Hinduism still has a bleak future, it is too expensive for the average person, nobody has time to read so many scriptures and do so many rituals. Cross is far more efficient and will conquer India soon.
25:20 he actually succeeded today. If you think about it, all of the Indian success today is due to American outsourcing. And literally everyone on the internet speaks English and writes English and despises Indian languages like Hindi and Sanskrit.
Sita is quoted making a telling statement in the ramayana when tribal women in the forest ask her who among Ram and Laxman is her man. “The savarna is my husband, the gaur is my devar.” Sita uses the term Savarna to signify dark skin. Savarna of course translates from Sanskrit to “with color”, and refers to high caste indian groups.
@@JohnNobody_The original Valmiki version, there is another mention of this when Supernakha comes to Ram and Lakshman. The original is free online as well, and is very different from later retellings.
Also There are 3 krishna in Mahabharat All are called most beautiful and Attractive... Kanha ji , Arjun and Draupadi... Three of them had Dark skin but were described as very beautiful with poetry written about them...
As a Punjabi, I would say colourism is massive amongst my family, with my grandma constantly bragging about her kids and grandkids are light-skin. Fairer skinned girls and guys are seen as more attractive and it’s a shame because I actually find darker South Indian girls more attractive
Absolutely no negativity allowed! OK This is one more arab / colonial cancer that has infiltrated into our minds in the last thousand+ years. But is it not true that even now we can NEVER imagine or depict our beloved Krishna, our awesome Kaali, our valorous Rama, our all pervading Vishnu, as any other shade than a shining, blazing, very dark. Compare it to Jesus, who must have been, could have been, only a non-Caucasian dark or at least brown. He has been fully transformed into a pale, white-skinned, anaemic looking person with European features. No exceptions to this unreal depiction. So we Indians have more reason to be optimistic that this little aberration will fade out soon enough.
You are so eloquent man! This level of wordplay and narrative delivery is impossible to get from the people indegenous to the land, cause the current ethos ensures to kill all possiblities of creative fruition. People here just don't know anything about cultures of the world or thier own, its refreshing to see someone can blend and represent on global stage
Mahabharata hero arjuna (greatest archer) in indian itihasa(history) is described to have "as dark as leadder of pack of elephant" and praised for his beauty
@@TheEmissaryCo I love how you are making these anti-colonial videos and contributing to re-awakening the pride about indians., Like indians being proud about their own skin colour, values and culuture and moving away from colonial narratives of self-hatred, self-loathing and shame.
I have travelled in central and western India and this one community called 'Patidars' in western MP associate dark skinned boys with more physical and mental strength than the lighter skinned boys. It was like a new discovery for me.
I once posted a picture of a black Indian on Reddit and asked whether it would be a close representation of Krishna. The way people bent over backwards to explain that black doesn't really mean black and that he was Aryan so white, flying in the face of everything known about Krishna and Visnu. There's more to racism and it all comes down to the age of lies we live in.
The Chinese are 'fair' skinned, so it's not relevant. Their aesthetic prefernce matches their own complexion. Indians by and large are not 'fair', so us fetishizing fair skin is idiotic and harmful.
“Your channel truly deserves so many more subscribers and views! The amount of effort you put into the research and video editing is extraordinary. Every video is so well-made, and it’s clear how much passion and dedication you put into your content. Keep up the amazing work!” Also like this line “ Story about a people who used to worship black gods but ended up worshipping white men” 👌👌
Stupendous! A man after my own heart❤.. I have family stories exactly like yours. We have a spectrum of skin tones among siblings and cousins. Have struggled to make sense of the overt racism in Indian pop culture for years. Your video puts it all in a clear context. Thank you so very much!!
28:46 , You should see this animated movie "arjuna the warrior prince" . Apart from it being great movie in many aspects and considered milestone in indian animation, it features heroes of mahabharata (arjuna and krishna) in their actual skin tones.
You were correct in pointing to Bollywood, but there's a lot of bias against Dark Skin in Southern Film Industries as well because a lot of South Indians, today, themselves prefer light skin and have an inferiority complex of their own skin colour. But as you said rightly that things are changing for the good, given that the Western world itself is moving away from its pro-white bias to a pro black narrative. Of course this means that India will change as well given the mental colonisation that most Indians have that always looks to the West for inspiration.
