History Summarized: Ancient India
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In the first of what is sure to be a multi-part series, let's take a look at the history of Ancient India, from the earliest civilization through the development of Sanskrit literature and all the way to the great Maurya Empire!
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India: This is a huge subcontinent with a rich history and...
Britain: LOOKS LIKE A NEAT GARDEN FOR OUR OPIUM CARTEL.
Opium was a big source of income for the British but their main interest were spices, cotton, natural dyes, and tea. It was only after the American South and Egypt started cranking out tons of cheap cotton that the British started growing opium to replace existing cotton farms. The British still used India to produce tons of tea and spices though, since opium was more secondary, and was mainly grown to get more tea by trading with China.
Opium has barely cultivated in India. It's Indigo that made British eyes glare.
@youcometome9 true, I was just pointing out that the british wanted india for many reasons and they mainly used opium when some of their plans went bust. India had been a massive producer of cotton for centuries, the global leader, until the US ramped up production massively and Egypt started growing cash crops. I've heard that they started using many of the same fields but I'm not sure if that was literally or just a colorful peice of imagery.
And how many times was India raped by itself or invaders long before the BRITISH?? Lets not be full of shit now lad...
@@northwest2647 ok boomer
Blue’s chair is now missing, I don’t know how to feel about standing Blue.
That Red has fully taken over the room for her Trope Talks?
I just hope he's not cold
We can warm him up with some amontillado
Maybe the chair is in the shop for now.
God me neither
that "souce: im the universe" made me chuckle. as an indian i had never thought about Krishna as a memer but if you think about it, its on brand.
IKR??
He was a person who would joke. So, I'm not surprised if he is a memer 😆
Well Krishna was a meme God
@@guldar360 Yeah that's also one of his quality. And look at you, that quality also flowing through your veins.
Let's make this canon: Krishna likes his memes
“People die when they’re killed”
Mostly Everyone: “No shit”
Ashoka: “Say WHAT??”
Siddhartha Gautama : *suprised pikatchu face* what Is dead.
Its more of the fact that Ashoka was saddened by the horrible way people died in the battlefield and the massive numbers of deaths and bloodshed.
It's way more complicated than that. He came to my state and we stood up
A whole river....a whole river turned to blood and dried off.
We have it to this day, dried blood representing sacrifice...
Seeing the blood flowing in the river with no water anymore was quite a sight. And Odia women lamenting their dead...
That changed Ashoka
We knocked some sense into him.
@@dragonbane44. even if he was she shud have "kinged up", he was a king for fucks sake, he should have acted like one, to be a king is to protech his people and love them like family, a king is like a father and his subjects are like children, now tell me this. Should a father abandon his children? He attacked for the safety and security of his people, to protect his own, he shouldhave nkw ran away from his responsibilities like a coward, i always feel rage whenever i hear the name "great ashoka" , He was great only till he protected his people. Put urself in the place of the people, your king has ran away leaving u vunerable and confused, other kingdoms have attacked, killed half of your family and seperated you from your mother and father and made you a slave? Now tell me how the fuck would u feel
@@dOVERanalyst even if he was she shud have "kinged up", he was a king for fucks sake, he should have acted like one, to be a king is to protech his people and love them like family, a king is like a father and his subjects are like children, now tell me this. Should a father abandon his children? He attacked for the safety and security of his people, to protect his own, he shouldhave nkw ran away from his responsibilities like a coward, i always feel rage whenever i hear the name "great ashoka" , He was great only till he protected his people. Put urself in the place of the people, your king has ran away leaving u vunerable and confused, other kingdoms have attacked, killed half of your family and seperated you from your mother and father and made you a slave? Now tell me how the fuck would u feel, even if he saw rivers of blood, he should have FUCKIN LEFT IT, THATS HOW WAR IS MAN THATS HOW FUCKIN WAR IS
Mahabharat is such an insane piece of writing. Just imagine writing about over 100 characters through generations,tying every character with the main arc through backstories & previous births without telling the reader who was "right". Then you have an extremely intricate philosophical discourse "Bhagvad Gita",which is just a part of this massive epic.
the first recording of a civil war
a friend of mine told me about mahabarata (summarized ofc) on our hiking trip and it was fucking amazing. i almost forgot about my twisted ankle.
@@ritwikreddy5670 what about the people that told the story orally
@@yumpie100 really? Was your friend Indian?
@@ritwikreddy5670 yeah a woke atheist not really a rare sight
"Avengers Endgame is the biggest crossover in history"
Indo-Greek Kingdom: *Allow me to introduce myself*
Wait until you see the Kushan Empire. That's the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, conquered by nomads who were previously nice to China, split into 5 pieces for 100 years and then united by Kujula Kadphises to become super rich off of the silk road!
@@eliad6543 And then Hephthalites
@Shreyas Misra not European but central Asian
Aman Singh Scythian people still had European appearance, Asian features came with Huns, Turks and Mongols
@@Ake-TL no, Scythians were iranic peoples
9:32 I can just imagine this
General: Your Majesty we conquered Kalinga
Ashoka: Yay
General: Less soldiers died on our side than theirs but a significant number of-
Ashoka: WAIT WDYM PEOPLE DIED???
