Understanding Indian Civilization Part 2
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Rudyard, you’ve gotta start citing your sources. Not only is it crucial for your credibility, but it’s also helpful for those of us who want to start studying these subject matters for ourselves. Thank you!
I t would probably take him twice as long to get videos out if he did.
Most of the written articles and books on India are either from former the English or the present day nobility. Even these authors refrain from mentioning sources.
Edir: on India
@@OkarinHououinKyouma Yes, most of the stuff written on historians about India were written by Marxists/imperialists with their agenda of hatred against India. A great example is Audrey Trushke.
@@kennethpryde966 Put the sources in the description. Boom!
@@kennethpryde966 with the kind of content he's putting out? It should. Or maybe he should hire someone to help.
If you study Hinduism and Buddhism in detail, you will notice things were never black and white. Things were blended, even when Buddhism was in its peak; there were lots of Hindu gods being worshiped by Buddhism. Study the great caves painting and sculpture in the Buddhism cave , there are paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses.
perfectly normal comment in ohio
He's doesn't knows much, he only knows "caste" which is a European origin word added in Hinduism by Britishers
Hmm. Interesting. But I didn't understand when he said 'buddhism introduced this and this to Hinduism...'
That's by definition not possible if they are counted as two separate philosophical and religious identities.
@@aryanyadav3690 Well caste in a way focuses more on jati (individual groups within a varna) than varna. Which is why the British usually recruited people from certain jati rather than varna, and this culminated into the idea of martial races which continues to modern India today.
@@aryanyadav3690 The word may be English. But the system is not. Your comment is just more
'ahh evil white people bad"
3:25 You confused Brahman and Brahma in Hinduism. Brahman isn't part of the trinity, but Brahma is. Brahman is the infinite reality behind the universe, while Brahma is the the third god of the trinity (called the trimurti in sanskrit).
Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver, and Shiva is the destroyer. In the end though, they are all part of the greater Brahman, and will be reincorporated into its fold when the kalpa (aeon) ends (when the Universe ends, and must then be reforged).
He is partially right tho. In my language (Tamil) we refer Brahma as Brahman.
@@gocool_2.0 yea but that's a different Brahman in Tamil, there's 2 Brahmans in Tamil
@@xijinpig8982 That's why I meant he's partially right as the "a" in brahma is a shorter "a" as pronounce in Swastika and "a" in brahma is a longer "a" as pronounced in cart.
Isn’t shiva a penis?
@@stevves4647 Isn't Christ a dildo
Didn't feel surprised when he missed the Maratha empire, our own history textbooks do that.
No records of political history before 1000 AD.
That statement .....
I am speechless. Literally. ROFL
Vedic/Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Greek canonical literature, Inscriptions, Dharmasutras, Smritis, Harshacharita, Baital Pachisi, Rajatarangini, Prithviraj Charita, Singhasan Battisi
Indika By Greek ambassador Megasthenes has Chandragupta's victory on Greek
Ptolemy’s Geography, we know of India’s ports and harbours.
Pliny’s work we know of trade relations between Rome and India
Chinese traveller Fa-Hien left valuable accounts on the time of the imperial Guptas
Hieuen Tsang, who is described as the ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ wrote details about the India of the age of Harsha
No more comments from my side. This statement is sufficient to see the conformational bias of the creator.
Want to debunk me, do with facts and quotations. I won't respond if you just call racist names.
Nonone cares and it was defeated. Lol
@@startrooper3502 rajput my foot
@@startrooper3502 Marathas were not SECoND power they were the first power and no they didn't fight against any Bharatiya power
@UC2rQBtg4c-hoATjlXvxf9cQ It's not that Marathas started the fight with Rajputs.
As is the won't of not understanding the importance of unity against the Abrahamic oppressors it was the Rajputs who opened hostilities with Marathas when Mirza Raja Jaisingh invaded Hindavi Swaraj of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
The much vilified Peshwas by Red Monkey ecosystems were handpicked by 4 generations of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and they too never attacked any Bharatiya rulers.
As for Mozlem rule it was not Bharatiya, it was a Jihadi rule involved with butchery of pagan religions.
Hence making one Abrahamic (Brits) fight another (Izlamic Jihadis) was a good strategy by Marathas.
1) Purda system developed in reaction to the Islamic invaders in the early 2 Millenium C.E., that is why South India does not have it, and it is more prevalent in western regions like Rajasthan and Haryana.
2) The Rajputs lived mainly in Rajasthan, which is right next to the Thar Desert, and someone who has who has lived there, it gets stupid hot there, not exactly my definition of temperate. The Sikhs would have been a better example.
3) Kinda dissappointed that you did not mention the Marathas, they were short lived but were different from the previous Hindu kingdoms in a lot of ways.
4) The government till the 90s were socialist and had imposed protectionist policies, but at the same time, the bureaucratic restrictions was soooooooo bad it got the name "License Raj". Infact, even today there are many bureaucratic hurdles in the economy and the civil systems. The Government, for example, recently announced some reforms regarding the transportation system. Reading about it, I was astonished by the sheer number of difficulties one faced in simply transferring goods across the country.
I am surprised you acknowledged the atrocities of the British at all; a lot of westerners seemingly ignore them while going on praising the British for their institutions.
The stuff you mentioned about the Indian mystics and science seems interesting; first time I heard of it.
A part 3 is in order honestly; the recent Indian history was kinda glossed over.
A part 3 would be the most controversial regarding recent Indian history and needs accureate information and attention to detail which would be quite a hard task to accomplish.
Lol Rajputs don't live mainly in Rajasthan. Most of Rajput kingdoms were outside Rajasthan (647-1500s) after Mughals only Rajputs of Rajasthan were in control of their kingdoms, also after Mahmud and Ghori Rajputs of Indus Plains(united Punjab, Haryana) and Ganga Plains(UP, Bihar) perished but are still present till date(having crores of population). In Jammu, Uttarakhand and Himachal you have about 30% Rajput population.
Can you list the atrocities?
@@TheMagicJIZZ Read Shashi Tharoor's book. It has a detailed chapter on it with dates and proof taken from British records.
@@HRC294 lmao that silly man
Could you please do one of these on the ancient Zoroastrian Persian worldview? As a Judeo-Christian I have a real hard time understanding both Iranic religion and history. Thank you Rudyard, you've been a real inspiration for me.
Edit: By not understand, I do not mean I don't know that it's a Dualist religion based off Ahura Mazda and Angrmanu, I mean that I can't quite get into the philosophic and metaphysical ideas that differentiate it from my own religion. And yes, you can infact, be ethnically Jewish, and religiously Christian. It's like saying you can't be American and Catholic. Judeo-Christian is an actual term used to describe some of the Abrahamic religions.
its like a hybrid between paganism and Abrahamic faith. Imagine if instead of Satan there was an evil God. They still exist in small numbers, called Parsis, mostly in Pakistan.
Iraq and Iran are my favorite middle eastern country's with rich history and troubling conflicts.
