Strong Armchair Historian vibes, exactly addressing needs of Indian historic content and a modern record of them on RU-vid. Keep up the series along with more of maps and graphics. Great job! ❤ Hope someday there’s Kings & Generals kind of content depicting Indian historic battles & tactics.
@@heathenfire odd compass makes a lot of mistakes and is factually not credible many a times, Jay vardhan singh is one of the best channel in RU-vid for Indian history.
I searched like crazy for such a channel and I found an amazing channel but it only depicts one battle, very small. www.youtube.com/@Madhyama I am surprised in India you dont create more your history is fascinanting
Somehow Orissa always managed to defend itself. And somehow we don’t discuss how they did that. Once against Ashoka Kaling stayed free longest. And here against Malik Kafur.
The sea-faring history of Kalinga is also not known unless you are a historian. The maritime history museum in cuttack is determined to drive people away by the appalling conditions of its displays. Some light on this part of India and its connections to S.E Asia, Sri Lanka, culturally, economically, cuisine-wise & military history would be very enlightening.
Amazing episode , would love to see more colorful lesser known medieval past of our country. Great initiative. Kudos to the presenter for a really interesting piece told clearly and in fun way.
HiHi Kanisetti, I want to know more about the Pallavas. Given they are said to be of Telugu origins moved in to Tamil lands and manybof their relatives happen to rule part of Asean. I read somewhere that one of the pallava rulers was imported from the Champa Kingdom for the dying king had no Heirs. And also the Granta script developed bybthem was adopted by the Cholas, and the Cambodians and Thais.
Thanks for this. I have followed A.Kanisetti's podcasts and find them very engaging. Please do a series on demystifying David Reich (& team, Vasant Shinde) September 2019 paper on Human Population of South Asia & what it means for Aryan Invasion Theory... esp. in the backdrop of chariots of Sinauli and absence/presence of horses in those ancient times. Why a single report led to 2 diverse points of view? How does that happen? Thanks. Looking forward to this latest print addition.
There's no relevance of the Sinauli excavation that can disapprove (AMT) Aryan Migration Theory which if often adjacently (because not much evidence exists to show violent takeover of land and culture but mass migration and into Indian subcontinent in waves) connected with the old contemporary Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). And it's important remember the difference between Solid Wheel Carts pulled by donkeys or cattles and spoked Chariots pulled by horses. The Sinauli burial site had solid wheels. And 0 remains of horses. On the contrary, it only solidifies the AMT. As chariots come much later into India
@@PriceyTomato I hope you are updated with latest information. The Sanuali chariots have been termed as horse drawn by many archaeologists, including the lead archeologist S K Manjul. Combining this information with other recent findings where Iron use in India (Hyderabad University excavations) has been established before the so-called Aryan Invasion/Migration/Tourism theory. These two components formed the basis of the so-called AIT/AMT. Further, new research in linguistics is showing the movement pattern in Rigveda as different from that is conventionally understood. But the irony in India, emerging facts are being painted with a political colour and real investigations sacrificed for one's imaginary understanding of history.
What was so unique about central asian horse breed? I read somewhere that most of these horse couldn't survive the hot climate of India. And the maintenance of such horses were costly as well.
@@kovelamanas9905 yea it's simple gaslighting. If Ghori stole gold coins & used it back in Bagdad it's been described as 'circulation of coins with sanskrit writing' to present a secular Ghori . Again if Turks annexed & put Zigiya on the hindu population but didn't destroy their shrines the zigiya narrative disappeared & it became a sign of their inclusivity. If you read his articles he first rants about all other common narratives and then goes on to quote selective facts.
From late 15th to Mid 16th century, Vijayanagar kingdoms achieved monopoly of horses being sold by Portuguese who at the time wrested control of Indian Ocean trade from Arabs due to their superior ships. This correlates to powerful phase of Vijayanagar starting from Saluva Naraismha who strengthened the Army to Sri Krishna Deva Raya greatest ruler who repeatedly inflicted decisive defeats on Deccan Sultanates to Aliya Rama Raya who was very successful and pushed the empire to largest extent till the disastrous defeat of Rakshasa Tangidi
@Ad Ma No, different kingdoms fighting is not India United. Historically speaking, based on evidence, it is British that united India. But it is not a politically correct answer. British did suck all the wealth and oppressed, negating any benefits from unity.
You are right we have had four or five countries in south India. They followed different gods worshipped in different ways. Some forget that each of them were larger than the European kings. This version of trade for arms is kind of far fetched...
