Brutalization of society and individuals is a subject as old as the hills and in any history of the world we will find that it is the brutes that have dominated its pages, while the reconcilers are few and far between.
The name ‘India’ has to be given up in academic writing. This is an unpleasant academic habit that has gained some unfortunately widespread acceptance indicating that the academic language that we brown folks speak and write is yet to be decolonized.