Your viewpoint is so accurate. As an African American. It seems we are slowly challenging and calling out all the Colonial viewpoints that hurt the beautiful fabric of all groups on Earth.
This is a fantastc video. I grew up in a majority Punjabi area as a white guy and I've absorbed so many myths and misconceptions about the Indian race. Thanks for setting the record straight
@TheEmissaryCo I'm just wondering. Definitely would agree with you that self-hatred is a sickness. But what about pride in the physical? I thought Indian culture would predominantly say that's a trap to identify with the physical, that the purpose of an incarnation is moksha / escaping the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. At least that's the impression I had of Indian culture. But maybe that's just what Westerners tend to hear about India. When I see Bollywood music videos, I'm surprised how sensual they are, especially recently. Is Indian culture still(?) spiritually focused or are there more important priorities for most Indians? I'd like to see a video about that! :)
@@nelsonlangford2181 You ask, does indians prioritise Being spiritually focused Or Others? That's hard to answer, India being 1.5 billion population could have something to do with it. I don't see why an actor, who does sensual scenes/songs on screen, can't attain moksha. Culture and spirituality, are different as I see it. Culture evolves. Spirituality is the constant. Things that can be viewed as culturally not acceptable; doesn't correlates with spirituality.
Proud, unapologetic and aspiring perfectly described how new generation of Indians are today also fantastic documentry going in full depth and well presented facts you are really amazing man believe me you will also witness the same rise as India is now going to witness. Excited for more such video with love and regards. 👍❤
According to me, golden skinned Indians were common in ancient India and is considered the best kind (scientifically) because it is in the middle of the colour palettes of human skin tones neither dark nor white. But blue, dark blue, violet, were considered as the identity of a divine being. White, light brown, dark brown, red, olive and dark and all others were also there in ancient India. Surprisingly the vast number of Hindu, Buddhists and especially the jain tirthankaras express this vast diversity of skin tones of ancient India. But the best skin tone considered was the golden skin tone.
There's no such thing as 'Best' skin colour. When it comes to being attractive, your facial bone structure, fitness, hair, fashion and personality are the most important. Skin tone is barely relevant however skin health is extremely important. In terms of evolution and adaptation, skin tones can have benefits depending on where you live like Nordic people due to being white get more vitamin D in northern hemispheres and dark skinned people would get less because of which they can become deficient and struggle with depression and other health issues as a result. But in this case it depends on context since white people can get sunburns and cancer around the tropics too. Skin tone is more about trade-offs in terms of adaptation to environments rather than being objectively best or worst.
After a long time, RU-vid has finally recommended such an amazing video! The depth of the topic was incredible. Keep it up - I’m definitely binge-watching your channel! ;)
One added element is that acting in films wasn't considered particularly appealing or reputable, so many actors and stars came from mixed race, or non-Indian backgrounds (Helen, Sulochana etc) This only further reinforced the "west eurasian" look at more appealing to Indians.
There are many Indians who have nothing to do with this land like ,there are like so many yemenis in Gujarat and Hyderabad ,Armenians in Bengal ,some chinese too,let's not forget the Jews ,Parsis,Arabs, and so many more ,are you gonna forget them? And ohh the siddhi people 😢@@TheEmissaryCo
The idea that secessionist movements have anything at all to do with skin colour is absolutely new and startling to me. Can you give some links to "horses mouth" statements online where someone representing such a movement openly states this?
@@TheEmissaryCo That's interesting. When Pakistan (a secessionist state created out of British India) was created, during the first war in the late 1940s, much of the Pakistani leadership told its soldiers they would win easily since the Indians were dark, ugly and therefore weaker. India had 7,000 casualties. Pakistan had 20,000. Even today, Pakistani culture looks down upon Indians for being dark.
It's really hard being a dark-skinned Indian. I can't stand looking into the mirror because I'm absolutely disgusted by and ashamed what I see. Not to mention how I'm treated by others. It's nice to know that if I were born a few thousand years earlier, I would be the beauty standard.
