First Indian Visitor Describes England and European Life // 1785 'Wonders of Vilayet' Primary Source

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This extract has been taken from the wonderful book: 'The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765' by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin and translated by Kaiser Haq. Published by Peepal Tree Press Ltd. (2002)
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English: View from the whispering gallery in St Pauls Cathedral in London.
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@VoicesofthePast 3 года назад

Check out the playlist for 'The Discovery of India' collaboration: ru-vid.com/group/PL5Ag9n-o0IZBGFDCZqsHB7NKMR1PyRpQx

@YuzuruHakushaku 3 года назад

I love collaboration, I think it is one of the best things about RU-vid.

@klyanadkmorr 3 года назад

Whoa how is it spelled the word spoken 'Ferengi'? Because that sounded like the fictional characters in Star Trek!! lol Hope that was a SLEEPING TIGER not harmed!

@YuzuruHakushaku 3 года назад

@@klyanadkmorr Farang in old Persian means Franc or France but they mean Europe.

@patrickrpedrus747 3 года назад

Can you do an account of Prince Lee Boo of Belau? A Pacific Islander whose Dad was a chief, he went to China and Europe. That story would be perfect for the channel. Many thanks! It's just like this one!

@YuzuruHakushaku 3 года назад

@@talhaariff so he was a Bengali or Persian? he was a noble man? what happened to him? what was his job? is he famous in India?

@marvinbecker388 3 года назад

The first thing the guy does is roast the French

@atomic_wait 3 года назад

Just trying to fit in with the English.

@Eshanas 3 года назад

A proper Brit he’ll be

@hazanaimon6458 3 года назад

Just as a true Englishman would

@badrulhussain5545 3 года назад

They say a dog only pisses with one leg up and no other way. And that's one trick you cannot teach the dog to undo. Same goes for the French and their manners.... Zut alors!

@sharadowasdr 3 года назад

He's obviously trying to please his English masters :P

@BluJean6692 3 года назад

>lands in europe >sees wooden shoes WHAT ARE THOOOOSEEEE?!

@mailio4536 3 года назад

they're comfy tho

@fidelcatsro6948 3 года назад

an early Nike of course!

@mailio4536 3 года назад

@Shashou Untrue, if you grew up wearing them they're just fine

@mailio4536 3 года назад

@Shashou not's not true, they're just like dutch clogs. They don't mess up your feet and arent torture lol, whole generations grew up on them and plenty of people still do today

@shaiaheyes2c41 3 года назад

@@mailio4536 Yes, we used them in Scandinavia too. My first pair were red with apples painted on them, lol, I loved those clogs.

@studiospeets 3 года назад

Instead of "Dutch", I will now refer to my nationality as "hat wearing fishmonger".

@aliA-jz5ms 3 года назад

Or extended coastline of France where people are slightly different

@jan-willemvankaathoven914 3 года назад

I heard that the Bengali also have the reputation of fishmongers among the Indians. The Sheikh could probably relate ;)

@WhoopsieDayZ 3 года назад

@@aliA-jz5ms We are nothing like the French.

@Hades-tw4ql 3 года назад

lmfao 😂😂

@abhimanyujha5550 3 года назад

@@jan-willemvankaathoven914 yeep there's a stereotype tht bengalis eat fish all the time

@scipioafricanus5871 3 года назад

"...and three other countries I can't quite remember" *Forgettable European nations of the 18th century felt that.*

@verixsmelony7835 3 года назад

Sad Polish noises

@mareksicinski3726 2 года назад

they weren't inherently forgettable

@50shadesofgday64 Год назад

sad prussian noises

@gauntlettcf5669 Год назад

Prussia and Poland were listed, tho, if I'm not mistaken. Btw, it's really interesting that he named Italy as if it was already united at the time. Many historical books do the same, even tho Italy wouldn't start trying to unify itself until the 1840s (more or less, I can't recall the exact year) and won't succeed to unify anything until 1861. This doesn't mean that the reports are false, though. The many Italian states that populated Italy at the time often were all grouped up together when people spoke about them. They weren't united (and often times they loathed each other), but the vast majority of them shared the same culture, religion, and root language (with many of them adopting vulgar Italian (florentin) and French as their "Lingua Franca" in order to communicate with each other (especially vulgar Italian, since many italians resented France and preferred to use something more similar to the many languages of our peninsula).

@13gan Год назад

@@gauntlettcf5669 Can't really fault him. I mean, if gou see a group of people who look similar, dress in the same custom and speak similar language, you too would thought that they are from the same country. Also I think at that time, the Italian probably identify themself as "Italian" (as in Italian peninsula rather than country) when meeting with someone who may not be familiar about Italian politics, as oppose to "Papal Statian" which might imply he's a priest of the church.

@nerosfreak 3 года назад

gotta love how more than 200 years later everyone still thinks the same of the french

@xenotypos 3 года назад

It's worse now, probably because of that historical stereotype and because of the influence of the anglo-sphere. Back then, they were the real deal, and it's unclear how this guy had a conversation with a french person considering the language barrier since he was there to see the british. His version of the Norman invasion also show how he was influenced by the British version of history of the era (while actually William wasn't loved by the English, he never adopted their costums not even their language etc...).

@TaufiqueJoarder 3 года назад

😅

@theanglo-lithuanian1768 3 года назад

16:28 same with Scots and English

@theanglo-lithuanian1768 3 года назад

@Big Booty Master Its a stereotype that they are all unintelligent drunks.

@Alias_Anybody 3 года назад

Franco-Prussian War and WW2 might have been humbling.

@inisipisTV 3 года назад

I'm sure a lot here knew those "poor man's" wooden shoes he saw in France are called 'Sabot' and when disgruntled workers would throw these hard wooden shoes on some factory machinery, wrecking the machines, is where the word 'Sabotage' came from.

@tenaciousdfan9 3 года назад

i did not know, thanks for the fun fact

@louisd.8928 3 года назад

Is that actually a fact, parce que si c'est le cas je vais m'en souvenir!

@elpasemah 3 года назад

Oh you give new info

@sameikichi5716 3 года назад

@@louisd.8928 cest difficille a dire.

@OrangeShellGaming 3 года назад

While it's a nice story, it's not quite correct. What is more likely is that the French verb _saboter_ , from which _sabotage_ comes from and that indeed derives from _sabot_ , originally meant "to bungle, do shoddily" (or even earlier "to do noisily/boisterously", as those with wooden shoes tend to do) and the meaning developed from that.

@CarthagoMike 3 года назад

_"The Spaniards have a reputation of being clever and hardworking."_ Oh, how times have changed.

@CarthagoMike 3 года назад

@CommandoDude Castille (=spain) was already one of the wealthiest nations in Europe before the discovery of the America's.

@senmafugu 3 года назад

in mexico spaniards still have that reputation

@espanadorada7962 3 года назад

@@senmafugu Mexicans need to visit Spain then..

@jorgepascualfuentecilla3746 3 года назад

@CommandoDude The wealth that Spain took out of America were taxes. 10% of each economic transaction that was carried out in America (Diezmo Real) and the commercial monopoly. Everything that the colonies imported they had to import from Spain. That was the way of colonial exploitation of Spain.

@jorgepascualfuentecilla3746 3 года назад

@@espanadorada7962 Or you need to leave Spain and observe the world around you

@vy-canis4957 3 года назад

Some translation/explanation from the Urdu language. 0:06 Vilayet = west/abroad. 0:23 Hijra = islamic year/calendar. 1:26 Firangi = a foreigner/a person who is unknown to something. 7:37 Munchi = a secretory. 11:40 Tamasha = a show. 11:49 Emir = a king. 12:13 Habshi = a black person. 12:32 Shabash = well done. 15:09 Sahib = a mister. 15:25 Kadam = step. 21:43 Hazrat = use to address male with respect. 21:57 Bibi = use to address females with respect.

