https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wvhVBRrrA?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 A century later, when suddenly very large ships turned up, this is in the early 1400 led by a eunuch Chinese General called Zheng He and he brought these massive ships, these ships were really enormous, I mean they're modern, they're modern scales. This huge series of treasure ships, that
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ery1YQmoQ There were other indigenous attempts as well and one of the most the successful of them is almost entirely forgotten today, was actually a warrior Queen called Abbakka, she and her daughter and granddaughter for almost 80 years resisted the Portuguese, from their kingdom, in an outpost called Ullal, which
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Courtesy:- India Today Report on Kerala's Conversion Mafia and YouTube To Read the Full Report Please visit -> http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/love-jihad-kerala-conversion-factory-islamic-state/1/1079334.html In public, it proclaims to be a champion of diversity and equality. Kerala's Popular Front of India (PFI) has consistently denied accusations of religious conversions, hawala funding, murderous assaults and terror links. But India Today
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXHk_9pwf8E&t=2s But then around about the starting with the 11th century, but really taking off in the (12th century) 13th century really, this whole structure suddenly came undone, in India, of course there was the Turkish conquest and that completely threw the whole. It was not just political control, but one
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hHALUh5ixU&t=1s Now the question is, what was the basis, what was the (the) (structures) economic structure that was allowing all these trade to go back and forth? Now you may get the impression that it was all heroic traders and merchants who were putting their money on, life on (on) line
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynP7SylqJ4o Now history, of course kept going and there a somewhat better-known episode happens, which is the rise of the Chola Empire and the great raids that the Cholas did, in Southeast Asia, in the 11th century. Now why did the Cholas, were the Cholas doing raids on the Southeast Asia,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJtIDrHTYHU&t=17s You have similar stuffs going on in the Western Indian Ocean as Indians begins to trade with the Roman Empire as well and the roots of this Roman Empire and what was going on has been left to us in a manual called “The Periplus Of The Erythraean Sea” this
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouNn4gPyeY Now very often the ideas that Indians have is that, the influence of India always goes out towards Southeast Asia, that is not the case, it was not as if the Southeast Asian was sitting around and saying aaah!! The Indians have arrived and let's take some “Gyan” from them
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITcjJm0iHg&t=11s?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Now somewhere down the line, Odiya discovered that, this business of sailing along the coast was just too cumbersome and I suppose somebody who went down and that it was much much easier, to in fact rather than try and go along the coast to Southeast Asia, it would be
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_i-4xI-UY&t=2s?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 So there's a story which is very common in the inscriptions of Cambodia, Vietnam and so on, much later the Ankor and Charme empires rose but the story goes somewhat like this- There was an Indian Brahmin called Kaundinya who was sailing past the coast of what is now Southern
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Source:- 'The Valley of Kashmir' written by Walter Lawrence. "Sultan Sikandar came to the throne, and soon earned the nickname of Butshikan or Iconoclast, from the intense zeal he showed in destroying the grand old temples which the Hindu Rajas had bequeathed to Kashmir. Sikandar was brave and cultured, but all
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Source: - The Indian Interest / Twitter. https://twitter.com/IndianInterest/status/717353836189364225 https://twitter.com/IndianInterest/status/808999701970157568 https://twitter.com/IndianInterest/status/809001156428984320 https://twitter.com/IndianInterest/status/809001632201515008
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The Srijan Foundation organized a talk by Sanjeev Sanyal at the Jawahar Lal Nehru University. The topic of the talk was ‘The forgotten history of India’s Maritime Past’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoyPwRh4nRg&t=9s?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 I'm little concerned that I have been asked to bring order to disorder, none of my students through my educational career would have believed, none of my teachers in my
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Source: - Oriental Memoires by James Forbes / Google Books ""There are doubtless many alterations and of late years in the Mahratta tactics which to this campaign at that time when to besiege a town they generally round the walls and having by that measure the garrison of all external means
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Courtesy: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Besides their contribution to the sciences, Indians have been able to connect deeply with the ‘inner world’, or the spiritual realm. Many great scientists, like Schrodinger and Heisenberg, have taken inspiration from Indic ideas to develop sophisticated modern concepts. In the twenty-first century world, India’s unique
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Courtesy: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine How can conceptions that came up several thousand years ago in India be of relevance to modern physics? It is increasingly accepted that Indian ideas have played a crucial role in the development of modern science. We are not just talking about the symbol zero,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhtpUrr0so Nowadays there is a lot of news about the work of Audrey Truschke, who is a professor in America and who claims that Aurangzeb was a good guy, that much of the crimes attributed to him have never happened. She's part of a slightly larger movement, in Zurich three years
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The ever-popular song traditions of Rajasthan, Gujarat and the Ganga plains are explored in this essay. The tales on which the ballads are sung are rich in history, intrigue, magic and battles. This is the second part in a four-part essay that delves into the various
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAg9c6FKUw I don't think that the guilt or innocence of persons is very important, maybe if you judge has to rule on that, maybe for the time being, he may consider it important. But in a general historical vision, that's not important at all, like all the indignation about Aurangzeb and
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. Did Indians migrate to Europe as early as 3300 BC? ‘Iceman’ theories are often promoted by the colonialist historians and their successors in the field of ancient Indian history. They seem to do that like the eponymous character of The Iceman Cometh, one of the most
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brqk9itGVpc The verdict came after 60 years on 30 September 2010. It was a bit of a mixed verdict, in the sense that, of the two Hindu plaintiffs and one Eskimo plaintiff, the Eskimos did get a little bit of the hill concerned. But the site itself, definitely went to the
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine How the two-dimensional structure of Sanskrit could have led to the creation of the periodic table. It is an amusing fact that the original names used by Mendeleev for gallium and germanium are eka-aluminum and eka-silicon, where the eka, Sanskrit for one, has the sense of beyond. The prediction for
