British Colonial censuses did not merely record caste, they froze it, standardised it, and permanently tied it to governance. Independent India inherited this mechanism.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”