@@justinarzola4584 I find Syria from the early Phoenicians, Hittites & Assyrians to the first spread of Christianity, the clashes between gnostic & Orthodox issues, byzantine clashes with seljuks, the spread of Islam, the crusades and rebirth of Antioch,the division of Sunni and Shia there, the creation of the Druze, the rise of the allowite minority, WW1, the French influence, the process leading up to 6days war, the influx of Palestinian refugees, Syrian influence in Lebenese civil war, the rise of the Assad family & the father's iron grip, his son a children's eye surgeon in great Britain not wanting to take the position but being loved so much by all the minority groups (allowite, other Shia, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Druze, Jews, Kurds, Assyrians, Russians, Greeks, french etc.,) But despised by the uneducated majority sunnis & how the Saudis exploited that with wahabism, how after Bashar made Syria debt free, refused the IMF & stopped the Qatar pipeline which lead to a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which lead to a larger proxy war between Russia and u.s. that expanded now into Ukraine and how the Qatar pipeline and it's incompletion thru Syria lead to where we are at now as EXTREMELY interesting
What the heck is a Judeo-Christian? Christians and Jews don’t share the same world view
@@Smoothbluehero Christianity and Judaism are fundamentally built on the same religious framework. I am a Jewish person of Christian beliefs.
Just a few things to add here. Before British ruled India, there was a period when Hindu Maratha empire took over Mughal empire and basically controlled them. So it was not like local rulers didn't fight, they did and won as well.
Also, not only Hindu Indian rulers but also Muslim Indian rulers struggled to defend their territories against Muslim invaders from the west. I guess not only religion but geography also played a role here.
You are quite right on the geography part. Once you've conquered the Indus region of the Indian subcontinent, it becomes relatively easy to conquer most of northern india as you could simply pass through the Indo-Gangetic Plain without much boundaries (barring of course the empires you'd have to defeat).
But according to Whatifalthist it's all due to Hindu religion. You gotta take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Not to mention Buddha kept only upper castes around. It wasn't some anti casteist religion against Hinduism. The amount of time he continues to repeat Brahmin makes me wonder where he's reading from.
The manusmriti was a guidebook but never seriously followed as he would like to believe.
@@startrooper3502 तु क्या राइस बैग स्लेव है?
I would love to see a video on Persian civilization, it seems like they're always around even when they're nominally being ruled by another power.
They are. They always remained distinct, even after Islam, although they lost much of what was theirs. The modern Iranian Civilisation is an hybrid of what it was before Islam and Islamic Civilisation. It lost things like it very heavy focus on leading by example and truth, sadly.
@@nathanc939 kind of like Iraq which lost some it's mesopotamian culture when Islam came.
@UCeldD5tCnlCCuOjpLTfD1NQ Yes and no. Although they might not want to admit it, the modern Shia religious structure of Iran very much takes a lot from the Sassanian Priesthood. Plus, for anyone who studied it, it is quite clear that the Abbasid, even though they outlawed the use of the Iranian languages and went of harsh cultural and religious repressions, ended up being Persianised, as did much of the Middle East. It did not exactly last, to be honest, but some of the Persian elements still took over the whole Muslim world and are still present in it. It really is not clear cut.
That being said, there is the issue of the Arabs systematically destroying all the documents written in any Iranian languages, for about 2 centuries, unless it was from Khosrow's library, because they admired Khosrow. So yeah, material is quite limited.
@@justinarzola4584 Iraq had already lost much of it. Not all of it, but it had been Persianised over centuries of being under one Iranian rule or the other (ever since Cyrus. I include the Seleucids here, because they were themselves Persianised, to some extent.).
For civilisations like Mesopotamia and the Phoenicians, the Arabs were the last nail in the coffin. They were already on their way out and greatly diminished, to the point of near extinction in some cases.
Still for Mesopotamia, the Assyrians lives on, but they live under a completely different civilization to what they had or what the Arabs brought (well many live under Muslim countries, but they have their own smaller civilization, culture and values, as well as a fuck ton of diasporas).
@@justinarzola4584 Iran retained more of its pre-Islamic culture than Iraq (or any other Muslim ruled country save for Spain).
Here before the Indian nationalists arrive
The wild thing is how they over react even when no one is bad mouthing India.
6 minutes late they are here now
Too bad we're here already
a lot ant-indian people have written books in USA .
They’re here already
As someone living in India, I feel India needs more industry sectors rather than the service sector they are going for. Here's my two cents of knowledge.
It will cause rukus in agriculture sector.
>AndyC
we tried that in the 2nd 5 year plan tbh, it did work kinda but due to red tapism it's effects weren't fully realized, but I think the main focus should be modernization of the agricultural sector, it's been struggling for far too long and has a huge amount if our productive population in it
@@xpertd1962 cut the red tape
Tu ruk bhai Modi ji superpower baanayenge India. Tu bas dekh
Pliny the Elder referred to India as "the sink of the world's gold" in 77 CE. Patrician Romans adored magnificent Indian goods like our handicrafts, spices, jewellery, and woven fabric. Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar and natural philosopher, wrote about the Roman obsession with Indian luxury goods.
Laters Europeans came to India in search of this GOLD in the name of spice, but yes spice was important too as Ottomans blocked European trade to India
But one guy Christpher lost his way and ended up in America.....
When Turks were stopped at Viena battle by polish general part of war tribute was pepper. And one of polish scouts/spy and translator of Turkish was rewarded with coffee from loot and created the first coffee serving restaurant in western Europe.
Probably there were other experts in Europe with the skill since coffee is popular in Balcans that were long occupied by Turks.
But you probably ment a different spice. Sorry
Chinese on other hand imported lots of Slavic amber. It replaced jade as royal clan and monarchy symbol at some point if history. Romans also hoarded it. Amber trade route is one of oldest in Europe along the rout of Swedish iron ore trade route that operated for thousand years at least before Lion of North banned it imposing embargo.
@@deepanshu00730The Americas are a back water, completely detached from the world economic system and inhabited by pre-bronze age peoples. I doubt they will ever amount to much.
- Some European in 1500 probably
@@Kaiserboo1871 man was he wrong 😂😂
that's definitely not what they said. Read the Spanish monks who came with columbus writings. Those lying ass europeans damn well knew@@Kaiserboo1871
Great video. The only thing I would add is the Indian government after independence didn't really follow Ghandhi's economic vision. They attempted to construct a command economy with some socialist elements but ended up with a mixed economy. I recommend reading "Locked in place: State building and the failure of industrial policy in India" By Vivek Chibber for a detailed overview of this subject.
Gandhi an model would be a even bigger failure
Ghandi was many things, but an economist wasn't one of them. The countries that came out of the British unoccupation struggled with even greater poverty for years.
Quoting Chibber is akin to saying Chomsky has the deepest insight in American politics. Can Chomsky or Chibber have valuable insights? Yes. Are they kooky on the motivations governing the deep state and larger society? Yes. Are they constrained by the implications of their philosophy? A big yes.
The problem is only one view has prevailed in India post IG and the rest of the world thinks the minor differences and acquired socio-political positions in the western accounts for diversity. For example Amartya Sen's acknowledgement of the limits and problems of affirmative action/reservation makes him closer to a capitalist conservative like Thomas Sowell than his adversary Rawls. Ask anyone who Sen is, what he votes for and who he dines with in India.
What's Gandhi's economic vision?
@@the11382 basically Pol plots vision. Deurbanization , deindustrialization , religious conservatism , anarchy
India is one of the most complex and interesting nations in the world, glad you made this video.
It is not "the most"
@@ailediablo79 Which is why they said "one of".
@@MrPeaceGuy54 he did use word most.
Hinduism is simply madness and the same goes to any statue worshiping multiple Gods whom non are the creator and are simply humanoids with superpowers and control like angles to some capacity.
Just because it i works or it is done properly doesn't make it the best.
There is tone of disadvantages and tone of arrogance and ignorance and craziness.
If it is not true/just to all regardless of time or place with sold argument and master people then it is rubbish.
