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In a way, yes. Hinduism slowly lost its warrior ethos post Buddhism and Jainism and their fetishization of non-violence. All our books (itihasas and shastras)

by sieve 1y ago

In a way, yes. Hinduism slowly lost its warrior ethos post Buddhism and Jainism and their fetishization of non-violence. All our books (itihasas and shastras) warn about enemies and how to deal with them. And people simply forgot all that. As far as the opponents go, the religion doesn't really matter. Kings spared Mihirakula[1] of the Huns (who was a Shaivite Hindu) just like they spared various Islamic/Turkic raiders. And the results were as expected: betrayal and murder. OT. I was watching Radhavallabh Tripathi's 3-episode series on Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitram where he covers the politics of that era. And this point comes up. You can find it on YT (in Hindi) if you are interested. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihirakula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihirakula

leosanchez 1y ago
Thank you. Good sir will watch. Do you recommend any books regarding our civilization, religion ? Ideally in English, I am not a native Hindi speaker.
- sieve 1y ago
  Plenty of reading material is available. * The History and Culture of the Indian People - is a 11 volume encyclopedia edited by R.C. Majumdar. Slightly dated because of when it was published, but it is a scholarly work that will give you plenty of references to other material if you want to dig deep. * Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda - Their collected works are available online and you can pick and choose what you want to read because their output was vast. * Books by K S Lal - historian who wrote a lot of books on the Islamic/medieval period * Books by Meenakshi Jain - historian * Books by śatāvadhānī R Ganesh - his Kṣāttra - The tradition of Valor in India is quite good * Books by Sandeep Balakrishna on the Delhi Sultanate period, Tipu Sultan etc * Books by Pavan K. Varma * The Ramakrishna Mission publishes many books on Hinduism. "The Essentials of Hinduism" by Swami Bhaskarananda is a concise introduction to the religion. There are hundreds of such books. Will add another comment if I can think of them. The best option is to read good translations (can be difficult to find ones without bias) of the upanishads, itihasas and puranas. Everything else is based on them.

by sieve 1y ago

leosanchez 1y ago

Thank you. Good sir will watch. Do you recommend any books regarding our civilization, religion ? Ideally in English, I am not a native Hindi speaker.

sieve 1y ago
Plenty of reading material is available. * The History and Culture of the Indian People - is a 11 volume encyclopedia edited by R.C. Majumdar. Slightly dated because of when it was published, but it is a scholarly work that will give you plenty of references to other material if you want to dig deep. * Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda - Their collected works are available online and you can pick and choose what you want to read because their output was vast. * Books by K S Lal - historian who wrote a lot of books on the Islamic/medieval period * Books by Meenakshi Jain - historian * Books by śatāvadhānī R Ganesh - his Kṣāttra - The tradition of Valor in India is quite good * Books by Sandeep Balakrishna on the Delhi Sultanate period, Tipu Sultan etc * Books by Pavan K. Varma * The Ramakrishna Mission publishes many books on Hinduism. "The Essentials of Hinduism" by Swami Bhaskarananda is a concise introduction to the religion. There are hundreds of such books. Will add another comment if I can think of them. The best option is to read good translations (can be difficult to find ones without bias) of the upanishads, itihasas and puranas. Everything else is based on them.