“Identity is built on actual cultural and communal history.” “Innovation is the domain of original thinkers.”
The biggest attack of all Faith Based Colonialists has been on the native cultures of the land that they are colonizing. It had been acknowledged by Macaulay personally that their main aim was to civilize the native Indians through the alteration of the traditional Indian education system. They were largely successful in their aim to create a group of Indians who look like Indians but think in the manner of colonial masters. The British Colonial masters devised an Indian Education policy whose content was designed by them in Britain which emphasized the medium of education as English so that their representatives in India can understand the language being spoken in offices and educational institutes. Their policy was designed against the promotion of local languages because it would force the colonizers to learn many regional Indian languages. Before the British the same colonial strategy was used by the Iranian Islamic invaders of India where they forced all official communications in Farsi language. Even the Arabic script was a regular language of communication in those times.
Why did the Faith Based Colonialists (FBC) emphasize imposing their language on the colonized lands? Why was language as a means of colonization the most important tool in their strategic arsenal?
These were not innocent strategies, nor were these colonizers politically illiterate as the case is usually made out to be by the neo-apologists, fake historians and mythologists. Language defines the logic & reasoning of communication. When people use the same language, it is easier to decipher the connotations of words being spoken. The half of the work of colonization is done through enforcing the language. For example, Spanish colonialists imposed Spanish on the Philippines, to move them away from their native Tagalog which was based on sanskrit. The Spaniards did the same to most of the countries of South America. Today none of the countries colonized by Spaniards even faintly remember their original culture because their colonial masters changed their language of communication. Spaniards destroyed all literature in native languages to rewrite the history in their language. With language also comes faith. The Spanish language allowed Spaniards to implement ‘Papal Bull’ in those lands. ‘Papal Bull’ was the call of the Vatican to raise funds for their church to help them grow in Europe. The ‘Papal Bull’ also gave religious sanction to these colonizers. These colonizers used a very sophisticated network of lobbyists that they created in the colonized communities to carry out their program. They ruled the natives through native ‘noblemen’ who were their puppets. Their main goal was the control of land and resources through political and military coercion. To achieve this goal their game plan was to eliminate the native cultures of those lands by creating confusion & fear in the native ‘sons of the soil’ communities. Any resistance to their control was met with a severe military response to set a fearful example for others. When the military response became unpopular, most of these FBCs planned a cultural & academic strategy to subdue the popular uprising.
Lack of Self-confidence and absence of original identity is seen in most of the colonized people of the world today.
There is a serious confusion in the minds of most erstwhile colonies in regards to their identity. If you ever thought that Christian ‘civilizing’ colonial missions have stopped today, then you are seriously mistaken. Most history textbooks of primary and middle schools in the erstwhile colonized lands including India are filled with narrations of colonial version of history which in itself is a conspiracy theory. For India, the case is even worse, the incorrect Mughal history is also included. These textbooks shape the young mind into believing a faulty narrative which affects their identity. Euphemistic terms such as ‘Peer’ review and ‘Scholarly review’ have been invented by colonial academics to thwart any entrance of a native rational version of the history. Any evidence to the contrary is considered by these colonial academics as a conspiracy theory. Especially for India, there is a very little iota of truth in these Indian textbooks if anyone considers the facts that are being compiled by various Indian researchers outside the formal education system of India. The education system of India hasn’t changed from what was established by the British Faith based colonialists. It is now very clear from history that India was a target of the English church through British rule. There are numerous instances of that academic assault as documented by a multitude of Indian researchers today. Aryan Invasion theory that was invented to divide the Hindus has been conclusively debunked. Most of the colonies of the world could not fight with the colonial powers because of absence of a strong intellectual class. But in the case of India, the traditions of various Vedic schools of thought maintained a very high degree of intellectual sophistication that thwarted both Islamic and Christian colonial control. The colonial control through faith started in the mid-west through Romans when they tried to impose New Testament on Jews. But that strategy backfired on them when Pope was installed as the new Roman Empire. Most of the modern history won’t cover this essential observation.
Roman Empire did not disappear, but was rather rebranded as Vatican Catholics. That’s when the twelve Roman Olympian Gods were replaced by the twelve apostles appointed by the Vatican.
Most of the colonies of the world have not been able to grow economically as much as the colonial powers themselves due to economic reasons. Most of the colonies of the world were exploited for the economic gain of their masters. That’s why you see the abundance of wealth in Europe, USA and other nations occupied by them such as Australia & New Zealand. Despite the worst exploitation of natives of India, India has maintained a distinctive culture from the abrahamic faith inspired culture. That is the reason why India has grown economically. No colonies have ever been able to come back.
China, Japan, India and South Korea are the only nations that have become prosperous because of the strength of their native cultures.
