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Friday, April 26, 2024
TopicMedieval India

Topic: Medieval India

Chola kings divided people into 2 caste groups—to pit them against each other and exploit

NA Vanamamalai -
In 'Caste Away', NA Vanamamalai talks about inscriptions from the time of Chola dynasty that reveal caste politics in medieval Tamil Nadu.

Vijayanagara was the Indian Renaissance State. It contains memories of older empires

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Just like Europe’s neoclassical monuments, Vijayanagara’s temples reformulated memories of the older Chola and Chalukya empires.

Sanskrit texts show Medieval Indians loved foreign goods, luxury. Not just temples

Anirudh Kanisetti -
This flies in the face of all ideas that medieval South Asians were somehow insular or uninterested in the rest of the globe.

There’s more to Assam than Ahoms. Ancient Kamarupa, Bengal challenge assumptions

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
The Mughal-Ahom wars were really the culmination of 1,000 years of geopolitical rivalry.

Raising taxes was Palas’ biggest mistake—it killed 2 kings, ended their 300-yr-rule in Bengal

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
The Kaivartas survive today as a faint reminder: the medieval world was not a utopia, nor was it one of complete and benevolent royal domination.

Medieval Indian engineers in the 7th century built robots. Powered by water and clockwork

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Using hydraulics and clockwork, engineers could make wondrous devices that are now lost. These were more credible than claims about pre-modern Indian technology such as UFOs and genetic engineering.

Yogi Adityanath isn’t the first. Shaivite monks have been in politics for 1,000 years

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Like their Buddhist and Jain predecessors, medieval Shaivite monasteries used their royal connections to defeat rivals and accumulate followers.

Jaiswals, Oswals, Shahs—Gujarat’s trading families once wielded more power than medieval courts

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Experts say some Oswal, Jaiswal, and Agrawal merchants still claim Kshatriya origin.

India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.

Battle over history just got a giant new classroom in India—YouTube

+TFP Vandana Menon -
In the age of rebuilding Ram Temple at Ayodhya, history is now everybody’s business—not just of elite scholars like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib.
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Opinion

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Rajkummar Rao must keep his chin up. Questions will be asked and he’s no victim

DD News anchor calls Congress wealth survey ‘communist ideology’. It’s following BJP’s lead

Economy

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

Bharath Rajeswaran -
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Defence

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Smruti Deshpande -
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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