[Just a little bit of interesting history I stumbled upon. I keep coming across a lot of revisionist narratives spread by hindutva. This post is to address one such false narrative spread by none less than the vice president of India.]
Naidu's dogwhistling
Recently, Venkaiah Naidu, the vice president of B.. I mean India...wrote this article just before Indpendence day.
It had a lot of the usual hindutva dogwhistling. Hindu good. Muslim bad.
Surprisingly, he even called British bad. He said "some apologists of colonialism have sought to portray British rule as beneficial to India". SorrySavarkar who once wrote "every intelligent lover of India would heartily and loyally co-operate with the British people in the interests of India herself" must be rolling in his shmashana.
Hindu good muslim bad
But more about that stuff some other time. This post is only to address the hindu good, muslim bad dogwhistling that Naidu did.
Naidu wrote :
>Solo campaigns of brave resistance by the likes of Prithviraj Chauhan, Maharana Pratap, Chhatrapathi Shivaji, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Veerapandya Kattabomman, Alluri Sitarama Raju were not adequate. Moreover, there were Mir Jaffers all through.
His narrative was that all anti-colonial and independence struggles were exclusively fought by hindu kings and warriors.
In the entire article, there is mention of only two muslims. One an infamous traitor. Another an infamous invader. That's why I called it dogwhistling.
Ignored are the Firoz Shahs, Begum Hazrat Mahals and Liaqat Alis who fought against the East India company in 1857.
Mahtab Rai family - the hindu traitors
But also ignored was the critical role played by a hindu banking family - the Mahtab Rai Jagat Seths - in bringing down Siraj-ud-Daula at the Battle of Plassey. It has been ignored not just by hindutva netas like Naidu, but even by most of our textbook narratives.
The Week wrote a detailed article on it last week - Bankrolling a battle. They even called them the Ambanis of their time lol.
Some excerpts:
>Clive also had the most powerful partner on his side: Mahtab Rai ‘Jaga
... keep reading on reddit ➡Obviously, Nawab himself and his family members like Ghoseti, Mir Jafar etc were all Shia Muslims.
Omichund, Krishnachandra, Ray Durlabh etc were Hindus(various sects).
Diwan Mohonlal etc were also Hindu but they stayed loyal with Siraj(various sects). I don't know the religious background of Mir Madan.
Jagat Set, the famous banker was a Jain.
Not to mention the French forces, who allied with Nawab, whereas the British conspirators who ultimately won.
Add to this, Bengal's everlasting neighbouring enemy kingdom of Marathas and Afghan emperor Ahmed Shah Durrani(Sunni Muslim) who were constant threats for Bengal Sultanate.
This is quite fascinating to think of.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
[Removed]
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
