History Log 2075: Balkanized India – A Subcontinent in Societal Chaos

• By 2075, the Indian subcontinent is fragmented into Islamic and Christian states, leading to widespread anarchy and violence across the region.
• The Islamic Federation enforces harsh Sharia law, including public executions of those accused of “un-Islamic” activities such as homosexuality and communism.
• Liberals and LGBTQ individuals, once allied with Islamists during India’s balkanization, are now ruthlessly targeted and persecuted by the new Islamist regimes.
• Christians who had supported the Islamists faced severe persecution, with many churches destroyed and communities forced into hiding or conversion.
• The once diverse and pluralistic India has been replaced by a rigid, intolerant system, with religious minorities and dissidents left with no refuge or international support.

Subcontinent: An overview

India in 2075 is a balkanized mess – a pale shadow of its former self. Having split into several countries, mostly Islamic and Christian-dominated, the subcontinent is in a condition of complete anarchy. Imagine the Partition Riots of 1946-47 and the Bangladesh Coup of 2024 happening simultaneously and then double it – that’s what you have today.

While the Islamic Federation dominates the subcontinent as the largest political entity and has a population of around 700 million – 95 percent of whom are Muslims – Hindus are now reduced to a small and vulnerable enclave in the center of the subcontinent.

Comprising the Hindu heartland of Madhya Pradesh, southern Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, eastern Rajasthan, and eastern Maharashtra, the Republic of Hindustan is now their final refuge. Once derisively mocked by the liberal elites as the Cow Belt – for protecting the cow from being slaughtered – the rump country is where Hindus lead a precarious existence. Hindus continue to trickle in via the country’s borders as they face daily discrimination in the new countries that have emerged from India’s remains.

Welcome to Sharialand, where justice is swift and gruesome

Chandni Chowk, Delhi; 11:00 AM, September 11, 2075

It is a cold, bright day, and a crowd of around 10,000 people have crammed into a public square before the historic Red Fort. They are here to witness the public execution of 250 men and women accused of “un-Islamic practices“[1], such as homosexuality, sodomy, wearing revealing clothes, and communism.

The Sharia Board of the Islamic Federation of Hindustan – which comprises Pakistan plus Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, western Uttar Pradesh, and parts of western Rajasthan, which Pakistan grabbed as India balkanized – has announced that the majority of the prisoners will be hanged, and the rest will be beheaded. Large gantry cranes for hanging and elevated platforms for beheadings have been rolled into the square.

As the prisoners are brought into the square, the crowd starts shouting religious slogans, calling for divine retribution for the “enemies of the faith.” However, some of the younger members of the Sharia Board have a change of plans. Inspired by the Islamic State’s policies in the Middle East, and in order to project themselves as staunch defenders of the ‘Faith,’ they demand that men accused of sodomy and communism be hurled from the nearby towers and stoned upon impact. The senior mullahs nod their approval, which is met by loud cheers from the increasingly garrulous crowd.

As men after men are thrown down from the buildings, the most fanatic members of the crowd rush into the square and start stoning the prisoners who are already in their death throes.

A group of prisoners, whose turn is next, protest that they belong to the Communist Party and had supported the Muslims against Hindus, and therefore they should be spared. The Sharia Board members laugh derisively at their naivete: “Communists were just useful idiots in the Islamic Revolution. Now that we have accomplished our mission of breaking India, we no longer need you. Plus, you are traitors, and we don’t trust such people. Tomorrow, you could betray the Islamic Federation. More to the point, communism is anti-god and, therefore, against the principles of Islam. The punishment for atheism is death.”

