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Hello! So with the title of my today’s blog, I ask
you, Do you think wearing a ‘Ghoonghat’ (or veil), Sati pratha and child
marriage part of Indian tradition? You must be wondering, What? Of course yes!!
That’s what was taught us in history class in school! These were the devils of
the Indian society...
Well, again this time, I am being straight-forward and
telling the simple and accurate answer for this question, which is “NOT AT
ALL!!” So now, the question arises, then why are we taught this, is it
fake, and BTW, why would historians write fake history for the Indian society?
See friend, Historians have written a lot of fake
history and have made changes according to their comfort for our Indian history (though not all!!).
Why? Because it was very rich, our culture, our practices, our beliefs, etc.
were very scientific and even more modern than what we are doing today. I will
not go in detail about this today but yes, I will definitely try to give a lengthy
explanation to it in some other blog.
And now, I make clear that this all happened in the
past in the society but only because there was necessity for these
practices. Okay now let’s understand how:
When muslims invaded India, life of our people became
highly insecure. These practices were not in our culture because when any king
or whomsoever having power (of hindu religion) conquered a place, he did not do
any harm to women and children. They were kept safely. No wonder many men were
killed, but seldom it happened that safety wasn’t ensured to the women who were
widowed and their kids. So at that time, there was no such practices like the
one I mentioned above.
But, as I told, the muslim invasion made the society
very insecure. How? They killed all the males in the society, no
matter it is a new born baby, all the children were killed mercilessly and
the women were brought to sell in the market. Can you imagine what “demons”
these people were? (Here I am talking about the average foreign muslim invaders, not all) There was the time when people started the ghoonghat,
child marriage and sati pratha to keep their girl child safe.
1) Why wear a ghoonghat or veil?
Because these foreign muslim kings or muslim invaders at high
post had the power to take any woman which fit in their definition of ‘beautiful’
and live with her forever, or if simplified, making her his wife and killing
the actual husband of that woman. So by not showing the face, the women were
much secure as a veil would protect them from not getting noticed by these
people.
2) Logic behind child marriage?
Child marriage was another method adopted by Indian
parents to protect their girl child from the devious eyes of these officers
because, even small girls (teenagers) were targeted. It wasn’t because these
parents wanted to get rid of their responsibilities of their daughter (well,
today some have this thinking, and this practice continues in some of the
places with this reason itself) but because if their daughter got married at a
young age just after puberty, she would stay safe with her husband, because it
was the duty of a man to protect his family. This way, the child marriage came
into existence.
3) Sati pratha? Why?
“Sati is
a practice among Hindu communities where a recently widowed woman, either
voluntarily or by force, immolates herself on her deceased husband's pyre. The
woman who immolates herself is, hence, called a Sati which is also interpreted as a 'chaste woman' or a
'good and devoted wife'.” This is the definition given by google. Again,
this was for her safety.. As the husband dies, no one is there for ensuring the
widowed woman’s safety and hence, chances were that she could get kidnapped. Self
respect and safety was the first duty of a woman to ensure on her own-self. So
this was the logic behind the sati pratha.
This is
my theory on why could such a rich culture adopt these practices, also, if you
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THANKYOU for your patience!!
AUTHOR: PIHU
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