Sorry to hear that bro. These days a lot can be solved by getting jacked! Look at Ankit Baiyanpuria 😃 Either way there is nothing wrong with your skin color! It’s Krishna ☺️
@@TheEmissaryCo Yeah, I'm working on it. Nice to see the perception changing at least a bit, with actors like Sethil Ramamurthy and Dhanush getting roles in Bollywood and Hollywood movies
It is a new thought that skin color have been playing a major and subtle division among people in India. But i think a lot of these divisions are financed and promoted by vested interests for money.
Really loved your work, If you keep making videos consistently and of this level I can assure you that you will be viewed by the masses and lots & lots of people would be impacted by the great work you do.
Actually varna doesn't translate to "caste" . "Caste" translation will be "Jāti". "Varna" has no English translation. Just like "dharma" , it has no English translation.
If someone wants to know how a beautiful dark skinned person looks like, see the protagonist of upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds game (specially the female) !
@@TheEmissaryCo Monster Hunter is a long spanning series from Capcom, one of the best selling video game franchises. Wilds is the newest iteration coming in 2025, for the first time introducing a voiced story dirven protagonist that happens to be dark skinned (which doesn't seem like enforced DEI crap). I am surly excited!
I agree with this completely but I do think you slightly over-glorified pre-Islamic Indians, we have evidence of come intercaste colourism and even though there was also glorification of dark skin in some cultures, the same existed with light skin in others. Its a small point because this did not affect India's current colourism which comes primarily from the british and from the turks but i thought it was something to mention. amazing video though
It might be important to note that in tamil nadu, most of the bad faith arguments made against "aryans" or "light-skin" people are used as counter to bad faith justifications to be casteist and colorist
This is a little unrelated, but could you please look into doing a video on Dravidianism and Tamil Chauvinism? I really hate seeing these plague my community and spread hatred and disunity. People are saying BS like "Tamils are not Hindu" or "Tamils are not Indian". Having pride in your language and culture is great, and Tamil is an ancient and beautiful language and culture, but some people are taking it too far. Not to mention the church being involved in this. I guess this could also be a conversation about hyper-regionalism in general.
WOW! Loved the video. I want to say that the Aryan Migration Theory for the most part is debunked and is considered just another one of the Western propaganda to promote their white skin supremacy. There is however a new theory called the 'Out of India' Theory. Would love it if you could do some research about it :) You really deserve more subs and likes. Your channel is too underrated!! I especially love how you didn't shy away from highlighting the Muslim Invasion and its barbaric brutality, many skip it in fear of the Muslims. There is a serious need to revisit Indian history and re-write it. Now, from an Indian standpoint!
@@axzieal9808 It is a ridiculous theory. Proto Indo Europeans are the biggest evidence for AMT or AIT. Everyone talks about Islamic brutality, but I would say that the caste system is more brutal as it is invisible and still persistent.
PS: I'm not a fan of class systems, but I'm wondering if what's described in the Rig Veda is something more like a typical Indo-European tribe coming from the North-West and conquering territory, adding a native class to their typical Indo-European tripartite class system then dying out, because the natives outnumbered them. After all, the Sanskrit language is so close to European languages; the descriptions of the gods such as Indra, the thunder god, sound so much like Germanic Thor; and there's nothing really about reincarnation in the Rig Veda. It's more about conquest and adventure, horse sacrifices and drinking an intoxicating drink. Just looking at it from the perspective of an outsider, what's described in the Rig Veda sounds more akin to Viking or Scythian culture than say the culture of Sankara or Ramanuja. Thoughts?
You are getting better with each video I love the art style you have chosen. For quite some time I was thinking about ISKCON paintings very widely used by Indians esp in media content. Our Gods are depicted as white by ISKCON as most of their devotees are white, but we are blindly using the same. And today I saw your video, I was hoping that this point was covered. It was missing, but anyways rest of the video was good as always. Keep up the good work. 👍
6:00 That's true, in my own family I can see those colour variations. I am from state of Uttarakhand and in ancient times people have migrated to hilly areas specially many Brahmin families. Even Juyal brahmins came from Maharashtra.