Hinduism is evil. The east example is the cast system and some if their devilish devil warshiping rituals.
I am not saying there is nothing to lesrn but it is all surface level. China is much better as well Abraham.
You completely knows nothing about Islam and women bro - "...even worse than Islam" this is a pathetic statement. I made comments on this before. You are completely wrong in understanding.
First Caliphate had many reasons to fight Persia and Byzantium. Also, they didn't kill or heart civilians. They followed their religion properly and didn't do shenanigans (unlike some criminals and some tyrants and some Turk kings especially Deile and Mughal (especially at beginning)). They didn't force people. They only spread their government influence and control primarily. Vast majority of the Muslim world wasn't Muslim up until 16th century. Up until 17th century 60-80% of Levant and Egypt was Christians not muslims. Regarding logic and reality of back then and situation conditions first Caliphate and Islam must go to war. First Caliphate attack Persia first because of many secondary direct resones but biggest they hleped the rebels forces in the civil war.
If you know history the so called Muslim turks and Mongolias are not so Muslim and killed many muslims themselves without even given a reason such as they disbelieved at all but simply our leader said so. They are the exception.
@@ailediablo79 One of the most: A claim about something having certain characteristics to a certain degree without necessarily having them to the greatest degree possible.
The most: Having certain characteristics to the greatest degree possible.
Example:
James is one the most intelligent students in the class.
This means that James is among the top students of the class. It doesn't mean, however, that he is the "best".
James is the most intelligent student in the class.
This means that James is most intellectually gifted student in the class. There is nobody who is above him.
7:50 One could easily noticed how you have mistakenly or non mistakenly mixed the "effects of invasion" on Indian traditions and labelled them as original tenets of Indian traditions!
He doesn't really have in-depth knowledge about what he's talking about. Can't expect that from a youtube historian who studied a few books.
@@lazzybug007 as opposed to you, who seem to have read none
This video was quite terrible, specially ignoring the impact the muslim invasions with 80 million deaths had on indian society - he also doesn't know much about the norms of war that had been established over the years in India - and how islam's complete dehumanization created a sort of total war that Indian society was not used to.
@@lazzybug007 If only he had mentioned exactly this at the beginning of his first video about Understanding Indian civilization.
By the way, South Korea is also in a state of population decline so their economy probably won't be able to pick up the slack. The others aren't really that far off either. The only one with the potential (at least for now) is India.
This happened to Japan when they were the big fast running economy about thirty years ago, and it didn’t come back from its recession. So China may be going through the same slowdown. Other economies will take up the slack, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, South Korea,
It will be fascinating to see specifically how China kicks the can down the road. I've never been more acutely aware than I am now that I'm living through turbulent and historic times.
You'll make a lot of money in the long term if you stay invested and ignore the market's ups and downs; but, a major market correction triggers a lot of margin calls and sell-offs, sending the market further lower. In a bull market, people become greedy, and it's nearly impossible to resist the urge to buy additional stocks with borrowed money or money they don't have.>
@Schuyler Philips glad to reading good reviews about Cintra. read about her in the magazine recently. I googled her and sent her a mail from there..,
south east asia is good contender too
I lived and studied undergrad in Bangalore for 6 months. It took 4 months to figure out the harmony in chaos.
Comeback. Life is all about the melancholy, a living civilisation like India offers. ❤
I'm not an Indian nationalist but there are so many mistakes in this video. Still good effort for trying to understand such a vastly different culture.
He is a white supremacist. If he isn't he would know that when British left India, India had 81% population under poverty rate and 11% literacy rate. Before colonialism India has 25% share of the global GDP.
@@dynamitebsb4520 GDP equals population doesn’t equate to wealth and success. Singapore has a smaller GDP to that of India yet is still dramatically richer and more prosperous than India.
@@covfefe1787 india has a much larger gdp then singapore bro u donkey
@@covfefe1787he ment that in a pre-industrial age, which is actually true
Show bobs
Thank you for brushing on the most complex, unique and under taught confusing part of the world.
Hinduism is simply madness and the same goes to any statue worshiping multiple Gods whom non are the creator and are simply humanoids with superpowers and control like angles to some capacity.
Just because it i works or it is done properly doesn't make it the best.
There is tone of disadvantages and tone of arrogance and ignorance and craziness.
If it is not true/just to all regardless of time or place with sold argument and master people then it is rubbish.
Hinduism is evil. The east example is the cast system and some if their devilish devil warshiping rituals.
I am not saying there is nothing to lesrn but it is all surface level. China is much better as well Abraham.
You completely knows nothing about Islam and women bro - "...even worse than Islam" this is a pathetic statement. I made comments on this before. You are completely wrong in understanding.
First Caliphate had many reasons to fight Persia and Byzantium. Also, they didn't kill or heart civilians. They followed their religion properly and didn't do shenanigans (unlike some criminals and some tyrants and some Turk kings especially Deile and Mughal (especially at beginning)). They didn't force people. They only spread their government influence and control primarily. Vast majority of the Muslim world wasn't Muslim up until 16th century. Up until 17th century 60-80% of Levant and Egypt was Christians not muslims. Regarding logic and reality of back then and situation conditions first Caliphate and Islam must go to war. First Caliphate attack Persia first because of many secondary direct resones but biggest they hleped the rebels forces in the civil war.
If you know history the so called Muslim turks and Mongolias are not so Muslim and killed many muslims themselves without even given a reason such as they disbelieved at all but simply our leader said so. They are the exception.
@@ailediablo79 not sure why you directed this to ME?
@@GS-by7ci just sharing.
Clocks are changing tonight at II;am,
Fourteen hours away from now, historisexuals!
I think it should be noted that the British 'de-industrialized' India. The British didn't introduce industry, they took away manufacturing and modernization and held it back. And sure India's borders are a result of the British, but only because the British abused the people within that zone that they created an identity in opposition to the British atrocities.
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Lmaoo. Industrialisation happened in India due to the Brits.
handlooms are not industries.
Britain had already started getting richer than India from 15 16th century.
India's per capita income had declined and stagnated under the Mughal rule. India's GDP finally increased after the Brits came here
@@yungman7053 You must like Klandace owens or kanye west
@@mr.knowitall5019 I like none of those stupid people. I just started faxx
@@yungman7053 Everything you typed is false. Britain was never even close to India much less richer. Even when it was colonised. If Britain and the subcontinent were to be seen as separate, the subcontinent generated more wealth than Britain with all it's other colonies. This changed only after early 20th century.Those handlooms were responsible for the most developed textile industry in the world at that time. Destruction of which in turn hurt the reduced empire's gains and made the richest province on earth ( Bengal) the poster child of poverty, hunger and desperation. The rise in GDP and thus GDP per capita along with share of world trade (22-25 percent at it's peak) happened way before the British arrived and peaked in the 16th century. It just displays absurd level of arrogance and stupidity when anyone comments how a tiny island somehow helped "improve" a region that has been for all of human history the center of the world. The opposite is true with famines, mass killings and killing entire industries. British managed to industrialise their island by erasing native populations of entire continents and looting their resources. Europe had no power before exploiting the Americas.
As an Telugu person from India. I really appreciate your effort dig deep with nuanced takes.
As that in Southern India in the deccan
I'm not sure
@@maddogbasil Yes from south east India.
What nuance did you find here
@@trisamudeshwar7184 how he was suggesting books with different tales on a situation.
@@DundeMan exactly did you see the books , half of them were not on India and the other half was written by westerner with very little understanding of India . Do you read American history written by an Indian then why the hell would you read history on India written by an American
As a Indian I admire your effort , watched your pervious video , which was mostly correct and also you touch a topic which is very controversial because of bullshit politics. But anyway nice analysis.
