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OP - October 07, 2015, 01:35 AM

Let me start off by saying I'm not muslim, I'm actually a practicing hindu. While studying for my masters and doing research for my papers, I used to scroll the back alleys of the internet to find information for my research. that is how I chanced to find this forum. It helped me a lot on how to direct my questions for the research. If anyone is interested, I did my research on how ethnic parties form along specific markers of identity, how they can be manipulated, and how those markers are used in global politics. Kind of like look into how nationalism, ethnic parties, etc. come into being and how they have an impact on the societies they are a part of.

I lurked because, well, you have interesting discussions. So I decided to say hi, and thank you because you helped me get through grad school. And that's a big feat, because I was very much the Indian Elle Woods (form legally blonde for those not in the know). In fact I would have made her cringe too so it was no easy task helping me get through grad school.
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Reply #1 - October 07, 2015, 01:52 AM

Welcome, LadyDanger. Here's a wabbit -

When Islamic origins get solved, some of us might migrate over to a Hindi forum. There's a book here on Vedic origins that looks interesting -
https://books.google.com/books?id=DagXCgAAQBAJ
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Reply #2 - October 07, 2015, 02:12 AM

Welcome.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #3 - October 07, 2015, 02:23 AM

Quote from: Zimriel on October 07, 2015, 01:52 AM
Welcome, LadyDanger. Here's a wabbit -

When Islamic origins get solved, some of us might migrate over to a Hindi forum. There's a book here on Vedic origins that looks interesting -

Don't get me started on history, one of the many big loves of my life. I had actually wanted to study archeology but unfortunately my family was like "if you want to do something radical study economics."

If you want to read an amazing book on how communities form, read benedict anderson's imagined communities. It changed how i see everything.
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Reply #4 - October 07, 2015, 02:23 AM

Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on October 07, 2015, 02:12 AM
Welcome.

to you too
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Reply #5 - October 07, 2015, 03:17 AM

Welcome I'd love to have your input on my numerous posts about the sociological history of religion. It's a topic I'm fascinated by right now (when I get a new passion for something it usually sticks around for a few years, longer if I'm able to actually do something with it).

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Reply #6 - October 07, 2015, 03:36 AM

Welcome to the forum LadyDanger, have a rabbit!

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Reply #7 - October 07, 2015, 08:01 AM

Welcome - your self description as the Indian Elle Woods made me chuckle - I saw a musical version of Legally Blond recently and now I'm imagining Legally Blonde bollywood style! Glad you got through grad school and welcome.
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Reply #8 - October 07, 2015, 08:42 AM

Is there a particular school/sect of hinduism you identify with? Are you āstika or nāstika?

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #9 - October 07, 2015, 11:41 AM

Hi LadyDanger

Welcome to the CEMB-forum

Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on October 07, 2015, 08:42 AM
Is there a particular school/sect of hinduism you identify with? Are you āstika or nāstika?

Or Charvaka?

Good to have you here

The topic you described fascinates me as well. Especially with how it is used to manipulate people and the resulting mayhem when the "out-group" is demonised and their lives have no or even negative value.

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Reply #10 - October 07, 2015, 12:27 PM

Welcome

Quote from: LadyDanger on October 07, 2015, 02:23 AM
If you want to read an amazing book on how communities form, read benedict anderson's imagined communities. It changed how i see everything.

I'd second that recommendation. It's online here: http://sisphd.wikispaces.com/file/view/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf

Which side are you on?
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Reply #11 - October 07, 2015, 01:13 PM

Quote from: Nikolaj on October 07, 2015, 11:41 AM
Or Charvaka?

Charvaka is covered by nāstika surely?

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #12 - October 07, 2015, 02:21 PM

Quote from: zeca on October 07, 2015, 12:27 PM
Welcome

I'd second that recommendation. It's online here: http://sisphd.wikispaces.com/file/view/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf

Great stuff. Thanks for posting the link.

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Nor that, on the whole, racism and [150] anti-semitism manifest themselves, not across
national boundaries, but within them. In other words, they justify not so much foreign wars as
domestic repression and domination.19
Where racism developed outside Europe in the nineteenth century, it was always associated
with European domination, for two converging reasons. First and most important was the rise
of official nationalism and colonial 'Russification'. As has been repeatedly emphasized
official nationalism was typically a response on the part of threatened dynastic and
aristocratic groups - upper classes - to popular vernacular nationalism. Colonial racism was a
major element in that conception of 'Empire' which attempted to weld dynastic legitimacy
and national community. It did so by generalizing a principle of innate, inherited superiority
on which its own domestic position was (however shakily) based to the vastness of the
overseas possessions, covertly (or not so covertly) conveying the idea that if, say, English
lords were naturally superior to other Englishmen, no matter: these other Englishmen were no
less superior to the subjected natives. Indeed one is tempted to argue that the existence of late
colonial empires even served to shore up domestic aristocratic bastions, since they appeared
to confirm on a global, modern stage antique conceptions of power and privilege.

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Reply #13 - December 15, 2015, 08:40 PM

Quote from: LadyDanger on October 07, 2015, 02:23 AM
If you want to read an amazing book on how communities form, read benedict anderson's imagined communities. It changed how i see everything.

Quote from: zeca on October 07, 2015, 12:27 PM
I'd second that recommendation. It's online here: http://sisphd.wikispaces.com/file/view/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf

An obituary, sadly, for Benedict Anderson: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/world/asia/benedict-anderson-scholar-who-saw-nations-as-imagined-dies-at-79.html?_r=0

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