#decolonisation

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-10

That discomfort you feel?
That’s not modern bias.
That’s historical design being interrupted.

Because empires curate angles the way they curate texts.
Visibility is controlled.
Agency is rationed.

When power is real, it doesn’t need eye contact.
When memory is fragile, it avoids it.

So ask the correct question.
Not “Is this accurate?”
But “Why was this never permitted?”

History is often written sideways.
Straight lines are dangerous. 👁️🔥

2026-02-09

DE-GOOGLED phone OS:
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🇪🇺 #EuropeanDigitalSovereignty
#DeColonisation 🇺🇲❌️️

I'm already "decolonized" and happily user of GrapheneOS, but I see many people looking for ways to escape the US tech giants. Here a overview for anyone who wants to reclaim their digital privacy. I’m not an expert. What do you think about these? Did I miss anything?

See 📸

📢 LATEST NEWS & HARDWARE:
👑 #GrapheneOS : Maybe no longer Pixel-only forever.

If you spot any errors in the list or know other EU projects, please let me know! We need to build this knowledge base together.

🤖 #Android Based:
🎖️Pros: Best app compatibility (WhatsApp, Banking, Maps work best here).
☔Cons: Still tied to the Android ecosystem structure.

🐧 #Linux Based:
🎖️Pros: True freedom from Google's architecture.More secure code base.
☔Cons: App compatibility is harder requires using "Anbox"or"AlienDalvik" layers,or finding native Linux apps

#BuyEu #BoycottUS

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GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-09

Different courage of interpretation. 🪨🧠

TheMatriarchXthematriarchx
2026-02-08
GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-08

Mughal courts refined, renamed, and standardized them.
They did not create music out of nothing.

Courts adopt.
Cultures remember.
Stone records.

When archaeology speaks, manufactured certainty gets uncomfortable 🎶🗿

2026-02-07

"Guns of Brixton" : une riposte musicale aux violences policières dans l'Angleterre thatchérienne. lhistgeobox.blogspot.com/2026/ Au crépuscule des années 1970, le Royaume Uni est en crise. Les difficultés économiques et #Décolonisation #immigration #Royaume-Uni #skareggae #Antilles #Thatcher #racisme #Reggae #punk #ska

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-07

Then came the paperwork age.
Caste hardened into lineage.
Marriage became a badge.
Women became symbols to guard, not humans to depict.

Stone tells the truth paperwork erased.

If this was “against tradition” —
why was it carved in stone?
And if lineage was sacred —
why did it need colonial law to survive? 🤔

History isn’t silent.
It’s been deliberately muted.

🪨

2026-02-07

#Apartheid : de l’#AfriqueDuSud 🇿🇦 à la #Palestine 🇵🇸, enjeux et dynamique de la #décolonisation

📆 Jeudi 12 février – 19h00
📍 Salle Voltaire, 11 rue des Muletiers, 13100 #AixEnProvence

Avec Tal DOR : maîtresse de conférence à #AixMarseilleUniversité et membre de l’#IREMAM

💬 #Conférence organisée par le collectif #Paix et #Justice au #ProcheOrient

Affiche appelant à l'événement. Texte :

Apartheid : de l’Afrique du Sud à la Palestine, enjeux et dynamique de la décolonisation

Tal DOR : maîtresse de conférence en hébreu – études juives au Département d’études moyen-orientales à Aix-Marseille Université et membre de l’IREMAM.
Co-autrice de Rencontres radicales : pour des dialogues féministes décoloniaux.

Jeudi 12 février 2026 – 19h00
Salle Voltaire, 11 rue des Muletiers, 13100 Aix-en-Provence
Parking Cardeurs

Conférence organisée par le collectif Paix et Justice au Proche-Orient
GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-06

A comb seller walking the streets is Vaishya.
A suited babu in a ₹1-crore car, living on salary, is Shudra.

Ancient Varna was about function.
Colonial India made it about costume. ⚡🧠

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-06

British textbooks call him a 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨. Indian schools teach his "victory."

Whose curriculum are we still following? 💰

2026-02-06

Cem A. on ‘Consensus Aesthetics: The Political Economy of Agreement in Contemporary Art’ - one of the latest from Ibraaz Publishing:

ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publishing/r

So many good lines. On #art that
“looks right, sounds right, aligns with institutional values, and circulates easily - gesturing toward politics without the difficulty of being political. It flourishes under certain material conditions – global funding bodies, institutional precarity, liberal internationalism – and flatters progressive ideals while remaining structurally conservative.

On how, ‘without engaging with complexity or facing contradiction, #politics slides into branding and art into a loop of moral cues: #care, solidarity, #decolonisation, #ecology, crisis.’

And on what happens when the #aesthetics of politics become the target: the political potential of art quietly drains away from the mainstream.

Especially like the cartoon on ‘Care’ vs ‘Exhibitions about care'.

Could we add '#Books about care’ to that or not?

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-04

ASI’s own protected list contained 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎𝟎-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧, including entries dated 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟏 and even 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗 — and the audit noted significant delay in correcting (de-notifying) them.

So the issue isn’t just age.
It’s 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝.

Savarkar Sadan fails the statute.
The system applying the statute doesn’t apply it uniformly.


GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-03

GDP measures cash flow.
Civilisation is measured by what you choose to remember—and what you allow to rot.

Modernity without self-respect is just a rented costume. 🗿🔥

MNI2541

x.com/akshaytandur/status/2018

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-03

May 4, 1799. British forces didn't just defeat Tipu Sultan—they looted 1.2 million gold coins in one day (~200 billion USD today) . Formed a Prize Committee to catalog and divide the plunder like corporate assets. Shipped his mechanical tiger, sword, and jewels to London as trophies.

Not war. Organized crime. 💰

When do we start calling colonial powers what they actually were—criminal syndicates with flags?

GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-02-03

And why does heritage funding move in jolts instead of strategy?

Stone remembers.
Neglect also leaves layers.

The question is not whether Naranag is important.
The RTI proves the problem is priorities. 🏛️⚠️

MNI866

x.com/i/status/201815730731052

2026-01-31
GemsOfINDOLOGYgemsofindology
2026-01-30

Violence comes later.
Erasure lasts longer. 🌊📜🔥


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