@ihatemotionblur_3255 3 года назад

is the last one actually right? Because when the British captured Jean Law de Lauriston, a bengali man asked him, "how is Bibi Law?", and the British took it as offensively.

@NathanDudani 3 года назад

@@ihatemotionblur_3255 maybe bibi as in the female monarch, i.e., the Queen of England

@einsaan 2 года назад

Bibi in urdu/hindi is similar to how in west you address females with respect as "Lady"... similar to prefixes like sir, madam, master etc. I guess british might've misunderstood as "Baby" as sarcasm.

@SlayerRiley 2 года назад

Cool, thanks!

@dayangmarikit6860 2 года назад

@@einsaan - That's interesting, in Filipino the respectful term for a lady is (Binibini), while in Brunei I think the term for lady is (Bini).

@rogeriopenna9014 3 года назад

"the french are so poor..." if he stayed 4 years longer in France, he would see in what that poorness of the lower classes would result.

3 года назад

The French Revolution was a Freemason attack on Western Christian Civilization

@rogeriopenna9014 3 года назад

@ Christianism was a middle east attack on western greco roman values

@jordandutchak8238 3 года назад

Rogério Penna ok pagan

@Joao-de9gl 3 года назад

@ First catholic conservative from 1538 describes his thoughts on the internet // 2020 'Wonders of RU-vid Comments' Primary Source

@ojberrettaberretta5314 3 года назад

@ can you explain further,because ppl say the same about catolicism so im wondering

@RJKYEG 3 года назад

Imagine the History Channel having content of this quality.

@BVargas78 3 года назад

Nowadays it would be, First Indian Visitor Describes England and European Life - But was he actually an ancient extra terrestrial alien? Giorgio Tsoukalos believes he was.

@mirzaahmed6589 3 года назад

@@BVargas78 Technically he was an alien.

@insaneweasel1 3 года назад

They would...but aliens

@cyanes 3 года назад

Those days are long gone

@JoeSmith-sl9bq 3 года назад

Those days are long gone, it’s Pawn Stars 24 7 now

@Napoleon4778 3 года назад

I am an Indian and I lived in the UK 2017-8 (a year). It is so uncanny that Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's descriptions of English buildings are so very similar to my impressions more than 200 years later! True, the buildings in India usually have large windows and doors and ceilings to allow for free passage of air that helps in keeping the buildings cool naturally.

@shamshirhussain8198 3 года назад

Now indian and pakistani visitors are laughing stocks. What a shame

@LawlTwins 3 года назад

@@shamshirhussain8198 Are they? Most people's problems seem to be that they aren't 'visitors'. They wish to stay. We have a big problem with migration as it is but I have never heard anyone annoyed that Indians/Pakistani's are simply coming to visit the country. I can't speak to Pakistani's but every Indian I have ever met who lives here has integrated incredibly well and they are lovely people. It's a shame if you know people who think differently.

@lavish_1717 3 года назад

@@LawlTwins Pakistanis try to enforce sharia

@vampirethespiderbatgod9740 3 года назад

@@shamshirhussain8198 No. UK is the laughing stock

@shamshirhussain8198 3 года назад

@@vampirethespiderbatgod9740 theyre not tho. Im talking about how in western societies Pakistanis and indians are deemed undesirbale and made fun of in the media and across all levels of societies. Its unfair. Im pakistani i see it myself

@nathanlevesque7812 3 года назад

These are all monarchies, with the exception of tiny Holland, a land of the dutch people, which is governed by its windmills.

@ahuman2070 3 года назад

hahahaha

@Quzix42 2 года назад

This explains why they didn't get along with Spain that well -- Spanish knights kept charging at their nobles.

@satyakisil9711 2 года назад

@@Quzix42 Spaniards Quixoted the Dutch to no avail.

@Nagvanshieus 2 месяца назад

"The people of Holland have a habit of eating their PM"

@jonathanredacted3245 3 года назад

I love how at the end he's like "England is very nice but *vacation is over* "

@RyllenKriel 3 года назад

It was the Scottish Winter. After that he had to peace out!

@mazumdar1000 3 года назад

@@RyllenKriel From scorching hot Bengal to Scotland in the winter, he was ready to die by then. 😂

@prashr4075 3 года назад

Lol i am sure he must have visited n lived in Darjeeling area since it belongs to the same state.

@mazumdar1000 3 года назад

@@prashr4075 Nah, Darjeeling was settled by Brits for its tea obviously. 😂 Mughals didn’t like cold places anyway.

@prashr4075 3 года назад

@@mazumdar1000 Delhi winter: Am I joke to you??

@Altrantis 3 года назад

On the poverty of the french lower class: This is not long before the french revolution.

@si4632 3 года назад

When the satanists took over the masons and wigs 🤣

@ProvencaLeGaulois 3 года назад

The french revolution wasn't about the lower classes taking over, it was about the bourgeoisie taking over aristocracy.

@htoodoh5770 3 года назад

@@ProvencaLeGaulois oh

@JamesTaylor-on9nz 3 года назад

@@ProvencaLeGaulois Communist revolutions are much the same, overwhelmingly lead by bourgeois doctors, journalists and intellectuals and seldom the workers themselves.

@Altrantis 3 года назад

@@ProvencaLeGaulois But it was fueled over the poor people.

@yamik1385 3 года назад

The fact that he felt compelled to include a description of ice skating (14:56) goes to show how magical that scene must have felt when he first saw it. Like fairies on a pond, he says. It's like the scene from LotR where the party watches the elves sing and dance and are completely mesmerized.

@bethg.5611 3 года назад

Like angels.

@abhijeetagale 2 года назад

Like angles because they were moving without effort not holy.

@curiouskid1547 Год назад

Right

@balashibuyeeter2704 Год назад

@@abhijeetagale thanks captain obvious

@audhumbla6927 Год назад

He said angels. But youre good cuz the fairies/elfs are the ancient ancestors of northern europeans 👍🏻

@distoriank5314 3 года назад

9:29 I just realized they have translated 'Bazaaru Aurat' literally("the ladies of the bazaar''). It is slang for prostitutes.

@timothymatthews6458 3 года назад

That explains a lot. I was wondering why 1700s women would want to kiss a random stranger. If they were prostitutes, that makes sense.

@achyuthansanal 3 года назад

Lol

@rainbowxxbat 3 года назад

Hahaha

@cosimo8854 3 года назад

@@timothymatthews6458 Same reasons why contemporary women want to kiss random strangers.

@defencebangladesh4068 3 года назад

yeah

@bigcat5348 3 года назад

"The French are a conceited race" honhonhon oui oui tres accurate

@mercster 3 года назад

Mais oui!

@siyabongamngomezulu9743 3 года назад

He was writing before 1000s of French Clergymen, Nobles and servants were beheaded.