Meanwhile, the Morality Police formed along the lines of Iran’s Guidance Patrol, had brought around two dozen female prisoners accused of various crimes such as not wearing the hijab, wearing jeans and skirts, consuming alcohol, providing sanctuary for their LGBTQ friends and family members, and downloading banned books such as the Satanic Verses, The Second Sex and I Am Malala. These women are in a state of complete panic as they witness the executions of their friends and colleagues happening right before their eyes. However, instead of being executed, they are given 50-100 lashes, depending on the severity of their ‘crimes’. They are then whisked off to “Re-education Camps,” which is a euphemism for brainwashing schools where the most fanatic version of Deobandi Islam is drilled into their heads. They also serve as the servants and sex slaves of Fidayeen fighters deployed on the country’s borders.

The brutal execution method is the latest in a series of harsh punishments enforced by the Islamic Federation under its stringent interpretation of sharia law. The day after the September 11 executions in Delhi, the local Sharia TV aired an extensive documentary explaining its rationale. The program attributed the rise in permissive behaviors in the subcontinent to the policies of the previous kafir government of India, claiming that such influences have led to a moral decline among the people. It affirmed that the largest Islamic nation in the world will persist in its efforts to penalize any violations of Islamic laws harshly.

How Sharia rule backfired on its liberal supporters

For the liberals and wokes, who had loudly cheered the balkanization of India, the country which they used to derisively refer to as a “Hindu patriarchy” in the media and at international forums, the establishment of the Islamic Federation has come as a rude shock. They have received no brownie points for their anti-Hindu views but are instead immediately identified for elimination from society. In fact, they are actively persecuted because the new Islamist government views them as more dangerous than the hated Hindus. As a senior mullah in the country’s Cabinet said, “These internal saboteurs must be eradicated quickly to remove the danger to Islam.”

Many LGBTQ people have gone into hiding as they do not have the option of crossing the borders into the Republic of Hindustan. The Hindu majority Republic does not persecute the LGBTQ community, but India’s successor state has announced that those who collaborated with the Islamists and hastened India’s breakup are not welcome as refugees. The Islamic Federation’s social media accounts have put out a new slogan – “Find Gays, Gain Jannat.” The five-year project aims to identify and eradicate all members of the LGBTQ community by 2080. Copies of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and writings on the Holocaust are being studied to inculcate deep hatred towards minorities.

Lessons not learned: Christians in balkanized India

Most Christians had actively and cynically supported the Islamists and Dravidian parties in the balkanization of India. Their view was that while they were a small minority in Hindu-majority India, they could become significant players or kingmakers in the fissiparous states. Unfortunately, they didn’t learn from history that supporting Muslims never pays off.[2]

During the prelude to Partition, the Christians across India were seen and heard chanting slogans “Long Live Pakistan.” As an acknowledgment and appreciation of these gestures, the Christians were promised by the Muslim League that they would be offered more privileges as compared to other minorities in Pakistan.[3]

In fact, their anti-India sentiment had been festering much earlier. In the early 1930s, when Cambridge undergraduate Chaudhry Rehmat Ali came up with the idea and name of Pakistan, an Indian Christian first backed the idea with his own spin. “Well-known Christian leader Joshua Fazal-ul-Din wrote in the daily ‘Inqilab’ that Pakistan, having a relationship with Central Asia, was a separate country and had no connection with the rest of India and that he was in harmony with Chaudhry Rehmat Ali regarding the separation of this territory from India as it was in accordance with the voice of god.”[4]

However, after the Partition in 1947, the Christians got nothing. On the contrary, they were actively persecuted and violently attacked. In fact, the Muslims of Pakistan wanted the Christians to stay back for scavenging and sanitation work, which the feudal Punjabi Muslims were not willing to do. In the year 2075, the condition of Christians has only gotten worse.

Across the Islamic Federation of Hindustan, Christian churches are being torn down China-style. In previous decades, Islamabad did not persecute minorities as government policy because it was dependent on the West for financial bailouts and military supplies. Attacks on Christians were mostly carried out by ordinary Muslims after being egged on by the mullahs. However, having acquired considerable territories from the erstwhile India, the Federation is slightly better off economically. It believes it no longer has to be worried about Western sanctions that could cripple its economy. Further, it is encouraged by the fact that China, the largest economy on the planet, is sending workers and earth-moving equipment to help the Islamist country eradicate its Christian minority.

