Ep 216: Being Muslim in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Moslems and the Hindoo Narrative of Victimhood
Hindoos were employed in high positions across the boad. This whole idea of this whole narrative of victim hood was cultivated by them and imbibed by the hindusig who suddenly thought, who found themselves er that moslems are no longer the rulers. And they felt that with this we can regain our power. In any case, they were better educated because moslems traditionally did not er imbibe secular education. Their influence on the society was largely through music, poetry, art, culture. It was not through education. So when the british came and the modern society was beingr shaped, so moslems were outside the pale,. That further created the fishes and facilitated this
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