Jay Vardhan Singh
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PhD Candidate, Indian History @ JNU. I also make videos on Indian History.
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Some personal news - I have been selected for Ph.D. in Ancient History at JNU.
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Terrifyingly beautiful images from Elephanta
Credits - Unknown
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The Sikh rule in Multan as described by Alexander Burnes
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Since we are talking about Yakshas.
The Yakshas haven't disappeared from our tradition.
For Instance, these two Yakshas guard the RBI Building in Delhi.
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Found something quite disheartening.
If you look at old images of Indra of Ellora Cave 17 (this one is from 1869), you'll find that the sculpture is intact.
But recent images show a disfigured Indra. This means that the act of disfigurement probably happened in the 20th century.
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This photograph of Steve McCurry is one of my favourites.
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When Macaulay's Education policy was accepted by the East India Company he wrote this to his father.
“It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.”
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If Eisenhower was the Prime Minister of India....
When Eisehower's Secretary of Treasury opposed giving aid to India, this is how Eisenhower responded.
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Both these sculptures depict Lord Krishna killing Demon Keshi.
The first sculpture is from the 3rd century CE whereas the second one is from the 5th century CE.
In two centuries, one can see how much progress had been made.
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“War was their industry, pasturing cattle was their recreation.”
Nothing describes the Aryans of the Rig Veda better than these lines.
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Presented my first paper at the National Seminar on “Temples as Institutions of Cultural and Social History”.
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One of the funniest incidents that happened during the Seige of Lucknow was when the Mutineers played popular British music. One British Officer who witnessed this wrote:-
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The National Emblem cast looks much more aggressive compared to the original Mauryan one.
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A thread on how Buddha is depicted in Early Buddhist sculptures
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Even some 250 years after Raja Man Singh's Kabul campaign, his memory still lingered in the region of Attock. When, in 1832, Alexander Burnes was crossing the Indus, he saw some mysterious lights. This passage describes the explanation given by the locals for this phenomenon.
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The Jesuits found the Japanese language so difficult that they wrote this.
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An ivory gaming die found from Gandhara.
(1st century -3rd century CE)
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Some Arabic words that have their origin in Sanskrit
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One of my uncles once said that Maths is quite easy. You just have to add, subtract, multiply and divide. As a kid, I honestly thought this was a profound statement. Later I learned that this uncle of mine failed in 12th because of maths.
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A 12th-13th century mūrti of Lord Viṣṇu from our neighbouring Village.
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That is how Kānhaḍade Prabandha describes the last stand of the Rajputs in the defence of Somanātha Temple.
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Got sick of searching for a Map of Eurasia that was copyright free and of higher resolution. So made my own map.
Took around 2 days to make it, but the trouble was worth it.
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Didn't expect that this extremely important horse scuplture, of Kumaragupta's period, would be this large.
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I distinctly remember how my father scolded me once when I had said "Bhajan khatm hogya." He told me that "Bhajan poora hota h hmesha khatm nhi."
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Sculpture depicting Prahalad, from Chennakeshava Temple, Somnathpura (Karnataka)
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The time is around 5 AM. You're in Devaprayag watching the confluence of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi, and in the background, M. S. Subbulakshmi is singing Sri Venkatesa Suprabhtama.
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The most comprehensive video on the debate revolving around the origin of the Mauryas is coming tomorrow!
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“What is the most wonderful thing in the world?” asks Yama of Yudishthira; and Yudishthira replies: “Man after man dies; seeing this, men still move about as if they were immortal.”
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Found another evidence of Rajputs using canons against the Delhi Sultanate armies. This one comes from Kānhaḍade Prabandha.
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A reminder.
काशी कबहुँ न छोड़िये, विश्व्नाथ का धाम।
मरने पर गंगा मिले, जियते लंगड़ा आम।।
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Did some more search into this.
It appears that the defacement happened before 1929. In the book, A Handbook of Verul (Ellora Caves) you can see that the sculpture is already defaced.
The book was published in 1929.
Found something quite disheartening.
If you look at old images of Indra of Ellora Cave 17 (this one is from 1869), you'll find that the sculpture is intact.
But recent images show a disfigured Indra. This means that the act of disfigurement probably happened in the 20th century.
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In this hullabaloo over King George's statue, people have forgotten how lonely Queen Victoria is in Mathura Museum.
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Circa 200BC, you're a soldier on the frontline of your army, and you see 100s of these beasts coming toward you.
This was apparently at the Kabini Reserve last Thursday. I hereby anoint the man at the wheel as the best Bolero driver in the world & also nickname him Captain Cool.
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The killing of the last Mauryan ruler Bṛhadratha by the hands of Puṣyamitra Śuṅga is also mentioned in Bāna's Harṣacarita. Bāna here calls Puṣyamitra “anārya”.
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We have all heard about what Spartans did to the Persian Ambassadors. But the complete story is not much known.
Here's what happened after this episode, according to Herodotus.
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In Mahābhārata, the ideal age for a war elephant was 60 years.