Down south in the Islamic State of Malabar, a fundamentalist Islamist country formed from the merger of Kerala and the southern districts of Karnataka, the two main political parties, the Muslim League and Popular Front, have forcibly grabbed the rubber and tea estates of the once thriving Christian community. Many of the Syrian Christians who once formed an 8 million-strong community were forcibly converted to Islam. Around a million escaped to the neighboring Dravidian Confederation, where anti-Hindu groups such as Dravidianists, Ambedkarites, communists, and Christians formed an uneasy coalition.

The Syrian Christians currently live in slums and trailers. The Telugu, Tamil, and Kannadiga Christians have refused to help them, saying the Christian community in the Confederation lacks the resources to support new arrivals.

Just like the Kashmiri Hindus fled Kashmir in a mass migration in 1990 and ended up living in camps in Jammu, the once-wealthy Syrian Christians are living a similar penurious existence in the Dravidian Confederation. Neither the Vatican, the United States, nor Europe have come to their rescue. Reeling under their own intra-religious struggles and with their economies struggling to gain traction in a post-Western world, they cannot do much. Having once instigated the Christians to rise against their Hindu government, they now offer vague assurances to those seeking to migrate to the West.

A small number of Latin Christians, who once dominated the economic hub of Kochi, have migrated to Portugal, using their church connections, but the government in Lisbon rejected a vast majority of such applications, citing cultural and racial incompatibility between the Portuguese and Malayalam-speaking Latin Christians. Having cynically used India’s Christians in their mission to remove India as a strategic rival, the West has now hung them out to dry.

Some of the prominent Christian leaders have left the subcontinent and currently reside as refugees in the US and Australia. Europe, where Muslims have grown into significant minorities, forming 30-40 percent of the population in places like France, Belgium, and England, has refused to accept any Christian refugees from the subcontinent.

Understandably, the Republic of Hindustan has rejected the refugee applications of Christians who supported India’s balkanization. The Washington DC-based Arundhati Roy Foundation – which some allege is a CIA front – has filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice, arguing that since the Kerala Christians were citizens of India for over a thousand years, they had the right to move into India’s successor state. Interestingly, in 2050, the Foundation had called for the demolition of the Narmada Dam, and its lawsuit against the dam in the International Court of Justice is continuing. A spokesperson for the Foundation said the two issues are separate matters.

The Republic of Hindustan’s External Affairs spokesperson issued a note, saying those who backed the country’s balkanization would not be considered for asylum, noting that Kerala Christians had opposed the Citizenship Amendment Bill that enabled persecuted Christians from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan to seek refuge in India.

Agony of Ambedkarites

Interestingly, one of the first decisions taken by the various breakaway constituents, including the Islamic Federation, the Islamic State of Malabar, the Eastern Coalition (which comprises Bangladesh plus West Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha), the Islamic Republic of Kashmir, and the Dravidian Confederation was not of a religious nature. Almost in unison, they scrapped the special status of Scheduled Caste and Tribes, depriving the so-called lower castes of reservations in educational institutions and government jobs.

The view of the Islamic majority is simple – in countries ruled by Islamic laws, there is no scope for anyone to claim minority status. There is no quid pro quo. If the Muslims enjoyed minority status in erstwhile India, it was entirely the decision of the Hindus, and Muslims today are under no obligation to reciprocate. As the majority, it is the Muslims’ prerogative to take a 100 percent share of the resources.

The Scheduled Castes Atrocities Act, which was enacted by the Indian Parliament in 1989 to stop hate crimes against the weaker sections, has been scrapped. This has led to widespread attacks on these Hindu communities, increasing the pressure on them to convert to Islam.

