि्॥Bhagavata Gita Chapter 4 verse 13॥

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Mahābhārata (Vana-parva, chapter 177, verse 20), "śūdre caitad-bhavel-lak*ṣma dvije tac ca na vidyate। na vai śūdro bhavec-chudro brāhmaṇo na ca brāhmaṇoḥ॥" "If someone born a śūdra possesses the characteristics of a brāhmaṇa and someone born a brāhmaṇa does not, that śūdra should not be known as a śūdra, and that brāhmaṇa should not be known as a brāhmaṇ*a."

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negative stereotypes were applied to various people groups such as to Hindu scholars and priests who were presumed to be nepotistic by the virtue of their birth, surname, or profession , and similarly, all Hindu monastic orders (Sanyasis) were presumed to be criminal by birth as per CTA(1871). Though the fight against discrimination, is a worldwide cause, as much as in the Hindu sub-continent, the faulty generalization of Hindu social constructs coupled with negative stereotyping of Hindu communities had a severe irreparable negative effect in multiple dimensions depriving various people groups of their basic human rights in front of the law by mere definition. The pre-colonial indigenous education system was widespread imparting education to every person even in the remotest village, it was economical and inclusive, catering to boys and girls of all sections of society with as many as 70% of students being from impoverished communities that now are recognized as OBCs, SCs, and STs. The pre-colonial indigenous gurukul education system encouraged harmony amongst all social communities by recognizing the dignity of labor and respect for all professions, for example, the second verse from an ancient treatise on agriculture says, "Despite being learned of four Vedas (core Hindu scriptures) if a Brahmin considers agriculture inferior he is bound to be stuck in a cycle of poverty." The Hindu scriptures taught to respect each human being without discrimination as not just an equal human being but a divine manifestation of God - "Whether a woman or a man, a Cāņdala or a high-born Dvija, there is absolutely no discrimination in the Cakra. Everyone here is considered like Śiva (Primordial Hindu Divinity)" . Despite the inclusive nature of pre-colonial indigenous education and fluid nature of pre-colonial indigenous social structures, the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, Ramarayaningar, a strong advocate of westernization parroted a colonial trope in one of his most cited interviews stating – "What did the Brahmans do for our education in the five thousand years before Britain came? I remind you: They asserted their right to pour hot lead into the ears of the low-caste man who should dare to study books. All learning

Diehl, Anita (1977). E. V. Ramaswami Naicker-Periar: A study of the influence of a personality in contemporary South Bharat. Sweden: Scandinavian University Books. ISBN 978-91-24-27645-4.

With the adoption of the "[2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld)", 193 United Nations Member States pledged to ensure "no one will be left behind" and to "endeavour to reach the furthest behind first".

House of Commons Papers, 1831-32, volume 9, p.468, Presidency of Bombay, G.L. Prendergast 'there is hardly a village, great or small, throughout our territories, in which there is not at least one school, and in larger villages more.' House of Commons Papers, 1812-13, volume 7, evidence of Thomas Munro (Governor of Madras Presidency 1819-

1827), p.127, [The Beautiful Tree, Dr. Dharampal,](https://archive.org/details/TheBeautifulTree-Dharampal) (ISBN No.: 81-85569-49-5 republished ISBN-10: 8175310952), page 26. Collector of Bellary (A.D. Campbell) to Board of Revenue, 17 August 1823 (TNSA: BRP: Vol.958 Pro.25.8.1823 pp.7167-85 Nos.32-33), para 16. "The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools, and the system by which the more advanced scholars are caused to teach the less advanced and at the same time to confirm their own knowledge is certainly admirable, and well deserved the imitation it has received in England."

[The Beautiful Tree, Dr. Dharampal,](https://archive.org/details/TheBeautifulTree-Dharampal) (ISBN No.: 81-85569-49-5 republished ISBN-10: 8175310952), Chapter IV, "Education of Girls" page 43

(i) The Beautiful Tree (Dharampal), Chapter IV, Table 3 - Caste-wise division of male school, student, republishe[d here,](https://www.hindupost.in/history/the-beautiful-tree-by-dharampal-chapter-iv-part-1/) (ii) Ibid see also pg 29, "while the Soodras and the other castes ranged from about 70% in Salem and Tinnevelly to over 84% in South Arcot" (iii) TNSA: Revenue Consultations: Vol.920: dated 2 July 1822

Ibid Chapter IV page 22 "this included most such groupings which today are listed among the scheduled castes" OBCs – Other backward castes, SCs – Scheduled Castes, STs – Scheduled Tribes are some of officially designated groups of people in Bharat that are considered disadvantaged and marginalized by the State of Republic of Bharat.

