K aybe

[Tharv @KohliYRamos]

" When Muslims arrived in India a century old brutal persecution of Buddhists was already ongoing "

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Geometry carved into the earth Chand Baori, India 🇮🇳

[𖤓 @Vigraharaja]

gajarāja

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

India in the 1930s, photographs by Alice Boner.

[दर्पण ༝ 🪽 @DarpanAurDwar]

- ◇ both the times such posts mocking Indians came from Nepal. No one is trying to be white here. There are a lot of Indians who face extreme tanning scenarios.

[K aybe @somethinganache]

@aslicheen how do they not realise they look completely ridiculous? even if it wasn't appropriation it still looks retarded

[𖤓 @Vigraharaja]

Maharaja of Morvi's residence

1942, Gujarat

[K aybe @somethinganache]

>But Booda was born in Nepal saaaar
Forget the fact that Lumbini is as far south and into the Gangetic plains as “Nepal” gets or the fact that it was a vassal of Kosala.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

Historians: "Ancient Chinese considered China as the center of the world or the "Middle Kingdom" - while others as merely on the periphery."

Ancient Chinese: "India is the center of the world or the "Middle Kingdom" - while China is merely on the periphery.

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A remarkable consequence of China's discovery of India was that it destroyed China's sense of civilizational superiority and self-centricity. There was a profound realization that they were in the presence of an enlightened civilization, one from which they had much to learn.

Historically, Chinese intellectuals used to consider the rest of the world as lands of barbarians, containing nothing of importance. Then they discovered India.

As soon as they were exposed to India, they were in awe. They'd never seen anything like this. Virtually every aspect of India hit as an unbelievable revelation. They stared in disbelief at the extraordinary sights of Indian thought, culture, society, philosophy, art, science, technology, education, and more. Countless Chinese students enrolled in Indian universities. Countless Indian texts were translated into Chinese. Entire departments and bureaus were set up in China just to learn Indian sciences, arts, logic, and philosophy. It was nothing short of a Cultural Revolution.

For the Chinese elite, India was the Holy Land, where people went for pilgrimage. India was literally referred to as "Heaven".

For generations of Chinese intellectuals, India was the civilizational center and China the periphery. Indeed, Faxian (or Fa-Hsien), the very first Chinese pilgrim to visit India whose major records have survived, directly described India as the "Middle Kingdom" and China as a frontier country.

Journeys to India often became legends. The most influential action-fantasy in Chinese history is the ancient 16th century masterpiece JOURNEY TO THE WEST, one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of ancient Chinese literature, which is based on Xuanzang's journey to India. It has been adapted into countless works of pop culture including films, comics, television shows, and video games, and remains one of the most loved ancient Chinese works today.

India consequently became one of the defining forces of Chinese civilization.

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All this was went beyond cope. Such was the sense of reverence that India instilled in Chinese minds, that they simply skipped denial and immediately crossed into acceptance. They openly admitted that India was the "teacher" and China the "student" - a telling metaphor that features repeatedly across Chinese literature, using literally those exact words.

Of course some Chinese reactionaries, especially among the Taoists, resisted the revolution. They were soon overcome by the Buddhist revolutionary vanguard, and often themselves saw the light and converted. Buddhism would soon receive endless official patronage, and used to justify and legitimize the heavenly mandate for imperial rule across dynasties.

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

Historians: "Ancient Chinese considered China as the center of the world or the "Middle Kingdom" - while others as merely on the periphery."

Ancient Chinese: "India is the center of the world or the "Middle Kingdom" - while China is merely on the periphery.

-------

A remarkable consequence of China's discovery of India was that it destroyed China's sense of civilizational superiority and self-centricity. There was a profound realization that they were in the presence of an enlightened civilization, one from which they had much to learn.

Historically, Chinese intellectuals used to consider the rest of the world as lands of barbarians, containing nothing of importance. Then they discovered India.

As soon as they were exposed to India, they were in awe. They'd never seen anything like this. Virtually every aspect of India hit as an unbelievable revelation. They stared in disbelief at the extraordinary sights of Indian thought, culture, society, philosophy, art, science, technology, education, and more. Countless Chinese students enrolled in Indian universities. Countless Indian texts were translated into Chinese. Entire departments and bureaus were set up in China just to learn Indian sciences, arts, logic, and philosophy. It was nothing short of a Cultural Revolution.

For the Chinese elite, India was the Holy Land, where people went for pilgrimage. India was literally referred to as "Heaven".

For generations of Chinese intellectuals, India was the civilizational center and China the periphery. Indeed, Faxian (or Fa-Hsien), the very first Chinese pilgrim to visit India whose major records have survived, directly described India as the "Middle Kingdom" and China as a frontier country.

Journeys to India often became legends. The most influential action-fantasy in Chinese history is the ancient 16th century masterpiece JOURNEY TO THE WEST, one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of ancient Chinese literature, which is based on Xuanzang's journey to India. It has been adapted into countless works of pop culture including films, comics, television shows, and video games, and remains one of the most loved ancient Chinese works today.

India consequently became one of the defining forces of Chinese civilization.

-------

All this was went beyond cope. Such was the sense of reverence that India instilled in Chinese minds, that they simply skipped denial and immediately crossed into acceptance. They openly admitted that India was the "teacher" and China the "student" - a telling metaphor that features repeatedly across Chinese literature, using literally those exact words.

Of course some Chinese reactionaries, especially among the Taoists, resisted the revolution. They were soon overcome by the Buddhist revolutionary vanguard, and often themselves saw the light and converted. Buddhism would soon receive endless official patronage, and used to justify and legitimize the heavenly mandate for imperial rule across dynasties.

