https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N5vQDhzHS0&t=6s The year is 1918 and the destructive first world war is almost ending and one of the most important Milestones that marked in the end of the first world war was something called a armistice of Mudros, which has signed on 30th October 1918. Mudros is a small town in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Snuw2VCbUQ So, who are the Moplah or who were the Moplah? The term Moplah is actually an English corruption, mispronunciation or other English pronunciation of a Malayalam term called Mappila, which literally means son-in-law, ‘Damaad’. The origins of the Mappila or Moplah can be traced back to roughly the 8th or
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz61rMwFN1k So let me first walk you through the essential practices doctrine. So anything if you say this is the religious practice and I need the freedom to contact this religious practice to participate, to run this religious practice, it has to pass the essential practices test. What is this essential
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYR4_uIaWGw Muhammad Ali jauhar or Muhammad Ali along with his elder brother Shaukat Ali Johar or Shaukat Ali Came to be popularly known as The Ali Brothers. The Ali Brothers planned, lead and executed the khilafat movement from the front. Now Muhammad Ali was no ordinary guy. He was educated both
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCm9JO5Hw4 if you look at defense capabilities, for example, he suggested building of ports, he had a large army, diplomatic initiatives and also setting up intelligence gathering and analysis units. For example there are four types of fighting units besides the strong force. It had an infantry, a cavalry and chariot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVeiAp1OYrA Labor is another component, one of the scholars and the subject mentions that he found the right mix. Mr. Balbir singh finds the right mix of job security servings and sanctions, to address the issue moral hazards. They are very innovative thing that at least for those times. Kautilya focused
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2nbNXgLA4 a quote which kind of mentions about how pearls could be imported from Ceylon, a aloe from Burma, woolen clothes from Nepal and furs and horses from Gandhara. Gandhara which is today probably Afghanistan and Vanayu from Arabia, Persia and wine from Afghanistan and Scythia. I mean this is probably
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9obac617pM So if you really look at the data from the Common Era beginning all the way till 1700, India and China were literally leading in GDP. In the beginning phase, India was higher than China, if you notice and then India retains eighteen thousand, thousand five hundred. China comes slightly
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHmjYpJ6YXY&t=46s Exactly why is it that some nations are rich and some nations are poor and that brings us to a conjecture, that it is nations differ because they have different degrees of freedom, the people in that nation and what is freedom we will come to it. But the more
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IxU1fEs0yM Exactly what's with Indians, if we are Indian stupid people. I don't think so because Indians do very well wherever they will, wherever they go. So that's also not true. So I submit to you that, maybe it's the government, it's the government and the rules of the game that
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRqSjUhXb8 The Indian Constitution is the largest Constitution in the world, written constitution of a nation, hundred fifty thousand words and it's written in legalize, it's not written in English. So if you were to try to read it you cannot understand it unless you are legally trained. You have to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-2MFKJGv58&t=15s again we had another very top archaeologist. He is, of course, he's known as Prof SR Rao and he was not only a land archaeologist, but he was he a pioneer who introduced that marine archaeology in India because he also wanted to see, what is the condition of our mythology and how
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qH84DI_34U&t=8s some Marxist historian have complicated the end their issue of Sri Rama temple because I was in Aligarh Muslim university earlier and I knew the temperament of Muslim because it became a problem from, I mean, from 1980 onwards and in 80’s Muslims were almost, many of the Muslims then, top leaders were also
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4C3ISJ9iv0&t=63s That is not just figurative thing. It actually has enforced. For instance, when Sri Lanka was trying to pass a legislation to restrict missionary activity, the US Secretary of State contacts the Sri Lankan ambassador and saying this is we consider this violation of freedom of religion and trade is going to be affected
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj4-82WZf8A&t=24s I have noticed in recent times. They have cleaned it up a little bit. So, the older court might not be still available because they are trying to make it a little more palatable. But this is the basic Crux of the matter and India has the largest number of target groups in Joshua
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF0X2oBm7XI&t=55s A lot of the conversion happened in the last 50 years. So, this African scholar Macomb Toa says, “it's very strange that the human rights regime facilitates this conversion war. Now we go back to this notion of what is freedom of religion, right? The human rights regime says that missionaries is coming to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzQElMYySF8&t=45s This is from the international Mission board, which is the proselytize the evangelizing arms of the certain Baptist. So, court there is, declare his God's glory among the Heathen, his wonders among all people. God wants certain Baptist as a people to mobilize vast resources for reaching all people groups