"चतुवेिान्तगो मवप्रः शािवािी मवचक्षणः । अलक्ष्म्या गृह्यतेसोऽमि प्राथवनालाघवास्त्रितः ॥२॥" कृ मििराशरि्<https://sa.wikisource.org/s/d9w> "खी वाथ िुरिः िण्डचण्डालो वा मिजोसिः । चक्रे ऽस्त्रस्मन्नेव भेिोऽस्त्रि सववमशवसिाः स्मृताः ॥९७॥" verse 97 and "जामतभेिो न चक्रे ऽस्त्रस्मन्सवे मशवसिाः स्मृताः । वेिेऽमि स्त्रस्थतिेवं मि सववमि ब्रह्मा चाव्रतीत्॥१०१॥" verse 101, etc., Kularnava Tantra, 8th Ullasa <https://archive.org/details/Kularnava/mode/2up>

belonged to them, they said." The dangerous colonial caste constructs as seen in the Rwanda Genocide are also the basis for depriving Hindus of their religious rights, marginalization of various Hindu people groups, and the destruction of Hindu temples and monasteries. The indigenous Gurukul education system were not limited to imparting spiritual and religious knowledge, they contributed a phenomenal volume of ancient Human knowledge and expertise, in various field such as State Policies, Politics & Statecraft, Law, Banking & Accounting, Architecture & Civil Engineering, Performing Arts, Medicine, Surgery, Botany, Chemistry and Metallurgy , Music, Agriculture, Astrology, Shipbuilding, Manufacturing, Food sciences , giving breakthrough contributions to humanity such as – knowledge, and application of zero, binomial theorem (200BCE), calculations with zero , positive numbers, negative numbers, generalization of Fibonacci identity, Euler's four-square identity, Lagrange's identity , knowledge, and application of infinity (300BCE), average values (1150 CE), fractions (628 CE), arithmetical and geometrical progressions, plane geometry, angular dimensions, solid geometry, simple, quadratic, simultaneous, and indeterminate equations , Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem , Madhava–Leibniz infinite series for the value of pi (Π) , trigonometry, infinite series for calculating value of a sine function, Nilakanta-Taylor series (1685 CE), Govindaswami-Newton-Gauss interpolation (1670 CE), calculus . Somayaji 1450 CE), Gravity (1114 CE), freely available organic antibiotic remedies , free and affordable healthcare, vaccination procedures, surgical procedures including plastic surgery, etc. The State of the Republic of Bharat however, considers indigenous heritage, knowledge, and acumen in poor light. In Bharat, the interference of the State is not limited to Hindu religion and Hindu temples alone, but various fields like business and even science. C V Raman, the first Hindu and first Asian to win Nobel Price, in one of his lectures about a series of experiments that required platinum, remarked that he had found his first sliver of platinum, when he, in a fit of rage against the government's ill-conceived policies on science, had smashed his Bharat Ratna medal (highest civil honor). Raman was outraged at what he felt was the government's use of power to grant funds as a means to establish control over research institutes. In his twilight years, he said in frustration, "My life has been an utter failure. I was the first Asian to bring home the Nobel Prize in the scientific field. I thought I would bring true science in our country." Similarly, the interference of government on the economy was devastating, often termed – License Raj – referring to the red tape of the State that hindered the setup and running of businesses in Bharat between 1947 and 1990. During this era, based on political interest , the banking sector in Bharat was nationalized. This brought down their profitability and viability. Five decades later, the government was forced to pump in INR 2.5 trillion to counter the effect of several scams that had resulted in a high level of non-performing assets standing at around INR 7.5 trillion. The government had also nationalized the airline industry. Before the nationalization of the airline company Air Bharat, its owner JRD Tata would take interest in minute details like cleanliness and even clean dirty toilets inside aircraft by himself to set an example for his staff to follow, after nationalization over decades of destruction the airline gathered a total of INR 500 billion in debt, with the government determined to sell it off and privatize it again by December 2019. Similarly, the government had nationalized various companies and organizations which over decades underperformed for various reasons linked to the economy in general and also because of red tape, and lack of accountability. The same is the fate of Hindu temples that were nationalized by the State governments of Bharat. Madurai Temple for example used to offer Anna Daan (free food as a charitable service) to everyone irrespective of their status, religion, or caste. After State take over of the temple, not just Anna Daan several important services were stopped. In 1990, Bharat faced a severe balance of payments crisis and as a part of a bailout deal with the IMF, Bharat was forced to pledge 20 tonnes of gold to the Union Bank of Switzerland and 47 tonnes to the Bank of England and Bank of Japan and subsequently, liberalized the economy ending the red-tapism to some extent. Despite the lessons learned from the past, several political groups in the State of the Republic of Bharat, are determined to nationalize and usurp ancient wealth and gold of several Hindu temples and loot it in the guise of greater interest of the nation – the prime example being the gold monetization scheme planned for the Padmanabhaswamy Temple – the largest collection of items of gold and precious stones in the recorded history of the world. Though the State of the Republic of Bharat got political independence in 1947, and economic liberalization in 1990, there is a long way to go, especially in terms of religious rights more so for minority Hindu religious sects.