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1TLN8sKzqo&t=10s However that version, that they demolished it (temple) has been confirmed by many Eskimos in recent centuries. It's only now, the last few decades that the secular, there are the secular first of all and then in their trail the Eskimos, have maintained that there not only was never a
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine Both Vivekananda and Tesla were hoping for a mutual confirmation of Vedanta and physics. It is generally accepted that Swami Vivekananda changed the world by bringing the movement for self-knowledge to America. He influenced some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, starting a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQwrPxRLVI&t=3s Now this is Richard Eaton who says this. He is an American self-described communist academic and he claims that, Hindus on a massive scale destroyed temples that this was their want. In reality, he cannot manage to find more than a few cases of Hindus not demolishing temples, but abducting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn0_RCv8uYw&t=1s It is only in 2002 that the court, the Allahabad High court ordered an excavation of the contentious site. Now it was not the first excavation, the former excavation had been very partial. Nevertheless in the 1970s already B B Lal, the Dean of Indian Archeology, had discovered their bases,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqW5pNQk0E&t=11s?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 There has, until the 1980s, been a big consensus about what happened at the site. The Eskimos, as well as the European travelers, as well as the European Colonials, as well as the Hindus thought that, the Babri Masjid had replaced, had forcibly replaced a Hindu temple. There was a
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Source:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. While Aristotle’s claims may not be literally true, what is now clear is that some of the popular ideas of the Middle East traditions have Indic origins. I shall in this column try to make sense of a puzzling statement of Aristotle (384-322 BC) that links
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the third part in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. Kashmir has made a unique imprint on the Hindu religion with its contributions of Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Tantric Shaiva traditions. Also an early centre of Buddhist scholarship,
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. How did the ancient Indians view the cosmos, time and life? Subhash Kak tells us about the Indian cyclical model and ideas related to time. It is generally known that the Indians believed in a cyclic universe. This idea is related to three other beliefs:
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This essay, the fourth and final part in a series on the extensive contribution of Kashmir to Indian culture, focuses on art, architecture and literature in Kashmir and its enormous influence over the arts in the rest of India and beyond. Architecture And Painting The uniqueness
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Source:- http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DjnP4LCD9jTBYQ20t8ci8H/Dattatreya-Parvatikar-The-musician-as-a-mystic.html Encased in a glass cabinet at the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s headquarters in New Delhi is a unique instrument. The Datta veena, which was once played by the country’s first president, Rajendra Prasad, is the only known piece of its kind today. It bears the inscription “1961”. The instrument appears
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Source:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya magazine SNAPSHOT The poetic narrative of human characters with superhuman qualities executing superhuman tasks are found in the earliest Indian tradition. Indian aesthetics stresses self-transformation, and the heroic stories recounted in the epic songs are intended to inspire the listener to self-transcendence. This is the first in a four-part
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Source:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT Neither by embracing a false history or by rejecting it altogether can the Indian mind be cleansed of the encrustations placed on it by the colonialist Western narrative. The past must be confronted on its own terms and, once that is done, India turns out to
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Koenraad Elst delivered a talk at the Press Club of India. The talk was organized by the Srijan Foundation on the topic ‘Ayodhya Ram temple’. Transcript of the Talk is available HERE. This is the transcript of Q&A session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBcd42k34o&t=10s Elst: So, has anyone any questions? Q: I want to ask about the
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Besides their contribution to the sciences, Indians have been able to connect deeply with the ‘inner world’, or the spiritual realm. Many great scientists, like Schrodinger and Heisenberg, have taken inspiration from Indic ideas to develop sophisticated modern concepts. In the twenty-first century world, India’s unique
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Between the classical and the quantum worlds lies metaphysics, the domain of philosophers and religious adepts for centuries. This domain has shrunk as science has investigated new fields. Some scientists believe that all of metaphysics would eventually yield to scientific logic. This is a first of
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Source: - Swarajya Magazine R: Hello this is Rishabh and you’re listening to Swarajya Indepth. Rohingya Muslims are often referred to as Bengalis in Myanmar for their roots in today’s Bangladesh. A significant number of them were taken to the Arakan region by the British as indentured servants during colonial times. J Sai
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The mind may be viewed to be constituted by five basic components: manas, ahamkara, citta, buddhi and atman. The Vedic theory of consciousness probably suggests a process of evolution, wherein there is an urge to evolve into higher forms, which have a better grasp of
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Source: - The Telegraph India. I am beholden to P.V. Rawal of Jammu for sending me a photograph of Allama Iqbal’s Kashmiri Brahmin family taken in Sialkot in 1931. At this time Iqbal was in his mid-fifties. He had already risen to the top as the greatest Urdu poet, at par
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya magazine SNAPSHOT Academic advances in a scientific understanding of consciousness will lead to a better appreciation of the Indian literature on the subject. One hopes that a comprehensive chronology of the various developments in the structural models of consciousness will be eventually produced. The Vedic notion of consciousness
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. Snapshot This is the first in a two-part series that presents a summary of the Vedic theory of consciousness within a framework of contemporary scientific concepts. Consciousness is described as the ultimate mystery in ancient Indian texts, and its study is lauded as the highest science.
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Source: - Swami Venkataraman and Rakesh Vaidyanathan / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT The culture which sees divinity in weapons is also the one which prizes non-violence. And there is nothing contradictory about it. Ayudha puja or shastra puja is the worship of weapons that takes place on the ninth day of the Navaratri festival. Weapons are retrieved for
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