There were a lot of inaccuracies tho. The purdah system was implemented in north India in reaction to Hijab/Burqa of Islam.
Also, Sati practice wasn't different from other self-immolation practices. Self-immolation is considered as the highest form of protest to political authority. Ever saw that video in which a Tibetan monk self-immolated in protest of China's persecution of Tibet?
@@OkarinHououinKyouma Look almost all of major civilization are Patriarchal in root. So mate guarding behavior, like parda, restrictions on woman, is common practice among almost every major culture. As you can observe in your real life that humans are tournament mating species. Where ♂️ is bigger and stronger than ♀️. It is a topic of evolution biology so I will not go in details .
@@OkarinHououinKyouma please the widows were burnt because the families didn't want to give her anything.
@@jorawarsingh2595 I don't know where you got that info. Sati was only popular among the Kshatriya (warrior) caste and the reason being if warriors died in battle, the Islamic Kings who won would turn the widows into female sex slaves. That is why there is a sharp spike in Sati during Islamic Invasions of India, than before. This is also why religious conservatism and extreme things like Sati developed in North India, but not much in the South.
@@jorawarsingh2595 any such accounts? I do not believe the fabricated stories built by the Christian nobility in England.
They even said that the Indians crush new borns under huge chariots WTF💀 ??? This belief is still prominent amongst Christian upper class in former British colonies.
This is a really good channel as far as content goes. We should send this guy some funds so he can polish stuff up, with some of that this will be an elite channel someday soon
but that "made with a twenty dollar bill, a week, and a whole lot of interest in the subject" feel gives it its charm to me.
Appreciate the work and the time invested.
However, you totally forgot to mention the efforts taken by local indian kingdoms like the Marathas, Sikh Empire and the Rajputs etc. The Mughals actually didn't have any influence in the south, or even in the present states like Maharashtra, bc of the continuous efforts taken by the Marathas. The same goes with the Rajputs where they basically paid taxes just to keep their empire.
I just think this glorifies the Islamic prowess which was surely efficient in conquering the indian subcontinent. However were shattered by the indian Kshatriyas whenever they had enough power through their kingdoms.
The British and the french also fought against each other using such Hindu kingdoms like the Marathas (French sided the Marathas meanwhile the British had enough money to raise their own army).
Surely, your incompetent description of Maratha empire doesn't paint the whole picture of the indian subcontinent nor the civilization.
Maybe delve a bit deeper?
Part 2? Let's go!
Great video as always. A small note, I think merchants were extremely influential in some parts of the country. I recently got into reading about South Indian / Tamil trade guilds and the influence they wielded over state in South India. While north India never had something like this (afaik) I think that's more to do with geography: No access to coastline and fertile rivers keeping the society agrarian.
I would go as far to argue that Tamil trade guilds were on the verge of developing pseudo capitalism (with join stock corporation looking entities) wielding enormous influence over states. Though I think the invasions of the Delhi Sultans in South India and losing SEA trade links to expanding Muslim traders (who were well connected with a very prosperous Middle East) led to the decline of these trade guilds.
I appreciate your video, however, you completely forgot to mention “Sikhism” and how it became one of the most influential religions in modern day Pakistan, Punjab and Kashmir. You didn’t even mention the bravery of the sikhs and the marathas in fighting off the mughals and afghans.
I would say you must make a distinction between the pacifist side of indian culture with the warrior aspect.
If you look at most countries who were conquered by the Mughals, the entire population was converted within a few decades.
However, in India, the same did not
Happen.
You used imagery of sikh gurus, but did not even once mention the influence sikhism had in fighting off afghans and mughals. You even forgot to mention the Ahoms in Assam and how they faught the mughals for centuries.
I usually love your videos, and I appreciate you making one about India, but, I feel you haven’t done much research on this topic.
I assumed I'd be waiting about a month for this. Damn dude, Impressive hustle.
Could you add details of Chola dynasty in the South. It's significant in that they spread along the East Coast of India and to South East Asia as well. They were famed for their naval power.
came in seconds after you uploaded, i was waiting for this video and i'm certain i will enjoy it keep up the good work.
I also came all over myself seconds after he uploaded...
Hey Whatifalthist, I know that you might not read this, but on the off chance that you do, I would very much appreciate it if you could use your knowledge to make a video about Central Asian/Mongol/Turkic civilizations, I think they're one of the most forgotten and less studied about civilizations even though they have (in my opinion) among the most fascinating and interesting cultures and societal structures on earth, would love to learn more about them and would love to see them get more recognition
This two part is your best work yet, thank you.
I start by commending you for getting into so much depth with a culture of a country so different and you never visited. You actually told more than most Indians know.
While people would call me nationalist or other creative names, I would indeed like to correct you on a few things:
1. Women were in-fact like the southern India in the rest of the part as well. It is just that Middle Eastern rulers never managed to maintain a long period of control over southern India, so our values, temples and culture persisted.
2. Middle Eastern rulers started conquering the northern Part of India in the 11th century, after which is when the “Pardah” for women started. Pardah itself is not a word from Indian languages, and is actually a Farsi word.
3. The original Indian or Hindu values before the 11th century do have in fact immense value for women and and a lot of jobs and businesses were actually handled by women. The burning with the dead husband trend started with, again, the Middle Eastern invasions where towns upon towns were conquered and wives of the dead soldiers were almost always raped. This started out of spite, that she would rather die than let her body used by the invader who killed her husband. This is among a lot of other things which started with the intention of protecting the women from predators.
It is not all good about the Indians though, because India briefly recovered from the Middle Eastern invaders under the Maratha empire in 17/18th century, and later was ruled by the English, but people were set in their ways mindlessly and continued these practices for quite some years even after the Middle Easter rulers were no longer in control.
He is quite ignorant many parts and blames everything on the caste system.
@@aashutoshbhatt6535 brahamns are evil..they destroyed liberal hinduism
@@aashutoshbhatt6535 Actually Indians don't tend to realise that caste played a major role in the India we see now
@@majimakiriyu4872 Yup. Caste does play a major role in Indian life but not everything of Indian civilization can be attributed to caste.
@@aashutoshbhatt6535 Of course not everything but caste did have a very significant impact affecting almost every facet of Indian society even now right from economy, Bureaucracy and even to military but many so called nationalist Indians tend to outright reject instead trying to understand it
I'm surprised you don't mention the Indian cultural influence in South East Asia, with the Chola Empire even controlling parts of the area as vassals.
He did mention the cultural influence on south east asia, which video were you watching?
@@joel12388 wrong you have got it all wrong Odisha and Indian state had already made it's contact with south east Asia before the cholas and they had already been converted into hindusim
@@joel12388 before BCE or before the born of budhha tamil traders spreaded hinduism and built many temples...
Then only pallavas and cholas came..
Pallavas also hindus.. They spread Buddhism with hinduism..
Example angorwat was built as a hindu temple and then it was converted to Buddhism
@@deku006 can you share some articles about that? Please
@@masterpiece9240 magazines.odisha.gov.in/Journal/journalvol3/pdf/90-93.pdf
very very cool video. Most people (including me) who sees India's potential but have no clue where to begin understanding it, this will be a great place to start. very apparent a lot of research was done.
To see what india is you will have to first get out of eurocentric belief system along with Christain thought process , then you can't understand it very clearly , it's a different system totally different than what west is prone to
It's actually not. The information he shares is flawed.
wow I have watched whole video made in parts without a break. You have researched very deeply my friend.