The anti-Hindu laws of 1925 for State take over of Hindu Temples

The Hindu Religious Endowment Act (1925) set the precedent for several later anti-religion laws such as the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR & CE) Act, the policy of the incumbent state of Tamil Nadu. Even today, Hindu educational institutions, temples, religious traditions are subject to State subjugation and control. But a radical change was introduced in the legislation by way of Act XII of 1935, through which temples could be notified by the government and their administration took over by the State Executive through the Hindu Religious Endowment Board.
19 July 1917, at a conference in Coimbatore, presided over by Panagati Ramarayaningar, the four associations got together to form the South Hindu Liberal Federation, unofficially known as the Justice Party. A vast majority of governments that ruled over the Madras Presidency (and post-independence Tamil Nadu) were formed by the Justice Party. The leaders of the Justice Party such as the Chief Minister Panagati Ramarayaningar were known to vocally express their anti-Hindu prejudices which attracted political leaders from other parties such as E. V. Ramasamy who was the President of the Madras Presidency Congress Committee since 1922. The Congress Party lost several elections to the Justice Party, and E. V. Ramasamy left the Congress in 1925 citing discrimination. Subsequently, E. V. Ramasamy joined the Justice Party. Anti-Hinduism was a major feature of E. V. Ramasamy's public addresses, this led to him being consulted by Justice Party seniors and in 1939, E.V. Ramasamy was declared as the head of the Justice Party.

Though Hindu Scriptures taught to respect each human being without discrimination as not just an equal human being but also as a divine manifestation of God - "खी वाथ िुरिः िण्डचण्डालो वा मिजोसिः । चक्रे ऽस्त्रस्मन्नेव भेिोऽस्त्रि सववमशवसिाः स्मृताः ॥९७॥" verse 97 and "जामतभेिो न चक्रे ऽस्त्रस्मन्सवे मशवसिाः स्मृताः । वेिेऽमि स्त्रस्थतिेवं मि सववमि ब्रह्मा चाव्रतीत्॥१०१॥" verse 101, etc., Kularnava Tantra, 8th Ullasa, E. V. Ramasamy like many other political leaders of the Justice Party and Dravidar Kazhagam stereotyped the Hindu religion and the Sanskrit language as intrinsically exploitative, criminal, and nepotistic .
As per the colonial government data, the pre-colonial indigenous education system was widespread imparting education to every person even in the remotest village, it was economical and inclusive, catering to boys and girls of all sections of society with as many as 70% of students being from impoverished communities that now are recognized as OBCs, SCs, and STs. Despite this E. V. Ramasamy concocted several racist theories and delivered a massive volume of anti-Hindu speeches, such as claiming that historically in Hinduism education was fundamentally denied especially to impoverished communities.