@devicesscience6278 3 года назад

Here the people do yatna .. Fire sacrifice... Hence they know how to create gold from itself dead trees. Too aged tree gives gold.. So there 11000 golden temples... Metric tonn university. Data.. They know how to create water . by varunastra... How hijacked . most they are not barbarians to use unathorised way of weapons... War have rules. Look mahabharat

@xXxBladeStormxXx 3 года назад

@b phillip lmao i'm dead

@krips22 3 года назад

@b phillip That would have been pretty cheeky of him: Battle of Adyar - 1746 _"The battle involved 300 men of the French East India Company + 700 Sepoys, which had recently captured nearby Madras from the British, and a much larger force of 10,000 men belonging to Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of the Carnatic, who sought to take Madras from the French. In the battle, which took place near the banks of the Adyar River, the French decisively defeated the larger Carnatic force, demonstrating the effectiveness of well-trained European forces in combating poorly trained Indian troops."_

@dale6947 3 года назад

This is probably the most glowing report of the English that I've ever heard from an Indian!

@60ritikanand69 3 года назад

@Unism Makes you wonder if British paid him to write this report. Lol.

@60ritikanand69 3 года назад

@Unism Haha. Lol.

@fenrirrising131 3 года назад

Helps that this was pre churchill

@Peacemaker-96 3 года назад

@Unism Amen to that!

@ecclesiaxxi6210 3 года назад

@Unism Not in those days they didn't. It was a Christian society, culture and morality.

@musawarkhan873 3 года назад

12:35 "shabash" literally means well done or bravo. "waah waah" is another way of saying wow in amazement.

@1wor1d 3 года назад

You missed. It should be 12:32!!

@spasjt 3 года назад

"All I can leave is a mark on the pages of time by which I may be remembered is this account of a few curious incidents." On the contrary sir, your mark on the pages of time are now memorialized forever and are capable of being read by the entire human race. Your humility in describing your experience is most appreciated by all.

@myfeedback572 3 года назад

spasjt, very eloquently put.

@NautilusGuitars Год назад

Excellent comment!

@ian_b Год назад

I found that part really touching.

@MythologywithMike 3 года назад

A whole RU-vid channel dedicated to reading primary sources? A historian's dream come true! If you want some help finding Iroquoian sources let me know I'm writing a paper on them for grad school right now

@D_6660 3 года назад

You all over the place my dude

@D_6660 3 года назад

*Every where I go I find this channel* insert Tom Holland spider man meme

@MythologywithMike 3 года назад

I am everywhere! Always hiding, waiting, watching /o\

@D_6660 3 года назад

@@MythologywithMike 😨🤣🤣

@uncleruckus3094 3 года назад

@@MythologywithMike ur profile looks like a freemason bag

@lewistaylor2858 3 года назад

England comes across really well in this...

@symmetrymilton4542 3 года назад

Give it time...

@Altrantis 3 года назад

He spent the whole time with englishmen, he was biased towards them.

@leaveme3559 3 года назад

@Fahim Hussain indians were not loyal.... serving in the army gave good money...plus the peasants could care less who ruled from delhi.....

@leaveme3559 3 года назад

@@Nate-uf4xk india despite of being so inexperience managed to pull through they are still a functioning democracy and has managed to stay united with no civilwars....sure poverty is there but its just been 70 years ..it took usa 200 years to be where it is give it time india will rise....if india had remained capitalist it would have been a completely different story socialism fucked over india

@si4632 3 года назад

@@Nate-uf4xk Churchill's life was just going from one heinous act to another

@Squadwin 3 года назад

When the Indian started describing snow, it was so heart warming it painted a big smile across my face. It is truly unbelievable hearing this. History is a miracle.

@PPSRHD 3 года назад

*Me a garhwali* Say what?

@barrystevens2699 3 года назад

Yes. But clearly he had never seen snow before. Hence his opinion on it. Also they don't have snow in Northern India like Scotland.

@PPSRHD 3 года назад

@@barrystevens2699 actually we do.... It's the himalayas.... Places like uttarkashi, and Chamoli have snow like all the time...... Other place in U.K (Uttarakhand) do too...but hey you have bagpipes... We love our bagpipes... (We call them Masubaj)

@DurgeshYadav-ip1zr 3 года назад

Bruh, we literally have the Himalayas!

@mehra1031 3 года назад

@@PPSRHD maskbin , masak Baja , thats what we call bagpipes in Ranikhet where the kumaon regimental centre is located . 150 years ago a few local men of garhwal and kumaon regiment were taught to play bagpipes by the british army for the army band and today it's become an integral part of our uttarakhandi folk music .

@rampantmutt9119 3 года назад

The bit where the Englishmen encourage him to dance is great.

@martjnmao6808 Год назад

Now the perception of danciness turn the other way around

@lazycyclone Год назад

I think it’s because muslims created their own country in South Asia. Ever heard highly of dancing and music from pakistan pr bangladesh?

@johnnybravo1836 Год назад

@@lazycyclone Yeah they are actually quite fond of dancing and music. Regardless of Islamicization.

@sahil5rana 4 месяца назад

@@johnnybravo1836 dancing is haram dancing banned in Pakistan

@MrJethroha 3 года назад

Its very interesting how he causually refers to a legend of Alexander the Great in the beginning, as if all Indians would recognize it, but later on talks about the Roman Empire as if no one has ever heard of it. Really makes you think about how big the Hellenic world really was more than 2000 years ago. Rome was larger geographically and lasted longer, but Alexander's influence was even greater.

@kshatrapavan 3 года назад

Indians had completely forgotten Alexander up until the Muslim invasion of India. There is no mention of him in any ancient texts. There is mention of Selucid Greeks and Indo-Greeks, but not Alexander himself. The Muslim rulers who invaded India in the middle ages were mostly Persianised Turks/Mongols. Alexander was held in high regard in Persian culture, and Muslims brought those stories with them to India.

@m.g.9468 3 года назад

Napoleon admired Cesar, Cesar Admired Alexander, Alexander admired Achilles. Achilles admired Achilles.

@luxborealis 3 года назад

Pranav Athalye I always found it strange how the later Persian dynasties grew so fond of "Iskander" despite him being a conquering enemy. I suppose it has to do with cultural melding with the Greek settlers.

@absarius1216 3 года назад

@@kshatrapavan Yeah, Alexander is actually one of the ancestors in the legendary genealogy of the house of Suren, to which belonged Rostam, one of the Heroes in Shahnama-based narratives. The early Ghoris who invaded India were based in an area (Ghor) whose domain included the areas earlier ruled by the house of Suren (Helmand-Zaranj).

@meroqero1476 2 года назад

@@luxborealis He was not even Greek. He was a Makeonian which spoke a creole of Illyrian, Thracian. Paeonian and Greek. His mother was a Molossian and his soldiers were proven to have been Illyrians, Greeks and Thracians

@mrburns1055 3 года назад

Honestly fascinating, would love to hear more Indian accounts of Europe or Europeans from the time period as its a perspective ive never seen before.

@melody964 3 года назад

Yea... That's what I've been wondering

@rodhidalgo6789 3 года назад

You can read William Danrymple books which contains lots of such accounts. Regards,

@ipsygypsy16 3 года назад

You won't get that, sadly every chronicle was heavily audited before they got published. We have people hanged & jailed for publishing works that depict the English in their real lights. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on any race. But the amount of censorship & book banning our history has seen during the British rule is mind blowing. Only vernacular texts exist to this day, not much has been translated to English.

@melody964 3 года назад

@@ipsygypsy16 well what do u mean? Showing them in bad light was banned?

@ipsygypsy16 3 года назад

@@melody964 yes, totally. Here's an example. There was a short drama written about the indigo plantation in Bengal, commissioned by the East India Company. It's named The Indigo Mirror. The original manuscript was burnt, the author, a journalist, was incarcerated, even the English translator, Revd. Long, was jailed. Much later another author translated Revd. Long's English translation back to Bengali, & other regional languages. That's how we get to know about the book.

@lloydgush 3 года назад

"the english are so tolerant of other religions" unless it's a different kind of christianism. Lol!

