Bharat Rakshak

Ramana "Why do I get the feeling that you are an intellectual masquerading as a redneck? Country folk dont use educated talk like Latin. More like prep school background. " Inspite of all the effort our American friend TS Jones makes to come across as a rude 'tit for tat' redneck he ain't ...

Hauma The article on Mongol conquest of Burma and its subsequent moving away from the Indian sphere of influence was instructive. I was not aware of the history of Burma before. I have always wondered what accounted for the sudden rise of Mongols from obscurity and their subsequent pilage and devast...

Hauma, Kaushal and Karana The people of "Nuristan" ( called "Kafiristan" up till 1896 AD) were incidentally the ones to resist the waves of Islamization for the longest period in the Indian subcontinent. The people of "Kafiristan" resisted Islamization for almost 1000 y...

This article nicely summarizes the attitude of Babur towards the "Hindu infidels" and the people of India in general. For the interested people, I can dig references for Babur's views, most of which are from Baburnama. I am posting the context and relevant parts: http://www.sulekha.com/red...

HH Machiavelli in his celebrated work "The Prince" emphasizes that the most effective strategy of maintaining an empire is to "colonise" the conquered areas, i.e., by encouraging a part of the loyal citizenry of the state to settle in the newly conquered areas. These kind of sett...

Admins

I realize that my above post, which basically deals with Shahi dynasty is more fit for the Indian history thread. Since I dont have the privilege, you might want to move this post to the relevant thread. Thanks.

Carl You brought up a good point and I think you are right. Islam retained its "separateness" and all the influence of Indian civilization failed to penetrate the iron curtain. Nevertheless, it should be mentioned that some cultural exchange did take place at the periphery giving rise to w...

India while constantly exporting new ideas failed to project power. India culturally defeated China in Tibet (My post in the earlier History thread) but China still militarily overran Tibet. While China was beaten by invaders it always took the fight back to them. Now it occupies the very lands of ...