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSY0JScTmE&t=75s AD 2000 movement actually tried to bridge some of the conflict at least between the Protestant groups. They said the Protestant groups should organize, they had target instead of each other, we should target the heathens, we should target those that needed to be converted and then from AD 2000 and the idea was
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3IUn2hh_mc&t=128s Now, King Raja Raja Chola with his guru, Guru Karuvurar. This is the earliest surviving portrait in Indian painting. And this is at the end of the 10th century. Now one of the most marvellous things about Indian art, is that for a thousand and five hundred years, this art
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g783AYysQlo&t=14s About the 11th century. This is the monastic complex of Alchi. Alchi is known to be one of the 108 monastic centres. It is a legendary number but likely to also have been true. 108 monasteries, a chain of monasteries which were the early monasteries of the trans-himalayan region. These
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-HBez5jnHM&t=57s So in this entire stream of parallel struggle of Freedom, if he actually flip the whole Narrative of the Indian Freedom struggle and look at it from the lens of the revolutionary or armed conflict, at the completely different picture emerges where, you know, the protagonists are different whom you
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAn5OjK_x8 This is where today, you don't know the ancient population, you don't have that DNA profile exactly. You don't know their exact numbers, you don't know the exact descendants, don't have the exact number of generations, don't know the who married whom have no don't know the exact descendants no
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRSU9qkdCQ The Vedic system, the caste system, kept the lower classes to their positions without giving them access to studies and other such things and that accounts a widespread poverty in India; that is what Marxist would like you to believe, and that's what has been pushed in the textbooks, like
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLX6-BI6ycg&t=232s we are told that Iron ages are ushered India by invading Aryans in 1500 BCE. it is N R Banerjee in 1965 or Tewari in 2003, they talk about iron. however this new site came out in 2015 and professor KP Rao, he found several artifacts knives and blades in
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As a result of all of this material what we are asking for or demanding as part of charter the first of the sub demands under point 1 is that, we amend the Article 26 to restore the temple to Hindus, you would recall that there is a phrase in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76PPM2aOpJs?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Brave men like Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great people like Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, people like Thupstan Sevang who gave a direction to Ladakh that we have to stay with India and cheer India, be ready to die for your country. Here, people were give references from history. I would like
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5bKoszTtkM&t=33s We wanted a notion of religion-based treatment to go away, but then you create policies and schemes based on religion. It will only deeply on the sense of religious identity, from the consumption of public goods prospective, for example we have this, first point talking about, this Sachar committee report
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReMggVMJtaA So, our syllabus also there for completely Abrahamisation and there are some examples here Karnataka social science Text book, in terms of what they talk. Again, its fine. I think we have talk about a little bit, Sri Lanka have open policy, they openly teach about all religion to all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWU7ZYfWSE&t=4s See the result of state control of Hindu religious affairs. There are so many examples. Week after week, we hear about the Tirumala Tirupathi priest controversy, there are actually multiple angles there, prevention of chanting of Mantras and something and so on. Commercialization of many temples, there are various Sevas
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVHaCpuKVs&t=500s Would you please let me know if there is anything adverse on record in your office regarding the under mentioned person who has applied for Passport facilities to proceed to UK, France, Switzer… I mean Netaji’s nephew, who has been a freedom fighter, a lawyer, poor guy wants to go
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKhg-vSJRWI Why is today memory, becomes such an important subject? Memory becomes a subject of study when a great change takes place in society and ruptures the flow of events. Like 9/11 USA, it ruptured the society and because it ruptured the society, suddenly focus our attention towards memory. So, the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Ne9WtypyQ On the allegiance of a Muslim to his motherland [India], Ambedkar writes: "Among the tenets one that calls for notice is the tenet of Islam which says that in a country which is not under Muslim rule, wherever there is a conflict between Muslim law and the law of the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTlRlqJFGZs&t=113s We all know about Adolph Eichmann. It's been called the greatest trial of the 20th century. It was led by Gideon Hausner, a world-famous lawyer. Apart from this, only the Nuremberg trial, where the Nazi people were tried, was seen as a big trial. But this is regarded as the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUy3hj6nb3k&t=34s If you look at 2000 AD map, Ireland has separated. No country is on its 1800 AD, 1500 AD, 1000 AD., is country. Leave before 1000 AD because none of them was before 1000 AD. If you will define on the basis of political boundary, then it was case everywhere.