Chapter 471 Honor to the Bretanians and Holy Warriors

Hari was born in the small village of Warividu, a village of more than 200 families in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The homes are separated by a wall that, although not very high and not very neat, served as the "Berlin Wall". Half a kilometer to the left and right of the wall is open space, which serves as a "buffer zone" for people on both sides of the wall. Those who lived south of the wall belonged to the high castes of "Brahmins", and those who lived north of the wall belonged to the "untouchables". Dr. Harry was born just north of the wall.

The Hindu caste system divides people into four different classes, namely Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Brahmins had the highest social status and were engaged in cultural education and sacrifices; Kshatriyas are the second caste, engaged in administration and warfare; The Vaishyas are a third caste and trade in commerce; The Shudras were the fourth caste and engaged in heavy manual labor and were used as slaves by the higher castes.

In addition to the four castes, there are many Indians who are not even qualified to become Shudras, and these people are called 'achud', which means untouchable untouchables. They are considered unclean, and anyone who touches them, even their presence, will be defiled. It's better not to even think about it, because when you think about it, your brain will be polluted.

In British India, where the total number of untouchables was about fifteen percent of the population, they preferred to call themselves "Dalits", meaning oppressed.

From an early age, Harry hated India's sinful caste system, and since caste is hereditary, he was destined to be a pariah from the first day he came into this world. From an early age, he had heard and witnessed the social oppression of Dalits. The reason why the high castes let them live in the north is because the wind often blows from south to north, and the water in the river also flows from south to north, so that the high caste people feel that their living environment will not be polluted.

"All the resources in the village. Including land and water, they all belong to the high-caste families, and we Dalits have nothing but endless humiliation. ”

All Dalits could do was sweep the streets, sweep the toilets, and dispose of dead animals. Unclean work adds to the impression that the Dalits are unclean, and the high-caste people avoid the Dalits as if they were from the plague. They were not allowed to go to the village temple to pray, nor could they go to the public well to fetch water. And that's not all. In order to keep their distance from the upper castes, they also have to keep a whistle in their mouths to remind them to take shelter early, and they also have to tie a large palm leaf that can be dragged to the ground on the fart (crab) strand to clean up the footprints in time.

For the "Dalits" in India, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary theory of "abolishing all systems of exploitation and oppression" is simply tailor-made by them.

When the Socialist Revolution penetrated into British India through the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it was sent with the army. There are also revolutionary ideas that shatter the old order of the old society.

Compared to the Red Army from the North, the British feared the spread of red ideas in India, especially among the "untouchables".

Therefore, after the armistice in 1941, the British and the local Indian middle and upper classes joined forces to desperately suppress the spread of "red ideas" at the bottom of India, even using the military police, local clan forces and gallows.

And after Artoria appeared, one of the British officials' "whimsical" was to use Artoria's identity as a "divine messenger". Formation of a "religious" colonial army. This army had Artoria as its object of worship and fought for it in the name of jihad. This kind of army that has been brainwashed by religion has no problem with its will to fight, and it is an excellent cannon fodder.

After a successful missionary mission in Egypt, Artoria came to India in July 1944 and began to preach there as an oracle, through whom the British government wanted to pass. Change the Indians' unsightly will to fight, and build a fanatical religious army to serve as cannon fodder for the British on the battlefields of various places to defend their colonial interests.

And the religion introduced by the British to the army is naturally the state religion of Britain.

Historically, the British turned India into their colony early on. Christian missionary activity increased in the early 19th century, however, like other non-Hindu religions, Christianity was hostile and ostracized by the dominant religions in India.

For the past 200 years, Indians have described the spread of Christianity in India in broken English as follows: Christianity is a demon religion, Christians drink a lot and do a lot of bad things, and Christians are synonymous with destruction.

The early spread of Christianity was met with great resistance from the middle and upper classes of India, and only the desperate people at the bottom, such as the untouchables, the Shudras, would embrace Christianity. The two branches of Christianity, Catholicism, in order to gain the support of the local upper class, did not hesitate to "Indo-religion" when they preached, imitating local Hinduism in clothing, diet, and even living habits and religious ceremonies, and even calling themselves Western Brahmins. Not only that, but they also perpetuated all kinds of bad practices of local Hinduism, such as child marriage, saty, etc., and most importantly, believers of different castes prayed in different churches, ate different communions, and even washed their hands in different wells, etc., which can be called Brahmins in the skin of Christ.

And Protestantism, including the Anglican Church of England, is much more progressive than Catholicism in this regard. They directly preached to the Indians that "all men are created equal" and opposed the caste system as an inhumane and criminal system, which won the support of the lower classes of the Indian people, and even promoted the reform of Hinduism itself.

However, although the Anglican mission in India has achieved some success, and the official has encouraged its spread in India with tacit approval and covert support, its influence has mainly been maintained in the more developed cities along the coast of India, and has not penetrated too far inland.

The main reasons are that India's interior is relatively backward, and the local princes and indigenous religious forces instinctively resist this kind of religion that infringes on their interests, and second, the government is also worried about triggering unnecessary religious conflicts and affecting the strength of British control over India. In addition, in the past, there was a large-scale rebellion among Indians because of bullets, butter, pig fat, and religious conflicts, and the British official was still apprehensive about the rebellion caused by religious issues, so it also adopted a relatively negative "neutral" attitude in this regard.

After the end of the European War in 1940, separatist forces in India reared their heads, although the British government temporarily suppressed the local princely princes who were stupid and wanted to move by advocating the "Bolshevik threat theory". But there are people of insight in the British government. It has been realized that new changes must be made in the Indian question, otherwise this crown jewel of the British Empire will be lost sooner or later.