When I think of thirteen entry I think of minaret in Afghanistan saying 20 rupees or each indian women slave I think of the dark ages of Islamic conquest when hindus shifted festivals to nights to hide
How much of warfare and technological advancements from the post vedic times mentioned in Mahabharat are carried to medieval times if the dating of Mahabharat is accurate?
Question about medieval Indian warfare: I don't understand why warhorses would be very important for Deccan kingdoms. The iron rich polities would have been better off focusing on heavy infantry and pikemen who would primarily fight on uneven ground vs field battles (uneven ground being the dominant terrain feature of the deccan). This is how European heavy infantry defeated cavalry based opponents. But for some reason, for all of Indian history there seems to be a trend of fielding large, light infantry (scantily armored) armies. This seems to defy logic, especially for the Deccan kingdoms. Maybe it is because most military shastras of the time were centered around organized field battles (with these shastras being written in North India where large field battles would make a lot more sense). Let me know if I am missing something obvious.
1.Indian climate was not conductive to horses. So you have to keep buying and replenishing stock 2. Central Asia is a natural habitat of horses.They also have experience in building good stud farms. 3. It is like India having good war elephants.
India didn't have good horses due to different climate. The best horses came for Central Asia, Arabia and Mongolia. Thats why Indians, Iranians and Chinese always faced difficulty fighting Nomadic Tribes from those areas with really good cavalry.
He's spewing his usual nonsense towards the end. The reason why the Delhi sultanate continued ruling N India wasn't their superior military prowess, it's coz the Mongols at the the height of their powers during Genghis Khan & immediately later didn't target India. The ones who did target India were second string generals or peripheral expeditions & some of them did real damage. By the time they got around to be serious about invading India, they were mostly a spent force & were easily dealt with. For perspective consider Timur's invasion of India. Although it was a different era, it underlines my point of what it means to bring the full force of ones arms to bear upon ones enemies One's grateful kani didn't bring up the usual trait of his ilk of how India ought to be grateful to the Mamlukes & Khaljis for saving us from Mongol depravaties.
@@venomfu007 yes we did. Oldest evidence of horse cavalry is from India. Not only elephants, camel mounted and rhinoceros were used in battles amd wars. We truly invented the art of war for the world to learn from us.
@@adma7298 No, they didn't. Cavalry was not used in India. Indian horses were quite useless in battles or draught. Arab horses imported by Turkic rulers changed the game.
@@adma7298 no , the oldest evidence of horse cavalry and chariots are from the sintashta culture of the Eurasian steppes, the first quality horse breeders of the world. Whereas War elephants are from the subcontinent.
Unfortunately indian habitat isn't suitable for breeding horses. I would suggest u to watch Abhijeet iyer mitra's Turkic invasion series where he has explained it thoroughly.
@@dv9239 Steel - known in the outside world before. The special steel of stupas in India are made in the pre-Hindu era. Spices -pepper from southern current India. The rest are of foreign origin like southeast Asia. Cotton is disputed. No hard evidence to say that it originated in India. Many types of fibres originated independently in different parts of the world.
Kannadigas never let invaders to capture our soil ,Great Hoysalas only one who stood and defended south india, great kannada king veera ballala 3 defended south india was captured and skinned by invaders but his sacrifice he made sure and secured akka and bukka raya to lay foundation for legendry karnata empire ( vijayanagara empire) which protected south india for 250 years from invaders!! when babar smashed into north india, he writes in his auto biography 'Babar naama" shri krishna devaraya lord of south india is the most powerful emperor in india with 11 lakh army. i'll be toast if i went to war.
Inspite of Such heavy import of horses The Pandya Army was Decimated by Armies of Malik Kafur!!!! !!!!! First time any Islamic invader had Ravaged this Temple city of Madurai
Good work young man ! Ignore the ignoramuses in the Comments section. They should be encouraged to hold their peace until such time as Time Machines are a reality.
United by census of 1871. Much of the current Hindus are converted from Athi-shudra and Mlechcha communities. There was no clear religion called Hinduism before 19th century. The tribal primitive religion of Hinduism was formed after absorbing and copying many elements from other religions. Proto- Hindus were the most backward in the world compared to the entire world considering population size and geographic proximity to the outside world.
@@hawkingdawking4572 Which kind drug u taken? Brihadeshwara temple 9CE Konarka temple 13rd century Is it not part of hindi culture? Atleast hindu religion merge tribal culture with main stream gods... Is this happen in abrahamic religions??
