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(1/n) Westermost extent of Indic Civilisation at the arrival of Islam :
631CE - King Chach marks boundary between Iranic Kirman and Indic Sindh far west of Tiz (Chahbahar, present Iran)
641 - Hiuen Tsang mentions richly adorned temple of Maheshwar Deva in Qasrqand #AncientIndia

[Lolbertarian Democrat @Me_Predictor]

The fact that a mega clown like dipke with a cockroach shyte named movement managed to capture whatever public imagination is a matter of deep concern for iq of Indian public and for bjp for allowing it to happen

[Jaidev Jamwal @JaidevJamwal]

Deaths of thousands of Hindus by hands of Sikh terrorists can't be washed out by saying that both communities suffered. Hindus had no part to play in the violence.
Sikhs started it, killed thousands of Sikhs and Hindus in the process. "Both suffered" only because of Sikh religious and regional supremacist ideology which is still as toxic as ever. It is like saying both Nazis and European minorities suffered due to war started by Nazis.
Everyone who tries to justify kahlistanis, bhindiwala and sympathisers, whether it be in gobarment, forces, friend & family circles is a terrorist himself and should be treated as such.

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

There is a upanishadic explanation for the word, pura usha, that whose past is ashes. In other words, your consciousness has no memory before birth.

Purusha therefore is the witness consciousness that remains unchanged. Everything that changes including your memories, your body etc are Prakriti

[Reminiscing.Kashmir🍁 @Koshur_Karkun]

Ancient Pakistan heritage

[𑌅𑌨𑌿𑌰𑍁𑌦𑍍𑌧 @BmaAnirudh]

TIL Early medieval Indians were importing petroleum products from the Middle East for lighting lamps !

[कुमार Kumāra @b0red_historian]

Gaya, Bihar. 1895. Colourized.

[कुमार Kumāra @b0red_historian]

+throwing them into rivers. There was perhaps not a single Hindu, Jain or Buddhist structure left intact in the entire Indo-Gangetic plain after the Turkic invasions had run their course. This was a catastrophe that can, I repeat, be only compared to the Spanish conquest of +

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

Yasin Malik’s men didn’t stop at raping the 27-year-old Kashmiri Hindu nurse Sarla Bhatt. They then murdered her, engraved the acronym ‘JKLF’ on her body, and mutilated it out of sheer contempt for her Hindu identity. After that, they issued multiple warnings to her family against cremating her remains according to Hindu rituals. The family still went ahead with the cremation, defying the threats. When they went to collect her cremated remains (asthi) later, a mob of around 200 Islamists descended upon the crematorium and stomped over them.

They didn’t stop even at that. They then bombed her family home with a grenade.

Do you really think all 200 of those monsters who showed up at the crematorium were foreign infiltrators, Pakistani terrorists, or JKLF members? These are the questions that make many Kashmiri Muslims very uncomfortable. The moment you raise these issues, especially when they present a narrative portraying their community as victims, they label you an Islamophobe or resort to similar accusations.

I have seen all kinds of Islamists, but the tribe in Kashmir is the craftiest. Many of them pretend to be atheists in private, yet their public behaviour and political leanings tell a completely different story. Very hard to take their words at face value.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

The more I research objective accounts by travelers and visitors about the common Hindu's life under Islamic Mughal rule - the more it makes my blood boil. Most Hindu commoners were living an absolutely wretched existence where they had to fight to survive against murderous taxes, fanatic conversion tactics, destruction of our sacred sites and horrifically violent oppression by savages. The distorians who have presented Mughal rule as some kind of golden era are sick bustards.

So depressing that I don't even feel like sharing the evidence.😓

[Dharmayodha ॐ ࿗ 🪷 @ihatemlecchass]

@b0red_historian India was just a land of ruin after islamic invasions. So sad man

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[कुमार Kumāra @b0red_historian]

Temples at Ajaigarh, Madhya Pradesh. Late 1800s. Colourized.

[कुमार Kumāra @b0red_historian]

18. Maratha June...

Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Late 1800s. Colourized.

[कुमार Kumāra @b0red_historian]

Ambarnath Temple, Maharashtra. Late 1800s. Colourized.

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

How old is the temple design?

[India Aesthetica @IndiaAesthetica]

1000 years old Jatar Deul temple dedicated to Lord Shiva in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal 🔱🌳🛕🇮🇳

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

During the glorious reverse engineering days of the 90s, we would load the OS loader under an in circuit emulator like soft ice and find the key validation algorithm and reverse engineer it. Then we could create as many keys as we wanted.

The FCKGW stands for “fuck gates william” and required searching the hash space.

Only other hackers could appreciate how cool an accomplishment this was.

[Khan @TheKunwarKhan]

When you eat free food at langar, you lose a bit of your punya and accrue a part of the paap done by those organising the langar. Never eat at such a place

[Eztainutlacatl @cbkwgl]

There is one theme which requires a proper study. This is fit more for historic fiction than raw history(I am keeping the story of the Battle of Rajasthan aside - that requires its own telling).
1. Some of the best Arab armies were mauled in Gujarat by Lata Chalukyas in 738. The defeat was so disastrous that Arabs never tried to attack India from that direction
2. A decade later, the Arabs receive a news that the one who defeated them(or his son) is killed by a commander who was also at Navsari and as they watch the commander would conquer the mighty Chalukya Empire which made a public joke of them
3. Now, at the same time, they faced another major defeat in the hands of a confederacy.
4. Now, the head of that confederacy, Nagabhatta himself is defeated and publicly humiliated in his capital by this commander, Dantidurga
5. Now, after taking Ujjain, Dantidurga marches into the desert, taking Chittor and Nagore. The momentum of his march pushes into Sindh, throwing the Arab government into total chaos. Here they have one who not just defeated but annihilated the power of both the kingdoms which completely broke one of the best campaigns Arabs ever launched outside Persia-Byzantium. They know fighting means total defeat. And if they are made non-existent, Sistan and Khorasan will fall. They were seeing major defeats there as well. So, what do they do? They decide not to resist and give a free pass for the Rashtrakuta legions. Shame is better than not being alive to carry the fight to a different day, right?
Remember, its the celebration of Dantidurga's total domination of the narrative and more importantly how the Arabs were in mortal fear of him, and less about how he came to power or what he did in Ujjain.