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Since they planned to have a rest today, none of them went out. In the evening they experienced some local food, and some things were really not something everyone could adapt to.
Generally speaking, most people in Asan country eat glutinous rice paste. Even if they also have rice and white flour, they can make you a colorful glutinous rice paste.
Due to different taboos of various religions, some meats cannot be eaten in Asan Kingdom, and gradually evolved into a vegetarian-based dietary system.
People in Asan Kingdom do not eat beef, but chicken and mutton are their main foods, because cattle are worshiped as gods in Asan Kingdom.
Asan people also often eat a kind of nang called "naan" as their staple food. Whether in high-end restaurants or under the shade of trees on the streets, you can often see people from Asan sitting cross-legged on the ground, tearing off a piece of naan with their hands and dipping it in it.
Vegetable paste, soup and bean soup made from various bean products such as peas and mung beans were eaten with relish.
There are also some foods that combine pancakes with potatoes, such as Masaladosa, a thin crispy pancake filled with potatoes and other assorted vegetables.
The thing that is most acceptable to Han Peacock and others is probably a kind of mashed potato wrapped in dough and stuffed into a zongzi shape. This thing is fried and tastes pretty good. However, it is okay to eat it once in a while.
It would be more miserable if it was used as the staple food of every meal.
In terms of drinks, there is a very popular milk tea in India called Chai. Because it is a hot drink, it is especially suitable for drinking a cup on cold and humid mornings. It feels good.
If you don’t want to drink milk tea, there is also a drink called Lashi. Lashi is a kind of yogurt, which is divided into ordinary yogurt and fruit yogurt (banana, mango, etc.). Generally, foreigners who come to Asan Country drink more yogurt.
, you can drink it even when you have gastrointestinal discomfort.
Alcoholic beverages are not easy to get in Asan Country. Although Asan Country has a brewery and its own whiskey, beer is not available in general stores and restaurants. It may be that the shopkeepers are worried about people with different taboos.
Usually in a frequently visited restaurant, you can make a request, and the restaurant staff will go out and buy it for you. Beer is relatively expensive, and the most common brand, Kingfisher, costs 80 rupees a bottle.
Generally speaking, a major feature of Asan cuisine is that most of the dishes are in paste form. Various pigments are also added, so there are often yellow soup, green paste, and red mud. It is difficult to get used to it if you don't get used to it for a period of time.
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Because you may accidentally think of something bad, so even if it smells delicious and you are very hungry, you may not be able to eat it.
In addition, whether at home or in a restaurant, Asan people believe that raw water is the best drink, and there is always a glass of cold water on the table.
The food hygiene in Asan Kingdom is not very good. Most tourists who come here have symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort. Therefore, due to different personal constitutions, it is necessary to pay attention to food hygiene.
After eating this kind of food once, catkins are enough. There is no other way. Han Kongque can only find someone to buy the ingredients and cook it himself. Fortunately, they have rice here and can also buy chicken and beef. Otherwise, they would
I can't stay here for a day.
Having solved the problem of eating, Han Xing has prepared everything and is just waiting to set off tomorrow.
Although the preparation time was not short, when it came, I encountered more problems.
When the car drove more than a hundred kilometers, Han Kongque and the others began to slow down. The roads in Asan Kingdom were really hard to say. Of course, his roads were not good, but his railways were very good. Maybe the roads were not easy to travel.
, so the railway has become their most important means of travel.
It could have taken them four or five hours to reach their destination, but it took them a total of twelve hours to arrive at a small mountain village.
Although it is called a mountain village, the mountains are actually not high, but there are many trees and there is green everywhere.
If the road wasn't too difficult, traveling here would be a great pleasure, but now, it's torture.
It was a bumpy ride, and if it hadn't been for a dilapidated off-road vehicle, they might not have gotten here.
As soon as they stopped the car, Han Kongque and the others were shocked again.
I saw several green figures surrounding their car. They all held Type 97 rifles in their hands. From the looks of it, they didn't look like they were here to greet them.