@ignacio4159 3 года назад

Nothing has changed there.

@lloydgush 3 года назад

@@theeobamatm5442 Yeah.

@spring-heeledjack3340 3 года назад

Are you serious? England is one of the few countries with significant protestant (many denominations) and catholic populations. List of countries to basically exterminate their Christian religious minorities: France Poland Ireland Spain Italy And there were many attempts by the Germans.

@lloydgush 3 года назад

@@spring-heeledjack3340 Where's the england catholic population? England, not british.

@spring-heeledjack3340 3 года назад

@@lloydgush Lots of English Catholics in the North West in particular, but they are spread out across England. About 5m in total, would be a very large number even without Irish migration.

@Loreman72 3 года назад

I love how he spotted the English-Scots rivalry back then, already!

@karlmarx1868 3 года назад

Its existed for over 1000 years, The Scots and English have spent a total of almost 800 years at war. Technically the longest running conflict.

@gazibizi9504 3 года назад

@@karlmarx1868 how did they end up in one country?

@karlmarx1868 3 года назад

@@gazibizi9504 They are still separate countries to this day they have seperate governments and councils even laws but they have legally joined a union with 2 other countries Wales and Northern Ireland to make the " United Kingdom" the United Kingdom was formed when the Queen of England died with no children and heir only heir was James the 4th King of Scotland. However legally it still doesn't stand the United Kingdom was created illegally against most people wishes in all 3 countries at the time and even passed through Parliament illegally whilst most representatives were absent.

@walx274 3 года назад

@@karlmarx1868 I wouldn’t say they are still at conflict The English Scottish rivalry is similar to the french - English rivavly , it’s more Banter and competition in sports at this point The longest running conflict is the Reconquista however if you were interested

@jevinliu4658 3 года назад

"Our ship anchored at... the French port of Nantes" *Oddly cheerful music plays*

@SNOUPS4 3 года назад

Well, Nantes, as the capital city of Brittany, is a very beautiful city :)

@mathieuleader8601 3 года назад

take the enemy by suprise

@TheSm1thers 3 года назад

@@SNOUPS4 I thought that was Rennes?

@DavidsonLoops 3 года назад

@@TheSm1thers it is Rennes, don't know what the other guys talking about

@pierren___ 3 года назад

@@DavidsonLoops no its Nantes actually.

@cheegum6296 3 года назад

Vilayat = foreign land often with more cosmopolitan and non-yokel customs, which in this case was Britain. In BENGALI/hindi/urdu/punjabi vilayat could mean anything from the USA to Australia to anywhere in Europe etc, basically anywhere white people live. Edit: Bengali

@samuelkatz1124 3 года назад

I've only heard the term of Vilayat/Vilayet used in the Ottoman term for provinces.

@cheegum6296 3 года назад

@@samuelkatz1124 interesting then how words moved locations and changed context :)

@xotic1052 3 года назад

He was bengali So in bangla "vilayat" or bilat Means foreign land also

@hazanaimon6458 3 года назад

Where I'm from Villat is exclusively used for european countrys

@rodi8266 3 года назад

you mean anywhere europeans live, right? Stop using racist terms to describe people. :)

@dwarasamudra8889 3 года назад

You should definitely make videos on some European traveller's experience in ancient and medieval India. For example, the Greek Scholar Megasthenes and his stay during Mauryan Pataliputra, the portugese traveller Eduardo Barbosa and his tour of Imperial Vijayanagara, English Capatin Hawkins during the reign of Emperor Jahangir, Moroccan Scholar Ibn Batutas time in Delhi and Bengal among others.

@VoicesofthePast 3 года назад

Done the first one! Great suggestions for the others. Shall investigate.

@VARMOT123 3 года назад

@@VoicesofthePast do a short bit about marco polo's account of 11th century indian kakatiya kingdom's queen rani rudrama devi

@fymwp9992 2 года назад

@@VoicesofthePast Do read Ibn Batuta descriptiom of Madurai Sulnate promise you will her shivers hearing it

@EVANSSAMUELBIJU Год назад

@@VoicesofthePastI suggest doing one by Cosmas Indeucopleustes,a Greek traveller who visited India in 5th century AD

@whatlikeitshard1090 Год назад

There's something so sentimental about the way he shares these experiences with us. Whatever he may have written, were written solely for the person who would read it. So in a way he's communicating with the readers individually. But then again that's what literature is, it's a connection between the writer and the reader. Almost makes me tear up a bit.

@Vigilant69 Год назад

Right! I spent one hour watching the full video and reading through the comments seeing how people liked it and shared their experiences. One of the best videos I've seen in a while, an hour well spent.

@whatlikeitshard1090 Год назад

@@Vigilant69 absolutely!

@royriley6282 3 года назад

In case anyone is confused when he says 'mold' he means 'leaf mould' not 'bread mold' as the term commonly means now . Mould in this usage means detritus or worm cast formed mainly from fallen leaves. Darwin uses the same term in his book on worms. This kind of worm compost is commonly used in pot and raised bed gardening to this day.

@egregius9314 3 года назад

I figured he meant compost, as I've heard of pineapples being grown in horse-manure (which gives off heat when decomposing).

@chicawhappa 3 года назад

Learned a lot in this thread!

@timothymatthews6458 3 года назад

@@chicawhappa You act like you learned a lot, but you brain is so small that you think that this little bit of information is "a lot." It really isn't. You're a dumb millennial.

@thewhat531 3 года назад

Roy Riley another example of how our languages are related. It's "muld" in Danish. We still use the word.

@kaijukojin4371 3 года назад

It's amazing how much time and dedication something like this would entail. "Honey, I'm going to go on this ship and check out England! See ya whenever, wish me luck and hope I don't die!" Man... I can't even get Mrs. Kojin to let me go camping by myself overnight without her worrying.

@Stadtpark90 3 года назад

Thanks for making me smile.

@mazadancoseben4818 3 года назад

Lol. She does worry. Request her to let you.

@emperorpenguin448 3 года назад

lmao

@adrianlegendheart9297 3 года назад

You do realize these guys had like 20 wives and didn't care much about any of them?

@kaijukojin4371 3 года назад

@@adrianlegendheart9297 I refuse to believe that any god fearing Christian would ever stray from their devoted... when they're gone for five years, they just stare longingly across the sea... sending out thoughts of home.... (sorry I'm cackling too hard as I write this)

@Derna1804 3 года назад

'The Tower of London is built from black stone' ... Coal pollution ahoy.

@aresyen5620 3 года назад

Why this feels so good, so original and refreshing, As an Indian I wish our people could go outdoors more, acquire more wisdom and appreciation of other cultures and society and contribute further for upliftment and improvement of our society and help it rise above obscurantism and ignorance as it always leads to destruction and doom. I would also love to travel across Europe and write my own account of interactions and cultures of European society someday.

@djprojectus 3 года назад

A beautiful goal.

@edwardkumarkenway1875 3 года назад

If you are aware..historically this has been a part of the subcontinent history...not in the "European sense" of Adventurism of course. The outreach of the subcontinent travellers to South East Asia/Far east amd China/Sri Lanka / Afghanistan are well documented.

@hassaans6778 3 года назад

He is a Mughal citizen better represented today by Pakistan.

