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For four thousand years, the Indian subcontinent was the centre of world trade. Sumerian tablets record Indian ships reaching Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Rome ran a permanent trade deficit with India. By 1600, Surat was the richest port on earth.
Then, within a single lifetime, India lost its maritime supremacy almost entirely.
The conventional explanation is that Europe arrived with superior ships and weapons. It is a comforting story and it is largely wrong. The deeper cause was internal.
Indian commerce was extraordinarily sophisticated. Surat's leading merchant, the Jain financier Virji Vora, was reputedly the richest man in the world; the East India Company borrowed from him. Merchants of every religion and origin traded together because the system rested on two foundations: religious toleration, established by Akbar, and predictable, low-tariffs. Customs duties were around five per cent. Contracts were honoured. Trust was the real currency.
There was one structural weakness. In Venice, Amsterdam and London, the state and the merchant class shared an interest in trade and invested in it together. In Mughal India, the ruling elite was indifferent to commerce. Merchants financed the state; the state never encouraged merchants.
When Aurangzeb became hostile, merchants had no protection. Religious toleration was abandoned. Temples were destroyed, punitive taxes on non-Muslims reimposed, the Sikh Guru executed. Forty years of war followed. East India Company imports from India fell ninety per cent in seven years. Eight thousand merchants abandoned Surat in a single exodus.
They relocated, many of them to an insignificant island Britain had received as a royal wedding dowry, because it offered the security and toleration the Mughal state had destroyed. It also offered English Common Law. Within a generation Bombay was the commercial capital of India. The Wadia family built the Royal Navy's finest ships there. The Tata dynasty traces its origins to this migration.
Europe did not defeat Indian commerce. It inherited it, by providing the conditions Indian merchants needed and their own rulers had thrown away.
This is not an argument about colonialism. It is an argument about something more fundamental, and it is the thread running through all three of my books on maritime trade. The second ‘The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution’ is subtitled ‘How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy.’ It is hardly ever lost to a stronger rival but when a society stops valuing the openness, toleration and commercial purpose that made it great. Portugal did it. The Dutch Republic did it. Britain, in the 20th century, did it too.
The conditions of prosperity are always a choice. And they can be unmade by a single generation that comes to value something else more.
Link to the full Substack essay with sources is below.
Decipherments are notoriously opposed for decades. Champollion s Egyptian hieroglyphics were not accepted till after his death. Linear B was opposed for decades and Ventris was young enough to so he lived to see his acceptance.
Indus script decipherments in journals is always reviewed by 3 people who have sworn that it is not a script.
The work is published and scholars like Sproat and Witzell (who have thoroughly read every update - I get notifications when they do) have struggled to mathematically or linguistically falsify it for years. They should be easily able to do it if they wished. However they resort to argument by disbelief and other fallacies.
It is important enough to them that they inject these fallacies in unrelated conferences.
Don’t talk about things you have no knowledge of.
This is untrue. Sanātana Dharma is first used in the Rig Veda.
-Rig Veda 3.3.1: agnirhi devāṃ amṛto duvasyaty athā dharmāṇi sanatā na dūduṣat
Meaning ...Agni the Immortal serves the Deities, and therefore never breaks their everlasting laws (dharmāṇi sanatā).
It is also used copiously across the Itihāsa as well as other scriptures.
My point highlighting the use of Sanātana Dharma in the Dhammapada was rather to show the non-sectarian nature of early Indian religion, something even Chinese Buddhist pilgrims note frequently as many Buddhist majority areas in the Subcontinent still kept Vedic rite & ritual. While Hindu areas and kings would exalt Buddha as well.
Syncretism was the default (and still is today I'd say).
China is often portrayed as a highly equal society under Communist Party rule. Yet millions online are now debating whether the country has something resembling a caste system.
The centre of that discussion? A policy called the hukou system🧵
“What is Pakistan? It’s a made up country. It’s actually called India. They are actually Indian Muslims.”
“I'm sorry, but I don't believe Pakistan is actually our ally. You can't ignore what happened with Osama bin Laden and pretend none of it matters.”
If you rule, you’re responsible. Full stop. Curious isn’t it? Independent India hasn’t had a single famine. Implying that prime ministers who didn’t have a fraction of the erudition or education of Churchill were better at the job than he was.
saw this on reddit. it's depressing what indians kids must have to go thru anywhere on internet bcz Indian leftists couldnt tolerate being out of power. there's no one to help them either. everyone's passively or actively evil.
there have to be blood for all this.
How a single Indian anon (@AgniVesa_07) infiltrated & exposed 42 anti-Indian hate groups...
...And in the process discovered the disturbing role of an Indian political party in all of this.
All of this just within 2 weeks btw...
Engagement farmers who end up becoming useful idiots for anti indians must see this, my goal isn't even getting high engagement, or getting any single penny from eluns twt so i barely do 4-5 posts in a days, yet im getting this kind of engagement.
Thats what happens when you choose the right topic,
Been seeing so many engagement farmers from india itself or even non indians who aren't part of any anti india syndicate desparately trying to post low hanging fruits for racists.
So, its time for y'all to become good human beings and be on the right side of twt, and the fun part is you can still get good engagement if thats all u want. You just have to try. Take a initiative.
Indians don't deserve to get dehumanised.
>What we are doing is not even a shoe dust when compared to them
> Imagine creating a whole damn game hating india and hurting religious sentiments
> They are clearly on a agenda.
Winston Churchill’s actions during the Bengal Famine of 1943 were not just negligent - they were deliberate acts of genocidal cruelty fueled by racism and imperial greed. Claims by apologists attempting to paint Churchill as innocent collapse under the weight of historical evidence. Here I debunk their lying claims:
Claim 1: British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943.