The Genesis of anti-Hindu DK/DMK terrorist

In 1886 Rev. John Rathinam had declared that people who had been marginalized and discriminated against for practicing a certain profession or having a certain surname by the classification system used in the Colonial Government Census (1871) should declare themselves as non-Hindus and choose a new identity called – "Dravida" or "Adi-Dravida". In 1944, E.V. Ramasamy created a terrorist organization from the Justice Party naming it as Dravidar Kazhagam, a name chosen after an organization that had been founded by Rev. John Rathinam in the late 1880s. Subsequently, E. V. Ramasamy developed a bizarre alternate world history and anti-Hindu hate literature. For example, although the word "Adi-Dravida" was coined by Rev. John Rathinam in 1886 and never used on the planet earth before that especially in the context that it was presented, E. V. Ramasamy considered his racist ideologies as a fact, but at the same time, E. V. Ramasamy was of the strong opinion that Hindus were wrong to believe themselves as Hindus as the religion was imaginary and no religion identified as Hinduism ever existed on planet earth. In his Presidential Address at the Justice Confederation in 1940, he asserted that those who thought of themselves as Hindus should either be converted or declare themselves as "Adi Dravida". E. V. Ramasamy preferred referring to Hinduism pejoratively as "Brahminism", a word coined by him to blame Brahmins (Hindu priests and scholars) for the discriminatory classification done by the Colonial Government Census (1871).
E. V. Ramasamy studied and authored a massive amount of hate literature targeting Hinduism. Even today the DK terrorists publish several of his books and speeches where they pejoratively refer to Hindu priests as money grabbers, scandalous, stubborn, fraudsters, black magicians, non-Tamil, aliens, etc.
E. V. Ramasamy famously said, "If you see a snake and a Brahmin (Hindu priest) on the road, kill the Brahmin (Hindu priest) first." On August 31, 1959, he stated, "' Who do you hate? The Brahmin or Brahminism? What is Brahminism?' – for questions such as these, my reply is

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Brahminism came from Brahmins, and hence it is the Brahmins who should be annihilated. It is like asking whether you hate thievery or the thief. It is because one is a thief, one indulges in thievery. When someone says he hates thievery, it means he hates the thief, too, doesn't it? Thus, [my stand is] Brahminism grew out of the Brahmin and I am striving to annihilate the root." In his last ever speech, on December 19, 1973, he declared that he had been striving for a long to annihilate God, (Hindu) religion, Gandhi, and the Brahmin (Hindu priests). The hate against Brahmins (Hindu priests) and their marginalization from politics, government jobs, medicine, etc. caused an exodus from first to private-sector jobs in other states such as Karnataka and later out of Bharat, particularly to the Silicon Valley.

39. The terrorist organizations founded by E.V. Ramasamy such as Dravidar Kazhagam (hence referred to as 'DK') and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (hence referred to as 'DMK') engaged in various criminal activities such as assault, especially for carrying Hindu religious symbols. The DK/DMK have several criminal cases pending against them such as on 9 May 2007, terrorists of DK/DMK burnt three people alive with all 17 accused being acquitted by the court.

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from the DMK (the political wing of the Dravidar Kazhagam) Karunanidhi with his son M. Stalin during his birthday publicly ridiculing a boy in a get-up resembling that of a Hindu priest.

40. On 23rd and 24th , January 1971 Salem conference by DK, E. V. Ramasamy and DK/DMK terrorists garlanded Hindu Deities with footwear, hit Deities with footwear, broke Deities, created morphed nude pictures of Hindu Deities, burnt Deities, and delivered speeches inciting hatred against Hindu priests, Hindu Deities, Hindu spiritual leaders, Hindu texts, and the Sanskrit language. In this

conference, the DK passed ten resolutions demanding: legalizing hate speech directed towards Hindu religion, destruction of Hindu temples, Deities and religion, destruction of the Supreme Court of Bharat, conversion of all Hindus to declare Tamil Nadu as a State free from Hinduism by the time of government census of 1980, etc. The DMK government banned the circulation of any media journal that criticized these resolutions.

Some archival copies of the surviving newspapers captured the happenings of the 23 Jan 1971 conference. (LEFT) A cartoon of the leader of DK, E. V. Ramasamy with a slipper hitting at the Deities of Lord Rama with Karunanidhi (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from DMK) clapping alongside the State police (CENTER) A journal published by the DK outragenously portraying Hindu Deities in a derrogatory and vulgar manner engaging in zoophilia. (RIGHT) Tamil Daily newspaper - Dinamani – dated 26 Jan 1971 carrying the news about the conference.

