Prudy Ray 🥭
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Happened to be Dalit, ExChristian, Atheist, Queer, 26 years old. Persevering by the community. No justice, no peace.
Joined December 2021
Santhal Resistance is mentioned as "tribal disturbances" in Indian textbooks, but they are central to the resistance against British colonialism. Thread.
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“Shouldn’t our scholars expose the limitations, crimes, foulness, and vulgarity in the epics? Shouldn’t they inform the Tamils and the southerners that the Ramayana was composed to degrade them?” - Periyar
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@PrudyRay the purpose of the text is entirely to valorize the descendants of steppe migrants & demonize dravidians & indigenous peoples. It codifies the supremacy both in martial and social terms.
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@PrudyRay I will tell u another angle. Ravana was a brahmin by action. In short he was connected to the universal conscience or ether. Whatever u call it. If u go to srilanka u will see the contribution of Ravana in Medicine, culture, and also science. There was so many Brahmin in asura
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endorses to treat women as property, but merely pointing out how the text is politically used to degrade indigenous people.
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by oppressor (upper) caste authors always frame the "mixed born" and the "southern" as evil. The myth of Ramayana serves social power. The text codes his mother's side as dark, chaotic, and impure, and uses that to justify Ravana's demonization. This reinterpretation in no way +
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protagonist Rama, the incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu, as an enforcer of Aryan caste hierarchy." When anti-caste Dravidian thinkers reinterpret Ravana as symbol of those demonized by Brahminical myths, it's not about changing his literal caste—but questioning why stories written+
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That framing itself reflects a larger Aryan myth that glorifies one side as "civilized" and portrays the other (indigenous people) as dark and evil. This is why Periyar inverts the Hindu epic Ramayana "to read the asura antagonist Ravana as a chivalrous Dravidian hero and the +
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