Imagine hearing some people on your team died in a championship of chess.
Oppenheimer when he heard that his atomic bomb that developed to use in warfare killed people :- " My le bomb!!!! Le killed people???? "😮😮😮😮
@@minindudissanayaka1700 Are you trying a fake French accent? xD
@@_jpg Yeah XD
I’m a Kurdish women and my family is from Syria, but it turns out my ancestry can be traced back all the way to the Indus valley civilization according to my mtDNA!! 😁 listening to this video, it makes sense that my ancestors might have migrated from the valley after the first or second options occurred (2:16), and then decided to settle in the Middle East. 😊
Where did you do this study if i may ask?
@@mayankdewli1010 At a DNA Diagnostic Centre in my own country, but not via MyHeritage or something similar.
@PRICE ANI What exactly is your point even?
I have actual EVIDENCE (lab results) that my mtDNA can be traced back to the Indus valley civilization. You can’t beat actual data / evidence, I’m very sorry for your sake.
@PRICE ANI You are debating my ancestry over a similar sounding language.
Wauw. You must be the smartest guy in school don’t you? (sarcasm). I feel sorry for you parents, I really do.
Or maybe your ancestors were the one's that migrated to india. You should definitely have a look at indo aryan invasion/migration theory which says that indo aryans(a collective race of kurd,europeans, iranians and etc) invaded/migrated to india and became the upper class and eventually the majority in North india i belive this theory to be true as it is clearly seen the division between people of South and North india but North indias are denying this very real theory to show that they did not commit atrocities.
0:10 I would totally watch a version of say Cinderella where Cthulhu showed up
Cthulu Godmother: Remember to leave before the stroke of midnight. Afterward, the stars will no longer be aligned and my eldritch gift of a dress, glass slippers, and psionic abilities will cease to be.
Check out the video game Soul Sacrifice Delta, where Cinderella made a wish on an Eldritch artifact and then became a kind of humanoid centipede thing that rips the legs off of women to add to herself in the hopes of gaining the love of her prince.
@@crypticmrchimes had a pretty similar thing happen to me in dnd once....
@@lnsflare1 wut
@@gufosufo337
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Did Caesar burn Blue's library? Seems like he moved to Red's domain now.
Versatile Die Caster
Or kicked him out while crowing maniacally as she gives her TropeTalks from there
I miss the comfy library, thinking about lending him my other comfy wing back.
I think Augustus came back from the dead
@@naram5282 Then I achieved my secondary purpose.
@@valterfara5027 seems like you fixed the grammar, i know you didn't do it from me, but my head doesnt hurt anymore when i read it, so thank you.
I named my cat Ashoka and when you said “a cool cat named Ashoka” I screamed
Wait, for real?!
Why Ashoka?
Who even names their cat Ashoka?
@@uncrystallize3831 it's a nice name tho
@@naomipurple679 true tho
Jedi Cat Ahsoka Tano
As an Indian, I'm so so satisfied with the research and pronunciations! GREAT JOB BLUE!!
he said wrong about caste system
Yea he said wrong about the caste system, I wish Dwarika was here but it is under the ocean
lol... Siddhartha went into the forest for a month.... right. :D
As an Indian, I am pretty sure the first 30 seconds is the most accurate (non-indian) summary of Ancient India I've ever seen.
Well as a Nepalese I agree half
@@Jack-rk7jc Why?
What does 'as an indian' have to do with this? Being an indian does not make you an authority on indian history.
@@mayankdewli1010 it’s his identity outside of India
Tho the Aryan invasion part is a big fat lie
Great Britain was such a vibe killer
“Oh nice civilization you have there. Would be a shame if someone colonized it”
And killed seven of our monarchs in six years, one died at the last one's funeral.
It's very unlikely that India would've united without a common enemy to unite against though. Silver lining?
I really really hate the fact he unironically compared Britain with India's Caste system. Even in GB most oppressive, least socially-mobile times it was several THOUSAND times easier to move in social classes than it was in any point of India's history (except maybe modern India. Emphasize on the *maybe*)
Yeah, widow murder was Awsome.
@@aoarashi3025 Well, okay, and? India is like the size of western Europe, and western Europe had been divided for centuries and lived it pretty well. Why would India be bad if it hasn't united? :p
It's cool that they did, but it would also be cool if they didn't ^^
Blue: "As I have horribly mispronounced"
Me: "yes"
Honestly, they'd have a much easier time pronouncing it if it was written "Mahajanpad". Idk where the additional 'a's come from when anglicizing Sanskrit words.