Hats off to you
I really enjoy your content. I think what I and a lot of others would enjoy is a video on the books you read with regard to various topics you commonly discuss like social justice, cycles of history, the west's cultural decline, etc. Also, what ways you use to gather/retain information, like taking notes, rereading pages, or maybe just reading books over and over. Keep up the good work!
A vid/series on the rise and fall of the USSR from you would be awesome.
12:29 I believe there's a misunderstanding here. The discouragement of foreign investment and companies etc was out of fear that foreign companies which were already strong and superior in practice and resources to local ones would dominate the landscape, making it difficult for local industry to grow. We read about this at school. By the 1990s, (especially after seeing china's success) the government decided that we were at a stage where competition would do more help than harm, and thus trade was liberalized.
Edit : great video though :)
So many great accuracies though ! I'd like to compliment one particular line, when you talked about how India's a society with a split worldview with a science loving elite but a hindu conservative majority. I don't know where you got that from, but it's spot on!!!
I think he did know this reason, but he was like trying to make sense of the "deeper" mentality too
But ye this point should have been voiced alongside
@@MP-cv6if I understand, but then the thing is, even living in India I haven't encountered or heard this supposed mentality behind this decision, on the contrary its common knowledge that the barriers were made for economic reasons, thus I think it's more of a misunderstanding at play... the mentality he mentioned does or rather did exist at some levels but the barriers aren't relevant to it.
@@nickzgreat7585 i agree
but i found this approach to be something I wouldn't;t have come up with myself so
appreciate the addition
nevertheless, the economic reason makes much more sense from a logical standpoint
That's how you don't end neocolonised as Eastern Europe by West after fall of communism.
Just stellar content as always man. You make it fun to learn again. Always look forward too the uploads.
This channel is comedy, don't take it seriously
@@xp8969 Definitely, they're interesting to watch, but you should still take them with a grain of salt. Tons in inaccuracies and attempts to put all of history into a series of reductivist systems and cycles.
@@charlesstuart3703 true, this channel was good years ago when he was honest about how his vids were fiction but ever since he started pretending to make non-fiction vids this channel has turned into a joke
@@xp8969 unproductive toad.. where's your video/s? Right now.. I take anything you type as comedy. Jealous hater type who has nothing to do but try and criticize ppl who are better than him. Why don't you and the fruity poof bellow your comments fellate each other. I'm sure it would be more profound than your opinions
@@xp8969 What specifically were your objections to this video ?
I think you should read some stuff of Indian historians. The books you have read are all written by outsiders. When we see things from all aspects it will be easier to justify the philosophy
Theres actually an extremely interesting correlation between the spread of islam on the western coast of india to merchant and other classes, which allowed those groups to become more outward focused rather than inward focused and trapped in feudal india. These are the classes that became involved in Indian Ocean trading networks spreading as far south as Mozambique, and the evidence for indian involvement, that largely tertiary to that of arabs, has been present in east africa since the monsoons were discovered, with states like the Swahili and the Mutape state in Zimbabwe trading gold, slaves and ivory at extremely reduced prices compared to the global market simply because those items did not have much value when compared with important indian imports like textiles, especially dyed cotton, and beads. Hindu indians became more involved with this trade under the british, and formed a monopoly around middlemen roles of commerce in east africa, with members of the colonial office supporting the idea which ultimately never come to pass, of granting indians tanzania after the first world war as their own, subimperial colony. The phrase "The America for the Hindoo's" yes mispelled like that, was used.
This seem interesting how Islam can help or destroy economy. Islamic pirates & sea trade blockade & slavehunts made middle ages really bad for Europe.
I apply a 3:1 ratio to you videos, i.e. a 20 minute video takes me 1 hour to get through, due to your richness of content and thought... i have to continually rewind and pause to make sure I catch everything. I always learn something I never knew before. keep it up! great work
So I'm not the only one eh
@@akale2620 nope. I'm actually watching at 0.75x since he speaks too fast sometimes and gives a lot of information. Even then, i still find myself having to rewind.
Great video again man, I stay binge watching them! We need an in depth one on Africa brother.
17:55 There was this time in the 1020s when the Chola empire invaded the Srivijya which was in modern Malaysia. That would be a logistical nightmare and hard to pull off today nvm back in the 11th century.
In fact I would suggest you look into the Cholas more as in many ways they were Merchant dominated and outward naval facing and had tributaries in land as far away as borneo and a diplomatic network extending to Vietnam with Chola architects possibly being involved in the creation of Angkor wat
Chola invasion of SEA
Zorawar Singhs invasion of Tibet
Lalitadityas invasion of Central Asia are some of the examples of Indian forces going to war outside the subcontinent
@@captainfury497 zorowar Singh invaded Tibet?
@@dynamitebsb4520
yes
During the Dogra-Tibetan war, he raided deep into Tibetan territories
When he said, "Merchants have never been able to rise to predominance in India", I started laughing so hard. It seems like he did no real research and just wanted to rush through to get the video out. He's just generalizing the whole ass country (half the size of europe) with minimal research 💀
@@dynamitebsb4520
Never heard of Ladakh? It used to be Tibetan territory before. It was conquered by Dogras. China has come to occupy a part of it recently, based on the claim that it is part of Tibet and therfore China
I find it hilarious when atheists (or at least nonbelievers) look at or analyze a culture where faith is put first. They miss 99% of the important information because it seems silly or dumb to them. Which is weird to me because thinking you don't believe in something external in effect means the internal has it all figured out... not arrogant in the slightest and means all faith is put in the self.
I am an Indian and admire atheists that they are critical of religion.
I mean one of the reasons West entered into renessance era was due to the fact that Catholic Church was weakend.
People questioned silly religious practices which have no logic and advanced the thinking of reasoning instead of blind belief.
Honest question. Why are Indian people coming over here to America?
@@krishnkant9477 they questioned the authority of the church pastor to interpret the word of god not the existence of God and atheism is aldredy an important school of thought in hinduism and the extreme Jain Buddhist schools are essentially atheist by nature
An atheist can be a Hindu ,its not rigid and non believers are accepted by hindus as hindus . You see its also customs and values that also make up hinduism.
@@rationalsamrat3247 thats what I mean. Atheists or western nonbelievers can't comprehend that hindus believe that. And as a Christian, it's also ridiculously insulting to be told that hindus consider Christianity as being hindu as well, personally.
Great video. I'd advise you to be careful though. You've mentioned the burnout you've faced before in other videos and with the rate your popping out videos (of shockingly good quality, might I add) I can't imagine that not having any consequence on your mental health. Whatever the case, the quantity of the videos you've been making are very noticeable along with the (high) quality. So keep it up (if you can) and have a good night.
So cool man, thanks!
Again, I really enjoy this channel. I consider myself well read and knowledgeable about a lot of topics and I always seem to learn something or gain a different perspective here. In another life I think we could have had a good few beers over some interesting conversations.
An interesting thing is that in parts of India which were ruled by Muslims but had Hindu majority British were seen by the locals as liberators(sounds ironic right) as the Muslims Sultans were oppressing the Hindu population putting extra tax on them and destroying the century old temples.
Yes the muslim sultans did not do much to gain the favour fo the local populations, and thus lost control as people rebelled against them. You can see this in the fall of the Mughal Empire.
most of modern day India was ruled by the Hindu marathas before the British, not Muslims. Hindus were already dominating many parts before the british. even much of modern day Pakistan was ruled by Sikhs despite having a Muslim majority, before the british defeated the Sikhs. infact thats one of the reason the Afghan durranis invaded, the Muslims were being prosecuted by the Marathas and Sikhs. you should read about the afghan/sikh and afghan/maratha wars.