Truth: Churchill’s administration knew of the impending famine 8 months before it unfolded. On December 18, 1942, the Food Department of India sent a desperate telegram to the British Secretary of State, warning of catastrophic food shortages caused by monsoon failure (Image 1). The plea was unequivocal - India faced a shortfall of 1.4 million tons of rice, 650,000 tons of millets, 400,000 tons of wheat, and 200,000 tons of gram. The message was clear, immediate assistance was required to avoid absolute disaster.
Instead Churchill not only withheld aid while the famine raged - his administration FORCED India to export 360,000 tons of wheat and rice in 1942-43. This grain, which could have saved two million Indian lives, was diverted to support British war efforts. Churchill had 8 full months to act but deliberately did NOTHING to prevent the oncoming famine crisis in India.
Claim 2: Churchill worked hard to “save the people of Bengal.”
Truth: Churchill’s policies were rooted in contempt for Indian lives. Viceroy Wavell’s journal reveals that during a September 1943 Cabinet meeting, Churchill raged against sending food relief to India, insisting that supplies should instead be stockpiled for liberated European nations like Greece (Image 2). Wavell’s damning words capture Churchill’s callousness:
"Apparently it is more important to save the Greeks and liberated countries from starvation than the Indians."
Churchill clearly commanded that relief should be restricted ONLY to those directly contributing to British war efforts, such as British army soldiers and factory/railroad workers, while leaving millions of the most helpless ordinary civilians to starve.
Claim 3: Churchill authorized around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between August 1943 and December 1944.
Truth: This is a deviously misleading calculated half-truth. While approximately 900,000 tons of grain were sent, Churchill did not intend this food for Indian starving civilians at all. Viceroy Wavell’s June 24, 1944 telegram makes it clear that this grain was needed to feed the British Army stationed in India (Image 3). He warned Churchill that bases were “liable to starvation” if food was not imported. The British military alone required over 1 million tons of grain annually for its operations, leaving NO meaningful relief for starving Indian civilians. Churchill’s shipments were not humanitarian aid at all - they were clinically heartless logistical measures granted only to sustain Britain’s war machine. By late 1943, when he finally reluctantly sanctioned some aid at the insistence of Wavell & Amery, even that relief was conditional. In a further act of cruelty, Churchill agreed to send 150,000 tons of wheat to India ONLY if India supplied an equivalent amount of rice to Ceylon. Churchill FORCED India to export more than 70,000 tons of rice to Ceylon between January and July 1943 exactly when the worst part of the famine was setting in.
Such policies reveal Churchill’s true priorities: maintaining imperial dominance, no matter the human cost of Indian lives. This demolishes the argument that it was just a problem with shipping due to the war. Apparently there was no problem with shipping when sending food grains OUT of India during the height of the Famine!
In December 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was created. Friends of India lobbied the USA for famine relief through UNRRA. But Churchill sent his representative Llewelyn to argue AGAINST any aid to India with the outrageous claim that the Indian famine had NOT been caused by war efforts. The corpulent tyrant ensured starving Indians could not even get UNRRA aid despite thousands of Indians fighting for the British in the War. And to add insult to injury he made India PAY $24 million while Indians starved!
Worst of all, Viceroy Wavell’s June 24, 1944 telegram makes it clear that there was a SECOND FAMINE impending in India in 1944 (Image 4), and grain was desperately needed to feed the British Army stationed in India. He warned Churchill that bases were “liable to starvation” if food was not imported. But Churchill did NOTHING. It was only by a huge stroke of luck that the monsoon turned out to be better than expected and Indians were able to avert a SECOND deadly famine in 1944 - otherwise we would be talking about 10s of millions murdered.
The Bengal Famine of 1943 was not an unavoidable calamity - it was a man-made atrocity, orchestrated by Churchill’s racist and imperialist policies. Under his leadership, 3–5 million Indians died, not because of natural disaster but because Churchill mercilessly prioritized British interests over Indian lives. His infamous comment to Leo Amery that “famine relief would do no good because Indians breed like rabbits” lays bare the contempt he held for millions of Indians dying in agony after Britain had sucked all of India's resources dry. To Churchill, the death of millions of Indians was not a tragedy - it was pest control of the Indians he held in such contempt.
Churchill’s actions were not only cruel but genocidal in intent. He deliberately exacerbated famine conditions by denying vital food shipments to India, exporting vital resources from India, ignoring urgent warnings, desperate pleas for help and hoarding grain for British soldiers and European allies. The evidence is irrefutable: Winston Churchill was no hero. For India, he was a murderous tyrant whose policies inflicted unspeakable suffering. The Bengal Famine remains a permanent and horrific stain on Winston Churchill's legacy, a chilling reminder of the horrors of imperialism, and an indictment of those who seek to glorify it.
Had it had been a Western country with millions of white Christians that starved instead of brown Hindus, then none of these apologists would make a peep to defend Churchill’s murderous actions.
So now BBC calls it the "Asian squat." Not Indian. Not Malasana. Not Baithaks. Just "Asian."
A posture deeply rooted in Indian culture for centuries used in daily life, yoga, traditional dining, and ancient wrestling disciplines recorded in texts long before many modern nations even existed.
Funny how anything Indian suddenly becomes "Asian" when credit is due.
The obsession with erasing India's contributions is getting harder to hide.
“Caste is uniquely Indian” survives because we use different words for similar hierarchies elsewhere.
Europeans had aristocracy.
Americans had race.
Chinese dynasties had hereditary status groups.
Japan had the Burakumin.
History is often semantics dressed up as moral judgment.