@@Baronnax it happens because when you actually write romanized Sanskrit words in English, you get rid of the accents, forgetting that they’re really important. Mahajanapada is actually “Mahājanapada,” where the ā’s are “ah” sounds and a’s are “uh” sounds. Muh-Hah-Juh-Nuh-Puh-Duh
This system of adding "a" after every syllable is super annoying. I think most Indian languages have now come up with a standardized way to write pronounciations in English. We have been anglicizing movie titles the correct way for ages now. This system only exists now to make the foreigners' work harder
@@mabrurhrivu4998 You forget that those systems are only correct for modern Indian languages. But Mahajanapada is actually a Sanskrit word, and Sanskrit words do not drop the "uh" sound (schwa) like modern Indian languages do at the end or randomly in the middle of words.
@@aaditsingh3632 . Of course, it is right for this video. But I'm saying that the same system shouldn't be used on modern language. Let's say, you try to translate "thank you" from English to Bangla on google translate. The pronounciation they give is "Dhan'yabāda". That would be correct if it was Saskrit. But in Bangla, its pronounced "dhonnobaad".
IIRC, the Indus Valley Civilization had water running through channels in the walls to not only provide indoor running water, but to also water-cool the walls! So if I *am* remembering correctly, it means the Indus Valley Civilization _invented air conditioning_ several millennia before anyone else!
_Edit:_ I also got reminded a few months ago: The Indus Valley Civilization also had a version of flush-toilets. [Really, it was a sewer-system that had water constantly flowing through it and flushing it.]
Yessss!!!!! The Adivasi.
All became possible because that civilization didn't had clowns like you.
And how did they get water running through walls? What about gravity ? And hygiene ? Think about what water brings.. like near a dock or a pier. They had some areas which look like water channel but no one really knows for sure and it’s all speculation by the few who are researching there.
Cthulhu-Ashoka fanfiction when?
Now
Now
Now
Now
I'm working out the schematics of the tentacles
Me: Ancient India
Me as a historian: *sweats nervously*
MidwesternHooligans you can almost hear the Hindus and the Muslims getting ready to argue in the comments
Good video but completely ignored Southern India which guess what is Indian too... The Title of the video should be History Summarized: Some of Ancient North India
@@debodatta7398 Yeah, but that's not the part of India that's really explored in history circles though
It’s caste time
@@Spoogebro I don't think anything "Muslim" can be labeled "ancient history", or even "antiquity", as the rise of Islam was a Medieval event.
As an Indian guy I have to say your pronunciations aren't too bad. Almost good too.
Actually you missed the part as to why despite ashoka giving up warfare was able to keep his kingdom but his successor weren't. That is bc even though he decided he'd never go to war he still was very brutal to anyone who'd try to attack his kingdom. His successor lacked this
What will he do to them ?
The Indians are certainly very fortunate to have such a rich history and mythology. It's kind of amazing how old they really are, and the complex web of history which made them as they are now.
Yeah out history is long and rich but sadly our own people especially the young don’t want to learn much about it. Either they have to much arrogant pride over it or its deemed “old” and “stupid” and all things western are much “cooler” 🙄 theres a lack of balance.
@@SuperKing604 wtf is wrong with u. In the recent time the we have started to following the tradition. Atleast here in South india
@@fatpotato3512 Both of you are right at the same time. Long way to go though.
Channels like The Sanskrit Channel and Kuldeep M. Pai are doing amazing work for spreading the wisdom of the land.
@@WoSarvatraHain not our land only about ur land. Why is no one talking about South India, it has a history too right
I’m impressed, i tried doing research on india and I thought my head was going to explode
@Aadi jain mood but same
What’s sad is that people living in India do not realise the priceless knowledge at their disposal and follow the western philosophy
@@dominatorstream1869 yup. It's kinda sad, because India itself has slowly forgotten everything it has, the VAST culture and deep philosophical books and extremely powerful ideas and concepts. India is slowly just emulating other countries, forgetting its own strengths in the hopes that it'll progress. I hope that India will remain with a hold on its history and not forget what its own country has done through history, because I've seen a lot of Indians who don't care about Hindu mythology and just see Greek and Roman stories, which I find really weird considering their own culture is so rich and so much more interesting than 90% of any other ancient people. Maybe it's just my opinion but yeah.
You shouldn't be most of the details mentioned have been debunked by genetics, archeological excavations etc. So no Aryans, vedic period predates Indus valley by a atleast 500-1000 years to atleast a previous Saraswati valley , iron smelting about 2200-2500 years from now in the bronze age of the rest of the world
We are shadows of our ancestors. They were great, we're barely even sub-par.
Ashok was already a Buddhist when he invaded kalinga.
Nope he wasn't
Nooe
Yes he was.
@@AayushDotiya he was a Buddhist before the war had happened! His wife was a Buddhist! Being Buddhist doesn't mean you can't fight wars. Notable examples are Pala, Kushan and Tibetan empires which are Buddhist empires which maintained strong military!
@Harshit Dhiman i mean Ashoka converted to buddhist when he marry a buddhist girl, that happened before the kalinga war! I am a history graduate by the way!
I have always felt that culture and history are integral to each other, and should always be studied in conjunction.
Culture, history and Religion are integral to each other.
Alexander: gets a bunch of funny nicknames.
Ashoka: is The Great.