What is the change method?

Over the past few years, the British came up with various means, but the results were not satisfactory, until Artoria appeared, after which they succeeded in passing the "experiment" in Egypt. It was decided to use the radical plan proposed by Artoria - that is, to increase the spread of Anglican in India, especially among the lower classes.

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy is the first key to solving the Indian problem."

Artoria, who had absorbed part of Lin Han's knowledge, unceremoniously took out the views she needed from Lin Han's "cognition" and wrote an article entitled "Analysis of the Classes in India at the Present Stage" and handed it to the British Prime Minister.

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"There are five major castes in India: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and untouchables."

"Brahmins and Kshatriyas were vassals of the princes of various princely states of India, and they survived and developed. It is closely linked to the princely states in various places. India's Congress Party, the Social Democratic Party, a bunch of all sorts of parties, these parties are just spokesmen for these people to bring out and bargain with the British Empire. ”

"What is the attitude of the Indian parties such as the Congress Party and the SPD towards Indian independence, the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas. Bones are what attitudes are. ”

"These two groups appear to be attached to the British Empire. But in reality they were not friends of the British Empire. The Congress Party and the Social Democratic Party, who are clamoring for Indian independence, stand up as bad guys, while the princes of the princely states and the high-caste people of the Brahmin Kshatriyas behind them pretend to be silent and neutral, but in fact provide financial support behind them. It's just a referee who has been bought off in the boxing ring. The difference between them is like that between Tirak and Gandhi, one radical and the other moderate, but they are both Indian independence elements at heart. There is no difference between the two. ”

"Although we know that these people are very dishonest, if we want to maintain our interests in India, we still have to do it through these two-faced and insidious villains. While we have to cooperate with them, we must also be vigilant. As for their policy, my opinion is three points of appeasement, three points of suppression, and three points of strike. ”

"Vaishyas, Shudras, the lower strata of India, most of the Indians in this class are illiterate and full of confusion, and Indian independence and freedom are far less attractive to them than they elevate their status to Kshatriya and Brahmin. And this class of India accounts for nearly two-thirds of India's population. ”

"What the Vaishyas, the Shudras want, we in the British Empire can give them. But the princes of the princely states of India, these Brahmins, could not give them to them. If Gandhi and Nehru wanted to pursue Indian independence, as long as the Vaishyas and Shudras did not support it, it would be useless to rely on only a few Brahmins and Kshatriyas jumping up and down. ”

"As for the untouchables of India, this class at the bottom of the Indian racial system, we have ignored them in the past, but in fact this class has changed its class position more strongly than any other class in India. Whoever can give them hope, they will support whomever they want. ”

In her submission to the British Prime Minister, Artoria's attitude was to co-opt the three lower classes of India, the Vaishyas, the Shudras, and the Untouchables, and to strike "appropriately" at the upper classes of Brahmins and Kshatriyas.

Her opinion on the British colonial policy towards India over the past 100 years: supporting the upper echelons of India and sucking the blood of the lower strata through the upper strata is completely different.

However, after reading Artoria's detailed plan, Attlee felt that it was valuable, so he took it to the British top brass for a secret discussion.

In fact, Artoria's proposal is similar to Lin Han's idea to help the progressive forces of the United States to eliminate the anti-(crab) forces in the United States, and the key core of this proposal is to "increase class antagonism in India."

In Artoria's suggestion, her view was that the British colonial government in India should use various means to combat the progressive forces in the Brahmin and Kshatriya upper classes that advocated the abolition of the caste system, and to increase the estrangement and contradictions between the upper and lower classes of India by assassination, creating scandals, and supporting those diehards who insisted on the caste system to come to power.

"Let the middle and lower classes of India live more miserable, let the Indian Brahmins and Kshatriyas become more corrupt, increase the class antagonism and class contradictions between them, and use class contradictions to cover up the contradictions between them and the British Empire."

"We need to support those diehards who insist on the caste system and let them become the "representatives" of the upper echelons of India, and they will wave the banner of Indian independence. ”

"Those radical reformers who advocate the abolition of the caste system, we want to fight them, make them disappear in India, so that they cannot make their voices heard."

"An Indian upper class that has been detached from the support of the bottom, and the "Indian independence" they are clamoring for is just a crow crying, and there is nothing to fear. ”

"In the process of intensifying contradictions, the British Empire must guard against not allowing these cunning Indian independence elements to transfer the contradictions to the Empire. Therefore, on the issue of caste contradictions, the British Empire must stand up and show its support for the abolition of the caste system. ”

"But our support can only be expressed in words, and in action we must do the opposite, continuing to increase the class antagonism among Indians."

"However, it is not enough to get the support of the middle and lower classes of India just by saying one thing and doing another, we must give hope to the third, fourth, fifth and other people in India, and give them the hope of completely changing their own destiny!"

"We can't turn hundreds of millions of Indian third, fourth, or fifth people into first-class and second-class people, but we can turn one thousandth, or one hundredth, of the useful inferior people into middle and upper people, and give these people at the bottom a hope of rising."

"India is a country where class rigidity is very severe, and all the places at the top are filled. According to my plan, we added a few extra chairs to the upper level, which would inevitably cause them to be unhappy. Their discontent, opposition, and protests are the best evidence to prove to the lower classes of India that the British Empire is opposed to the caste system, and it will also contribute to the further increase in the contradictions between these Indian independence elements and the middle and lower classes. ”

"As for the promotion of the lower castes in India, it is not appropriate for the official to intervene directly, so I think we should start with religion in this matter"

At the end of that proposal, Artoria came up with a proposal to add "honorable Bretanian" status and "holy warrior" to the Indians. (To be continued......)