https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0800Ue-houw When we started surveying the archeological sites of Delhi could not find a single site that has any plaque or any notification saying that this is the site linked to Ancient India. We found some inscriptions in some books, we hunted and found them lying in some godown in Lal
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNr-jfofFXw&t=7s In terms of infrastructure, the model which very often worked was, where the local infrastructure was largely funded, managed locally. So, for example, if you had, Professor Bajaj has done a lot of work on traditional waterworks on one very important factor in an agrarian economy is water, especially where
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGpcpTYzgV0 So this same principle of historical distortion is at work in the case of Tipu Sultan, the Tyrant of Mysore. So Tipu Sultan was a junior contemporary of the last powerful Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb. What Aurangzeb did in a span of 50 years throughout most of India, Tipu did the
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Historians of Hindu mathematics have long discussed how the concept of zero, positives, negatives and the laws of sign were documented in the early 7th Century. However, new research reveals an incomplete understanding of India’s zero in the Medieval Arabic world. This meant the role of zero as a placeholder
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9cnzig9Lw&t=1s So I’ll begin with a small, very humorous quote by an American scholar of history, He says, about politics he says this, and I quote “The first lesson of politics is to forget the first lesson of history”. So I’ll repeat that, “The first lesson of politics is to forget
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Credits: This talk is organized by IHAR & IGNCA, and recorded by #SangamTalks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCeC9sCIPuk&t=18s The grand narrative of India is the narrative of it's knowledge traditions. India has a continuous textual tradition which needs to be traced and built.About Speaker: - Shri Kapil Kapoor is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and
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Dr Raj Vedam answers to audience questions following his talk on "The Story Of Ancient India: Forces Allied Against Indian History & Story Of Deep South". In the talk, the speaker deep dives in ancient southern history and demolishes the Dravidian claims in favor of a pan-Indian identity. He analyzes the
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This is part 2 of Dr Raj Vedam’s talk on “The Story of Ancient India: From The Deep South to North” In the second part of the talk, Dr Raj Vedam mentions how the astronomical model is common to India. He states that the names of the Nakshatras in the Northern
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In this talk, the speaker deep dives in ancient southern history and demolishes the Dravidian claims in favor of a pan-Indian identity. He analyzes the latest available papers on genetics, archaeology (2019), and roundup along with past evidence of what they imply for the ancient history of India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m9OUmHK5oQ
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Main Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erxm70VGjfE India's undemocratic partition - instigated by Jinnah, accepted by Gandhi and the Congress Party, and midwifed by the British - was a traumatic, epoch-making event that vivisected the world's oldest civilization. It opened wounds that have never healed. Its effects reverberate to this day, in the form of
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