Well his Nick name is beloved of the gods
@@indrason6974 Alexander claimed to be a son of the god (but it didn't help him to avoid funny nicknames)
Blue..... hates Alexander bery much
Ashoka actually lives up to it
I dunno. Apparently he picked up a few choice nicknames before his conversion: Ashoka the Ugly. Ashoka the Cruel. Then afterwards he gave himself that "Beloved of the Gods" name. Kinda like Sun Wukong calling himself The Great Sage Equal to Heaven. Except...Ashoka was a real person, so...ewww. (PS: He's actually a personal hero, so I give him a pass.)
I was wondering why this looked different, then I realized that Blue is standing in Red's Empty White Abyss of Nothingness Eternal, instead of sitting in his normal Fireside Comfy History Chair. Not sure which I prefer to be honest. Is Red okay with Blue using her Abyss of Nothingness?
Sure, there's plenty of room.
Can we call Red's domain "The World That Never Was" or something like that?
i mean, he let red use his chair, therefore, it's only fair
@@JoyAndAgony but isn't the chair the fancier of the two options?
It's Janet's void from The Good Place!
Random Fact of the Day: Ashoka the Great was the eponymous inspiration for Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars, with the similar narrative link of being a young military leader who eventually learns to temper their anger and use their ability to protect those who can't defend themselves.
Thank you as a Indian theres so little content about the history of india any were and its always good to see something about it's history as even im still learning of our past and how rich it is.
As an Indian and someone who watches OSP videos regularly, I love the fact that you took a look at Indian history. Thank you for that! But the country is vast (it's a subcontinent for a reason!) and the video barely scratched the surface of the diverse and complex history we have! I'd recommend breaking it down region wise and era wise for comprehensive videos because more important points were missed than covered.
Its OSP in the end, a good summary is all we usually get which is generally meant to just scratch the surface. I think Blue is already going above and beyond with 2 videos. But yes, if they ever decide to tackle literature, mythology and historical figures/events separately, that would be amazing too.
Yessssss. Honestly same I would love to see a video on Punjab.
Can you reccomended any good English language videos or channels for it?
Please.
It is fascinating.
@@theConquerersMama I haven't looked that extensively however extra credits did a video on saragahri which is quite interesting also I'm punjabi so I understand most of the videos
@@arjunshergill5044 thank you. It was kind of you respond. Perhaps one or two videos will lead to more in my reccomended videos. 🤷 or I can learn more terms and people's names to search.for.
Has blue had a redesign? His eyes somehow look more blue.
Not hitting on you blue... Unless you want me to.
Da Red Gobbo
You’ll be stuck fighting Cyan while Red munches on popcorn and cheers her on
Da Red Gobbo there was a redesign... its more detailed, by a long shot
Don't you mean a reddesign?
I'll show myself out.
@@chenoaholdstock3507 no stay I'm lonely and like puns
"Bluer than Blue"
Me an Indian who had to learn all this in school: you just summarized 5 years into 12 mins, also your pronunciations are uh-
The very fact that Indus valley civilization was so advanced means they must have refined some prior system which was refined over long time. That means there were even older civilizations in India than Indus valley. Just that there's no mark left of them.
OR they could be the innovators themselves. It's all a conjecture.
Bro seriously dravidians are vry intelligent . I am now in pondicherry , people here are so civil and amazing
@@sanwayachilles Not really. Some of their rituals and their mathematical roots seem to go back to the existing Hindu/Indian ratios and units. Read "The Lost river:On the trails of Saraswati",book contains a lot of data on this.
"Hey Blue, you studying Indian history?"
Blue: "Yah-mahn."
I'll leave
No! Please stay!
-w-
You're "jamaican" my head hurt
Good video but completely ignored Southern India which guess what is Indian too... The Title of the video should be History Summarized: Some of Ancient North India
Debo Datta Go away we get it
You forgot about Chanakya, Taksshila(Taxila) and Nalanda
He showed nalanda photo
i'm glad someone said that
@@podangadubukus that doesn't mean told that at that time taxila was the greatest university
Chanakya Taxila is a Pakistani history not Bihari Gujrati or Tamil.
@@IqbalIqbal-kx9pf uh...yea, but this video is about indian sub continent culture,if you may, and pakistan is in it...im Bangladeshi and im not crying ,even tho borders and religion may differ us now we all had the same roots and culture as a whole, even if they differed in many areas,
You did a better job than most history teachers. Great job.
I kept seeing this video pop up for like two days or so n my curiosity was killed!!!
Even if I want to, I may never be able to summarise my own country's rich history like the way it has been done in this video- all the major pon its and events mentioned without taking you years to learn about it! Just in love with this video!!
I hope to learn more from this channel as I can see it covers other countries as well!!! Thank you for this lovely video!
"Everything feels temporal and and Lovecraftian, but hey, that's the Bronze Age for you"
Meanwhile, Dagon sticks his head up from his clay tablet, not knowing why.
Time to make the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
@@kabob0077 Do we still have to bang the fish people?
