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by naruvimama 5y ago
Let us remember that the "farmers" protests in India went on for more than a year without any emergency being declared.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Your examples are very suspect a lot of Hindu on Hindu atrocities and Hindu on Buddhist atrocities is entirely manufactured. Especially suspect given that they were fighting a Nawab. And that doesn't say much given the long history.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
> A problem sidestepped across anqituity, including in India, by killing and/or enslaving the conquered population. Except that what you want most is the knowledge and skills of the population. It was attempted multiple times, espec
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by naruvimama 5y ago
> India was a number of different states and empires in near constant war with each other before modern times. At different times yes, but there have been Empires of significant size for several centuries. India is about the size of west
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by naruvimama 5y ago
> You seem to be trying desperately to make the Industrial Revolution be all about India. No, I am just saying if Europeans were desperately looking for a trade route to India specifically. Specifically for the purpose of importing manuf
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by naruvimama 5y ago
That is the the official year, the coincidence is too compelling. The French had a separate ministry for espionage. Columbus set out precisely to find a trade route to India and Vasco da Gama eventually managed by circumnavigating Africa wi
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by naruvimama 5y ago
> I think your math is a bit off... Yes you are right I went with rhetoric, but nevertheless Britain had significant parts of the world as a colony at one point or the other. The idea that Britain intentionally or unintentionally created
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Britain went from head to tail :) The US in spite of its tall claim of being a melting pot is essentially a white christian Anglo-Saxon country. It is a Britains own lebensraum, perhaps not including the old aristocrats.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
There are benefits to not antagonising the population of the conquered kingdoms. This is precisely what we follow in the modern world so should not be surprised. In practice it is not honour but just practical unless you want to constantly
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Linguistic nationalism is a limitation for Europeans. India does not have to impose uniformity on its population in the form of language or culture precisely because it is a civilisation.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Britain at its peak had colonised about 80% of the world, do not see any other big country accidentally created by Britain. Britain has been known for divide and rule, especially for a region like India that has had a long history of massiv
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Nations are what they are. India is among the least policed state, so it is not the power of the state that is holding it together. A lot of people have been predicting the "balkanisation" of India and many are actively working to
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Similarly the Europeans showed up around the same time when the Islamic rule was in decline and the Maratha Empire & Sikh Empire had pretty much ended the Mughals. For quite sometime the East India company was working as a mercenary mak
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by naruvimama 5y ago
The Indian epics like Ramayana & Mahabharatha, talk about India as a whole, it is well known not only across current day India but is shared cultural heritage of several countries in the wider region like Indonesia or Thailand. Just as
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by naruvimama 5y ago
"Industrial revolution" started 4 years after the British setup trading ports in India, it took a really long time for the British to compete with Indian goods in spite of all the mercantilism. Revolution like Renaissance is often
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by naruvimama 5y ago
If you ran a simulation, expanding your kingdom or taking control of key ports would be the right move. Destroying others using the same routes will only make you poorer, so I guess that is not what long lasting, successful kingdoms would h
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by naruvimama 5y ago
If you ran a simulation, the kingdoms in a region can constantly plunder each other or cooperate (trade). A region where only plundering dominated would be perpetually reset to square 1. The wealth of ancient India or China can be attribute
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by naruvimama 5y ago
>> Let's apply the same logic to India A neighbouring country like Nepal or Sri Lanka can if they desire in the future merge with Bharat without having to "intergrate" or change themselves in any way. That is because th
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by naruvimama 5y ago
The proof is in the pudding, India is the size of western Europe. In contrast with the EU, it is extremely diverse in terms of language, culture, food and the contrast in wealth distribution is very stark. Inspite of this it is still one na
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by naruvimama 5y ago
>> if you retroactively apply some national idea of "india" that was foreign to people living That is a colonial view point, surely the Indians traded with the Romans or the Ancient Greeks, they were distinctly seen as India
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Not necessarily true, this is only in the case of societies or empires shaped around piracy, tribute and plunder as a primary economic system. Famously, the vikings & the mongols come to mind. But this is equally true for parties rallyi
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by naruvimama 5y ago
There is no one size fits all in software development. For 90% of the programmers in 90% of the environments which are at best average, will spend 90% of their time spent on debugging code that refuses to work as intended. As a lone program
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Unless you have made it into "management" or "entrepreneurship", what you state is true. I am going through the same phase, I am not up to date with the current trends not am I in management. However, I have come to real
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Europeans and westerners generally put themselves on high moral horses, whether it is free market, free press, state violence or freedom of religion. The reality is that if you look closely many have state religions, media tax, shady deals
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by naruvimama 5y ago
A lot of schemes coming from Modi & central budget is passed off as schemes from the state with picture of Stalin (DMK TN chief minister). So much so that DMK is called the sticker party, at least among the well informed.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
That is how it works both in democracies as well as dictatorships, where few people have the time or incentive to be well informed, they associate the good schemes with the person/party symbol attached to the scheme.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
None of this matter - Between Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Israel & Arizona. You got desserts, water scarcity, earthquakes, security risks - pick two.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
It was more likely sabotaged, this is incredibly common. The state is too soft on terrorists & anti-social elements. As a poor country we can not afford to deliver first world "Human rights" especially for hardened criminals.
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by naruvimama 5y ago
Indira is part of the dynasty. Her father Nehru the first Prime minister won 0 votes within the congress. Yet as fate would have he was propped up by M.K. Gandhi, the non-member dictator of the congress party. I as many other Indians suspec
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by naruvimama 5y ago
I guess it very much depends on the minority in question, FB like the government only responds to "mi orities" with street veto or global muscle power.

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