Learning about how the British forced last names on us really does open a nasty can of worms. Like how the british brought in laws which forced women to take on the “lastnames” of their husbands which really didn’t exist in most parts of India before these laws were brought in and somehow we ended up internalising these colonial hangovers and began calling it “Indian parampara”. The Hindu marriage act, thank fuck doesn’t necessitate the change of lastnames for the women and we are not obligated to do so. These colonial laws are also a reason why marital rape isn’t being criminalised as the law states that “consent is implied in a marriage.”.
So many ways in which our systems failed to educate us about the impacts of colonisation on our society and exactly how deeply it has changed us.
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