Your favourite pre islamic indian empire?
>>221903242Do people read more about the Mauryas or Guptas?
>>221903242I feel like most mlecchas would say the same
>>221903242why would anyone be interested in anything happening in the jahillyah era? shouldn't the period of ignorance, as the name says, be ignored?
>>221903242Cholera Empire
>>221903242Maurya Empire because they were buddhists
>>221903242Vikramaditya empire
>>221903242Kushan looks kino.
I never knew Chola encompassed fucking 70% of SEA.
>>221903242Gupta?>>221903352Lol
>>221903242>chola empire feels like fan fiction really. did they really control all that land in the east?
>>221903242Indo-Greek Kingdom
>>221903270Mauryas. Indian Hindi texts mainly focus on how chandragupta rose from a sheep herder to the strongest emperor with the help of Chanakya (a brahmin who got insulted in nanda emperor's court and sought revenge). The history books focus on his grandson's change of heart from cruelty to messenger of peace. Buddhists will tell you buddhism turned him from the cruellest king to a living saint. Jains will tell you he was buddhist before the big kaling war and even after that war he continued to persecute jains.Guptas restored hinduism in india after buddhists had taken over for hundreds of years. They have just one page in history books.Brahmins have started simping for the shungas because they believe the shunga servant (brahmin) killing the last maurya restored hinduism. It didn't. Instead it weakened the magadh (bihar) empire and indo Greeks (Buddhists) expanded in, as you can see in >>221903302 . Also last maurya was a jain not buddhist.>>221903302the indo Greeks were mixed breed, honorary indians if you will.>>221903321Period of ignorance refers to the warring tribes of arabia pre islam. muslims interpret it for the entire world
>>221903551Yep. Tamils say they enslaved the north sentinels too. Probably the only empire to spread hinduism outside the subcontinent
>>221903714>mauryasDo you guys have tv shows about them or movies. There's occasional stuff about the Romans here
>>221903551No. They did a naval raid of srivajaya as the loyal shabo goyim of khmer empire. They also sacked the pala empire (modern day bangladesh area) to get some ganges water. Other than that, the idea they had any control of modern burma, cambodia, thailand or borneo, is complete made up nonsense, and they just raided the strait of malaca area then fucked off back home.Only the darkest blue bits here were chola empire.>>221903501It didn't.>>221903714>the indo Greeks were mixed breed, honorary indians if you will.So if I creampie a jeeta, wil lI be an honorary indian?
>>221904178>wil lI be an honorary indian?No but your brown child might be
>>221903501>>221903551Ruling and controling? No.Sacking, destroying, and show of power? Yes. They win.
>>221904178a lot of empires were like that back then. they didn't control all that much but they attacked and demanded tributary from lots of other cities/kingdoms. fast forward to today they're viewed through the lens of modern nation states with rigid borders when the very idea was inconceivable and probably wasn't even technologically possible back then over such large swathes of territory.
>>221904482British "rule" over india was the same
>>221904691not quite. the UK Colonial system was not the same as the mandala tributary system that was common in the region at the time.
>>221903242the one built by mongol nomads or whatever they wrer.
>>221904691Our empire was an empire by consent, a template used by the US today
>>221903242imagine the smell
>>221907083These guys?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchon_Huns
>>221903242Indogreeks
