History Summarized: Classical India

Classical and Medieval Indian History is a tale of constant flux — but in between the dozens and hundreds of states at play across the peninsula, there are clear trends that arise. Let's take this chapter of history as an opportunity to dig into different types of sources, and try and wrap our heads around a story that doesn't fit neatly into a single chronology.

FURTHER SOURCES: "The Discovery of India" by Jawaharlal Nehru, “A History of India” by Michael H. Fisher (lecture courtesy of The Great Courses).

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[HiopX]

I had medieval maps of Germany in school. There is nothing left to fear

[EpimetheusHistory]

"Mongol-ish... Persian-ish... Turkish-ish"....haha love that very accurate description of the Timurids

[Quonzer]

Holy Roman Empire: I'm too subdivided.
Classical India: Hold my tea.

[maxx]

Something you do not hear often or at all in history, "They repelled the Mongols."

[Whistles admiringly]

[dagkyco]

“But, History be like that.” Best way to sum up the world

[asdrubalvect]

In the Immortal Words of Bill Wurtz: "There's the Gupta empire, not Chandragupta, just Gupta. First name Chandra. The first."

[aravdogra]

"These two communities got a along really well"

*Sobs in Post Partition India*

[IlleScrutator]

As an archeological student, I really love the similarity between classical greece and india in representing wooden architectural elements in stone buildings, an old connection to nature and simplest times!

[la.vie.en.rose]

The first video in this series: ancient India, is basically 6th grade history for Indian students in a nutshell. This video about classical India roughly summarises the syllabi for 7th grade and the video on colonial India does the same for 8th grade. I am currently in 9th grade, where we are taught world history. This video worked as a great refresher and made me realise how I didn't appreciate Indian history enough while in middle school.

[biliminsrlar]

"This actually makes India the second civilazation to stab Emperor Nero."

[miraflynn]

India: Diverse local cultures, languages, value sets, ways of life, etc.
British Empire: *no.*

[ladyswellegant]

"Oh, hey Portugal... Is it colony time?" History and comedy gold.

[vinx.]

"1700 years of television static."
you have the best ways of putting things.

[cheapdoc]

You know what these videos make me appreciate? The fact that people have always been connected, in both positive and negative ways. It does make one think how blindsighted people are when they think of monocultures. Though I understand that it is really hard to imagine because of the scope of it. Humanity has shared influences of their history, religion and of stories among each other with just the power of their two feet, or some floating wood and a piece of cloth propelled by the wind.
Insert death stranding joke about building bridges and connections *here*

[marcustulliuscicero]

Delhi: exists


Babur: It's free real estate

[mythosandlogos]

Well done! It’s a major challenge to cover such a diverse place over so many centuries.

One of my favorite stories is of how the Portuguese arrived in India and sent missionaries, only to realize that they had already known Christianity for a thousand years!

[kshatriyapa]

The Delhi Sultanate never had a constant map for more than a decade. They would continously face resistance from different local Hindu kingdoms throughout. Vijaynagar Empire being most famous.

[meghand]

“Southern India, does, in fact, exist”

Aw, sweet, sweet music to my Telugu ears.
Edit: The Hindu nationalist discussion in the replies is not at all warranted by my comment what the hell is wrong with you guys

[Mayday]

india: *breaks*
india: oh geeze this is bad
china: you get used to it

[biliminsrlar]

The thing i love most about Tamil kings is that *they got spices!*