@aresyen5620 3 года назад

@@hassaans6778 Were Mughals Pakistani ?, Pakistan built on basis of an superficial identity like religion itself has no concrete basis as such, out of 1000 of identities we hold the founding fathers of Pakistan chose one which was Islam, suppressing the other identities and ignoring the history of subcontinent itself resulting in the situation which Pakistan is at right now. Only way for Pakistan to stay relevant as a political entity to keep on reinforcing this identity of religion which is already leading it to down the drain posing serious limitations on its development and polity, Would Pakistan be Pakistan as a polity if religion becomes irrelevant which is the trend already across the world. Artificial partition of Indian subcontinent didnt make sense then, dont make much sense now. Also except personal bigotry of Aurangzeb Mughal political elites were not much interested in discourse over religion, they followed Yassa and Yarleigh system, that ruling elite did not had to do much to common muslims on streets back in those days and muslims you see now and trying to associate them to. Babar defeated Daulat khan and put his head on pike in Lahore, He built a pyramid of Afghans in Attock, Ibrahim Lodi after 1526 Panipat and later Mughals hunted Afghans and crushed them brutally when they expanded into Gangetic plains if you dont know history, for them their Empire came first.

@aresyen5620 3 года назад

@@edwardkumarkenway1875 I know the trade across SEA and expansion of Indian influence in those regions under Pallava and later Imperial Cholas under RajaRaja and Rajendra Chola which many suggest were behind emergence of SriVijaya Empire, also Khmer Empire, Thai Empire, we can see the Indian influence in SEA region, It was mostly South India and Bengal region involved in trade and exchange but again Post Kushana we see the emergence of feudal forces and growing insularity, Al-Biruni talks about it in his book "Kitab i Hind", so do Satish Chandra points out the growing ignorance of global events and insularity and ignorance, you can see the consequences of it, lack of cities, lack of secular texts in post Kushana period and emergence of Brahmanism and rigid caste system, it is a complex matter and we can discuss but I would suggest that Indian society still has a long way to go overcoming that insularity and ignorance and inward looking attitude.

@Lurklen 3 года назад

I love people describing snow to people who've never experienced it. It suggests a world we barely experience now, one where things like the sea, or a northern winter, seem like fairy tales. Also his detailed description of ice skates, and skaters, is sweet. His recounting of the opinions of the Scots is a hoot. "Hat wearing nations."? Interesting how he perceives the religious tolerance of the English.

@Lurklen 3 года назад

@Tejas Misra Neat!

@chocolatbownie35 3 года назад

i've never seen real life snow, and from what i gathered on the internet, there are different kinds of snow (i guess?). I wanna see both the soft and the hard one, bcs one seems flufy and the other one must be cool to make things like snowman. I wanna fall in snow with my face. I know it'll be very cold but i KNOW i must do it once before i die. Question to people who have felt snow: does it immediatly start melting when u touch it bcs of body heat or can u grab it for a while without getting wet?

@Lurklen 3 года назад

@@chocolatbownie35 Depends on the snow. Yes it always feels wet, but when it's slushier and more melted it has no substance. When you pick up the fluffier snow, it breaks apart, and becomes wet and then compacted. When its more solid it's harder to shape, and closer to ice, so it doesn't melt as fast though if handled enough it becomes slippery. It really depends on how cold it is outside. If you live anywhere with mountains, many of them have snow, even in hotter countries.

@theturniptress805 3 года назад

I also want to see snow. Wouldn't it be amazing

@Amigo-wo2ku 3 года назад

He had never seen snow before! Just needed to go up north and take a right turn in to Nepal and the Himalayas!

@stanleysmith7551 3 года назад

That was a surprisingly accurate description of 18# century Europe and England in particular.

@MrNeosantana 3 года назад

This channel has taught me that the Indians and the Japanese are far more reasonable in their descriptions of places than the Chinese

@Alam_Khan521 Год назад

The word Bengal is mentioned several times in this book. if you're wondering , bengal is a geographical place situated in eastern india. it now comprised of the sovereign country Bangladesh and the indian state of west Bengal. Bengal at that time was the richest state of india and presumably richer than most places in Europe.

@jagobangalijago5665 Год назад

Well said

@karimmezghiche9921 Год назад

@Ambander It's the truth though, that is the reason that made the British start their conquest of India in the Bengal.

@davidr7819 11 месяцев назад

William Dalrymple can confirm

@youisa1 3 года назад

"If a women is both ugly and poor none will have her." Based

@mmgsundar 3 года назад

Correct!

@paulmccray4055 3 года назад

not wrong there

@MrExZacktly 3 года назад

Based and anti-femoid

@lavish_1717 3 года назад

The same would be said about men today

@rupall3612 3 года назад

Not any more

@caorusso4926 3 года назад

Visit europe before europe visit you

@adalbertschwafel2587 3 года назад

@adam riddle ?

@MattieK09 3 года назад

Adalbert Schwafel go to London or Paris, you’ll figure it out

@Vingul 3 года назад

Adalbert Schwafel don’t play dumb mate.

@kouron 3 года назад

@@MattieK09 Or any small to medium sized city in western europe.

@MattieK09 3 года назад

kouron has it gotten that bad, already?

@BlueBaron3339 3 года назад

*"The hat-wearing nations of Europe"* Not sure why this phrase signifying what he considered advanced countries made me laugh 😂 🤣

@BlueBaron3339 3 года назад

@Tejas Misra Oh, I'm sure it made perfect sense, not just at the time, but later too. It just struck me as funny because I'd never looked at the world that way. I see both as simply head coverings.

@BlueBaron3339 3 года назад

@Ben Cowin Wow, so lots of folks have seen the world in terms of hats 😂

@sparky6086 3 года назад

@@BlueBaron3339 The natives in North America often identified Europeans as "wears hat". Some people may remember old movies, where a native gestures pulling his hand across his forehead, when describing a European (white man). This movement was meant to outline the brim of a hat, signifying a "white man".

@BlueBaron3339 3 года назад

@@sparky6086 Thanks to an impulsive, offhanded comment, I realized something unexpected. I know *nothing* about the role of hats...in history, in culture, in custom or in anything at all. Sixty-eight years on planet earth, and somehow I failed to notice, much less wear, hats! 😳😲🤔

@sparky6086 3 года назад

@@BlueBaron3339 I'm not too much younger than you, and I never wore hats, until I had to in the Army. I've heard, that the trend of men not wearing hats began w/ JFK. He didn't like wearing hats, and he being President and sustained as a cultural icon over the years, began the slide, where hats became an option, rather than a necessity. Hats have bounced back some, but not wearing one is still not like leaving the house without pants or something.

@kamrulhasan3468 3 года назад

It’s fascinating how different cultures interact. Well done fellow bengali. The world sure is an amazing place.

@pteranodon6612 3 года назад

This was during the "Little Ice Age." England was colder with more snow and frozen rivers for people to walk and skate on.

@prashr4075 3 года назад

No its a scientific term. Every few hundred years earth is slight tilted away from the sun resulting in drop in termperature. It happened in 1400s n 1700s

@arushi3762 Год назад

That doctor who series 10 episode

@petersherman2187 3 года назад

My dream has always been to spend the rest of my life in an library with documents like this, to observe the changes that have happened over time of one nations view of another.

@sunnylighting1477 2 года назад

You can read about India's history. It's divided in three parts- Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Ancient history deals with Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic culture it's trade with Mesopotamia.. Rise of Buddhism and King Ashoka.. Medieval deals with Arab conquest of India. Modern history starts with advent of the Europeans.. You can also read Ramayan and Mahabharat, Vedas, Upanishad.. The topic is vast.

@PS3Vids10 3 года назад

'A traveller is dearer to them than their own life, and they will take great pains to make them happy' - how things have changed

@jithinjayachandranpk 2 года назад

yup

@Hammadz-li Год назад

He meant the nobility they still are courteous

@vgamedude12 Год назад

What has changed? Europe currently welcomes their own replacement in their own countries. These things would've never occurred traditionally.