41. The DMK government acted on these policies of the DK, such as in 1975, the State absurdly claimed that the ancient ASMT language – Sanskrit – was a source of nepotism in society and thus changed the language of ASMT Temple rituals via a notification and altered the HR&CE Scheme in OA No.2 of 1973 dated 10 Oct 1975 appointing a government executive to control religious and financial matters of the monastery and associated temples. The DMK made several legislations to extend government control on the Hindu religion by extending their control over the already nationalized Hindu temples. The DMK government made long-term plans for enacting these resolutions, such as alienating the Hindu sects from Hinduism and rechristening them as Dravida DK/DMK compatible religions. For this, the State of Tamil Nadu headed by the DMK has been grooming Guru Maha Sannidhanams, such as the Dharmapuram Guru Maha Sannidhanam that are friendly to the party to declare Shaivism as a religion separate from Hinduism. This is not unique to DMK Tamil Nadu and is similar to how the CPC has been grooming Lamas for decades. Like E. V. Ramasamy who claimed no religion named Hinduism exists, even in 2020 DK/DMK leaders make

similarly absurd and demeaning political remarks such as claiming that the Sanatana Hindu religion was created 200 years ago.

42. March 20, 1938, when Germany was under the rule of the Nazi Government, E. V. Ramasamy in a magazine named Kudiyarasu wrote, "The Jews are only interested in themselves, and nobody else. They somehow contrive to have the rulers in their pocket, participate in governance and conspire to torture and suck the lives out of other citizens in order that they live (in comfort). Are they not comparable to the Brahmins who too have no responsibility but have the rulers in their pocket, have entered the ruling dispensation and been lording over (all of us)?" Taking a note from the success of Nazi propaganda movies, E. V. Ramasamy inspired Karunanidhi (the future Chief Minister from the DMK) to make movies that would mainstream anti-Hindu sentiments in Tamil Nadu. Along these lines, Karunanidhi, a scriptwriter for Tamil movies, wrote several movies that as per his own admission to a newspaper, had successfully stereotyped Hindu monks and Gurus as "the hoodwinking of those adorning the sacred ochre robes (காவியுசடதாரிகளின் கபட நாடகம்)", "brainwashers and destroyers of the life of illiterates (பாமர மக்களின் வாழ்சவயும்அறிசவயும் பாழாக்கி வருகின் ற,)", "Swindlers of Money (பணக்வகாள்சள அடிக்கின் ற பகல்லவடக்காரர்கசள)". Karunanidhi gave examples of such movies in the interview with the most notable movie being – Parashakti (பராைக்தி), and others such as Valaikari (லவசலக்காரி) a movie with a courtroom scene that justified the assassination of Hindu monk, Tukku Madai (தூக்குலமசட), Swarga Vaasal (வைார்க்கவாைல்), Manohara (மலனாகரா), etc.

Anti-Hindu DMK Propaganda Movies Anti-Semitic Nazi Propaganda Movies

பராைக்தி (Parasakthi – Mother Goddess) Jud Süß (Süss the Jew)

Known as one of the most controversial anti-Hindu movies, it has received critical acclaim, is widely celebrated, and has a cult status in Bharat, it premiered on 17 Oct 1952. The film gave DMK the necessary stimulus to overthrow its opponents in elections. The dialogues of the movie were extremely popular and memorizing these became a "must for aspirant (DMK) political orators".

The film portrayed the main villain – a Hindu priest attempting to rape the female protagonist in a temple of Devi Parasakthi (Mother Goddess/Primordial Hindu divinity) with the stone Deity of Devi Parasakthi witnessing the rape as a mute spectator without protecting the victim in a very provocative scene. The movie is famous for its inflammatory and hateful dialogues on Hindu practices especially the worship of the divine as a mother.

Known as one of the most outrageous yet successful anti-Semitic films ever made, it premiered on 8 Sep 1940 received rave reviews, earning the top award. Viewed by over 20 million people when the population of Germany was about 70 million, it was known as the number one film of the time. The movie was successful abroad gathering 1 million viewers in France.

The main villain a state treasurer was portrayed as an "unscrupulous, power-hungry and a shameless seducer" of Jewish origin who raped the female protagonist, tortured her father and fiancée. There were reports of anti-Jewish violence after audiences viewed the film.

