Tbh Ukraine isn't entirely supported by the Left either, at least not the Far Left (Communists, Marxists, etc). They're against anyone associated with the West.
Lords of the Deccan is an excellent book but might be too long for your nephew. Tbh it's difficult to find books on South Indian history, much less short ones.
Large parts of India came under the influence Persianite sultanates in mediaeval times. As a result, Persian and Indian cultures blended into one another, giving rise to what's known as Indo-Persian culture. Indeed Persian replaced Sanskrit as the lingua francia of India by around the 14th century, and by the 17th century or so, India produced more works in Persian than Persia.
Well I think the question is whether these changes will seep into the hearts of the masses or will it just a temporary change, which could be overturned by theocratic leaders like earlier.
I'm not an atheist anymore but when I was I used to use the term "naturalist", I liked it because it stood for a position rather than just the negation of a certain position.
Zamn Gujarat is itself one of the most vegetarian places in India, it's like 60-70% vegetarian, and then the Brahmin community there is even more strict about such things. Brahmins in nearby state of Goa are more lenient, most of them eat seafood and some of them also eat poultry.
Well afaik the numbers vary by region. So for example, in many northern states, the fertility rate is too high (3-4) while in southern states it's too low (1.5-1.8). So ideally, different states need to pursue different policies. Pro-birth policies for South and opposite for North.
This practice was introduced by Jahangir's father, Emperor Akbar, one of the most pluralist and tolerant rulers in the 16th century. He also introduced other festivals like Diwali and Nowruz. And he held interfaith dialogues between Hindu and Jain monks, Muslim clerics, Christian priests, Jewish and Zoroastrian scholars and even atheists. He also translated Hindu texts into Persian, built one of the largest libraries in the world, which included works of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Greek and Latin, and commissioned paintings from Hindu and Muslim sources so that Hindu and Muslims could better understand each other.
Ikr. Child protective services would place him in foster care and those places are notorious for child abuse. Better option might be to send him to grandparents till mom and dad sort out their life.
In Singapore, they have a law that requires every housing society to reserve a certain % of appartments for minorities (basically Indians and Malays as Chinese people make up 75% of the population).
It's not there is no caste discrimination islam, its that there should be no division of muslims on basis of births, which is prohibited. But what God has decreed and what men do are two different things.
Mauryan Empire lacks huge temples, too. It was likely in the Indo-Greek era that the concept of huge temples percolated. Guptas who succeeded the Kushans went on a building spree later on.
Thanks! That's an interesting thing to note! Any excavations or archeological work done for the Ancient Pataliputra, if so? Any sources on that? I think the loss of Pataliputra and Nalanda was the most destructive epoch for the Indian/Tantric and the Buddhist Civilization in South Asia.
There were excavations done in Pataliputra back in the 20th century although I don't know about any recent excavation. I don't about specific sources since I'm mostly reading modern Indian history at the time but I think you can read about it in Upinder Singh's multi-volume book series on the history of India.
Aurangabad/Sambhajinagar came way before the Mughals or Marathas in around 1610 known as 'Khadki' at the time. After the Mughals invaded the city, it was fortified with walls and gates (this is how it came to be called the City of Gates) and turned into the Deccan capital in around 1640. No wonder a capital city would have that sort of population.
Yeah it was originally founded by Malik Ambar, an African slave turned general who became the de facto ruler of the Ahmednagar Sultanate. Shivaji's grandfather Maloji was his deputy and most trusted advisor. Ambar also invented many guerrilla tactics which were later adopted by Shivaji. Indeed Shivaji mentions him as one of his inspirations.
this map is on happiness and not living standards? and hdi doesnt directly correspond to happiness, east asian countries work the shit out of both students and employees while many caribbean nations are not that developed but chiller
Happiness is a subjective topic but I think living standards are a better way of measuring it than just abstract feelings. According to this survey, there's not much difference between Japan and Venezuela in terms of 'hapiness'. And people in Venezuela may genuinely feel that way but anyone who looks at the starvation and poverty in Venezuela would know there's no way these people are living just as happy lives as those in a developed country like Japan.
Civilization is old enough there that they are constantly finding new sites. It doesn't mean there's not some knowledge of history lost by destroying a site, but just because you destroy all of the known ones doesn't mean there's not more to find.
True. Plus there's different civilizations buried on top of each other. For example, if you dig at an archeological site in Alexandria, you'll find the Arab layer and below that the Roman layer, below it the Ptolemic layer and below it the Hellenic layer.
Well it kinda is but much of the Vedas is lost and many Hindus believe you can recover the lost wisdom of the Vedas by observing the conduct of righteous people around you, regardless of social or economic status, they could even be a farm labourer, a street hawker or a construction worker but if their conduct is righteous (dharmic), everyone is supposed to learn from them. For they hold the lost wisdom of the Vedas and from them it can be recovered. At least that's what the Apasthamba Dharmasutra says.
I haven't personally estimated it but I've spoken to some Hindus who were well versed in scripture and they told me more than half of it is lost, something like 60-70%.