Ancient sources tell us that the ideal war elephant should be male, with large tusks and a terrifying appearance.
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The importance of the colour saffron in the Rajput ethos.
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Socrates, Chanakya, Confucious and Tokugawa Ieyasu all had one thing in common. They were all described as ugly.
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Make Madhyadeśa Great Again.
Kanpur. And I'm saying this with all seriousness.
>Erstwhile Industrial Megacenter
>Next to Ganga
>Flat plains. Building is super easy
>Brilliant infra thanks to state govt
but most importantly
>200mn people in UP + 80mn Bihar
>Undue stress on Delhi NCR region
This place
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Amir Khusrau, in his Khazain ul Futuh, calls Mongols goat bearded😂
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Hammīra-Mahākāvya described the fight between the Rajputs and the army of the Delhi Sultanate in the following terms:
“the way Kṣatriyas and Śakas were fighting, it looked like the age-old enmity between the Devās and Daityas had been reignited. (9,118)”
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Not only Indra but his attendants are also defaced.
Wonder how many other sculptures were disfigured in recent decades.
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We are excited to announce we have launched a Hindi YouTube channel for Indian History. It is called The Story of India.
We have uploaded our first video. Do watch and subscribe.
Forgotten History of Magadh | मगध का प्राचीन इतिहास
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How Ancient Indians thought about their own land and other distant lands.
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Doorjambs and pillars from Mathura (4th - 6th Century CE)
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Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Tuzuk-i Jahangiri (his memoir), talks about the four Varṇa of the Hindus.
Here is how he describes each Varṇa.
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One of the many good things about JNU is its Library. I think it is better than DU's.
Here are some books that I found today.
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When I first started reading history books, particularly books on Ancient Indian History, I was very much frustrated by the habit of historians writing dates in centuries. There were no exact dates. Everything happened at the start, middle, or end of a century.
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Of all the universities I have visited/seen, nothing beats the grandness and beauty of Allahabad University.
Sadly, the heyday of this University has long passed.
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After achieving his victories, Pṛthvīrāja entered Ajayamerū and having seen the long garland of enemies' severed heads that was placed on the Gates of the city, Rājyalakṣmī didn̍t venture out of the city for even a moment. (Pṛthvīrāja Vijaya 10.38)
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An Ancient Indian "mansion" as envisioned by Charles Garnier (architect of the Paris Opera House).
It was displayed in the "History of Habitation" at the 1889 Paris Exposition.
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tried to do something different. Do check the video on Youtube.
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TIL - The River Kosi earlier used to discharge its water in Brahmaputra. 🤯
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How different military cultures reacted when they learned about modern European military tactics.
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So it seems that the misconception of associating Ancient Gandhara with modern Kandahar has its origin in T.W. Rhys Davids' Buddhist India.
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“Neither by performing yajñas, nor by pilgrimages to the tīrthas, nor even by giving unbounded charities in the three lokas does one attain the high position which these brave warriors attained, verily the heaven, by laying down their lives in the defence of Lord Somnātha.”(1.92)
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Jawaharlal Nehru on using diacritical marks for Sanskrit.
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The Story of Civilization, Volume 1, Our Oriental Heritage
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How the view changed in 150 years (the first photo was shot around the 1870s).
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raṇa-dīkṣā (war preparations) made by the king before going to the war, from agni Purāṇa
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The Ashokan pillar at Firoz Shah Kotla, which the locals used to call Bhim ki Lat, still shines even after more than 2000 years.
Because of this unique shine (all thanks to the mythical Mauryan Polish), it was called Minar-i-Zarreen (Golden Pillar) in the Persian sources.
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If there's one paragraph that one should learn by heart, it should be this one.
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From Candragupta I to Kumāragupta, the average reign is 32 years. The fact that we have four successive rulers having such long reigns is one of the main reasons why the Imperial Guptas had such a great impact on Indian History. +
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It always gives me joy when I find that I am the first person to lend a book like this.
It feels as if the university has acquired these books especially for me. 😂
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So the month of Chaitra has arrived. In UP and Bihar, this is the season where Chaiti is sung. Here are some of my favourite Chaitis. Do listen.
P.S - Every Chaiti has to have the phrase "Ho Rama" in it. So that's how you can identify a Chaiti.
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yasmin deśe mṛgaḥ kṛṣṇas tasmin dharmān nibodhata (Yaj. Smṛti I,2)
“In what country there is black antelope, Dharmas must be known(performed) there.”
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The traders (of Punjab) are chiefly Hindoos, before whose door one wonders at the utility of large blocks of red rock-salt being placed, till informed that they are for the use of the sacred city cows, who lick and relish them.
(Travels into Bokhara, Alexander Burnes)
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Source:- Pg 167, The Buddha and the Sahibs by Charles Allen
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Found an interesting trivia. According to D. C. Sircar, in Sanskrit inscriptions, the names of the Saivite deities generally ended with the title Īśvara whereas those of Vaiṣṇavite deities ended with Svāmin.
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