Muslims were Indians. But British were worst, they took our wealth out of the subcontinent
@@based4560 true for Bengal only.
Bro I'm an Indian and this the perhaps the best and most informational video on Indian history and culture.
I just can't comprehend the fact that a Westerner is so deeply educated about India because most are dumb and ignorant.
You not only got a good grasp about Indian culture but also the minds of Indians, their thinking and mentality.
He actually admitted he doesn't understand much.
Which in my case is the same, The most i know is Tamil history outside of that the subcontinent is a fog. Mostly do to the Indians not keeping much political records until after the Islamic times. With vague Kingdoms and Empires known like Mauryans. ( I hope I spelled that right)
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Right.👍
He is right on spiritual things. But on the religious side? Eh, not much. He's influenced by a colonial view of India.
@@OkarinHououinKyouma Even on the physical side he has done errors
I'm an Indian two, and although its obvious he did research, I think his way of thinking about India is reductivist. This is a trend for most of his videos, where he tries to sum up thousands of years of history and diverse cultures into grand and reductivist systems and cycles. His way of thinking of history and sociology as a whole is flawed in my opinion.
Was just talking to my mom about your last video, keep up the good work
Nice work again Rudyard! On a side note- There is a book called “The Clash of the Two Americas” by Matthew Ehret. The audiobook just called released. I think you will really like it! Would love to see you do a video on it as it is some Crazy Hidden history that I think your viewers would love to see as well!
It is a 3 part series so far.
Read breaking india
Really enjoyed the prior video my friend. Plz keep up this style of content
the dedication this guy puts intk his videos😭
And yet so many mistakes.
He is a white supremacist. If he isn't he would know that when British left India, India had 81% population under poverty rate and 11% literacy rate. Before colonialism India has 25% share of the global GDP.
Another great video rudyard
This is spot on
Great job
You said nobody should be surprised that so many of the best scientists in the world are Indian because of unique attributes of their culture. Maybe. But the more likely explanation is that it is the second most populous country in the world. When about 18% of the world is from there, you're going to have a really large fraction of the world's [everything].
@@Deepak_Dhakad Sure. But so does South Korea. But India's population is something like 25 or 30 times that of South Korea, which is important when making conclusions about what the number of scientists from India vs. SK you would expect to see.
3:15 Every single core and tenets of Buddhism are taken from former Vedic philosophies already present in the Indian sub-continent.
This guy doesn't even know that buddhism was born out of hindusim.
@Whatifalthist Sorry but your knowledge on Indian History is not up to the mark. If you're interested to know more you can see the book recommendations:
1. The History and Culture of the Indian People by Dr. RC Majumdar (11 Volumes)
2. History of Dharmaśāstra by PV Kane (6 Volumes) (Volume 2 deals with Caste System in Detail), (This book is used in many Indian Courts for interpretation of Customs in Hindu Law)
3. Arthshastra by Kautilya (translated in English by RP Kangle) (Arthshastra is a voluminous work dealing with statecraft, polity, law, beaurocracy, social structure, espionage, foreign policy, war, economy etc.)
Kaultaliya is basically Sun Tzu+Machiavelli+Adam Smith+Han Feizi
4. Corporate Life in Ancient India by RC Majumdar
5.Military History of India by Sir Jadunath Sarkar
6. Hindu Polity by Dr. KP Jayaswal
7.A History of Indian Literature (Set of 30 Volumes) (Indian Literature is 95% secular and only 5% religious)
8. History of Science in India (Set of 11 Volumes)
10. Position of Women in Hindu Civilization: From Prehistoric Time to the Present Day by AS Altekar
11. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians by Eliot & Dawson
12. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar by KA Nilkantha Shastri
13. Sati by Dr. Meenakshi Jain
Most of these are available in Archive.org for free. I can recommend 100 more books but these are a good starting point. This books were written after 30 years of research by these eminent scholars corroborated by archaeological, epigraghical, inscriptional, numismatic and textual evidence. Hope you read my comment.
The hypothesis about invasions into india and why they were successful seems a little off to me. when you see both successful and unsuccessful invasions you can see a broad pattern which is,
Whenever there was a centralized kingdom or empire in northern indian planes they cared for their peripheral defenses like controlling the khyber pass and were able to stop invasions
But if you see the times when invasions were successful it's often because North india was divided into small kingdoms who often fought themselves and didn't care about periphery. To cite few examples
1) Umayyad Arabs were the first muslims to invade the subcontinent in the 8th century but they were only able to capture Sindh which is on the Indus despite them being the superpower at that time. Their further attempts were repulsed by the Pratihars who controlled whole of North india
2) But by the time of mehmood ghaznavi's invasions North india was a mess of small rajput kingdoms who hated each other, and for a raider like Mehmood they were easy picking one at a time.
The situation was more or less the same when the Ghurids invaded North india.
3) The Huns weren't able to move deeper into india as long as the Gupta empire was in place. Huns were able to move deep into the plains after the Gupta empire declined.
4) kushans succeeded due to the chaos in the aftermath of the Mauryan and shunga empire.
5) Even the greeks succeeded during the chaos of magadh but bactrian Greek satrapi led by selucus nicator faced defeat in the hands of Chandragupta maurya's centralised state.
6) The thing I agree with you is that no indian power tried to protect themselves by going outside of the subcontinent and fixing the problem at its core. The only exceptions were the Marathas and the Sikhs.
Marathas were the only south indian power to go into the Mughal heartland of North india and crush them.
Sikhs understood the importance of controlling the khyber pass to stop the Afghans. And even went as far as kabul to defeat the afghans and put a puppet on the throne of Durrani's.
Fantastic work as normal.
Just a note, 18:43 depicts a Sikh warrior, not a Rajput/Ghurkha.
Sikhs defeated the Gurkha, the afgans , the Mughals and rajput
@@KAIMA.N Sikhs wer themselves rajput brother...don't fall to this what man's divisive tactics
@@dynamitebsb4520 small no. Of sikh not all but yes the first general was rajput the great banda Singh bahadur
No records of political history before 1000 AD.
That statement .....
I am speechless. Literally. ROFL
Vedic/Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Greek canonical literature, Inscriptions, Dharmasutras, Smritis, Harshacharita, Baital Pachisi, Rajatarangini, Prithviraj Charita, Singhasan Battisi
Indika By Greek ambassador Megasthenes has Chandragupta's victory on Greek
Ptolemy’s Geography, we know of India’s ports and harbours.
Pliny’s work we know of trade relations between Rome and India
Chinese traveller Fa-Hien left valuable accounts on the time of the imperial Guptas
Hieuen Tsang, who is described as the ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ wrote details about the India of the age of Harsha
No more comments from my side. This statement is sufficient to see the conformational bias of the creator.
Want to debunk me, do with facts and quotations. I won't respond if you just call racist names.
He just used random images taken from the internet over most of the stuff throughout the video.. that's enough to tell you how much depth he has on the history lol.
The idea of not believing in the material world wasn't made up by the priest. It was said by god himself. Although that doesn't mean you dont have to care about anything in the physical world. There were many things such as yoga, various excercises, fasting routines that were developed in india which helped you live a healthy and happy life. Since that is the entire point of living.
Muslims Turks and afghans: why wouldn’t you stand down and convert to Islam!?
