When the Deccan Ruled India

The Forgotten World
Mar 3, 2022
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The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a large part of modern-day India was ruled by a single sovereign. There is an obsession with foreign invasions and the polities of the Gangetic plains, while the histories of the rest of the subcontinent have been reduced to little more than dry footnotes. Author, Anirudh Kanisetti in conversation with Aditya Ramanathan shines a light into the darkness, bringing alive for the lay-reader the early medieval Deccan, from the sixth century CE to the twelfth century CE, in all its splendour and riotous glory.
There will be a dramatised reading of excerpts from the book by actors Anil Abraham and Dayasindhu Sakrepatna.
In collaboration with The Takshashila Institution

[@Shahi-bangalah_1352]

Very important discussion.

[@metrictensor9730]

Anirudh very smartly uses sound effects to give people an experience..

[@user-white-rabbit]

1:24:25 - Damn! He didn't even answer the lady's Q; he ducked and spewed generic facts known to many.
My personal Q, why did the many vassals of *Rashtrakuta* not defend their capital city - Manyakheta - when it was being sacked? what was the reason for Gangas delayed response in providing the military backup? why it took them 2 weeks/months of response time?

[@shivashankar-xy8zm]

Cuz. Rashtrakuta empire is not a centralized one. Every vassal had a varying interests. Not everyone supported the imperial family, even within the imperial family there are some antagonistic characters.

[@vijayraju6182]

Lords of the Deccan.......free flowing . A good story of India.

[@sandeshkadam559]

Jai Maharashtra

[@RaviShankar-wg7up]

Deccan at that time was not Maharashtra, but Karnataka and only Karnataka.

[@vijayraju6182]

Guys grow up. Look beyond maharashtra and karnataka and andhra and telegana.

[@sudhakrishnaswamy2365]

This book is a befitting reply to Modi’s tirade against Aurangazeb .Our own Hindu kings were violent and guilty of fratricide too.

[@daddydeadpool9871]

Nonsense

[@mehroseemehrosee3887]

That's precisely why aurangzeb is brought into conversation. It's an attempt to homogenise brahmanism, which has and continues to be incredibly violent.

[@vamshikallem948]

But they were never praised for that, like Ashoka, expect Muslims glorify these brother killing Emperors.

[@codenamevisage]

​@@vamshikallem948Whom are you kidding ? They are glorified. Marathas are glorified and they are no better than Turks when it comes to carnage.

[@vamshikallem948]

@@codenamevisage when did the Marathas Kill 40,000 or more inhabitants, who not were physically fighting them, in a city after they captured it?