Immigrant Vijayanagara warriors were focused primarily on enriching themselves. This is revealed by temple inscriptions in the Kaveri delta and the northern Coromandel plain.
It is absurd to replace modern mosques with temples—as absurd as demanding Tamilians pay reparations to Karnataka because the Cholas destroyed Kalyana in 1047.
The victory of Deccan Sultanates shows us that Indian polities can and did innovate militarily, once we look beyond the limited perspective of North India.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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