India Hindus: faithful spirituality , son
My friend is Trinidadian Indian and she's Brahman. She came from a very intelligent background.
No she isn't.
Now those are two different things :
-she is brahman
-she came from intelligent bg
The two attributes in question are mutually independent.
@@GrigRP zihadi
@@wewerealiensandsheets75 paajeeti
20:06 "Islam offered a dynamic vision of the world not held back by the caste of the brahmans thus large parts of India converted to Islam"
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not really.
Islam from 1200 to 1700 barely made up of 10%.
Also, vast majority of buddhist converted to islam than hindu with places like gandhar, eastern bengal, kashmir turn from buddhist to islam
@@reddragon100 That's why I used a joker emoji.
This guy knows how to present well and he speaks with confidence but he does not do his research properly.
@@kanekiken2002 that's what the the average American shit eater does anyway. Talk with absolute confidence and speak nonsense
@@kanekiken2002 You know I come from a former Brahmin family.
Why the clown emoji it’s the truth look at Pakistan and Bangladesh and there are millions of Muslims in India
8:00 You might be confusing cause and effect here. It's actually prosperous societies that have the leisure and the resources to treat women as equals, not the other way around.
Overall I would say you did a great amount of research for an 1 hour video 2 part video. Great job!
Sati never happened in INDIA. Rani Lakshmi Bai was a widow. Maratha Samrajy had many widows in prominent posts.
Vijayanagar Empire, Chola, pandayas, Rastrakutas, Magadh, to name a few.
The world's most ancient text, The Veda, had female rishis contributing.
Closest to so-called sati were Johar in the northwest and North INDIA and Witch hunting in Europe.
Johar was common to women of the kingdom of Hindu kings if they lost to Islamic Invaders to save themselves from barbaric mass rape and slave trade. The ghunghat paratha became prominent to protect Indian women from barbaric Islamic invaders. If you study closely, Ghunghat praatha is most common in Northwest and north India, where the Islamic occupations were prominent and log lasting. East and South have no such thing. Most of the societies in the east and south are matriarchs.
You were saying pardah became a norm in northern india but you didn't tell why it happened. It was because of invasions. Women in hindu households are referred to as Lakshmi. They are the pride of households. During invasions, The invaders took away the women from houses and you know what would happen next. To prevent this women were asked to cover their faces which further transformed to them not leaving homes altogether as the invasions never stopped.
Invasions never really reached southern india which is why the whole "pardah" system never transferred to them
That was a damn interesting video
Damn shit video
these videos are Goat level . thanks so much
I would love to see part 3 andy Your take about future of India. I heard many opinions about that, from very pessimistic (mostly because of climate change) to moderate (Peter Zeihan saying India at the end of the 21st century will be in the same place) to very optimistic.
Predicting the future for India is impossible. Modern India has proven and continues to prove both the pessimists and optimists wrong.
@@mobashshirkareem976 Really interesting point! I would love to hear some analysys about that too (for example: why India is so hard to define, and which way India is heading? What is the India plan for 21th century? )
@@vortigern23 Exactly why a westerner cannot predict India ever.
We Indians will do that. And know what to do. We have started the process. Only a matter of time we get what we want. 🙂 Westerners need not worry about it.
Climate change is a myth bro. Don't worry. CO2 doesn't affect climate at all. It's difference of pressure in troposphere that affects climate from space cyclically and affects every planet with atmosphere in solar system all the same
check out 1000Prolly channel
not all what ppl tell you is true is true
Also even if there was warming comming which isn't won't affect already hot equatorial zone but would spread to North when is colder you can't make equator hotter air flows heat where is colder naturally
Also there are no more cataclysms than historically there are less but these severe often than normal and you get 100% TV coverage of cataclysms now while in past ppl had no idea about disasters worldwide.
Many Indians say the country is like a river. It flows, has no sense of time. It is eternal. India will grow more prosperous and confident into a regional hegemon if it isn’t already but wont become a superpower because its internal complexity prevents higher and more global ambition from the leadership.
Could you do a video on the Etruscan and Greek city-states? Maybe on Pre-Roman Italy? Thanks.
"They poo in the streets" gets a great response. 😁
I'm Indian and sadly we do, luckily I was born in USA. I'm surprised he didn't touch on that actually, pollution and lack of respect for the environment is among the greatest problems India has.
@@boygenius538_8 you're born in the USA and you know more about pooing in the streets than Indians that live here, that's rich. Maybe you should step out in the streets of San Francisco and tell them to poo in the loo
@@krishnkant9477 god's sake..... you really felt like putting out a fact based response to these 4channers?
@@user-zh3ke3eu3r I think you are right. I should delete it.
Thanks for suggestion by the way.
"Shart in the mart" apparently shuts you guys up pretty fast 😂
17:49 you say that India never invaded outside of its borders, but in your previous video you made reference to Indian Imperialism of the past. Could you elaborate on this?
All I would add is most of the most effective seypoy were those from more war like cultures that you mentioned a bit..the gurkha rajputs and the punjabis. Most of these actually used alot of their own military weapons and tactics..as can be seen in the use of various weapons such as khukri chakrams and using native swords
Excuse my ignorance though i was the impression gurkhas were Nepalese
@@vacio9752 They are. They actually come from the same region where Buddha was born, also Nepal.
@@vacio9752 no, they are majority northern bengal and sikkim also
@@GrigRP no, buddha birth place is 1 km from bihar-nepal border where majority are Maithili
@@reddragon100 It doesn't matter if it's 1km or 1m. He was born in Nepal. Buddha was Nepalese.
Could you do a video on west African Civiilzations? Specifically Nigeria
Wow.... Amazing how you put this all in two videos. And is easy for western audiences to understand
This was put together better than i could have expected. Thank you for teaching me accurately on indian civilization coming from an indian. I prefer objective abalysis over subjective bias which is still riddled in our history books taught in school and is exhausting and pointless to learn for the most part as it glorifies certain historical leaders and notes their every trivial movement and is more about cultural preservation with an extreme subjective bias and not rooted in objective thruth. One thing i would like to say about the indian people thats almost never discussed is this almost schizophrenic attitude almost all cultures have between logic/science vs religion. You will consistently find some of the greatest minds in the field of mathematics, science and tech meanwhile in these same individuals personal lives they beleive in the most extreme superstitions like the evil eye etc which invariably contradict each other but an indian can easily juggle both extremes almost having a split personality one behind closed doors and one outside in the world. Theres 0 attempt at harmonising and balancing the extemes. Its thankfully becoming less extreme and more secular with the rise of the internet. Also another interesting point that indians have had up until recently is procreating in large numbers assuming that extra hands will be of help to the family run occupation, or that children are a blessing from god so mass producing kids has been priority even going to far as to have 10 to 12 kids in a 1 room 200 sq foot home in metro cities. And again religion is largely resoinsible to promote this idea where theres less focus on the quality of life and remains largely a herd mentality survival mindset due to lack of sufficient resources in these average households and parent worship likening parents authority to God almost always instilled in kids which amazes me that indians have still remained very understanding and accepting as a society and accomoditates anyone and everyone almost despite never being given 1/10 th of what an average american usually gets. Ofcourse with the rise of the internet thats now quickly begun to change and egalatarian nuclear home structures with smaller number of kids and more quality education began when the baby boomer generation here in india started to have kids and is still changing and developing in mindset fast with the millenial and gen z population largely in metropolitian cities and rural areas are just beginning toward progress so theres a ways to go there. Another huge problem that plagues indian society is this ability to use intellect for devious purposes like scams and theft. The logic largely run here is that theyre responsible for only feeding their family so theres little to no remorse shown about outright running scams and looting innocent people of theur money. And when questioned they will say they do it out of necessicity. Because religious rules still diminate the decision making process and over producing children while not having the means to feed them well because religion encourages them to do so , this problem still exists.