@samgyeopsal569 Год назад

@@vgamedude12 travellers are not the same as immigrants

@vgamedude12 Год назад

@@samgyeopsal569 yes travelers are acceptable

@xenotiic8356 3 года назад

As someone who has never seen snowfall in person (or even ice outside of a freezer or indoor skating rink), his description of snow is quite fascinating and descriptive. It makes me want to go see some!

@artoruvidal2793 3 года назад

Where the hell do you live

@stynershiner1854 3 года назад

@@artoruvidal2793 Most people like you forget that snow falling countries are minorities, not majorities.

@thrash208 Год назад

I live in Canada every snowfall you can tell who the new arivals are because theyre outside with their cameras and have a joyous fascination with it. Its kinda heart warming to see almost childlike blissfullness of the stuff kinda makes you realize we take it for granted.

@theotheseaeagle Год назад

@@artoruvidal2793probably somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s weird to think that some people have never seen ice or snow in person

@debasissaha2721 Год назад

I'm Indian, I've never seen snow in my life too

@Greksallad Год назад

This was so unexpectedly positive and wholesome :D It seems like he really enjoyed his stay but was still glad to get back home, which is very relatable. Great video as always!

@AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад

Must've been very bizarre for him. Seeing men in powdered wigs, with bright coats in long breeches and stockings with black buckled shoes walking with canes on cobblestone roads, big carriages with drivers in big coats, woman with flat hats wearing big dresses, and if you're lucky, you would see a very tall soldier with a big fur hat and a powdered wig.

@OkurkaBinLadin 3 года назад

@Pichkalu Pappita Which of hundreds of castes in India are you describing? :)

@Joker-yw9hl 3 года назад

Apparently the big fur hats were only adopted after battling Napoleon and taking the hats of vanquished French grenadiers. Then it became a tradition. Correct me if I'm long. I think Brits in this time period were all about the tricorn *I think*

@pesii1452 3 года назад

@@OkurkaBinLadin I didn't know Bengalis were a caste lol

@ArjunYadav-oy8fc 3 года назад

@Eren Yeager bengal is not bizarre you would not have even seen that in your life look at what he said in the end His native country which he is proud Everyone has their own views

@lavish_1717 3 года назад

I love that euro fashion on men

@Saiful22 3 года назад

Nice to hear my native countryman from Bengal. I am from Bengal too. I hope he had a good life later

@Amigo-wo2ku 3 года назад

But his grammar was so much better then of yours of today, lol.

@pranavvaishnave7648 3 года назад

@@Amigo-wo2ku *tHeN*

@Literarydilettante 3 года назад

Vilayat: abroad (outside one's home country) Firangi: foreign/foreigner Ghat: harbor in this case (also the name of a series of mountain ranges)

@luxborealis 3 года назад

The British are pretty Ferengi indeed.

@Jasvinder518 3 года назад

Firangi means white people of foreign land whereas Habshi means black people of a foreign land.

@erikdalna211 3 года назад

@@Jasvinder518 Ferengi means Western Europeans from Frankish.

@lavish_1717 3 года назад

I love me some ferangis

@kaloarepo288 Год назад

Habeshi for a black African would come from the word "Habesh" or Abyssinia which is the old name for Ethiopia.The Ottoman empire was also divided up into vilayets.

@AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад

2:42 Indian's Simplified reaction to French shoes: *"WHAT ARE THOOOOOSE!!!"*

@ankitchandra8372 3 года назад

He wasn't Indian tho. You can call him Turk from occupied India. Also India was different than what that stupid is saying...

@ashrafmb9660 3 года назад

@@ankitchandra8372 brahmin have uracian and Iranian root why u call them as Indians then.

@yanamandrasastry9103 3 года назад

@@ashrafmb9660 lo why Brahmins have Iranian roots madrasa University or what?😂😂

@ashrafmb9660 3 года назад

@@yanamandrasastry9103 just learn a bit about their roots... Ull know.

@krapto3467 3 года назад

@@ankitchandra8372 Take your delusional religious politics off of History. The guy is Indian,Even the Mughal Dynasty had become Indian due to their Queens being of Indian origin if this is the definition that suits you. And he Definitely is an Indian.

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

In a weird way, this kinda reminds me of my observations when I first came to the UK haha

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria It’s been that way for centuries.

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria It's based of records.

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria I think this guy was trying to score points imo. I've read Chinese ambassadors say London was too dirty. Ever read the book "Dirty old london"?

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria Points with whom?

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria and what make you say that?

@TheTabascodragon 3 года назад

Without history our lives have no context. Thank you for making these videos, they are truly a service to humanity by broadening that context.

@yoshilorak5897 3 года назад

Ngl, when I visited the UK it was exactly like back home in the US. People spoke the same language, very hospitable, hard working(more so than the Italians when I lived in Italy). The only difference was the food and the people weren't very social. When I said good morning or hello to a stranger they would look at me like I'm crazy.

@madMARTYNmarsh1981 Год назад

Did you go to a city? British cities are much like most American cities (the only exception I experienced was Dallas, still had its nutters but most were warm and interested in my English accent) ; people too busy to have manners. Smaller towns and villages are still welcoming although local pubs can get a bit 'iffy' in some areas if you don't sound like them. It is changing though, as people move from cities into surrounding towns they're bringing their arrogance with them.

@gabrieleguerrisi4335 Год назад

The topic is not about to hard work, but to have good things done. Otherwise, if hard work is an Absolute plus, apart of how you work and what you "gain", you would yet work the land by hands😂😏 As a discendentend of most influencial civilization of history (Roman one) I might suggest this.

@emma7933 Год назад

Were you in the South or the North? I'm from the North of England and in general the South, especially London, is very unfriendly.

@Fabbjusuf Год назад

People more hardworking in the UK than in Italy? I honestly would disagree...

@viliussmproductions 3 года назад

It's fascinating hearing descriptions of Europe as this exotic place as described by travelers, much like what we're used to hearing about other regions of the world.

@joshuabanner3675 3 года назад

1:25. My god, is that where the Ferengi from star trek get their name.

@jevinliu4658 3 года назад

It comes from the word "Frank", a similar term was used in the Middle East.

@94Newbie 3 года назад

yeah I cant help but loose my shit everytime he calls us europeans that.

@sagarchaudhary5260 3 года назад

I doubt that as Vilayat doesn't means Britain, it means foreign.

@wenzelplot 3 года назад

Could be, could also be coincidence.

@antonioscendrategattico2302 3 года назад

I remember readng that Ferengi came from "foreigner", but I'm not sure if from the word itself in English, or from the Hindi word for it. It could very well be.

@oldtomfool 2 года назад

What an adventure this guy had, I understand there were terrible things going on in the time period. But also good and great things. The scenery of a changing world and first experiences before even national geographic. Amazing happy I get to hear it.

@NathanTAK 3 года назад

Drake says no to "Europeans" Drake says yes to "Ferengi"

@kakalimukherjee3297 2 года назад

The word is used by the old folk of the subcontinent to this day :)

@gazibizi9504 2 года назад

@@kakalimukherjee3297 firang is the word for anything related North Western Asia(Europe and close by nations)

@humpbacksquarepants5580 2 года назад

It means Frank from the crusader times

@nikidon99 Год назад

@@humpbacksquarepants5580 nope. It means "person of a different colour" in Hindi. Usually white people.

