800 different kingdoms..and aryans
The most widely held conventional wisdom of every indian believes or relishes in believing these 2 things
1)India as a country has always been divided and that there were 800 different kingdoms before the mughal invasion and that as a country we were not united at all.
2) The aryan invasion theory which has been propounded by Max Muller who later on left his theory but is still held as truth by many indian so called intellectuals.
The first point: 800 diff kingdoms
when can a geographical area be called as a united place?? only if it is under one monrach or when people have the same culture and tradition.
The west ass licking historians tend to belive the former so..Rome was a united kingdom bcoz it was ruled by tyrant after tyrant..leave how people lived under subjugation.
India's grand history is not in big palaces or forts for the kings which were surely built for the fun of the rulers..but in the big temple complexes and universities.
The place where wealth was stored was not in some secret place in the palace heavily guarded by soldiers but in temples where every body could see them,yet there was no threat for the wealth.
The world class universities at nalanda ,taxila,vikramshila and other such universites or temples of learning existed only in india ..these were the places of highest knowledge for hinduism and buddhism and they presented no threat to anybody yet the moghul saviours made it a point do destruct all of these universites and in place of them build nothing.With this loss of knowledge managment and no universites even being built up for the next 1000 years ..how can a country come up with independent ideas but borrowed ones.
The way of doing the festivals is only the difference in the culture of far north and down south..if north indians worship white krishna and in south u see black krishna stupas it doesn't mean they have no relation and one has subjugated another..indeed both are different parts of yajur veda(of which i have minimal knowledge..) which is ultimately same.
Indians were and are united and it is because of the common culture and tradition which is quite dynamic in nature.The problem with Indians (simlarly jews) is when left to themselves indians will prosper ..that is evident when we see indians being the richest ethnic community in which ever land they stay in ..except in india.
2nd point: aryans
The very godfather of this theory pulled himself away from yet ..yet indian communist historians come up with more and more proofs as to why we are barbarians and why we couldn't have produced knowledge and how our language(sanskrit),culture,religions would have come from central asian barren lands.
There is something which strikes me here,for any civilization to prosper it needs basic amenities and out of which the foremost is water.. i can understand it when i see egyptian civilization being centred around nile and indian civilization around harappa and punjab(land of five rivers) and the rest of it spreaded around rivers. Greek civilzation ..almost full with water.What major rivers flow through central asia which induces people to build magnanimous civilization there from whom we are supposed to be borrowing everything.Other then mongolian civilization which thaught people how to kill ..there is nothing much which came frm there.
Isn't it funny that in this chunk of land where we have 1000's of dialects and 23 national languages ..that sanskrit couldn't be our product gives me creeps.
The work is going on and on and we have been watching it all along..The new theories being krishna being lifted from greek god(why couldn't it be otherway round..i wonder),that gita is not part of mahbharatha..and i can continue like that on and on upon these things.
But today something happened which brought a big smile on my frowning face ..I now-a-days think newspapers could be used as cheap-toilet papers ..since they how ever don't serve their intended purpose.. but today was a welcome change ..i think it as an abberation rather then normalcy
An article in indian express click here
The origin of sanskrit is the title name.
now that is what is called history uniting people ...rather then dividing us.
"Everything is subject to interpretation and which interpretation stand is not a function of truth but power" -Nietzsche.
Here it is truth that we were one and sanskrit is india's product and it is just power that is needed to make it stand.
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