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Does India Owe Reparations To The Sikhs.


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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4&feature=share

This is an Oxford Union debate on whether the British owe India and other colonies reparations regarding the things done in the British Empire.

The speaker here is Shashi Tharoor, an Indian MP (as McCaulyite as one can get). We have had posters on here before who have mentioned that India was better under the British.

Please watch this video and give me your thoughts.

We have not really had a discussion or an in depth one regarding the British Empire and it's impact on Sikhs and within the Subcontinent.

A lot of the posters may feel reparations would be owed to the Sikhs by the Indian state.

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U say that british did a great deal of harm, which is true on all aspects. However, wen it came to partition, our sellout short sighted "leaders" at the time WERE OFFERED a sikh homeland by the british, which would of included e.panjab/80% of haryana, nankana sahib, parts of montgomery and large parts of himachal. But our stupid idiotic leaders at the time chose to side with the now enemies. If we'd had any of the sikh shaheed/leaders frm the 80s (sant jarnail singh, manochahal, sukhdev babbar, avtar singh brahma, gurjant singh, even simranjeet mann), they wud have snatched the brits hands off, and we wud have been a worldwide power 2day, of that im absolutley sure. Not havin a homeland means, nobody even knows who sikhs are internationaly.

I used to think the same thing because that's what I read from Saachi Saakhi. But from further research you come to the conclusions that the British really didn't care for what happened to the Sikhs. They weren't really serious about a Sikh state. They gave the choice to Sikhs to either join the Muslims or the Hindus. Had Sikhs joined the Muslims, then Pakistan would have been much larger because the Sikh-Muslim population combined was the majority well into Haryana. But the Sikhs joined with the Hindus so Pakistan only ended up till Attari border. And because the Sikh district of Gurdaspur ended up in India, as a result J&K also ended up in India because at the time the only way to Kashmir was through Gurdaspur. So India has a lot to be thankful for Sikhs joining India instead of Pakistan in 1947. But these thankless people break Punjabi speaking areas of Punjab and give it to Himachal, Haryana and separate Chandigarh and also carry out the Sikh genocide. Within a hundred years (1849 to 1947) Sikhs were reduced from rulers to slaves. Literally ਅਰਸ਼ to ਫ਼ਰਸ਼

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I find it perplexing that a people who take immoderate delight insisting they are the world's future superpower can do this whilst simultaneously demanding reparations. The Indians have sent their countrymen into space, they've developed nuclear weapons. What do they need reparations for? To help their poor whom they are incapable of feeding themselves?The wretched poverty of India has nothing to do with the fallout of Empire, it has everything to do with casteism (still extant), Brahmin corruption and the consummate backwardness of the denizens of the subcontinent. How can you expect a country to progress in development when the majority of its population is given to the observance of the most ridiculous superstitions? A country where people marry dogs, defile dalit women, worship deformed children as avatars, and drink the urine of cows in the belief that it is spiritually efficacious?

What gall. If these Indians have to nerve to demand reparations of the British, who in spite of all their maltreatment of the Indians never attempted their genocide and actually made India better in some respects by modernizing it and by bridling the backwardness of the Hindus (outlawing sati, for instance), then what do they themselves owe to the people whose women they systematically raped, whose holiest shrines they defiled, and whose children they butchered with every indication of relish? Nothing less than a homeland.

They will never concede monetary reparations, so we shall have to claim reparations of a different sort, and take them for ourselves. Send our Parchaaraks to the areas of Himachal and Haryana claimed for Khalistan, make Sikhi the prevailing faith in these areas. Greater Punjab will be restored in all but name.

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