Similar to earlier post on decline of Indian civilization and constrast to that, I theorize that the seeds of Indian civilizational decline were not sown on the battlefield of 1001 AD, but centuries earlier, coinciding with the intellectual and institutional collapse of Shramanic cultures (Buddhism and Jainism). The fall of the Gupta Empire (c. 550 AD) marked the beginning of a transition from a dynamic, cosmopolitan society to a "feudal," caste-rigid order. The subsequent dominance of Purani...

Similar to earlier post on decline of Indian civilization and constrast to that, I theorize that the seeds of Indian civilizational decline were not sown on the battlefield of 1001 AD, but centuries earlier, coinciding with the intellectual and institutional collapse of Shramanic cultures (Buddhism and Jainism). The fall of the Gupta Empire (c. 550 AD) marked the beginning of a transition from a dynamic, cosmopolitan society to a "feudal," caste-rigid order. The subsequent dominance of Purani...

Introduction This is going to be an opinionated history of India/Bharat. Basically Indian history has been so much clouded by single lens; vedic lense that people have forgotten what actually India/Bharat is, what it means. and where it should go. Let's look at other meanings of Bharat meant, which spread light continuously or which bears the weight. Not someone's child or some king name. Those were very later interpretations by vedic schools to connect dots with their mythologies to give con...

Introduction This is going to be an opinionated history of India/Bharat. Basically Indian history has been so much clouded by single lens; vedic lense that people have forgotten what actually India/Bharat is, what it means. and where it should go. Let's look at other meanings of Bharat meant, which spread light continuously or which bears the weight. Not someone's child or some king name. Those were very later interpretations by vedic schools to connect dots with their mythologies to give con...