However this only provide heat at the close vicinity. This can be a emergency measure when warmth drop due to breaking of armor.Ī third method is to light a bonfire in the cold locations with a torch. Whiskey provides a short duration of immunity to cold for the cowboy and heal for some hit points. Note that the Indian armor from spirit caves does not provide any warmth.Īnother method is to drink whiskey. T3 armor(fur set/bear fur set) provides higher warmth then other armor and is ideal for this purpose. This can be achieved by wearing warm clothes and/or holding a torch in the main hand, which provides 4 warmth. The most straight forward method to fight the cold is to increase the total warmth value of the cowboy. If the meter is allowed to drop further to 0% the cowboy will get into a freezing status that he will move slowly and taking damage until the meter rise again. When the meter drops to 50% a freezing icon appears above the cowboy. The larger the difference is, the faster the changes will be. The game has a hidden warmth meter that does not change when the cowboy has 5 warmth, decreases when lower then 5 and increases when higher. The minimum warmth requirement is 5 but it is more desirable to be higher. Note that warmth is not required in the Indian tribe. Blocked Snowy Passage, Northern outlaws' stopover, Highlands, Iron mine and Snowy maple forest. This is taken into account when the cowboy visits the northern cold locations, i.e. The completely unreal analysis of India in this book is Jaffrelot’s way of using India as a foil to feel scared and concerned about changes in his own society.Warmth is the parameter to indicate how well the cowboy is protected from cold. Despite all their self-professed enlightenment, these were societies given to bloodshed and oppression on a colossal scale.
The concern for civility that Jaffrelot shows for India might be more suited for a France in throes of undesirable change. Burqa-clad women excite great animosities in France. Immigrants to France are actually required to sign an “integration contract” to abide by French values and norms. Each year tens of thousands of immigrants are deported from western countries 19,000 in 2019 just from France. Immigration is a key issue in French electoral politics, not in India. Look, for example, at the matter of immigration. His analytics on India are contaminated by his fears for France. Jaffrelot projects onto India all his fears rooted in such challenges to civil existence in France. The threat of uncivil things in France is very real considering that till just a few decades ago, the French, along with other white Europeans, were busy oppressing the rest of the world in the name of saving it. In order to make sense of such a book, it is important to remember that Jaffrelot is coming from a France that is undergoing a churn, feeling very threatened with the influx of Muslim migrants, with farmers and workers routinely disrupting normal life, and the concomitant rise of a white French right wing which threatens to do uncivil things to anyone with whom they disagree. He dismisses them as of no consequence since they merely brought dignity to the poor. The other schemes that he berates include the Jan Dhan Yojana and the Ujjwala Yojana. That in turn cites an NSSO survey of 2015-16, for a programme launched in 2014! The evidence he provides for this is from a news report published in 2017. He asserts, in this book published in 2021, that 60 per cent of toilets constructed in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan do not have water. The one testable example that he provides for his claim turns out to be bogus.
Promises by Modi to make Indians prosperous, Jaffrelot asserts, are false. He insists that voters identify with Modi because of his low-caste origins. “What factors made Narendra Modi so attractive for these plebeian voters?” he asks. “Plebeian” in French means someone from a lower social class someone without culture and education. Jaffrelot repeatedly uses the word “plebeian” for describing those who voted for Modi. He points out that only 19 per cent of those who worked for Modi in the 2014 elections were party workers and that 32 per cent of them would have voted for another candidate had Modi not been the prime ministerial candidate. Yet, his main argument remains that the BJP and the RSS are taking over the country. He notices that Modi’s appeal has nothing to do either with the RSS or the BJP. From this, he concludes that the BJP is an upper-caste party. It has little to do with reality.Ĭhristophe Jaffrelot says that only 34 per cent of BJP voters were from the upper castes in 2009. This book, originally written in French, is a collection of weird judgments based on weirder presumptions about India.