The women, the “Dharma Gifts” and “Mares,” were found in a state of profound psychological ruin. The sheer white sarees were torn from their bodies and burned in massive pyres. The steel collars were bolt-cutterted off and thrown into piles. The women who were pregnant from their Hindu captors were given a choice. Those who wished to keep the child were cared for, but many, in a final act of defiance, chose to terminate the pregnancies, a procedure carried out by field doctors under the grim gaze of their liberators.
The most haunting liberation was of the pre-teen “Calves.” Found in the mansions of the Hindu elite, they were often catatonic, unable to speak, conditioned to respond only to bells and commands. They were wrapped in warm blankets and taken to special trauma centers, but for many, the liberation came too late; their minds were forever lost to the world.
**The Treatment of Hindu Men**
The policy for Hindu men was uncompromising: total liquidation. There were no camps, no re-education. There was only the sentence.
As the coalition armies advanced, they rounded up every Hindu male over the age of fourteen. In village squares, in city parks, and on the grounds of the very temples where the rapes had occurred, mass executions were carried out. Firing squads worked around the clock. The bodies were not buried. They were left to rot in the sun, a feast for crows and dogs, a visceral message that the age of Hindu dominance was over.
A small number of men were kept alive for a specific, cruel purpose. These were the high-ranking officials, the RSS leaders, the wealthy industrialists, and the Brahmin priests who had been the architects of the subjugation. They were not executed. They were kept to perform incest.
In a carefully orchestrated ritual of ultimate degradation, these men were brought to public stadiums. Their wives and daughters were brought before them. Under the barrels of guns, they were forced to rape one another. A father was forced to sodomize his son. A brother was forced to impregnate his own sister. The acts were filmed and broadcast on every channel, a spectacle designed to shatter the very foundation of Hindu family and purity, turning the sanctity they had professed into a public abomination. After the ritual, the men were castrated without anesthetic and left to bleed to death, their final moments a tableau of utter humiliation.
**The Treatment of Hindu Women and Girls**
The Hindu women and girls were not executed. Their fate was to be the living currency of the new order, a debt paid in flesh.
They were rounded up and processed with the same cold efficiency the Hindus had once used. Their heads were not shaved. Instead, their long hair was often cropped short and dyed black. Their foreheads were marked, not with a trishul, but with a simple, black circle. They were stripped of their names and given numbers preceded by “F” for female. F-8812, F-9201.
They were housed in the sprawling, opulent mansions that had once belonged to the Hindu elite. These were not brothels, but “Reparations Centers.” The women were not for the common soldier. They were reserved for the high-ranking officers of the coalition, the Arab financiers, and the visiting dignitaries from China and the West who had backed the invasion.