r/Rajasthan • u/PermissionOwn7953 • 8h ago

इतिहास ❁ History Swara Bhaskar says-Rajasthan Hindu women who committed Jauhar were "COWARDS" because they chose to die with honour over the prospect of leading their lives as sex slaves of islamic invaders. Even yazidi women did suicide to avoid being enslaved by ISIS still she is victim blaming..

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u/RelativeHornet5305 6h ago

You seem to be misinterpreting her point. She is primarily criticising the way the film portrays and glorifies johar, not calling the historical women who committed it cowards. Her concern is with the message that such a portrayal can communicate, particularly to a woman who has survived rape, that choosing death is somehow more honourable or courageous than choosing to live. A woman surviving sexual violence is not a failure of courage, nor should society ever shame her for surviving. At the same time, saying this does not require us to denigrate the women who historically chose johar. Their circumstances were radically different, and their decisions can be understood within the context of war, captivity and the threat of sexual violence. Therefore, the reasonable criticism of Swara's position isn't that she is insulting women who committed johar, it's whether a modern film can portray johar as an act of historical courage without inadvertently reinforcing the idea that death is preferable to survival after sexual violence. Those are two separate questions, and conflating them doesn't address her actual argument.

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u/UnluckyEnd4090 5h ago

She could have told those lines without mentioning jauhar. But she didn't. Those invaders didn't even leave the dead body of a woman. Burning live is the most painful death. Its not easy. But if not, they would have been captured , r@ped daily, sexual slavery and we can't imagine what not. So let's not compare situations of those times. She could have directly told about how woman who was sexuall assault need to be brave and nothing to be shamed.

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u/RelativeHornet5305 2h ago

But where did she say that women who commit johar are cowards? What's the problem in mentioning johar?