[K aybe @somethinganache]

@Priyang87 This looks literally like the post here. Remember when this Nepalese ch8nkie gets 200k+ likes from mlecchas saying it was fake
https://t.co/348MqB8BeB

[🔻☭★ @Communist977]

Indians think they are white.

[K aybe @somethinganache]

@gan_ji56755 @KenHangSG @panyusgel In those 5000 years you've been invaded dozens of times. How much longer can you survive before you get your asses handed to you by some foreign power?

[K aybe @somethinganache]

@Google why google gemini bad at bitwise operations?

[Sameer Rao @CivitasSameer]

The institution of the Kshetrapāla or Kshetradevatā represents one of the most compelling demonstrations of Hindu civilisation’s decentralised yet integrative character. Few religious traditions permit such an intensely localised experience of the sacred, wherein a hill, river, grove, village, or region may possess its own guardian deity while simultaneously participating in a larger metaphysical order.

The uniqueness of Hindu civilisation lies not merely in tolerating local cults, but in its extraordinary capacity for synthesis. Tribal gods, village deities, pastoral cults, serpent worship, fertility traditions, and regional guardian spirits were seldom annihilated or declared heretical. Instead, they were gradually situated within an expansive sacred framework, identified with Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Skanda, or other manifestations of the divine. The local was never abolished by the universal; it was elevated into it.

What modern sociology terms as Sanskritization is often criticised as cultural homogenization. Yet, viewed through a civilizational lens, it may also be understood as one of the most profound nation-building processes in human history. The spread of Sanskritic cosmology, pilgrimage networks, epics, Puranic narratives, temple traditions, and shared sacred geography created a civilizational unity without requiring political centralisation or cultural eradication.

India was not integrated through a single state, a single church, or a singular prophetic authority. It was integrated through sacred geography. Rivers became mothers, mountains became abodes of the divine, forests became sites of penance, and local gods became manifestations of universal principles. Every region retained its individuality while becoming intelligible within a larger metaphysical order.

This stands in contrast to many historical instances in which the arrival of a new religious order often entailed the displacement, marginalisation, or destruction of preceding sacred systems. The Hindu mode of expansion was characteristically incorporative rather than exclusive: the old deity was rarely abolished; it was reinterpreted, assimilated, and situated within a broader cosmology.

The Kshetrapāla, therefore, is not merely a village guardian. He is evidence of a civilizational principle: that the infinite may inhabit the local, that diversity need not imply fragmentation, and that a nation may be unified not by uniformity but by participation in a shared sacred order. Hinduism, in this sense, functioned not merely as a religion but as the metaphysical grammar through which the civilisation of India mapped, ordered, and stabilised its immense diversity into a coherent whole.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

My column: In Tibet, China is attempting the systematic erasure of a people's culture, language and identity by targeting their children.

It has forcibly placed more than one million Tibetan children into state-run, Mandarin-language boarding schools, which are built on a neo-imperial premise: "Control the child and you control the future."

This is not simply a human-rights scandal, but a geopolitical project with far-reaching implications for Asia’s future balance of power and India’s security. https://t.co/2rV0aKClJR

[India Aesthetica @IndiaAesthetica]

Himalayan Monal famously known as the nine-coloured bird and state bird of Uttarakhand 🌈🐦🪽 🇮🇳

[K aybe @somethinganache]

@Dawidaltexian @rosejara1 @MT_6226 you think singaporean indians live in ghettos? 🤡

[Avatans Kumar 🕉 @avatans]

1. jāti/kula, by birth, is old, almost 2000 years old. Varna, a social organization based on profession, is even older.
2. "caste" is the construct of European colonialism as it got manifested in the current form by the British census.
3. Rigidity in jāti by birth is a byproduct of the socio-political situation post Ashok, around the turn of the Common Era, that saw large-scale foreign invasions, decimation of population (about 1/3rd, according to some contemporary accounts), and breakdown of the social structure.
4. The "caste oppression" narrative suffers from several fallacies. One such fallacy, the fallacy of presumption, assumes that the mere co-presence of the so-called "upper" and "lower" Dalit castes involves discrimination or oppression because of the latter's perception. The data do not support this presumption. Another fallacy is that if “caste" exists, it only has an oppressive feature and is always unidirectional. This ignores the fact that the jāti/kula social groupings have existed for thousands of years and have sustained Indian society in many ways. Reform efforts notwithstanding, there has been no attempt in history to overthrow this “oppressive" system.

[Vedic Wisdom..ॐ @VedicWisdom1]

Sikhs did not protect Hindus, in fact we have records of Sikhs killing unarmed Hindu sanyasis and Yogis.

For example - Sikhs killed thousands of unarmed Hindu Yogis and Sanyasis when they attacked Haridwar Kumbh mela in 1796.

[渥赫 @ZedWZhang]

上海名物--印度警察
棒子
各种文章说，旧时上海租界的印度警察常用棒子打中国人，他们手里的棒子是这样的，兼做交通指挥棒。
“アノ偉大なる體驅に頭上を白布で巻つけた黑面朱唇の印度巡査は全く上海の一名物たるを失わぬ”。
https://t.co/DAMaeEDFr0

[K aybe @somethinganache]

they also eat dogs and brazilians eat monkeys, why can't these two just get along?

[ؘ @for2yul]

a pele original real dos coreanos eh linda demais n sei pq eles tem essa obsessão em ficar brancos q nem um fantasma