In recent days, India's new crown epidemic has once again entered our field of vision, some marketing numbers always say that India is a strange, open country, in fact, India is also a country with ambitions to dominate the world, we will use several articles to analyze all aspects of India, so that you can understand India in all aspects!
India and China are listed as the "four ancient civilizations", India is located in the South Asian subcontinent, there are more than 100 ethnic groups in the territory, which has led to the history of India is very complicated, India is the world's seventh largest country, with a total area of about 3.17 million square kilometers; geographically India from the Himalayas to the south, all the way into the Indian Ocean, the north is the mountainous region, the central is the Indus River - Ganges Plain, the south is the Deccan Plateau and its coastal plains on the east and west sides.
To the northwest, at the junction of the Hindu Kush and Suleiman Mountains, there is a gap facing the west: the Khyber Pass; ancient civilizations were formed along the Great River, and the Indus and Ganges River basins in the south are the core areas of India, which causes invaders to have to walk away from the Burr Pass.
Halapan civilization
At that time, the people from the West were greeks, Persians, Arabs, Huns, and Mongols, and none of them could afford to be provoked by the natives. The earliest civilization in India is the "Harappa civilization" that originated in the Indus Valley, which is a relatively pure Indian civilization, and there is still a language (similar to Chinese oracle bones) that has not yet been interpreted.
Caste system
More than 2,000 years ago, the Aryans invaded India from Central Asia, they called themselves "Aryans", meaning "people of noble birth", this period is called the Vedic period, the establishment of Brahmanism followed by the formation of a sacrifice-centered caste system, from high to low brahmins (sacrifices), Chatili (nobles), Vedic (commoners) Shudra (slaves); untouchables are not worthy of castes, caste hereditary inheritance is not easy to change (the remnants of caste system ideas still affect Indians), social status is related to the caste system. At this time, India had not yet formed a unified regime, but the city-state chaos was also known as the period of nations.
Peacock Dynasty
From the 6th century BC to the 5th century BC, the Persian king Darius I and the Macedonian king Alexander invariably invaded India, and their participation consumed the strength of the city-states, zhān tuó luó jí duō, also known as the Moon Protector (born in Chatili), took the opportunity to establish the first imperial regime to unify northern India, the Peacock Dynasty, and reached its peak in strength during the Reign of King Ashoka, not only unifying the South Asian subcontinent, but also expanding its sphere of influence to the Arabian Sea.
Kushan Dynasty
After Ashoka's death, the Peacock Dynasty fell apart, India was invaded by the Greeks of Bactria, the Kazakh Cypriots and the Persians, and the Great Moon Clan nomadically came all the way to India from the Hexi Corridor and established the Kushan Empire, with more than 200,000 soldiers, and was known as one of the four major powers of Eurasia at that time along with the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Sabbath.
Gupta Dynasty
Between c. 320 and c. 540, Samuthara Gupta adopted a policy of military conquest and unified Northern India. During the Gupta dynasty, Mahayana Buddhism flourished and Hinduism arose. Although all the kings of Gupta embraced Hinduism, in order to alleviate the contradictions between ethnic groups and sects, they adopted a policy of religious compatibility and allowed the religious freedom of all factions to develop. However, under the invasion of the White Huns (a variant of the Huns in the westward migration), it disintegrated with the 6th century AD, and the Indians entered an era when they no longer had their own control over their destiny!
In the 6th to 7th centuries Sassanid Persia ruled the Indus Valley, in the 7th and 8th centuries arab invasions, in the 11th century it was conquered by the Turks and established the Delhi Sultanate. In the 16th century, the Mongol Babur invaded India from Afghanistan to establish a powerful Islamic regime, the Mughal Empire, and the history of Indian history after the dissolution of the Mughal Empire finally no longer had anything to do with the mountains in the north, and the invaders came from the sea in the south!
British India
The areas of British colonial rule established in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia) between 1858 and 1947 included present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma. During the period of British India, many territories in India were not directly controlled by the British, but were nominally independent native states, and the rulers accepted the treaty and recognized the British monarch as their supreme monarch and the supreme ruler of the territory. The British drew wealth from India to feed the British Empire.
After World War II, the United States succeeded Britain as the new world hegemon, the whole world is fighting for independence, the former Empire can no longer control its colonies, the British Empire can only retreat to ensure that India can also meet the interests of the United Kingdom when it is independent, in 1947, the British sent Mountbatten as the governor of India and planned a specific plan for India's independence.
The core content of the plan is to establish the state of Pakistan with the Muslim-dominated people and the indian state with the Hinduism as the core, which seems very reasonable, but in fact, this is a divide-and-rule colonial strategy; it makes India divide because of ethnic and religious differences, and eventually leads to war! Britain is also vague about India's border with China, planting mines everywhere.
It is not difficult to see here that Indian society contains countless peoples and civilizations, which are ruled by different peoples at different times, and civilizations and religions are also very different. So India does not have a concept similar to china's great unification, which has evolved into a source of division. Coupled with the indoctrination of imperialism during the British colonial period, India has derived a kind of ambition to dominate the world! (Next time we will explain how India claims to be the successor of the British))