@@merrittanimation7721 its a good deal they give you lots of gold sure prostitution to fishmen ruin your dignity and they might ask for some reap kinky shit like human sacrifices but thing of that sweet sweet money. Besides the shape of water won an oscar so screwing fish is gaining cultural acceptance.
@Mullerornis Honestly I'm pretty sure Lovecraft only used him because he's depicted as fish like.
wait, hang on, i thought we were talking about mehrunes dagon from The Elder Scrolls, what are we talking about?
Could this be a continuing series? You know, like China. I don’t know enough about India and my favorite way to learn history is OSP.
I think he implied another part in the end
@@leaveme3559 I come from the future with confirmation.
Vedas were given meaning in India
China history wouldn’t be half as peaceful and would take him 1 hour at least to scratch the surface lol.
Amazing research work. Keep it up. I have never seen anyone explaining indian history with in a broader sense
This is really well done. You explained the principles of the Upanishads (and the whole philosophy of Hinduism) so understandably and in like 5 seconds. Keep up the good work!
Blue: I'll be using this term in its correct historical context
TH-cam: Wait, what term?
Blue: Indo-Aryan
TH-cam: DEMONETIZED!!!!!!!!!!
Sad but true
as a fellow indian, can some one explain me why the term indo aryan is controversial?
@@sreejasrivaram8250 Due to the "aryan" word there, and its overt appropriation by some pretty terrible people 70-ish years ago.
@@sreejasrivaram8250 Because of the Nazis. They believed people they considered "Aryan" (especially Nordic and Germanic people) were the "master race", and everyone else was inferior. And they did a lot of terrible things because of their belief in this.
@@johnnyderp9379 and now you can buy "Hitler ice cream" in India
Blue: If I seriously tried to summarize that all at once, I may actually burst.
Red: Hold my Mahabharata. *Giant inhale-*
Once she's done with Journey to the West, I'd love to see Red tackle the Mahabhrata! Unfortunately, you never can tell what TH-camrs will do.
Nevermind, she already did. I'm gonna go watch that now.
JOURNEY TO ANCIENT INDIAN LITERATURE
Blue: If I seriously tried to summarize that all at once, I may actually burst.
Red: Hold my Mahabharata. Giant inhale-
Half-of-India:
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Poor Andaman and nicobar ilands🤣🤣
Absolutely loved it! It was mainly an overview but it was very well researched.
Ashoka the "no even by today's standards he's actually pretty" Great
He’s not, historians in the last decade have rewritten ashokas story. Ashoka wrote his own history and made himself look like what the perfect Indian king was supposed to be, archeological evidence on the other hand proves that he was a religious fanatic who committed several genocides even after his supposed “reawakening”.
@kmdshabbir he killed thousands of people from a community because one random guy from that community depicted Buddha prostrated before Mahavira
@@anirudhsharma7069 well isn't that wrong though??
@kmdshabbir Yeah recent evidence suggests he'd already converted to Buddhism before killing a shitload of people, so it was his personal fanaticism and had nothing to do with Brahminism.
@@idubbzz7899 show me the proofs
I love how nobody in the comments seem to mention how interesting the content was. Thanks for making this video!
You love it? 🤨
@@piyalichhajed6009 some facts in the video are incorrect.....and that makes it questionable not interesting
SPOON
@@piyalichhajed6009 you didn't?
Great Culture indeed . Read about the Bilkis Bano case and whats happening now
So much fascinating history honestly!
Britain was able to colonize India not because it was powerful but because it was united and while Indians were divided based on religion and caste
Blue outside of the library chair?! This is new! Either that or he seldom gets up from the chair like letting red sit there for her trope talk
"Forget this, I'm gonna go drink."
-Alexander the great.
Blue your genius is underappreciated.
He got poisoned before he could continue his conquests
neh, alexander the great wanted to conquer India, Battle of the Hydaspes was fought btw him & king porus (from India), it was a great war and for the 1st time alexender felt, as if he had found a worthy opponent, he called upon a truce w/ king porus and gave up India, and went back.
plus,in the northwest region of India (today Afghanistan), there was even a "indo-greek civilisation", which is often said to be made by Dionysus (a greek god).
@@vishuchaudhary1174 nah, Alexander would have defeated Porus in the end and push further East. but his soldiers mutinied after 6 years of constant campaigning and they wanted to go home to their families
Alexander got angry and walked them to the desert where many died.
most sources claim he was going to campaign in Africa as well but he died on his way there in Babylon.
edit: most* but*
@@duxromanorum9861 eh, sorry for not being clearer in my comment, yes, alexander did defeat porus, but this was the 1st time when alexander came this close to losing a battle, that made him impressed by king porus, he even asked porus after the battle, how he wishes to be treated? porus replied w/, just the way aleanxder would have wanted to be treated by porus, and hence, alexander didnt take up his empire. Alexander wanted to conquer India further, but as you said, due to his soldiers, he couldn't and went back.
here in india, we have a famous poem as a tribute to the king porus and his patrotism, for not letting india fall under alexander's rule. this is actually the last para of that poem as translated in English:
King Porus boldly went
Where ‘midst the gay and flittering crowd’
Sat god-likeAlexander;
While ‘round’Earth's mightiest monarchs bow'd.