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGdJHL8qSw&t=9s Let’s see Africa and Middle East a bit. If you see Africa in 1500 AD, there were few empires but now only negligible political boundary match with present boundaries. Only a little Ghana or one or two more countries match. Rest of Africa’s map has changed. How did it change?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orP8-c1tSdE&t=40s I am going to stress this aspect once again because it has happened in 2016 and the dissent or a specific group of people which have been targeting the current regime for being repressive, even under the new regime nothing has changed. The dissent has been there, and they were
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoVNta9oSo&t=1s What we don’t know, however, is what he thought of the other great religion of the world – Islam. Because this facet of Ambedkar has been hidden from our general discourse and textbooks, it may come as a surprise to most that Ambedkar thought frequently of Islam and spoke frequently
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBFIiqysBIY Gurudev began, "Over 300 years ago our country was ruled by a cruel Emperor Aurangzeb. He killed his own brother, imprisoned his father and became an emperor. Then he decided to convert India into an Islamic country." "Why Gurudev?" "Because he thought that if other countries could become Islamic, why
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTL8v07yoiQ People might say no no this is not true, the British India Act was there, but we have a new constitution that the code started in... promulgated and we became a republic in 1950, after the Constitution was accepted and so on so forth. So now we have to look
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sY3BfM83RM&t=124s These leftist ideologues, since independence have been running a parallel administrative network across India and they are highly organized. All these organizations receive foreign funds and the kind of narratives or the arguments which they put forth have been all the time constantly supported by their sister organizations. Just as
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_hnr7BLU0&t=56s The Award Wapsi Movement, I should say, it was spearheaded by Nayantara Sehgal, niece of late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It is so surprising, being a Kashmiri, she was never offended by the genocide against the Kashmiris. The Kashmiris were driven away from their places and then they are made
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTYG5UFW0Q&t=2s Finally in 1900 AD Greece has emerged finally. If we recall ancient civilizations, then Greece, Egypt comes to mind, but if u see condition of Greece, it was first captured by Romans due to which Greece got Christianized and lost its traditions. All Greek gods, Olympic got banned because it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0aO2nosO0 We had a very complicated indirect tax system. It was indeed so complicated that it was more easy for Mumbai to trade with Shanghai or London, than it was for Mumbai to trade with Delhi. Now this is not a new problem that I have just discovered. This was clearly
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfD3RhM1gU&t=3s So, really what was the first and the most important thing that needed to be done when this government came to power in 2014, was to impose some sort of an order on the system. So, what was the first reform that this government attempted to do was to introduce
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_uokFzLdM&t=1s So, like this Africa got divided. South & Central America. We will not go in every single country, but it has very interesting story. A document named papal bull is released in 1493 named ‘Inter caetera’. ‘Doctrine of discovery’ promulgated through it. How many of you know about ‘doctrine of
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnp4x0eG7Z0&t=1s Now I'll talk about Hindu resistance, a little the other part of the topic. What created the Hindu resistance? Did they surrender to the terror? How did they cope when their sacred places were desecrated? Conventional psychological theories cannot explain how people in large numbers resisted such brutality. I have
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NLup44uh8&t=206s When the Great War ended with the disbanding of the Ottoman Empire, Gandhi persuaded the Congress to support the Khilafat Movement – a violent agitation for restoration of the Islamic Caliphate deposed by the victorious British. Before long, he pinched his nose and plunged into the murky waters of religious
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4eYhrvH1M I'll come to Sabarimala Hindu resistance. It's interesting for me as a psychologist to see this that never before in recorded history have Hindus come out unified in such large numbers to protect their temples. There is a simmering Hindu rage becoming a movement and I also believe that it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NjRAxeBwc&t=92s Shaun Launders, one of the top theorists, said memory surrounds us and defines us. It's an essential dimension of religion and Milan Kundera said that the struggle of man against power is a struggle of memory against forgetting. Very powerful words. It is a memory that stops us from forgetting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5moK26JAw I'll share with a story, because I think the best is to let people know that how I came across this. Any idea, what is this? This is the Kashmiri refugee camp. I was working there, and my wife is also here, and we used to, both, go to the
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