@harveybeaver9731 3 года назад

19:42 "The Spaniards hada reputation for being clever and hard-working. They may in fact be more so than the English." That's among the last things you would hear about the Spanish nowadays.

@harveybeaver9731 3 года назад

@@SwayRod836 Maybe you could in the next decade. I was fortunate enough to have visited Spain eight years ago. Some parts were run down, but I saw a lot of beautiful places there. My favorite were the Alhambra building and the Salvador Dali museum as well as the Prada museum in Madrid..

@belstar1128 3 года назад

Lmao yea they where never the same after napoleon

@_loss_ 3 года назад

@plentyness they dont. Italians are also very fond of tax evasion.

@REM-gd5zg 3 года назад

This string of replies is a clear example of the divide being created in the E.U. between entitled northern countries and the south. Spaniards do work hard. You think they came out fo the third world after the spanish civil war due to E.U. money? No. they worked their asses of as much as any other country. Sure they have their problems, but who doesnt? England certainly is more fucked up that it has ever been.

@SpectatorAlius 3 года назад

@plentyness Yes, their governments are more corrupt than in more northern EU countries. But with Boris Johnson in charge, expect Britain to catch up in corruption! Besides: northerner prejudice against them, falsely accusing the southerners of being lazy is an even bigger obstacle to progress than their corrupt governments!

@warrengday 3 года назад

@19:00 "others contemptuously refer to the Dutch as Fishmongers" makes me think of Hamlet "you are a Fishmonger".

@xiiir838 Год назад

Man, this was lovely. I remember I phrase that has always been with me for ten years already: "We are too late to explore the world, and it's too soon to explore space". Hearing how this man is describing snow, and frozen lakes warmth my heart. Such novelty, the world was filled with secrets and wonders back then.

@elvenkind6072 3 года назад

What a wonderful storyteller you are, giving such life to these old stories, and giving great insight into human nature.

@ReynaSingh 3 года назад

Remember that this is only the first recorded account... who knows how many visitors had come before then

@Gliese380 3 года назад

why are you saying this as if it's something wonderous or weird. this is late 18th century, of course there were others before him who visited europe.. from all over the world.

@caorusso4926 3 года назад

They are too lazy to travel

@si4632 3 года назад

@@Gliese380 Not many though obviously as it took ages to get there and it was extremely dangerous

@priyanshumaikhuri5856 3 года назад

@@caorusso4926 Actually not. Unlike Europeans, Indians never found any such need to go somewhere else from their homeland as everything which was needed for living or sustainability was grown/found in India only.

@belstar1128 3 года назад

Yea definitely there where Chinese people visiting rome 2000+ years ago Indians could have done that too but never recorded it.

@Sabrowsky 3 года назад

One of the things I realize when reading about indian accounts of history is that Alexander the Great really made a mark on their history.

@dheemanrajkhowa2866 3 года назад

Yep he did."Sikander" is still considered a badass in India.

@ShubhamMishrabro 3 года назад

Yes he is seen as great warrior who conquered all the place he went

@kshatrapavan 3 года назад

Yes and no. Alexander was almost completely forgotten up until the Muslim invasion of India. There is no mention of him in any ancient Indian texts. Indians did vaguely remember Yavanas (Greeks). However, these mentions are of Selucids and later Indo-Greeks, and not of Alexander himself. The Muslims rulers, who were Persianized Turks/Mongols held Sikandar (Alexander) in high regard, and brought that part of their culture with them to India.

@nautiyogi8386 3 года назад

@@kshatrapavan absolutely. Infact, Marshall Zukhov put forward the hypothesis as to why Alexander would have lost in India.

@leaveme3559 3 года назад

@@kshatrapavan yes isnt sikander persianised name of Alexander

@ShouldHaveKnownYT 3 года назад

“If a woman is both ugly and poor, none will have her” 😂 ruthless!

@cashmoney2159 3 года назад

Who will have an ugly or poor woman in today's world too😂

@user-pm9pw6cj4c 2 года назад

@@cashmoney2159 who will have an ugly or poor man in any time Or place 😂😂🤡

@thereality3398 Год назад

That goes same for men doesn't it ? But atleast back in time rich women had value and men did like them lmao

@sds_net 3 года назад

“The sea’s bottomless” “So anyway, we weighed anchor...”

@Birdy890 3 года назад

Anchors don't always have to make contact with the seabed to be utilized. Anchoring in open sea like that stabilizes the ship by lowering the center of gravity.

@kanaric Год назад

well he obviously knows near the cost it isn't, he probably thinks in the sea that it is or maybe might as well be

@ruanpingshan 3 года назад

21:15 "all the hat-wearing nations of Europe"

@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser 3 года назад

Such a funny description

@ruanpingshan 3 года назад

@Arigato Cat Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

@MPHJackson7 3 года назад

@Arigato Cat ah, now that makes sense

@k.c7655 3 года назад

@@ruanpingshan everyone always does 🙃 it’s not like the Balkans were under ottoman slavery for 500 years or whatever

@Big-BossX 3 года назад

@@k.c7655 slavery?

@abadyr_ 3 года назад

As a French, I must question the honesty and objectivity of this ruffian!

@POLITICUS-DANICUS 3 года назад

Sure you do.

@shenanigans4177 3 года назад

Well, he primarily went to Britain for protection. No dog would ever bite it's master. So don't bother about it.

@abadyr_ 3 года назад

@@shenanigans4177 Well, thank you for your concern. That said, I had figured it was beneficial for his to butter up the British. If I had been seriously pissed about his biais, I would not have used the term ruffian ^^.

@RonaldMcPaul 3 года назад

MDR

@jimmylives 3 года назад

This account is his biased towards his British masters. French were the last European power who had helped Indian rulers fight the British. French trained Officers created European style native infantry and started gun factory. French Revolution ruined it all.

@theb3654 Год назад

His description of the French is very similar to the way my grandma from England talks about the French.

@Friddle Год назад

I can't put into words how happy hearing this book makes me. Thank you for reading it out and posting it here on youtube. It is so delightful to hear anothers perspective on Europe at the time.

@cerveauy8782 Год назад

This person was a British Sepoy who obviously was brainwashed by the Brits for creating a loyal slave to them. He was totally disconnected to the reality.

@hilotakenaka 3 года назад

This is probably the first case I can think of where the guy travelling find the women hot instead of strange See the first westerners in Japan talking about the women stomping on babies

@ViriatoII 3 года назад

Portuguese sailors always described females nicely :)

@godofthisshit 3 года назад

@Max Schultz The women are easier.

@gazibizi9504 3 года назад

Indians are caucasoid. It's easy for a similar people to tell apart beauty with the features they're well aquainted with.

@TheBollywoodCritic 3 года назад

@Gazi Bizi Not all Indians, only a small percentage are, like 2-3% of the entire country. The Upper Castes, they call it. They look like Nikki Haley or Shashi Kapoor or Neil Nitin Mukesh, Hrithik Roshan, etc.

@ojberrettaberretta5314 3 года назад

@Ron Lewenberg lighter skin no moustaches no back hair no hairy arms mayn reasons lol

@comedyaddict123 3 года назад

The ladies continued to stare at my clothes and countenance, while I gazed at their astonishing... Loveliness. 😉

@williamjohansson5715 3 года назад

Lmao

@williansnobre 3 года назад

Some things never change

@justonlyme6121 3 года назад

Bob and vagene is traditional it seems

@qworky902 3 года назад

I thought he was about to say breasts.

@williansnobre 3 года назад

@@qworky902 bob

@beastman.330 3 года назад

Muslim brother travelled to Europe in 1785 . Amazing insight into the past history.