What i can say about indian people is that after being in different parts of the world and living in a western country for a decade almost i find indian people to be innocent at heart in comparison. You will find a wide variety of beleifs and personalities here but a common thread is a childlike innocence be it thieves or doctors and tech slecialists in metropolitian cities. Thats whats special about this place the childlike goofy innocence about life and the enthuasiam about even mundane tasks that the average westerner would turn his nose upward in disgust toward considering doing even for a day let alone an entire career. The cheery optimistic view on life is what makes indians indians at the end of the day and although incredibly ignorant and straight up stupid at times ( despite having greater than average intelligence ), theyre hearts is what wins me over everytime. Thats why with all the corruption, chaos , dirt and pollution i still choose to stay here and call this place home despite having an oci in New Zealand, one of the cleanest and most peaceful places in the world, mumbai is still the place i call home on this earth.
Theres lots of mistakes in this video tho
My dude just spitting caste and brahmanical after every sentence.
💀💀
Idk why brahman femboys are so copey about caste lmao
Cope radical
@@snipescyth7944 bro why do you hate Brahmins?
He is a white supremacist. If he isn't he would know that when British left India, India had 81% population under poverty rate and 11% literacy rate. Before colonialism India has 25% share of the global GDP.
I'm curious where you got that 19/22 number of invasions being successful from? is there anyway you could provide your sources as well?
one thing, Brahman is the idea of the infinite but passive good that all are part of but it is not the same as Brahma, the creator. Brahma is part of the trilogy with Shiva and Vishnu, on the same "level" as them. Brahman is not part of this trilogy as it is above it. Two distinct ideas with very similar names.
He is a white supremacist. If he isn't he would know that when British left India, India had 81% population under poverty rate and 11% literacy rate. Before colonialism India has 25% share of the global GDP.
Such a nice explanation.. No sugarcoating and hitting on the point
How did you find the idea of India being worse for women than Islamic countries palatable? This is bogus historiography 😂
@@rutvikrs the worst crimes against women happen in India.
@@ab5680 sati pratha, similar purdah system still continues in rural haryana rajasthan
@@harmansingh2013sati was practised for small amount of time in small part of India like Bihar. It wasn't practised widely and was mostly practised by then orthodox Brahmins
He is a white supremacist. If he isn't he would know that when British left India, India had 81% population under poverty rate and 11% literacy rate. Before colonialism India has 25% share of the global GDP.
This is great but you should rename the videos to pt1/pt2 so people don’t get confused and not watch the video
@Whatifalthist Tim Pool was talking about you. Him and his guests were talking about your video on a Second American Civil War and I think they were deciding to bring you on the Timcast IRL.
Which video? Do you have a link?
Yo, you should attach a link in each video description or pinned comments to a doc where you cite your sources or something used for the video
I learned a lot thanks brother 🙏
No records of political history before 1000 AD.
That statement .....
I am speechless. Literally. ROFL
Vedic/Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Greek canonical literature, Inscriptions, Dharmasutras, Smritis, Harshacharita, Baital Pachisi, Rajatarangini, Prithviraj Charita, Singhasan Battisi
Indika By Greek ambassador Megasthenes has Chandragupta's victory on Greek
Ptolemy’s Geography, we know of India’s ports and harbours.
Pliny’s work we know of trade relations between Rome and India
Chinese traveller Fa-Hien left valuable accounts on the time of the imperial Guptas
Hieuen Tsang, who is described as the ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ wrote details about the India of the age of Harsha
No more comments from my side. This statement is sufficient to see the conformational bias of the creator.
Want to debunk me, do with facts and quotations. I won't respond if you just call racist names.
Can anyone count number of times he said caste vs India in this video?
90% Indian Americans are not from Brahmin Caste. Not even 20%🥴 That concludes how much your research in making this video. In addition, how many actually follows caste system, I have yet to find someone care about which caste fellow Indian-American belong.🥴
Lmao nri indians are the most casteist even more then native indians 💀 they only marry into their own caste
@@snipescyth7944 Do you have a data to back up this claim? or your research method is same as Whatidalthist🥴
I personally know, 16/20ish college friends married outside their caste. No one care about caste/race… I would even say color of the skin, but I suspect it has more to do with socio-economic indicators.
But it might be true for Southern Indians, not at the level of 90%, but somewhere between 40% to 60% per cent.
Among the Indian Tamils, I know a lot of people from different backgrounds, regions, and religions, but the numerically important presence of Tamil Brahmins (Iyers, Iyengars) among them is above of the simple notice.
I read about caste discrimination in employment and working ambience in the Silicon Valley.
@@drodro7672 Same way we read about "black Live matter" and all that propoganda, caste is a leftist propoganda
last time I was this early, I was still watching part 1 of this video
I was so sure when I started watching your videos that the name of your channel was “ What if Autist “ now I’m thinking I wasn’t far off lol thanks for the work you put it Althist!
Buddhism is what the Buddha preached and he never said he was against hinduism or that he was starting another religion. On his deathbed, he even said that the soul was eternal and he told his followers to respect the Vedas, Buddhist philosophy is a part of Hinduism.
He asked his disciples to give him the highest honor that a Kshatriya would receive 💀
And the Ambedkarite-Buddhists want us to believe that Buddha was against Varna or Jaati...
He steadfastly rejected Vedas and ritual worshipping of idols of Hindu gods.
@@krishnkant9477 rejecting a books some references makes someone Non Hindu?
@@jenil4221 Lol, you Hindu Nationalists have zero understanding about Hinduism.
Go and tell this fact to Buddhists and Sikhs that you are Hindus. They will hurl up unbearable abuses.🤣🤣
By the way there was no Hinduism at that time but countless of traditions of which Buddhism was also a part. But it became so dominant by replacing Vedic Hinduism that people started treating it as a separate religion.
@@jenil4221 yeah but the vedas and idol worship are bedrock of hinduism and not accepting essentially make you not a hindu.
nice video dude
fellow hindus should chill out a bit, you may not want to agree with him, but going by evolution of the local culture, society and it in its current form, the sort of discourse that finds importance in the community, a lot of things he said can't be disagreed either. Just saying he's stupid for not having the exact same view as yours is a lazy argument
Sinauli, India, it's non IVC but its contemporary site older than 2000 BCE.
A chariot was found here. It changes many theories & give rise to many others.
I look forward to seeing a video on Sahelian civilization, since Africa is rarely talked about. Love your videos though Rudyard.
Not flawless but very very good..Minimum 9/10 ..Maximum 9.5/10 ....combined score for the two part series..as an Indian , Thank You..gave me a lot of food for thought..your personal direct insights are the most devastating and thought provoking
Lmao it's embarrassingly bad. Why are you chappris so illiterate
You must be brain dead
For tropical societies that had go warrior i believe two were the kallinago and the Ashanti
The Tupis in Brazil were a warrior society and cannibals, they conquered the entire coast of Brazil (where it has the best climate to live)
I am your age and it's crazy to see how we are the same age and you have so much knowledge acquired that you can talk about so many different civilizations in extreme detail. Like how on earth have you possibly read so many books in your time on earth???
Passion, more or les
Directions, this doesn’t mean you are incompetent.
Great video