In the 8th century BC, Sparta conquered [PDF] a neighbouring territory Messenia, rich with agricultural land. It was also rich with a labour force, that later came to be known as the helots. Now the helots outnumbered the Spartans 10:1 but were unarmed [1]. Spartans were known for their military prowess and it is not an urban legend that their newborn male children were subject to physical scrutiny for its continued life. Spartans killed malformed male babies, most likely because of their male privilege I’m sure.
Conversations: A Future That Could Have Been
At Devayasna, much of our ideas arise out of free-flowing discourse. Distilling this into a long form post is arduous and on occasion unnecessary. Our goal is to instill pride in the Hindu for his ancestors and to spark a new era of thought among the discerning. To this end we introduce Conversations, a series of posts arising from some of our thoughts on various topics of interest.
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Love Jihad as Predatory Behavior: A Criminological Perspective
Introduction
Most “studies” of Love Jihad deem the phenomenon to be nonexistent, and it goes without saying that such “studies” are often administered, monitored, and reviewed almost exclusively by Indian Leftist academics and affiliated intellectuals. Paraded by Indosecularists as being conjured up by the Hindu Right, Love Jihad is mythic; and in the words of Gupta (2009), it is a “Hindu patriarchal notion,” a “militant Hindu assertion,” and “fake” (p. 13). The possibility that it is actually a socio-structural reality tangibly accessible for qualitative analysis would risk delegitimizing narrative aspirations prone to contextualizing Love Jihad as the product of, and again in the words of Gupta (2009), a “hate campaign of Hindu organizations” that “fosters hate” (p. 13). And as Gupta (2009) goes on to optimistically conclude, what may be Love Jihad may actually be Hindu women being “actors and subjects in their own right by choosing elopements and conversions” (p. 15).
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Ashoka The Terrible
Continued from:
Prince Of Pataliputra; The Story Of Ashoka’s Rise To Power
Though Bindusara’s ministers had preferred Ashoka to Sushima and helped him to come to power, they did not hold him in high regard, and were contemptuous of his appearance.
Prince Of Pataliputra – Ashoka’s Rise To Power
Note: I would recommend reading this post before starting this article.
Our story begins in the city of Champa (Champaran), where a Brahmin named Pilindavatsa (also called Janasana) had a very beautiful daughter, named Subhadrangi (also called Dharma or Janapadakalyani). Astrologers foretold that she would marry a king and have two famous sons, one of whom would rule over a whole continent while the other would become a wandering monk. When his daughter was of age, he adorned her with all the ornaments he had and offered her in marriage to the Mauryan Emperor Bindusara, who accepted her into his harem as a concubine.
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The Truth About Ashoka
Recently, an RSS-backed magazine attacked the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, leading to angry reactions from many quarters.
This viewpoint has had support among sections of the Hindu Right for a while now. The first to articulate it was Savarkar, in his ‘Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History‘.
Hindu Version of Feminism?
Context
This is a critique of the idea of Hindu version of feminism.
The sample arguments in the referred article by @gary_1980in are taken for comment, this critique is more about the conceptual bases of what goes by Hindu version of feminism, which is not limited to the phrase Hindu Feminism.
