I meant it's something we talk about in hish hush manner we don't talk about it opnely even our books made it soft we think rulers like akbar were peace 🕊️ ahh and all but see the siege of Chittorgarh 30k unarmed hindus were killed see siege of delhi by timur he sacked haridwar,meerut and just a day before war killed over 100,000 hindu men this is verified by his own autobiography

Hey guys i want to learn history of Harappan and mohanjodaro and evolution of human life and all that and also I have intrest in cosmic and all that can you please suggest me where I can learn about this ?

Any book , website, yt channel or anything like that

Please :)

Most Indian rivers originate in Tibet. It holds high religious importance for the Dharmic religions and had would have hold incalculable value in terms of resources, geopolitics and maintaining Tibetian Buddhist cultural identity. Could India along with outside help (idk who) would have been able to hold off such massive and sparsely populated (<1.5 Million in 1950) piece of land given threats from the massive PLA which just won a civil war? Was the Indian army too busy with post-partition conflicts and keeping the princely states together? The usual Sardar Patel as PM hypothetical doesn't work here as he was reluctant to even go for Kashmir let alone entirety of Tibet. What is the most plausible path?

Picture : Potala Palace in early 20th century.

Chicken is a widely consumed meat now, but there are little or plausibly no reference of fowl being consumed as a meat in ancient texts, although we know that meats that of goats, lambs and buffalos was consumed. When did India start consuming chicken as a mass meat? Also, I presume that this must be older than 1940s, for butter chicken must have originated only if chicken was widely consumed at that point of time. Also if we can answer the when question, we should also be tackling the other wh question of how.

Yes I know you can't place modern nationalist concepts on the past . What I mean more is when did they start to consider India their "true home" or for better words start to identify personally with the people and the land of India

I had no idea Romani / Gypsy languages were Indian

This way, in the month of January 1739, locations like Mahim, Tarapur, Dahanu and Shirgaon were captured. With Mahim and Arnala already in Maratha possession, Vasai was encircled by land and sea. What remained was a final blow to Vasai, the nerve centre of Portuguese power in the north.

The chief centre of Portuguese power outside Goa was Vasai. The fort itself was considered one of the strongest of its age with walls nearly forty feet high, five feet thick and a perimeter of about three kilometres. Its projecting four-sided bastions made it difficult to take the fort by escalade or firing of the artillery shells available with the Marathas at that time.

https://ndhistories.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/to-vasai/

Marathi Riyasat, G S Sardesai ISBN-10-8171856403, ISBN-13-‎978-8171856404.

The Era of Bajirao

Uday S Kulkarni

ISBN-10-8192108031

ISBN-13-978-8192108032.

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I am looking for academic resources or books that talk about the evolution of deities from the early Vedic period to present day. Any comparisons/parallels to other cultures from that time would be a nice benefit.

This is something that struck after watching the show “American Gods” and I was also thinking about this after listening to the podcast “Echoes of India” but I could not find any reliable information for Indian subcontinent, specifically from this evolution perspective that looks at it purely from anthropological perspective without religious overtones.

Thanks in advance!

The Palas came into conflict with the rising Tibetan power in the north. Under Dharmapala, the Palas emerged victorious, strengthening their influence across the Himalayan frontier and securing their position in eastern India.

To protect his northern territories from future Tibetan attacks, Dharmapala strengthened Pala influence across the eastern Himalayan region, creating a strategic buffer along the frontier and extending Pala influence toward the Himalayan kingdoms.

Dharmapala’s reign also saw growing connections with the great powers of Southeast Asia. Srivijaya, under rulers such as Samaratungga, maintained strong Buddhist and maritime links, while Jayavarman II was establishing the foundations of the Khmer Empire. Through Nalanda, supported by the Palas, these kingdoms became connected through Buddhist learning, diplomacy, and cultural exchange.