Lmao, So Funny that now Indian RW and so called civilizational warriors depict every other ethnicity as Darker skin than them, like Muslims, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in memes and twitter 😂 Like that recent video about cow and his owner
@@Dariusdagr8 Nowhere it is written that atri kashyapa or bharadwaj are dark skinned. You are hilarious. Have you read any vedas. Infact when you google rishi atri you will find a photograph of him and his wife in pure white skin and this picture is around 1785
I admire your work and what you are doing for the Indian diaspora. With this video discussing varna and colourism and how it’s a modern phenomenon… how do you square it with genetic research that shows upper caste people generally have greater amounts of ANI ancestry? And how do you interpret David Reich’s critical work on the genetics of caste? One way I could see it but not sure, is that possibly shudras as a specific group only became relevant in Gupta times. It’s problematic because there is mixed evidence as to where the term originates. Razib khan says castes genetic groups became rigid during Gupta times. You showed a table at 24:50, I know you said this stuff is used for hatred. With a complex answer if required, I’m keen to hear how you actually square these research findings. Would you say that while in very ancient times dark skin was admired and presumably did not correlate with caste DNA substructure, the stochastic effects of British caste Jati and varna systemization slowly drifted into a genetic colour pyramid from their unconscious biases? How do you interpret all this?
I should’ve put it in there, but a good contrast is colonial caste in Latin America. Skin color was highly stratified and hyper conscious with even art depicting the gradient. This isn’t really there in India or isn’t as popularized vs the writing and art we have depicting or appreciating dark skin. As for genetic stuff, Razib is a good friend and I have no issues with actual genetics research on this type of stuff. Issue is that many ethnic supremacists use those DNA ratios as material for ethnic supremacy as dumb as it sounds. Steppe % being a proximity for whiteness -> better “stock.”
@@TheEmissaryCo I agree with you that people reduce it to a ridiculous “steppe percentage” im-higher-than-you-so-that makes-me-better narrative So in your opinion (and I know Razib is your friend. I browse brown pundits and listen to him) how do you interpret the actual findings? Like you must know and feel that the cognitive dissonance is so real when you consider that which results from the narrative that foreign invaders have confused our ancient Hindu roots and what things like varna actually represented was bastardized being compared to things that appear real but are hard to explain like caste groups having real genetic differences. The problem is there isn’t much evidence either way. India was hot, the Indus Valley disappeared and we can’t read or know much about them, the Vedic Indians didn’t really write, and our oldest temples were destroyed… so it is so hard to understand clearly whether ancient Indians would be able to recognise us at all and where our story of “Indianness” really Originates
"Arabs" isn't even a distinct group. If you look at Gulf Arabs from places like UAE, Oman, Qatar they often are pretty dark skinned. Who knows how it was back in the day but there was a historical sea trade route between Gulf Arab states and India even 2,000+ years ago so I doubt those Arabs were the ones with any skin color issues
You didn't really talk about the "Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory" in this video. The politicisation of it and spreading hate through it to the detriment of this nation.
Then the brahman student Assalayana went with a large group of brahmans to the Blessed One and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him. After an exchange of friendly greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "Master Gotama, the brahmans say, 'Brahmans are the superior caste; any other caste is inferior. Only brahmans are the fair caste; any other caste is dark. Only brahmans are pure, not non-brahmans. Only brahmans are the sons & offspring of Brahma: born of his mouth, born of Brahma, created by Brahma, heirs of Brahma.' What does Master Gotama have to say with regard to that?" - Assalayana Sutta
@@mcpeguru4060 Source: Majjhima Nikaya 93 - Assalayana Sutta. Source Language: Pali. Text cited above is translated to English by dark-skinned Srilankan monks with no missionary agenda.
You should make a video on the difference between religion and Dharma,a religion means a set of belives made by it's founder which it's followers should follow blindly without using any logic or reasonings basically a cult!,like Islam,Christianity,Judaism,Buddheism and specially for the rise of Neo Buddheism etc are called religions,meanwhile Hinduism(although the correct word for that is Sanatan Dharma)on the other hand means Dharma(Moral principles)where having doubts and having questions is fully allowed and it's the one and only Dharma in the entire planet!🙏🕉️
@@joffyjose2095 I have said I before and I will keep saying this again and again that contrary to mainstream narrative religion and Dharma are completely different things from each other such as Islam,Christianity,Judaism,Buddheism and specially on the rise of Neo Buddheism are called as religions!,meanwhile Hinduism on the other hand means Dharma from these man-made cults!
@@Anubhavsengupta1902 today religion and gods are the main political weapon used to divide and hate us each other, peoples blind obsession with religion and "dharma" are only just fueling hate