43. E. V. Ramasamy and Karunanidhi created an ecosystem of hate towards Hinduism, Hindu monks, Hindu nuns, Hindu Gurus, Hindu deities, and the Sanskrit language, which has normalized its existence in Tamil Nadu by its presence spanning the past ninety years. The most vulnerable victims of the hate targeted against Hindu monks and Hindu Gurus were the Hindu nuns – the Rudrakanyas and Devadasis. The DK/DMK owned media and terrorist organizations dehumanized Hindu nuns that worshiped Devi Parasakthi (Mother Goddess/Primordial Hindu divinity) as "witches", "prostitutes", "cult worshippers", (child) "sex slaves". After independence, the State of Tamil Nadu passed legislation criminalizing the tradition of Hindu nuns. This bill, stereotyped, dehumanized and marginalized the Hindu nuns by addressing them as prostitutes of Hindu Deities. The bill was opposed by Hindu nuns but enacted and made into law under the pressure of E. V. Ramasamy who had suggested the bill be introduced as a private bill to avoid confrontation with the Hindu nuns. Colonial views on Hindu nuns were highly subversive, leading to their socio-economic deprivation and exploitation, the Tamil Nadu bill reinforced the colonial stigma around the tradition undermining the human rights of Hindu nuns. Though a few hundred years ago, Hindu nuns (Rudrakanyas) administered all major Hindu temples of Tamil Nadu, as of 2021, not even 100 Rudrakanyas may be found in the entire state.
44. The control of the DK/DMK on the politics of the State of Tamil Nadu was profound. Karunanidhi has been the Chief Minister of the State of Tamil Nadu - for almost two decades over five terms between 1969 and 2011. Karunanidhi had started his career as a scriptwriter based on which several movies were made from 1947 to 2011. From his experience in films, he knew the art of molding public opinion. He imparted this knowledge to his elder sister's son Murasoli Maran. Just like his uncle, apart from being a politician, Murasoli Maran was a journalist and scriptwriter for films. Karunanidhi's and Murasoli Maran together groomed Murasoli Maran's son Kalanithi Maran to develop the Sun Network Group (World's biggest Tamil media conglomerate Karunanidhi as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Dayanidhi Maran (elder son of Murasoli Maran) as the Government of Bharat Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology provided the political patronage and several favorable circumstances for Kalanithi Maran to grow the Sun TV network and become a billionaire media baron. The Sun Network owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, and a movie production house.

45. From 1996 to 2001, Kalanithi Maran monopolized the Television industry in Tamil Nadu through Sumangali Cable Vision. During this period, Kalanithi's granduncle Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Kalanithi had realized the need to get into the cable distribution business to protect his channels' popularity and DMK's influence on the citizens of Tamil Nadu. Through Sumangali Cable Vision, Kalanithi took over existing cable television operators and established a monopoly in Chennai and other major cities of Tamil Nadu using State patronage and violence by DK/DMK terrorists. This monopolization was brought about using murder and street violence. Johnson D Kennedy, president of the Chennai Metro Cable Operators Association, described this monopoly in an interview, "SCV and Kal Cables (a subsidiary of Sumangali Cable Vision) had the monopoly of the state, so the Sun Group channels became number one". With such monopolies, which still operate in the State of Tamil Nadu the DK/DMK attempted to establish an ideological monopoly in the minds of citizens of Tamil Nadu even when the DMK was not part of the ruling government. As of 2021, the anti-Hindu ideologies of DK/DMK are widespread through movies, television, and recently through Hinduphobic online web series. Through the cable TV distribution monopoly, DMK was able to exercise ideological control on the content of other TV channels.
46. The DMK is amongst the most corrupt political party in the world. The grandnephew of Karunanidhi – Dayanidhi Maran – the Government of Bharat Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology from the year 2004 and 2009 from the DMK was involved in two major scams during this period –

(1) The 2G Spectrum Scam – which as the Comptroller and Auditor General (The federal auditor of Bharat) report of 2010 resulted in a revenue loss to the public exchequer equivalent to 30% of the GDP of State of Tamil Nadu.

(2) The Telephone Scam – where the minster, Dayanidhi Maran, had set up a private telephone exchange with 764 telephone lines at his residence to facilitate illegal uplink of SUN TV data, causing a loss to state-run telecom majors BSNL and MTNL, with a larger misappropriation of State resources for the actual infrastructural investment for the lines, and gave Sun TV an unfair advantage.

The daughter of Karunanidhi was arrested for investigation for her involvement in the 2G spectrum scam.