I would say it was one of the causes but it was part of a larger list of religious causes. In the decades before 1857, the British had given a lot of free reign to missionaries, they had demolished temples and mosques supposedly for building roads, they had converted some temples and mosques into churches, they had given some of them to priests and nuns to live in, they had also tried to ban certain cultural practices both Hindus and Muslims engaged in like hooka and nautch because they were seen as "unChristian", and so on. All of this created a fear amongst Hindus and Muslims that the British were trying to mass convert them to Christianity.
I'd say this question applies more to Pakistan rather than India because in Pakistan, more than 50% of their population is Punjabi and so of course Punjabis there are over represented in virtually every field. But in India, Punjabis make up less than 3% of the population. Yes they have a big presence in Bollywood, certain sports and the army due to historical reasons, but otherwise I wouldn't say they exactly dominate Indian social life. Science and research in India for example is mainly dominated by Tamils and Malayalis, business is dominated by Gujaratis and Marwadis, civil service is dominated by Biharis and UPites, and so on.
Yes. I'm from Mumbai which has been a hotspot of Sindhi and Gujarati businessmen for a long time. Both groups are associated with entrepreneurship; most of my Sindhi and Gujarati friends in school were children of shopkeepers and merchants, and so business skills were inculcated in them at an early age.
Well he does have a Latin wife 🤷♂️
Damn, Pakistan is a cursed country. They have 230+ million ppl and are completely disfunctional.
Also don't forget climate change which will cause water scarcity whilst their population is predicted to double in size by 2050.
Tbh Ukraine isn't entirely supported by the Left either, at least not the Far Left (Communists, Marxists, etc). They're against anyone associated with the West.
Lords of the Deccan is an excellent book but might be too long for your nephew. Tbh it's difficult to find books on South Indian history, much less short ones.
Large parts of India came under the influence Persianite sultanates in mediaeval times. As a result, Persian and Indian cultures blended into one another, giving rise to what's known as Indo-Persian culture. Indeed Persian replaced Sanskrit as the lingua francia of India by around the 14th century, and by the 17th century or so, India produced more works in Persian than Persia.
Well I think the question is whether these changes will seep into the hearts of the masses or will it just a temporary change, which could be overturned by theocratic leaders like earlier.
I hear you. I'm curious what are the other 40%?
I'm not an atheist anymore but when I was I used to use the term "naturalist", I liked it because it stood for a position rather than just the negation of a certain position.
I very much like this one. It's more elegant than the "Atheist with a soft A vs hard A" distinction Richard Dawkins proposed.
Yeah I learnt about it from theoretical physicist Sean Caroll who used the term to describe himself.
i am western gujarati
Zamn Gujarat is itself one of the most vegetarian places in India, it's like 60-70% vegetarian, and then the Brahmin community there is even more strict about such things. Brahmins in nearby state of Goa are more lenient, most of them eat seafood and some of them also eat poultry.
the most vegetarian state is be rajasthan followed by i think gujarat
Yeah Punjab is also up there along with MP and maybe Haryana.
I am just thinking what the government is going to do to tackle this now. They're gonna come up with a new tag line "Hum do, Humare Das" for everyone?
Well afaik the numbers vary by region. So for example, in many northern states, the fertility rate is too high (3-4) while in southern states it's too low (1.5-1.8). So ideally, different states need to pursue different policies. Pro-birth policies for South and opposite for North.
This practice was introduced by Jahangir's father, Emperor Akbar, one of the most pluralist and tolerant rulers in the 16th century. He also introduced other festivals like Diwali and Nowruz. And he held interfaith dialogues between Hindu and Jain monks, Muslim clerics, Christian priests, Jewish and Zoroastrian scholars and even atheists. He also translated Hindu texts into Persian, built one of the largest libraries in the world, which included works of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Greek and Latin, and commissioned paintings from Hindu and Muslim sources so that Hindu and Muslims could better understand each other.
As of now ABVP(students wing of the rss/bjp) is set to win Posts of President,Vice President, General Secretary and Joint Secretary in JNU
The Left seems to be focusing on guarding the South atm. They recently sweeped elections at University of Hyderabad.
Keyboard warrior don’t even think twice before writing something
Ikr. Child protective services would place him in foster care and those places are notorious for child abuse. Better option might be to send him to grandparents till mom and dad sort out their life.
Technically, NK is a democracy, it's in the full name and they have "elections".
Technically, North Korea is a necrocracy, as Christopher Hitchens used to say since Kim's dead grandfather is the country's "eternal leader".
In Singapore, they have a law that requires every housing society to reserve a certain % of appartments for minorities (basically Indians and Malays as Chinese people make up 75% of the population).
Reservation works only if it is implemented by the book and for a limited duration.
Oh I didn't know you visited Singapore. I've read a lot about it, especially Lee Kuan Yew but never visited the country.
It's not there is no caste discrimination islam, its that there should be no division of muslims on basis of births, which is prohibited. But what God has decreed and what men do are two different things.