King Porus was no slave;
he stooped not-bent not there his knee,-
But stood, as stands an oak,
In Himalayan majesty.
‘The mighty king of Macedon:’
‘Ev’n as a King,’replied
In royal pride, Ind's haughty son.
The conqu’ror pleas’d,
Him forth releas’d:
Thus India's crown was lost and won.
@@Heaven_ascended bhai north india me indo greek kingdoms they centuries tk alexnader ke jaane ke baad mtlb agr porus jeeta hota toh wo exist ni kr paate kyuki greek forces ki defeat matlab they couldnt be sustained any longer, aur alexander ki haar ke baare me ek bhi script ya record hai hi ni? na greek na indian na persian, impossible bhai, agar porus jeeta hua hota toh har haal me mauryan records me hoti wo baat kyuki bhut bdi baat h wo. Alexander jeeta hoga pr bhut close victory hogi, aur bhaiya ye leftist rightist politics ko anpe peeche lelo bc
This is amazing. Brilliant narration.
I love how you explain it but also make jokes, you made my studying much more fun, thank you!
6:36 Blue falling to his temptations again, even if only for a few seconds
*Blue stares at Roman and Venice with heart eyes*
AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
8:46 I love that Blue still refuses to refer to Alexander the You-Know-What by his common honorific. Yay continuity!
Alexander the one who must not be named
Why? What's his problem with him?
@@achintyanaithani889 Basically, Blue thinks he's Alexander the Overrated. He did a whole video on it awhile back. th-cam.com/video/iU2IJb4GoC0/w-d-xo.html
I personally like "Alexander the Self-Confident"
@@achintyanaithani889he was not great as a person tbh
Tiny correction about Ashoka. He did not become Buddhist after the Kalinga war. He became a buddhist 'before' the war.
True 🙏
This was fascinating, thank you very much!
It's a tragedy that we don't talk about adivasi and Himalayan kingdoms' history as a part of Indian history. We don't even talk about it in our schools here in India!
Yes, our ncerts skips 600 AD to 1200 AD like : *Parkour*
Our history books suck in general due to politics.
Yes adivasis are neglected in our history books just to serve upper castes.
@@swagatochatterjee7104
Those advasis r also hindu.
Ramayana was written by an Adivasi..
There r bheel tribes who fought against mughals with RanaPratap and gave him refuge..
There is bappa Rawal who took help of Tribals and defeated arabs..
It is well documented..u need to study it
@@ashutoshkumar1960 no dude Valmiki was a bramhin, even in the dacoit Ratnakar canon he was a Bramhin. It all comes down to which Ramayan you are referring to. There are atleast 100 different renditions of Ramayan throughout the subcontinent. And no sucker, most adivasis are of Dravidian descent (as Blue explained using the map), and hence most of them practised animism. Later Periyyar will use this Dravidian heritage, to launch Dravidar Kazhagam. Don't be a bhakt dude.
"We could make a religion out of this"
Was looking for the Bill Wurtz meme
@Pavan Kumar just let me meme
Hindusimmmmmmm
Jainismmmmmmmm
Buddhismmmmmmm
Sikhisimmmmmmmm
@@bristymishra5508 those are all predominantly "ways of life" than specifically being a religion. It would also depend on what you consider a religion though.
Stop trying to build cults people
Very informative and entertaining video ! Thank youu
Great video mate!
The Caste System wasn't intended to be an oppressive hierarchical structure. There was no "above" or "below" in it, and you weren't stuck in your caste of birth. Your caste was based on your skills, and you could move through castes. All the Caste System did was categorize people, and depending on your category, you a unique set of dharma/duties to follow. It was still expected to keep your father's job, remaining in the same caste, so you keep honing the skills passed down your family, but it was not _required_ as the only option.
Then came The Laws of Manu, made it so the priest caste were the highest, while physical laborers were the lowest. Made it a hierarchy. And also forbade people from moving castes, for good measure. So a peasant is forever a peasant, while those born in upper classes are forever upper class. As you can see, it's an obvious play by the religious and noble classes so that they're deemed superior.
So while it is true that the Caste System has almost entirely been used for oppression for most of history, it wasn't made with that in mind. It's akin to taking a good statement, like "all men are created equal," and then using that for oppressive purposes by just labeling those who you want to target as "subhuman" and therefore not equal. Bad actors taking control of a not-so-bad system.
exactly! it wasnt so much an triangle as an line- everyone had duties, but everyones jobs was needed and important, whether it was labour or acedemia
Do you have a verifiable trustworthy source for this?
This sounds like propaganda from someone higher in the standings. "there was no above or below" uh, bs. I call complete bullshit on that. You think the people higher on that list didn't look down on those below? Keep dreaming. They might have had important skills but that doesn't mean they were treated well.
