Source: – @Kal_Chiron / Twitter.
Thing to note by all film and TV serials dreaming of making film /series on Marathas.
These relatively malnourished, thin, dark, short Hindu people riding inferior deccani horses defeated tall-fair-tight assed Mughals, Pathans, Turks, Uzbeks, Iranis infesting this sacred land. https://t.co/MEvi1IILG2
— Kaal Chiron काल्किरण (@Kal_Chiron) August 27, 2019
Don’t show 6pack abs wala bulked up people while showing Marathas.
You’ve to understand what it is to be in 27 year total war. what toll it takes on physique of generations for eating irregularly for so many years. It is such ppl that emerged out of the meat-grinder in 1707.
— Kaal Chiron काल्किरण (@Kal_Chiron) August 27, 2019
Just look at Russians at the end of WW2. Or Chinese emerging out of Civil war and then great-leap-forward. It is now (in last 20 years) that kids born after 1980-85 are beginning to show good height and weight and healthy BMI with full cheeks.
— Kaal Chiron काल्किरण (@Kal_Chiron) August 27, 2019
It such ragtag bunch which did not eat regularly (society as a whole) for 30 years (2 generations assuming childbirth at age 15).
Marathas of 1737 are sons of this ragtag generation which isn’t that far off
Marathas of 1761 is the 3rd gen which ate regularly after 40 years
— Kaal Chiron काल्किरण (@Kal_Chiron) August 27, 2019
When you show Bajirao’s army as these hulked up dudes riding tall arabic horses, you miss the whole point of that independence struggle.
— Kaal Chiron काल्किरण (@Kal_Chiron) August 27, 2019
The Mughal and other invading hordes were not too well padded when they swarmed over to infest rich India.
Grew fat off the land , till the pauperised inhabitants fought them off their high perches .
— graphene (@zegirish) August 27, 2019