"Didn't you say that the public security in Asan Kingdom is very good? This is called very good?" Han Peacock looked at Han Xing and said.
Han Xing didn't panic at all. He looked at Han Peacock strangely and said, "Brother, aren't you afraid?"
"You're not afraid, so what am I afraid of?" Han Peacock patted Liu Xu's back and comforted her. He was really not afraid. As long as such militants were not crazy enough to open fire on sight, Han Peacock had plenty of ways to kill them.
Han Xing said with admiration: "Brother's thinking is really delicate. These should be the local armed forces that my classmates mentioned. They are all severely oppressed. They only have guns for self-defense."
"Oppression?" LiuXu was still a little uncomfortable.
Han Xing said: "They are Dalits and are often treated unfairly. Although it happens less often now, it is not non-existent, so they use guns just for self-defense."
The Asan Kingdom still has a caste system left over to this day. The people at the lowest level are called "untouchables" by the traditional upper castes, that is, untouchables. They themselves call themselves the "oppressed people", that is, Dalits.
To this day, in some rural areas of Asan Country, which are still conservative, you will see some people walking away from others because they cannot let their shadow fall on passers-by.
What's more, some people carry brooms and sweep away their footprints as they walk. They work for the people of this village, but they are not allowed to live in the village; they cannot go to the village well to draw water, even if their children can go to school.
, you must also attend a specialized school.
There are currently 167 million Dalits in the country, accounting for 16.2% of the total population.
The Central Bureau of Investigation of India released a 200-page investigative report at the end of December 2006, which described the experience of a Dalit family: a mother named Surika Bertmanji was removed from her home by a group of villagers.
She was dragged out, stripped naked in public, and beaten with wooden sticks and bicycle chains. Finally, she grabbed her head and banged her against the wall many times until she died.
Surika's 17-year-old daughter Priyanka was taken out of the cowshed where she was hiding by the same gang. They also stripped her naked, beat her up in a group, and banged her head against a wall until she died.
The same goes for her two younger sons, Sudhir and Rosang, the latter of whom was blinded in one eye before his death.
The four bodies of the Bertmanji family were transported by rioters in bullock carts to a canal half a kilometer away and dumped. The only person in the family who escaped was the father.
Witnesses said that Surika and Priyanka were also "qiangjian". However, the report said that the forensic examination found no strong evidence.
According to a survey in Maharashtra, 604 Dalit women were "qiangjian" in 1981. This number increased to 885 in 1990 and 1,034 in 2000.
In Rajasthan, another relatively backward state in western India, in the past three years, an average of 5,024 cases of violence against Dalits were reported each year; among them, an average of 46 cases were fatal injuries, 134 cases of "qiangjian" and 93 cases of violence.
serious injury and abuse.
It can be said that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. This small village is a typical small gathering place organized by Dalits.
They were originally landless farmers living in other places. They might be oppressed at any time, so they gathered into a village and took shelter in this small mountain village deep in the jungle.
Han Peacock got out of the car and looked at the tall militants. When he saw the appearance of those people clearly, he was dumbfounded again.
When these mighty soldiers saw them getting off the bus, they immediately knelt down and kissed their shoes.
LiuXu also exclaimed: "Are they all women?"
Han Xing said: "This is also my first time. When I first heard about it, I didn't believe it. When you meet a noble here, you have to kneel down and kiss the shoes immediately to show your wholehearted obedience."
Han Peacock looked at these tall women. Although their skin was a little dark, they were definitely not ugly. Although they had the typical characteristics of Asan people, they were dressed in camouflage and looked so heroic.
Judging from their actions such as holding guns, surrounding them, and retracting their guns, they are no worse than some professional soldiers in quality.
While Han Kongque was gathering a large number of these female soldiers, the female soldiers were secretly looking at Han Kongque and others. At this time, Gupal got out of the car and began to communicate with the female soldiers.
Lagava next to her was translating: "Mr. Han, your subordinates have gone up the mountain. At the same time, there are many villagers in the village. Since only the old and the weak are left in the village, they have raised the vigilance of the village. Please do not
Don’t worry, we can go into the village to take a rest now, it’s getting late now, and your subordinates will be back later.”