@@SimonNZ6969 Caste system not dictating classes != there were no classes. There were still hierarchies, obviously, but this particular religious system didn't dictate those hierarchies. The rich were still better off, but that's to be expected. It's significant as you could move the castes, so even the poor had a chance. This is even depicted as such in both the Indian Epics, where people freely move castes depending on their skillset. The poor were treated as second/third-class, despite being of the same caste as the rich.
@@tarunuday To minimize the amount of reading you'd have to do, just read up on the Law of Manu and a few commentaries on it. It's one of the first Sanskrit texts to be translated into English, giving it a long history, so it won't be hard to find. It's an overall great document of philosophy, worth the read, but it's seen as the most influential in making Caste system a rigid hierarchy. You'll find it strictly prohibits moving between Castes. If that was already prohibited, it wouldn't have to, and we find no real mentions of such prohibitions in the Vedas, Epics and the Gita. That is harder to verify without reading up all that, but you could just google it if you don't want to. Actually, you could do that for all of it. Google it.
This is really great stuff, and personally pretty meaningful to me. I'm a converted buddhist from South America, so seeing more views about the birth and early history of the religion is of tremendous value.
Thank you for the bravery to take on a challenging subject, and for the dilligence to push through the hard work involved.
namo buddhaya namo buddhaya
The caste system wasn't always so
Actually in Ancient India times a Man Ought to have 4or 5 children;
1. A brahmin ( knowledgeable and educated)
2. A kshtriya ( a strong one)
3. A Vaishya( a smart and bussiness minded one)
4. A shudra( an obedient one)
Other kids were asked to be obedient and good to their parents and elder siblings ❤️
I recently found out that the oldest of the Veda, Rgveda, states Varna (caste) to be something that had to be earned and could be lost. It was NOT bound by birthright, which is unfortunately how modern-day Hinduism wields the caste system.
@@paulie4450 You can still lose varna in modern Hinduism. By eating beef. The Rgveda Casta system that you mentioned is just as bad 👎 and outdated
Revisionist right wing propaganda masquerading as History 😂
Should I remind u manusmriti, anushasanaparva, dharmashatra especially Gautama dharmashastra.. My right wing friend.. Sure ancient Indus Valley civilizations had no caste system but later did.. So did Mahabharata
@@absurdist5938 Also Garuda Purana and Padma Purana
This is one of the most informative, accurate, well balanced videos on the topic!
Although considering how much time you spent on the religious texts, I would have liked to have seen you go into more details on certain aspects, especially South India.
Finally a comment which makes sense!
@@jackisback2842 Thank you!
The rest of the world:
England: HiPpiTy HoPpiTy your entire country is now my colony
France: try it.
Aurangzeb era Mughals: cute.
Zulus: sure. But with a payment of blood.
US: for now.
@@achintyanaithani889 Maratha Empire : we defeated you Brits in the first Anglo- Maratha war in 1775.
@@ShahanshahShahin not a brit
Indian rulers never wanted to expand and may be that cost India later on
@@dbasisshh Imagine yourself as an Indian emperor. To your north there are magnificent Himalayas; to your south there is the ocean stretching upto horizon; To your west there are semi arid reasons of middle east and between them you have one of the most fertile land on the planet, full of resources.
*Why wound you think of expansion.*
The development of ancient India is beyond the imagination of all of us, no less than the Sumerian civilization. And, I have to say, this video is really good.
Love china. 🇨🇳❤🇮🇳
@@isaacfoster2820 he could have been taiwanese dumbo
You did great, but I'll have to correct you at 2 points at least
1. Hinduism wasn't made based on Vedas, Vedas and Upanishads were created to spread the knowledge gathered by "rishi" Basically Indian scientists who get info just by meditating
Hinduism was a religion made based on Bhagwad Gita, hence, all the rules and laws followed by Hindus mainly circles around what's said in Bhagwad Gita
2. Caste system doesn't belong from Hindusim at all
What Hindusim states is known as "Varna system"
It stays that a guy is titled based on what deeds he does, not what caste he is born into
AND lord Krishna also said that life is a survival game, nothing is wrong as long as the deed is done for survival purpose, so ACCORSING TO LORD KRISHNA, being a Shudra is also as good as being a Brahman cuz they both are surviving and causing nothing wrong
Now to the point of Varna system
If someone prays to God, dedicates their life to God, Vedas, Upanishads and other those king of things, he's Brahman (they seek for knowledge and achieving God)
Those who dedicate their lives to their mother land, their country amd fight to defend their country are Kshatriyas (fun fact, it's said that if a Kshatriya dies fighting, he DIRECTLY achieves God meaning goes to heaven)
Those who try to sell something or have business or earn money by any ways are Vaishyas (I believe it literally means a trader), so basically, majority of us are factually Vaishyas
And those who look for cleanliness of roads, streets, clothes, houses and other things are classified as Shudras (you see, people at that time had a great unity, so there were Brahmans who gathered knowledge and spread it to enitee society consisting pf all kinds of Varnas, there were Kshatriyas who defended the country, there were Vaishyas who earned money and they were mainly those who donates Brahmans some food, cuz Brahmans never earned money, they had this as a spurce of food, and there were Shudras who cleaned the society and they were the farmers too)
So if we follow the religion, it clearly points that Shudraas were as important as Brahmans were
The thing was that people miss interpreted it and never understood the true meaning of it
I'd love to see more videos on the specific history of specific ethnic groups and religions throughout ages.