Predictably, the Ambedkarites – a coalition of Dalit leftists and anarchists who have a visceral hatred of Hinduism because of past and mostly imagined atrocities – feel betrayed by the new Islamic countries who have once again turned them into late 21st century untouchables. The Islamic Federation revoked their traditional property rights and overnight turned them into landless laborers. The only occupations open to them under the new dispensations are scavenging, sanitation work, and some no-contact farm work.

For the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the balkanization of India has been a rude awakening because of the 180-degree flip in their fortunes. Most members of these two groups had prospered in India and had gone on to become Presidents and Prime Ministers of the country and Chief Ministers of states. On the economic front, their progress was comparatively slower, but still, they had become largely gentrified groups who owned small and large businesses. They were also well-represented in the corporate sector. However, all this progress is set to be reversed due to the decisions of the new Islamic countries.

The two groups had expected the Dravidian Confederation to treat them better, but the Muslims, Christians, and Dravidianists have carved out their fiefdoms, and with a central authority to control them, they are in no mood to share the spoils of war with the so-called Dalits. In fact, caste riots were on the rise in the Confederation, with the intermediate castes and Scheduled Castes clashing on numerous occasions. The Islamic Federation Police do nothing and, in fact, encourage both sides to fight more, so they ultimately give up and accept Islam.

It’s mindboggling that the Ambedkarites had forgotten the treatment meted out to the Dalits – and in particular their leader Jogendra Nath Mandal – by Pakistan after the first Partition of India in 1947. Mandal’s alignment with the Muslim League and support for the creation of Pakistan were monumental blunders, leading to severe repercussions for the Dalits in the newly formed Islamic country.[5]

Mandal was a close associate of Dalit leader Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and advocated for collaboration between Dalits and Muslims, believing it would benefit both communities against the dominance of upper-caste Hindus. In contrast, Dr Ambedkar warned him against such alliances, cautioning that aligning with Pakistan could lead to dire outcomes for the Dalit population.

After the partition in 1947, Mandal became Pakistan’s first Minister of Law and Labor. Despite his initial hopes, he soon faced disillusionment as he witnessed the mistreatment of Hindus, particularly Dalits, in Pakistan. The political landscape shifted dramatically after Jinnah died in 1948, leading to increased violence against minorities. Mandal’s resignation from Liaquat Ali Khan’s Cabinet in 1950 highlighted his frustration with the government’s failure to protect non-Muslim citizens.[6]

Upon returning to India in 1950, Mandal found himself marginalized and unable to reintegrate into any political party. His realization of the harsh realities faced by Hindus in Pakistan served as a cautionary tale about the consequences of misplaced political alliances. Many Dalits who had supported Mandal’s vision were left stranded in Pakistan, facing forced conversions or death.

Mandal’s experience offered a critical lesson for 21st-century Dalit leaders: understanding the broader implications of political strategies and alliances. Sadly, the Ambedkarites were blinded by their hatred of India to accept the harsh truth about Dalit-Muslim relations. To use a cliche, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Bollywood no more

Bollywood, once the largest producer of movies in the world, has collapsed and become a pale shadow of its former self. The industry had played a key role in fanning the flames of Hinduphobia through its relentless pursuit of plots, dialogs, and lyrics that negatively portrayed Hindus and Hinduism. Bollywood also glorified Islam and showed Muslims as noble uncles or neighbors with a heart of gold. Pakistan, India’s existential enemy, was Bollywood’s darling – a country that could do no wrong and which was unfairly blamed for jehad and terror by Hindu nationalists. However, the blowback was quick once Bollywood got its wish to Balkanize India. Movies were banned in all the Islamic theocracies and the other breakaway countries with sizable Muslim populations. With no access to its Hindu audience and unable to relocate to the Republic of Hindustan, Bollywood withered away – a fitting end to an industry that wrote its own demise.

No country for kafirs

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a book, ‘The End of History and the Last Man,’ in which he said that the defeat of the Soviet Union signified more than just the conclusion of a historical era. Fukuyama argued that the moment marked the end of ideological evolution for humanity, with Western liberal democracy emerging as the ultimate form of government.