Han Peacock, half holding catkins in his arms, walked into their village under the protection of the female soldiers wearing shabby camouflage.
While walking, Ragava communicated with Gupal: "Mr. Han, there are more than 600 people in this small village. It is the largest Dalit village in the surrounding area. Gupal's family is also here, so you can rest assured.
And they are all devout Buddhists. Although they have their own weapons, they are all kind people. There is nothing they can do about hunting. If they don't hunt, they will starve to death, so they even take up arms.
, it’s just for self-protection.
You have also seen that they are all beautiful girls. If they do not have the ability to protect themselves, they are the most vulnerable to persecution. Therefore, since they were young, they will receive education from the elders in the village and let them learn some means of self-protection.
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"Are they Buddhists?" Han Peacock asked curiously. He didn't have much interest in anything else, but didn't Buddhists disappear in Asan Kingdom?
Ragava said: "Since 2008, nearly 10,000 Dalits held a ceremony to change their faith and convert to Buddhism in Pukriya Village near Kanpur in northern Asan. More and more Dalits have begun to
It seems that Dalits started to change their beliefs after the Khandma riots."
Although I don’t know what happened in the Kandharma riots, I think it was just bullying the Dalits. If not, the Dalits would not have made the decision to change their beliefs.
Han Kongque didn't ask any more questions, and La Jiawa didn't say any more.
Liuxu looked at the broken straw huts and the broken straw sandals on the feet of the female soldiers. Although the camouflage patterns on their bodies were neat, it could be seen that they had been washed a little white.
The tallest building in the village should be the tall courtyard wall outside the village, but this courtyard wall is just made of rocks. Such a wall can't block anything at all.
Although they spent a lot of time building walls outside the village, they did not properly repair the houses they lived in. If we use psychology to explain this phenomenon, it means that they are extremely insecure.
Han Kongque and the others were arranged into a brick house in the center of the village. The tile house had no door and was a shed supported by several long stone bars as pillars.
The only difference between it and thatched hut is that the roof is covered with red tiles. Han Kongque discovered that this is the only brick house in the village.
What does the countryside of Asan Country look like? Maybe you have never known that in the countryside of Asan Country, people's lives there are just like those in China hundreds of years ago, with a strict hierarchical system.
Most farmers live in low thatched huts with simple furnishings, while landlords live a luxurious life. Asan Kingdom has a very strict class system, especially in rural areas.
Here, people are extremely unequal. It is hard to imagine that in a country that is known as the world's largest democracy, people are actually divided into grades. What is even more frightening is that grades are inherited. No matter how hard a pariah tries,
This untouchable and his descendants will remain untouchables for eternity.
In the landlord's house, the status of the male and female servants is not even as good as the landlord's dog. Almost everything in the village is decided by the landlord, including who to choose as prime minister. The so-called one person, one vote is a joke. Untouchables dare not
Go against the landlord, otherwise the landlord will not even give you land to plant.
This group of Dalits were bullied by the landlords and had no choice but to escape here and live together.
Although they have the numerical advantage here, they have no land, and the land here is not suitable for farming, so they can only feed some chickens and graze some cattle and sheep.
Of course, they have very few cattle and not many sheep. They only have chickens, which every household has, but not many. A family with a dozen or so chickens is already considered a lot.
It is very dangerous in the tropical jungle, and the land there does not belong to them, so the people in this village have extremely few means of livelihood, and hunting is an extremely important means for them.
It is because there are a group of female soldiers in this village who have received professional training, and this training has been passed down from generation to generation, that generations of female soldiers in this village have grown up smoothly.
This group of female soldiers is completely different from the women in the slums in the city. Because they are healthier and don't have the sallow complexion, they look more beautiful.
This is a strange country. You can see many super beauties in the city, but the girls in the countryside are dark and thin because of hard work. But there are really not many who can be as handsome and handsome as this group of female soldiers.