@nasimulhaque4191 3 года назад

"Firingi" refers European "Firingidesh" refers european lands or (desh)s. Incredible he was a Bengali educated in Farsi. I will visit Europe too inshaAllah 🙂.

@Ghurshah 3 года назад

Bengal was home to a great Persianate culture since the Persianised Muslim rulers first came to India. As a member of the educated elite he would have had to know Persian by definition/ default...his being a secretary and in employment to the EIC means he ought to have known Persian as it was the language of power and trade in India.

@luanlopes9415 3 года назад

Haque hahaha in this times a random bengali could have a so diferent name as "Arab'Changhiz Khan Arslan Baba al-Shams Mirza Al-Hakmi" 😅

@AshutoshKumar-es8xy 3 года назад

@@Ghurshah you mean *invaded by the persians

@Ghurshah 3 года назад

@@AshutoshKumar-es8xy India is product of invasions. The Persianate culture was localised for nearly 1000years. It was not foreign when the British arrived to overthrow it after first adopting it to better fit in to be accepted.

@Ghurshah 3 года назад

@Nyet Matchbox Persian Islamic rule did not start with Mughals, it started with Ghaznawids and Ghurids.

@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser 3 года назад

How great is it we have access to this? How wonderful would it be for all human knowledge to be digitalized and categorized inside a giant encyclopedia?

@ShubhamMishrabro 3 года назад

It would take time but many are doing

@laurencefraser 3 года назад

Observe, if you will, the existence of Wikipedia. For reasons both practical and legal it cannot be perfectly what you desire, but it's certainly making a decent go of it regardless.

@dafeels3085 3 года назад

maybe we could call it wikipedia perhaps

@goodday2760 Год назад

@@laurencefraser It's absolutely not making a decent go at it.

@GeoffreyBronson 3 года назад

I absolutely adore this series, you may be my favourite youtuber.

@alfreddupont1214 3 года назад

Vilayat comes from the Arabic "wilaya" which means "province" or "governorate" and "firangi" comes from the Arabic "firenja" which mean "the Franks" as Crusaders were referred to by the Arabs during the middle ages.

@SlaveSystem8 Год назад

What does it mean in the context here? I heard him use that word to talk about the pretty ladies there where exactly do you think he was talking about?

@SlaveSystem8 Год назад

Was he talking about Edinburgh?

@abidhaque8183 Год назад

In this context, "Firang" = "Vilayat" = Europe "Firangi" = "Vilayati" = European

@cheegum6296 3 года назад

Voices of the Past you probably have some idea what an amazing service your channel is to humanity. Your videos have such an astounding ability to educate people about our shared histories and clear up misconceptions propagated by popular media.

@Borissh89 3 года назад

"The English have always been good soldiers" *Hundred Year War flashbacks intensify*

@jmiquelmb 3 года назад

More than a century for a failed invasion. On the other hand, the british isles have been invaded by romans, saxons, vikings, and french normans. That's why english is a mix of german, latin and french words.

@MarkosMiller15 3 года назад

@Britannia checkmate haha

@krips22 3 года назад

@Britannia France had several frontiers, all around, with powerful neighbours both from north and south (unlike the UK) and for the last centuries, the UK had its additional layer of security (sea) protected by the best fleet in the world. Two very different situations. Oranges and apples.

@krips22 3 года назад

@Britannia Ok, fine. The term is not the right one but my point stands.

@faithlesshound5621 3 года назад

@Anglus Patria English historians always gloss over the Dutch army and navy which William of Orange brought with him to overthrow James II, who chose to fight him in Ireland.

@malleableconcrete 3 года назад

I always find it really interesting hearing about people react to snow and ice when they come from places where such things would be extremely rare.

@phoenixj1299 Год назад

It snows a lot in certain North Indian states in India.

@Super-verse Год назад

He was not a traveller, he just went for a vacation. Because less than 700 kms from Calcutta, there are many places where snow falls in winter.

@peace163 Год назад

He was a Bengali and Bengal never receives any snow.

@Emporator Год назад

This is one of the most beautifully written and narrated accounts I’ve encountered. A joy to listen to.

@lucabralia5125 3 года назад

19:30 Italy in 1785 wasn't actually a country, but more of a conglomerate of countries, it got united in 1861

@Eshanas 3 года назад

And neither was India, but the lands could be generalized by their similarities.

@lucabralia5125 3 года назад

@@Eshanas ok, makes sense

@cv4809 3 года назад

Italy united after 1860

@lucabralia5125 3 года назад

@Hernando Malinche yeah

@zephyrprime 3 года назад

Holy Roman Empire bro

@AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад

*Indian man accounts one of the first meme paintings in history*

@peachforeveryone Год назад

He was a Bangali. Modern day Bangladesh🇧🇩. Not India

@lollxxd6141 Год назад

@@peachforeveryone cope bangali

@Jwb3896 3 года назад

This is one of the best, most fascinating channels I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much for your content!

@kobe51 2 года назад

This is a gold mine of a channel! Thank you.

@niccoarcadia4179 3 года назад

Thanks VOTP. Another fine historical vid that I thoroughly enjoyed!

@jmahal8063 3 года назад

This was lovely, thank you.

@lmaozedong2259 3 года назад

10:52 When this man sees something of a triangular shape, his first thought is a camel's hump! Love it 😂

@MorphingReality 3 года назад

Fascinating format, going to work through all of your videos, thank you!

@aaronlopez3585 3 года назад

Gentleman I have very much enjoyed your presentation of such notable and informative semi biographical documentary. The historical texture you lend it with your voice is truly wonderful. Thank you.

@OddCompass 3 года назад

Wow, lovely video! I was captivated from beginning to end.

@ShaileshWaran 3 года назад

i have seen all ur vids,keep grinding

@giovannisantostasi9615 2 года назад

I can listen this stuff all day long, Narrator is amazing and the contents so interesting.

@jasonshade2656 Год назад

He started by warning the reader that his writing isn't good. This was beautiful. He's actually a blessed storyteller.

@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 3 года назад

I want to see a movie about this guy's travels and all of the things he learned.

@jithinjayachandranpk Год назад

someone will make it happen someday

@kensley94 Год назад

Still no1? Fine i do it myself

@utkarshdubey3435 3 года назад

This guy is an East India Company worker first rather then an Indian, he's hate for French just shows it😅😭.

@kamanashiskar9203 3 года назад

He was secretary to one of the higher-ups of the British East India Company and his goal in Britain was to encourage Britain to protect the declining Mughal Empire.

@Adam-tu1lk 3 года назад

Did the English really roast French shoe game? Some things never change

@louisd.8928 3 года назад

Which is rather ironic, given which country has a reputation for excellence in fashion, and which does not.

@Adam-tu1lk 3 года назад

Lou Dem That’s true but I was more thinking of the black friend that roasts your shitty sneakers. Carrying on a time honored English tradition.

@cjmatzen3941 3 года назад

Adam Was this the first recorded incidence of "What're those?"

@Adam-tu1lk 3 года назад

CJ Matzen Definitely

@walx274 3 года назад

@@louisd.8928 I mean which country has a reputation for eating frogs and snails and Being arrogant pricks ? And which does not

@owellafehr5191 3 года назад

What a fascinating video! I love hearing the thoughts and impressions of these long-ago people; it makes them seem so much more real and lifelike.

@midshipman8654 2 года назад

everyones talking about the comment on the french, but for me, i love the sensation of discovery and novelty and wonder in all of the descriptions! its amazing how normal things to you can be wonderful and dreamlike to someone unfamiliar!