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DIVIDE & RULE: A Cautionary Tale from India with Rajmohan Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian Independence movement against British imperial rule. He gained fame throughout the world for advocating non-violent civil ...
I never knew that India was such a divided country when it came to
religion. I never really thought of India as having many religious problems
at all. It baffles me how much religion can create such a divide between
people that they need to be so separated by areas. After millions of years,
humans still haven't been able to solve the problem of the religious
divide. There are numerous wars and conflicts still going on today that are
religiously fueled. It makes me think that the human race may never learn.
it was interesting to see how religion is affecting politics. the conflict
between Hindu and Muslim was not a big news to me because it is very
well-known conflict we see in our current world, but i never knew how the
relationship between them in India was this serious. Like what Gandhi
criticize, groups should've tried to build relationships with each other
rather than with empire. Under the fear of potential discrimination against
some groups, it made different religious groups to faec each other and led
them into conflict. Also, this video made me think that Indian government
failed to separate religion and government.
+kyle lee I agree that they should have tried to strengthen their relationships with each other rather than the British. I also think the conflict was not in the fact that there are different religious groups that exist in a space, as we have plenty of religious groups here in the States too, but that those groups were separated by methods such as divide and rule by the colonial power. They were not trying to implement a specifically Hindu government, or at least I don't think so. I could be wrong, but I don't think they were using religion for the purpose of their governance.
Rajmohan Gandhi's warning about divisions based on religion and politics
can be seen through the past history of several regions of the world. Take
for example, Ancient Central Europe. Within that area, entire countries of
people had their religion and political ways changed on a whim by kings,
with wars occurring frequently if said actions were not taken. Groups like
the Teutonic Knights would ravage the lands over a country's religion. Such
movements caused millions of deaths.
Religion and politics continue to divide nations across the world today. It
seems that, for now, we've yet to learn our lesson.
+Ilya Vorobyev My post was very similar to yours. It's very sad that after all these years, we still don't know how to solve one of the world's largest problems. It's crazy to think how many people have died or been displaced at the hands of religious conflict.
I enjoyed how Gandhi carefully explained the nuances between different
groups in India during colonial times. We can see that there are still
remaining issues that stemmed from that time period. The relationship
between religion and politics is a difficult one, and British policies and
divide-and-rule methodology only forced that divide further. This video was
very informative to me, because while I knew about the "general"
Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan and how they used to be
one, I didn't know how, why or the story behind it. This goes to show,
sadly, that the British empire used the divide-and-rule tactic to subjugate
further. If India's different groups had bonded together more, perhaps the
result would have different, but we may never know.
+Victoria Pai I am on the same boat as you. I was unaware India and Pakistan were once united. It is truly sad that they both decided to side with the enemy that eventually led to their separation. The British empire colonized in so many countries, but I was unaware of the divide-and-rule tactic.
This was an enticing video. I've been fascinated with India and its culture
since high school. What I took away from this video is that after British
rule, it split India into groups. It took a lot of power and a lot of
coordination to bring back India together. Unfortunately similar to the
theseus paradox, once rebuilt, it isn't the same. But perhaps this new
India is better.
Sure, people have different beliefs and ideologies, but that is what makes
us unique.
+vladimir potiyevskiy I like your perspective of a "new India". I do agree that different beliefs and ideologies make us unique, but I only believe that to be true when acceptance of different beliefs occurs. When hatred and discrimination stem from different ideologies, this leads to a corrupt, hateful world where people do not get along and more problems arise.
I wonder how India would be different today without British colonization?
From this video I learned how British colonization lead to India being
split up into different countries, and from what I understand there are
still tense relationships between some of these countries. Off the top of
my head, the fighting in the region of Kashmir comes to mind. Would this
sort of conflict be avoided without British presence? It's very well
possible that if Indian people focused on relations with each other all
those years ago instead of the 3rd party British, the political landscape
of India would be in better shape today.
+John-Henry Pezzuto I feel like even without the British colonization, India would've split in half. I'm sure British empire some how accelerated the conflict between two groups but even without it, two religions just cant stay together. As the Gandhi says in the video, if the different religious groups tried to build up relationships with each other rather than with the empire, result might had been different, but without this afford, colonization would not make any difference.
+Christopher Sandifer I agree with Christopher here. I think it's very easy to say there would be no violence without British imperialism, just like it's nice to think there would be no racism in the modern United States without slavery. However, I feel like another conflict would have risen, such as the religious conflict that Christopher brought up. This may be cynical, but in studying all these conflicts -- whether there's religious differences, differences in rights, or an authority figure vs. a revolutionary figure, wherever there's potential for a difference in opinion on such a broad scale as one group of people vs. another, there's going to be contention that could possibly boil over into conflict at some point.
+John-Henry Pezzuto I think you raise a good question when you ask if the conflicts in the video would be avoided without a British presence. I think that at least some of the conflict would have been avoided without Britain being involved. From the video it somewhat seems like conflict arose when different groups starting competing for Britain's favor. Had Britain not been involved, I assume that there would not have been this conflict because there would've been no basis for fighting, at least at that point in time. However, I would guess that religious differences would likely have caused conflicts at some point in the following years, regardless of whether or not any other outside nations were involved.
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Hey Im Ojibway and Cree and I would agree with you that personal opinion can distort a symbol without know about what it truly represents. I did learn a few things from my Native teacher in the video.
Haha actually your comment is a perfect example how personal opinion/perspective can distort the message of a symbol when diluted through the paradigm of our present-day society that focuses status, wealth & power. Exactly what happened with the mesoamerican symbols upon the arrival of another culture!