The native cultures in those lands have inspired innovation that makes them standout from other nations in the world. Pakistan Afghanistan are a classical case in point, despite having a DNA similar to most natives of India, they adopted a foreign faith & language, because of which they have become the poorest countries of the world. During the early 1600s, Kabul was one of the richest Hindu cities, but by 1900s, it had become the poorest city in undivided India. All abrahamic faiths have actually drained all colonies economically & culturally. The deep colonization tactics of the FBCs have made even the countries like Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela as poor. That is the extent of bad impact of Faith Based Colonialism. India may well serve as a beacon of hope for most of the colonized mindsets of the world. ‘Mythology’ is the academic classification of the faiths of most of the colonies of the world. The western colonial mind is expert in building terminologies which appear fanciful to most erudite readers. But that itself is a catch. I will take a word ‘Pantheism’ which was coined especially for Hindus. From the Abrahamic point of view, they have self-declared ‘Monotheism’ as superior to ‘Pantheism’. That’s what they campaign day-in and day-out to humiliate Hindus, Buddhists and other faiths connected to Sanatana Dharma. Their colonial minds haven’t yet reconciled to the fact that they are no longer in political powerful positions. But they know very well that they are still holding their colonies to their hostage through their education system. Most earlier Spanish colonies still teach Spanish & Spanish church history. The same is true for Portuguese, French and English. Do you actually think that colonial era has ended? The elite Mexicans & Argentinians consider themselves more Spanish & also racially superior to native Mexicans & Argentinians. Elite Brazilians consider themselves racially & culturally superior to native Brazilians. Some Elite English speaking residents of India also consider themselves superior to other native Indians.
The biggest problem of the ex-colonies is their mindset of seeking approval & validation from their colonial masters.
This mindset has been kept live by FBCs through their control on academic curriculums & language. Like all other colonial masters, Britain introduced the English language to ‘unite’ all the residents of Undivided India. That language itself became a tool to instill a racial inferiority in India amongst the natives. The ancient Sanskrit language of India is by design a very sophisticated one. It has more consonants & vowels than English. Most Indian languages are directly based on sanskrit, so it also shares similar sounds. Therefore, naturally, a sanskrit speaking person, will have access to more words and sounds. It is a modern scientifically known fact that ‘words’ play an important role in forming a human intellect. Any person speaking Sanskrit based languages will naturally have higher intellect than any other abrahamic language speaker. So when we try to teach in English we are actually dumbing down a rather more naturally intelligent person. That is the effect of English based education on the minds of speakers of Sanskrit based languages. The colonial imposition on South America cannot be undone now because their native languages have been wiped out. The same has happened to native Americans of Canada & USA. The USA (European Settlers) gave American citizenship to native Americans in 1924. The entire pedagogy of English education is based on racism and casteism. Remember that Caste is an English word based on Portuguese ‘Casta’. The English language has extremely offensive racist words like ‘noble’, ‘gentiles’, ‘Indians’, ‘elite’, ‘caste’ and many other words which have no equivalence in Sanskrit.
It is a challenge for most of the ex-colonies to maintain their culture & identity in the face of ongoing colonial minded academic attacks from their earlier colonial masters.
The academic university affiliation is sold as a premium to get the colonies to conform to their ideologies. Most official historians in India claim affiliation to Oxford & Cambridge which are the breeding grounds of neo-colonialism against the natives of Bharat. These academic institutions are known to be the destroyer of the actual history of Bharat to continue claiming their place in the mindset of native Indians. If you want to confirm then look at the resumes of Romila Thapar & Irfan Habib, the most vocal colonial historians. Many of them have received coveted titles ‘Padma Bhushan’, ‘Padma Shri’ from past Indian governments for rewriting the colonial garbage. Any intelligent Indian person will trash their reports into the garbage. Truth is always ‘Sat’. There are many others like them who have ruled the Indian minds which have made Christian & Islamic FBCs very happy.
The reality is that a colonized mind cannot be innovative. Because the thought process has been borrowed and is not part of the intellectual self.
While collaboration is the rule of the world, it is the cultural identity that brings innovation to the world. Variety brings beauty to the world. Variety is also the spice of the world. No individual would want to eat the same meal at different times during the day. The identity of an individual comes from the land of birth, culture of the land, language and ancient traditions. The DNA of every human being contains the repository of the experiences from that land, culture and language. Therefore, the thought process of every human being from that particular land is alike. If the world would be controlled by the natives without any colonial imposition, the world would have the variety that we all could enjoy.
The natives of the land is not just a concept but it is an identity worth preserving for the sake of the global human community.
We have many international organizations that try to protect the local flora & fauna of the lands. However, we have still not pursued the idea of preserving the native cultures, language and identity of our fellow humans. Like I said in the beginning, “Innovation is the domain of original thinkers.” The world is always looking for fresh ideas and concepts that would bring a new experience to the buyers. That’s why people choose holidays in far flung places to clear their thoughts. An American may be proud to wear a shirt made in India, while an Indian make in turn would like an American one. This is a very natural human behavior. Homogeneity is not the primordial characteristic of a human being. Every human being is made special by Bhagavan. Every human is created unique with the most unique traits that make one special. Those traits become prominent in those communities which retain that original human potential for land. The colonized people, however, lose that unique human trait.Excerpts from my book – Gold, Glory & God – A curse on the natives.
Innovation & economic progress cannot happen in lands that are still enslaved by colonial mindset and especially those propagated by FBCs.
