Arunabha Ghosh
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In December 4, 1829 CE, Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General, thanks to the movement launched by Raja Ram Mohan Ray, abolished the practice of "Sati" in all jurisdictions of British East Indian Company ruled British India.
In Bengal, this barbaric and inhuman practise was generally restricted to certain "superior" castes. With some pure breeds, possibly racist men. Origin? possibly as a cowardly reaction to the Turki culture of taking pagan Indian women for their harem and as concubines, mostly widows and young unmarried left right and centre.
A section of the so-called priestly class was also crazily polygamous - with 100s of wives in as many villages - including young girls before their puberty. Classical degenerate Brahmanism.
When the movement was launched by Ram Mohan Ray, the orthodox Hindu society reacted vigorously against such interference in their tradition and cultures. Some learned men even claimed that women make conscious decisions on their own, to their deaths - they were the ideals of chastity and symbol of love for their dead husbands. And some women, jealous possibly, also raised their voices against this ban.
Such is the evil nature of many men (and few women). Looking, judging and evaluating women from the perspective of flesh, and nothing more. She is not human, you see. Maybe wealth can be another reason, to appropriate wealth from the helpless victim. I do wonder what happened to her children though.
Anyway, I guess, organized religion is about caging men and keeping complete control of the "volatile" female - through fear and punishment after death.
Now the next story.
Around 700-800 CE, a crazy book was compiled, somewhere in Syria/Kufa, called the Arabic Quran - telling us, that there were other Qurans (Biblical Lectionary possibly) in other languages like Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, the cultivated ancient languages of the region at that time.
The culture that came out of the convulsion explicitly did buy/sell slaves from officially sanctioned slave markets - buying, selling Turks, Indians, Africans, Armenians, Greeks, sex slaves for men, women as war booties, polygamy, unlimited concubines, wife-beating, and extremely whimsical divorce right for men - just three words, and then the wife is history. And then the tradition of forcing women inside a black tent called Burkha, whenever she is outside her home or is with her father-in-law, brother-in-law or any men who not is her husband, children or brother or father.
What else, that culture assumes, certified by the divine book - she is only born to reproduce and provide pleasure to the designated male. An object.
By the way, this black tent is an ancient Sumerian tradition - possibly copied by the cult.
Then there were other women humiliating traditions - like nikah-mutta and a consummated forced marriage with a third person before remarriage to her original not so nice husband. Not to mention female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation is about chopping off the most sensitive tissue, the clitoris, with 1000s of nerve endings to deprive her of pleasures.
Of course, male genital mutilation was also there, but as part of the overall Jewish tradition - as a symbol of one's submission, covenant with the jealous and judgmental King God.
In the 21st century - India allows polygamy, wife-beating, triple talaq, and forced black-tent to anyone who believes in the Arabic cult.
You see, wife-beating has a divine sanction, so is polygamy, so is the black-tent.
Now, as a human being, if you protest against any of these practices - you are a right-wing Hindu fundamentalist and an Islamophobe.
Funnily, supports for these barbaric practices are pouring in from strange quarters - our self proclaimed left liberals, otherwise normal human beings.
You see, She wears that all-covering black-tent of her own free will, like Bengali Kulin widows used to happily jump into the pyre - the fire that was meant for the corpse of her husband.
But then the black-tent is the definition of her chastity and purity, else she is a bazaaru Aurat. How can a female teenager in a patriarchal family have any courage to go against the cultural norm of the 1400-year-old barbarism.
But then Aurat, apparently a Hindustani word (Urdu/Hindi) is essentially a Turki/Arabic slang - for dirty non-respectable Indian women, who can be looted and taken - what one's right arm possesses.
Give her a break. for a change, treat her like a fellow human being.
Women rise - destroy it. for sanity, for peace. educational and economic freedom is the key here.
A compulsory, guaranteed and free (with universal scholarship, if possible) school and college education for all female citizens is the need of the hour. Else she remains an object. No confidence even to confront the ills of the society,
Politics aside.
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