However, Fukuyama was proved wrong within just a couple of decades of writing The End of History, with the irresistible rise of China, India, Russia, and other non-Western countries. Even as the Western world, led by the liberals, set upon the path of self-destruction, much of the world rejected the freewheeling and chaotic democracy of the West.

But the term “end of history” perfectly sums up the post-Hindu Indian subcontinent. Because after the Islamic takeover, history has indeed ended. In most of the subcontinent, there is very little non-Muslim presence. Except in the rump country around Madhya Pradesh, where the last remaining Hindus are holding out, most non-Muslims live in fear and under the radar. Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples and Christian churches have been stripped of their wealth and have been converted into public picnic spaces. Non-Islamic religious processions are banned. Television entertainment has ended in the Islamic theocracies, which now broadcast only Koranic programs. Cinema theaters have been closed down.

Education is almost entirely madrassa-based; the famous Indian Institutes of Technology and India’s secular universities are now theological centers of Koranic studies. The United Nations predicts that almost all the new Muslim countries in the subcontinent will run out of doctors in a generation, plunging the region into a healthcare crisis. However, the subcontinent’s new Muslim rulers are not worried by temporal issues. They don’t care that the region is becoming hell on earth because they are looking at spending eternity in Jannat – the Islamic heaven – as the reward for Islamizing the region.

Limits of tolerance

Philosopher Karl Popper described the paradox of tolerance as the seemingly counterintuitive idea that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” Essentially, if a tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant. Popper first conceptualized the paradox of tolerance in his 1945 work, The Open Society and Its Enemies.[7]

According to Popper, a society that tolerates intolerant ideas will succumb to the forces of the bigoted, which are inherently dangerous. Thus, the notion of an utterly tolerant society is destroyed. Society should combat intolerance with rational argument and civil public discourse, but Popper suggests that the tolerant reserve the right to suppress intolerant opinions if all else fails.

For over 130 years, the Hindus of India committed the critical – and existential – blunder of tolerating Islamic and Christian fundamentalists who were spewing hate speech against Hinduism. They allowed the two Abrahamic cults to create institutions that bred the forces of separatism. They did not learn from the Partition of 1947 that the Jihadis wouldn’t be satisfied with just getting Pakistan – they wanted the entire subcontinent.

The balkanization of India stands as a grim reminder of what happens when a society becomes too tolerant of intolerant minorities and offers them the space and time to destroy it from within. Unfortunately for Hindus, who now live in a land-locked rump state and surrounded by foes, it may be too late to make a comeback.

Citations

[1] The reason why the one to whom a homosexual act is done is to be executed – Islam Question & Answer; https://islamqa.info/en/answers/84140/the-reason-why-the-one-to-whom-a-homosexual-act-is-done-is-to-be-executed

[2] Pakistani Christians – Paying the Price for Backing the Partition – Hindu Dvesha; https://stophindudvesha.org/pakistani-christians-paying-the-price-for-backing-the-partition/

[3] Jinnah’s Christians: From Pakistan Movement to the Formation of Pakistan | Pakistan Today; https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2021/08/15/jinnahs-christians-from-pakistan-movement-to-the-formation-of-pakistan/

[4] The Role of Christians in the Freedom Movement of Pakistan: An Appraisal – Document – Gale Academic OneFile; https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA364069389&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=20742061&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E406f5233&aty=open-web-entry

[5] The Story of First Law Minister of Pakistan who Died as a Refugee; https://www.legalserviceindia.com/legal/article-1437-the-story-of-first-law-minister-of-pakistan-who-died-as-a-refugee.html

[6] Jogendra Nath Mandal: Chosen by Jinnah, banished by bureaucracy – DAWN.COM; https://www.dawn.com/news/1217465

[7] Derechos Humanos: The limits of tolerance: Popper’s paradox;  https://www.freiheit.org/mexico/limits-tolerance-poppers-paradox