WHY DID NOT INDIA RULE OVER THE TURKS, AFGHANS, PERSIANS & THE BRITISH BUT WAS RULED BY THEM?

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Fauji

This question was asked by  my son who is in class IX. I am looking for a logical answer. I have some theories. I want the readers to contribute some cogent ideas. Anything, except —- we were a divided lot, we were corrupt, we were selfish people,  divide and rule of British. That is all accepted and a given. There need to be stronger causative reasons. We shall develop this idea into my next blog, because this will also show a mirror to all Indians, where have we gone wrong in the last 1000 years. And last 70 years of independence, more so.  

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5 Responses to WHY DID NOT INDIA RULE OVER THE TURKS, AFGHANS, PERSIANS & THE BRITISH BUT WAS RULED BY THEM?

  1. SP says:
    April 11, 2016 at 9:51 am

    Individually we all want to be Vijay Mallya but collectively we are leaving no chance to bring him down on moral grounds.

    • Fauji says:
      April 16, 2016 at 1:13 pm

      Dear Shrinjay,
      Yes, you are right. We all want to be like him, that is the grey part of us, the Dr Jekyll and we do not want others to know about it. Therefore, when we do not get our desires fulfilled we start hating the person who is on the other side and take a high moral ground. It is to do with psychology only.

  2. SP says:
    April 11, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Moral degradation cannot be overlooked since it is a primary cause. Started since the period when Mahabharat was written. Chanakya hastened it by mastering the art of deceit from the Greeks and overthrew the Nanda Empire; an empire whose might was recognised by Alexander also.

    Ashoka mixed religion with the state and made the fall even faster. The state sponsoring of Buddhism and the need to glorify oneself. The decline of the strong military prowess started during his time. The first invasion ie, by Sakas can be attributed to same.

    The Guptas brought the glory back but by then the individual had become more important than the society. The prosperity had made us complacent and this with the repeated attacks by Huns made us weaker and weaker militarily.

    Hereafter lies our inability to learn and know what was happening elsewhere. We relied more on goodness and trade than on understanding the intent.

    While the West imbibed individual morality and collective deceit as values (the mafia concept) we evolved individual deceit and collective morality as our culture. The best example is of our not accepting and learning from Chanakya as collectively we occupy very high (sic!!) moral standards and see him as one who preached deceit (which he actually did). Individually we are the worst when it comes to moral standards but collectively we want to show we are the purest. This double standard is the reason we are continuously failing collectively. Collective high moral ground unfortunately is the baggage of our culture which somehow we are unable to shed.

    And that is why anyone can divide us and rule us.

    That was the negative aspect of ours. Now for the positive aspect. We somehow continue to believe in the goodness of everything, basically the heart over head. The heart is pure the head manipulates. Another cultural baggage of treating a guest like God. We treated them so and they in turn ruled us.

    • Fauji says:
      April 16, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      You have touched upon morality and our value system. But those values are basic nature of all humans. Judas Betrayed Jesus. So much for deceit. It is recurrent everywhere in European history. But then why did not we take advantage of it and rule over them with the same moral weaknesses. The reasons are biological and geographical more than social.

  3. anz says:
    April 6, 2016 at 6:21 am

    wow sir, what a question.. bowled me over. I would have surely shared my thoughts on this with you, but, alas, I am totally ignorant to form any thesis on this. Shall read up & some day, probably..

    Reards

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