The consevatives and the oppressors of yesteryear, portray themselves and teach their children today that they are pioneers of "liberation and freedoms."
"(Southern Indian women, whose breasts were traditionally uncovered, found themselves obliged to undergo the indignity of conforming to Victorian standards of morality; soon the right to cover one's breasts became a marker of upper-cast respectability and efforts were made to deny this privilege to lower-caste women, leading to such missionary-inspired colonial curiosities as the Breast Cloth Agitation from 1813 to 1859 in Travancore and Madras Presidency.)"
The Indian Penal Code, "drafted by the British imperial rulers in the mid-nineteenth century criminalizes homosexuality under Section 377; creates a crime of 'sedition' under which students shouting slogans have been arrested; and applies a double standard to the commission of adultery."
"The irony is that in India there has always been place for people of different gender identities and sexual orientations. Indian history and mythology reveal no example of Prejudice against sexual difference. On the contrary, in the great epic of Mahabharata, the gender-changing Shihkhandi killed Bhishma. The concept of the Ardhanareeshwara imagined God as half man and half woman, prompting the movie-star chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in the 1980s, N. T. Rama Rao to dress up as Ardhanareeshwara and surprise his followers ... Transgender people were recognized as a napunsakh gender in Vedic and Puranic literature and were given due importance in India throughout history (and even in the Islamic courts during the Mughal era)."
— Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire, 2017 ed., pp. 94-9
The above is similar to what happened in the Middle East in nineteenth and early twentieth century, and today with the missionaries who defend "homosexuals" and women rights in the region.
"(Southern Indian women, whose breasts were traditionally uncovered, found themselves obliged to undergo the indignity of conforming to Victorian standards of morality; soon the right to cover one's breasts became a marker of upper-cast respectability and efforts were made to deny this privilege to lower-caste women, leading to such missionary-inspired colonial curiosities as the Breast Cloth Agitation from 1813 to 1859 in Travancore and Madras Presidency.)"
The Indian Penal Code, "drafted by the British imperial rulers in the mid-nineteenth century criminalizes homosexuality under Section 377; creates a crime of 'sedition' under which students shouting slogans have been arrested; and applies a double standard to the commission of adultery."
"The irony is that in India there has always been place for people of different gender identities and sexual orientations. Indian history and mythology reveal no example of Prejudice against sexual difference. On the contrary, in the great epic of Mahabharata, the gender-changing Shihkhandi killed Bhishma. The concept of the Ardhanareeshwara imagined God as half man and half woman, prompting the movie-star chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in the 1980s, N. T. Rama Rao to dress up as Ardhanareeshwara and surprise his followers ... Transgender people were recognized as a napunsakh gender in Vedic and Puranic literature and were given due importance in India throughout history (and even in the Islamic courts during the Mughal era)."
— Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire, 2017 ed., pp. 94-9
The above is similar to what happened in the Middle East in nineteenth and early twentieth century, and today with the missionaries who defend "homosexuals" and women rights in the region.
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