47. In April 2002, the daughter and wife of Karunanidhi had come to visit the ASMT leader His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam – during one of the two-day meditation programs seeking His blessings for healing her father, the DMK head Karunanidhi of some ailment. His Divine Holiness blessed and gave sacred ash, but while doing so upfront told them that the Hindu

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252 <https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/April_21_2002>

temples in the State of Tamil Nadu were in an extremely sorry state because of the anti-Hindu policies DMK head Karunanidhi. Ever since this incident His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda was spied upon by the Intelligence Department Tamil Nadu State Police. In September 2009, His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda had started a massive people's movement to revive Hindu temples where Hindu Deities were taken on chariots to more than 10 million people to bless them253 . Karunanidhi was extremely wary of the meteoric rise in popularity of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda. On 30 December 2009 Karunanidhi had inaugurated the Chennai Book Fair254 and on the 10 January 2010, the last day of the book fair he inaugurated the Chennai Sangamam festival255 both attended by a modest gathering. However, just on the opposite side of the road256 of the Chennai Book Fair, His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda delivered a religious discourse to more than fifty thousand participants who patiently attended the entire program sitting for more than 8 hours.257 A State Intelligence department officer attended the program and informed the secretary of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda that His Divine Holiness was being officially noted in government intelligence records as the "largest crowd-pulling Hindu guru in the history of Tamil Nadu". From 2 March 2010, several attempts to assassinate His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda were made by the DK/DMK militants, compelling His Divine Holiness to seek refuge by 2018. 258 In April 2021, the DMK won the elections and came to power the sixth time, and formed the current ruling government of the State of Tamil Nadu.259

The Genesis of anti-Hindu neo-Hindutva extremists

48. The [civilizing mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilizing_mission) was a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the modernization and the Westernization of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries. The [civilizing mission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilizing_mission) curtailed the civil rights of the native "subordinates". The world view of the colonial oppressors was such that they found civil rights and particularly rights of women in native traditions immoral and subversive, and they responded by criminalizing these rights.
49. This can be demonstrated through several instances. In terms of women's dis-empowerment, the colonial rule in India, disenfranchised women from their property rights (Stri-Dhan: exclusive Women's Wealth) and inheritance rights. Traditionally as seen in the case of Hindu incarnation Queen Devi Meenakshi, women exercised their right over the throne as per Hindu law by assuming the role of the "Pautrika" - a situation when the female offspring assumes the role as the political heir on a Hindu empire in absence of a suitable male heir. However, during the colonial era, the Hindu Queen of Jhansi Rani Laxmi was not allowed to exercise her rights over the throne, nor any female offspring was to be allowed to do so. After the death of her husband, she was not allowed to continue to remain as queen according to colonial law, as she didn't give birth to a male child.

257 <https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/January_10_2010>
(ii) Srinivasan, Vasanth[. "Nithyananda and the call from Kailaasa".](https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/nithyananda-and-the-call-from-kailaasa/article30206572.ece) Businessline.

253 <https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/September_24_2006>

254 <https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/Chief-Minister-inaugurates-Chennai-Book-Fair/article16856163.ece>

255 <https://www.livechennai.com/detailnews.asp?newsid=1016>

256 [Geo-distance between venues of book fair and Bhagavat Gita satsang](https://nithyanandayoga-my.sharepoint.com/personal/sri_sharabeshwara_nithyanandayoga_onmicrosoft_com/Documents/2021-05-10%20Succession/Geo-distance%20between%20venues%20of%20book%20fair%20and%20Bhagavat%20Gita%20satsang) <https://goo.gl/maps/roGYrKB9EcQoPmhs8>

258 (i[) https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/exclusive-nithyanandas-petition-to-un-maligns-india.html](https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/exclusive-nithyanandas-petition-to-un-maligns-india.html)

259 <https://www.oneindia.com/tamil-nadu-assembly-elections/>

These examples clearly demonstrate that the colonial civil and criminal laws were meant for oppression and subjugation and not for empowering its subjects.

Deities of 64 Yoginis (a female monastic order) of Hirapur, Orissa, that were mutilated during the years of invasion carry the record of the actual violence also done to people, especially to the Hindu nuns and women, and not just what was done to Deities that were once worshipped.

50. The Neo-Hindutva political ideology was articulated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923 which today is the main ideological narrative for the right-wing political extremists in India. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar idealized a homogenized society which his proponents could easily subjugate. Savarkar identified the egalitarian principles of the Veda-Agamas (source scriptures of Hinduism) as a threat to his vision of political reconciliation of the entirety of the Indian-sub continent into a homogenized vote [bank,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votebank) over which his proponents could exercise exclusive hegemony.