Mauryan Empire lacks huge temples, too. It was likely in the Indo-Greek era that the concept of huge temples percolated. Guptas who succeeded the Kushans went on a building spree later on.
Depends on what you mean by huge. The Mauryans built stupas like the one in
Thanks! That's an interesting thing to note! Any excavations or archeological work done for the Ancient Pataliputra, if so? Any sources on that? I think the loss of Pataliputra and Nalanda was the most destructive epoch for the Indian/Tantric and the Buddhist Civilization in South Asia.
There were excavations done in Pataliputra back in the 20th century although I don't know about any recent excavation. I don't about specific sources since I'm mostly reading modern Indian history at the time but I think you can read about it in Upinder Singh's multi-volume book series on the history of India.
Aurangabad/Sambhajinagar came way before the Mughals or Marathas in around 1610 known as 'Khadki' at the time. After the Mughals invaded the city, it was fortified with walls and gates (this is how it came to be called the City of Gates) and turned into the Deccan capital in around 1640. No wonder a capital city would have that sort of population.
Yeah it was originally founded by Malik Ambar, an African slave turned general who became the de facto ruler of the Ahmednagar Sultanate. Shivaji's grandfather Maloji was his deputy and most trusted advisor. Ambar also invented many guerrilla tactics which were later adopted by Shivaji. Indeed Shivaji mentions him as one of his inspirations.
By fortified, I mean the walls and some 55 gates surrounding the city. The Daultabad fort is a different thing altogether.
Oh ok. I get what you mean. Yeah I've seen those Mughal walls in photos.
Depends on what you mean by monarchy. I think pretty much everyone here is against absolute monarchy for obvious reasons.
It's similar to how people some people from Delhi have surnames like Dehlavi or those from Hyderabad have Hydari and so on.
this map is on happiness and not living standards? and hdi doesnt directly correspond to happiness, east asian countries work the shit out of both students and employees while many caribbean nations are not that developed but chiller
Happiness is a subjective topic but I think living standards are a better way of measuring it than just abstract feelings. According to this survey, there's not much difference between Japan and Venezuela in terms of 'hapiness'. And people in Venezuela may genuinely feel that way but anyone who looks at the starvation and poverty in Venezuela would know there's no way these people are living just as happy lives as those in a developed country like Japan.
i said hdi doesnt directly correspond to happiness and gave a counter example to it not that hdi is completely unrelated to happiness
Yeah yeah I know. And I'm not saying living standards are a perfect indicator of happiness, I just think they're a better indicator.
Has Rahul Gandhi been taking advice from Donald Trump?
Civilization is old enough there that they are constantly finding new sites. It doesn't mean there's not some knowledge of history lost by destroying a site, but just because you destroy all of the known ones doesn't mean there's not more to find.
True. Plus there's different civilizations buried on top of each other. For example, if you dig at an archeological site in Alexandria, you'll find the Arab layer and below that the Roman layer, below it the Ptolemic layer and below it the Hellenic layer.
Very true moreover it isn't based on a "book" or a general set of rules. There are endless path here.
Well it kinda is but much of the Vedas is lost and many Hindus believe you can recover the lost wisdom of the Vedas by observing the conduct of righteous people around you, regardless of social or economic status, they could even be a farm labourer, a street hawker or a construction worker but if their conduct is righteous (dharmic), everyone is supposed to learn from them. For they hold the lost wisdom of the Vedas and from them it can be recovered. At least that's what the Apasthamba Dharmasutra says.
How much of it do you think is lost?
I haven't personally estimated it but I've spoken to some Hindus who were well versed in scripture and they told me more than half of it is lost, something like 60-70%.
Hey, I'm not able to post my answer here for some reason.
You can just say y/n/neither y nor n, no worries
I would say it was one of the causes but it was part of a larger list of religious causes. In the decades before 1857, the British had given a lot of free reign to missionaries, they had demolished temples and mosques supposedly for building roads, they had converted some temples and mosques into churches, they had given some of them to priests and nuns to live in, they had also tried to ban certain cultural practices both Hindus and Muslims engaged in like hooka and nautch because they were seen as "unChristian", and so on. All of this created a fear amongst Hindus and Muslims that the British were trying to mass convert them to Christianity.
I'd say this question applies more to Pakistan rather than India because in Pakistan, more than 50% of their population is Punjabi and so of course Punjabis there are over represented in virtually every field. But in India, Punjabis make up less than 3% of the population. Yes they have a big presence in Bollywood, certain sports and the army due to historical reasons, but otherwise I wouldn't say they exactly dominate Indian social life. Science and research in India for example is mainly dominated by Tamils and Malayalis, business is dominated by Gujaratis and Marwadis, civil service is dominated by Biharis and UPites, and so on.
I know that Gujaratis are good at business. I heard that Sindhi people are also good at business. Is this true?
Yes. I'm from Mumbai which has been a hotspot of Sindhi and Gujarati businessmen for a long time. Both groups are associated with entrepreneurship; most of my Sindhi and Gujarati friends in school were children of shopkeepers and merchants, and so business skills were inculcated in them at an early age.