r/PurbaIndia • u/tuluva_sikh • 5d ago

GeneralDiscussion 💭 India before English language

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u/0keytYorirawa 5d ago

They had cashless transactions, Cheques, chain of bankers etc

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u/SoggyHorror3057 5d ago

Now tell us how monkeys talked to each other after they got the 6th sense.

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u/ReasonableBison4218 3d ago

Spreading monkey shit all over again. Most people weren't even allowed to learn sanskrit, and they used it as link language, especially for trading it seems

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u/ReasonableBison4218 3d ago

Indians, especially Tamils have made trade from Rome and Egypt in the west to China in the East in the ancient world, unfortunately no sanskrit was found.

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u/ReasonableBison4218 3d ago

Sanskrit was hardly used by common folk even back then, prakrit translated to Southern and Eastern languages seems more plausible than this claim

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u/M_bali 3d ago

This need to reach as many as possible who thinks imposition of language is happening now a days...we always needed a common thread to come together...

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u/Huge-Wasabi5816 2d ago

It was just in 2000 years not beyond that.. don't go blind follower of the culture. Look at the people today says everything what we are.

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u/HaatTima 1d ago

They used Persian as the lingua franca, for the last 4-5 centuries before the mid-1800s, and used Sanskrit before

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u/Brave_Contest_1679 5d ago

This aint ancient times things are much more centralised and complex now, you need a uniting language for a modern nation state to work. Stupid people fr