Everyone is talking about Blue not being in his chair, & yet no one's mentioned that his hair isn't slicked back. Looks good on you Blue
that's the difference I haven't been spotting
Well, I know Indian mythology has some pretty gnarly monsters in it like Ravana, but I wouldn't call it Lovecraftian. I mean, its not like Aztec mythology, where the world is made from the body of a planet size monster that is entirely made of teeth and isn't completely dead, necessitating frequent blood sacrifice to keep it placated.
I think he was reffering more to the Indus River Valley Civilization mysteriously appearing with comparatively advanced technology and then abruptly disappearing after a few thousand years.
@@festethephule7553 I'd call that mysterious, rather that Lovecraftian, unless Blue is implying that the Indus Valley people were half-human half-fish abominations or that they worshiped unspeakable horrors from beyond the veil of reality
I mean, isn't the world formed from the body of a god in the Vedas? Purusha or such like? Plus there are the many wrathful forms of gods and goddesses like Kali with many arms and heads.
@@SonofSethoitae Yes, but not in the Lovecraft style, where they would be heaving masses of tentacles and teeth
In Lovecraftian mythology, there are beings who, should they ever gain consciousness or enter the world, will destroy the universe and end all things as though they never existed. Also, the gods in this reality are beyond understanding, and dream realities and cosmologies into existence just about unwittingly. That...is a pretty good description of not only what happened in the Indus River valley, but also Bramma’s relationship with our universe to the point where I’m almost certain that Lovecraft based the god Azathoth off of the Indian supreme being. That said, Indian mythology tends toward being beautiful, and indeed Aztec mythology suits the razor sharp teeth motif much better, but is terrible at ancient unknowable supreme beings.
"Historian says Indias' whole history is one of wrongness, due to being a caste system." So easy to condemn, using todays US moral standards. In fact, India stands up very well, In contrast the rest of the world. Its not just fine, it stands with the best you can compare it to in many, many ways.
"...using todays US moral standards..."
So a highly racially divided economical and political system founded, structured, managed and controlled by a small and select corporate oligarchy (since the beginning).
@@magtovi the us isn’t prefect but still better than Russia and China the other superpowers . China’s Han chauvinism knows no bounds
LOL JOKE
SO MANY BUTT HURT WESTERNERS
TRYING TO BE HISTORIANS
Britishers formed the modern caste system that we know that
You can refer to the wiki of the indian caste system
Dumb westerner
Oh, please. Dalits, religious minorities, women, lgbtq+ and more face plenty of issues in India today.
Is the US more judgmental of non-white countries? Yes. Is it hypocritical as fuck? Yes. Should we pretend Indian society is perfect in response? Absolutely not. That’s too disrespectful to everyone that’s suffering.
@@432neptune Religious minorities? You mean Abrahamic and Desert cults?
The missed oppertunity of "badda-bing badda-Buddha" will haunt me forever
*Finally,some delicious history and culture.*
Until now, I hadn't yet seen a western channel on TH-cam which doesn't mispronounce Indian names. This might be the only time that I've heard a westerner utter the names without butchering and making it sound like nails on a board. Blue's isn't perfect but it's close enough. Thank you, for that.
Yayyy I was waiting for this
Thanks for explaining the epics, it does not really talk about the dates, but about the truth of it
Fun fact: some of thailand culture is adapt mostly from ancient india.
A very large portion of southeast Asian culture comes from India, including the religions.
through the theravada buddhist school which derives from the Pali canon.
Thailands national emblem GARUDA EAGLE is a hindu icon.
@@obsrvdsplash115 Yeah, many South East Asian cultures are basically the bastard offspring of India and China.
@@rajch2000 yeah there's temples in Thailand built by the chola and pallava empires...
Yay! A non-biased and faithful retelling of ancient indian! Thank you! My culture has always been side sweeped in history classes so it's nice for someone to give a some what faithful telling.
Thank you so much.. summarized all that I read
India refer to to South Asia, but since the country India use the word India as their name, many forget that Indian neighbours are also India.
neighbours can COPE and SEETHE in Bharatas glory
Finally something on India, hoping to see much about it from your fantastic channel!
YES FINALLY INDIA, but he is pronouncing a lot of things wrong tho Idc really
Aw that so sad. Hes not pronouncing them just like indian people! So sad!
Blue isn't Indian
Yeah I get it at least he tried
You shouldn't even be complaining.
Can't really expect a caucasian to pronounce Sanskrit names perfectly. Most people here in the Subcontinent can't.
Great video. As an Indian, who's spent some of my school years in the US, I'm impressed at how accurate you are even within the constraints of a summary. But, just one thing I'd like to point out is that what you refer to generically as an 'Indian philosophy and theology' is about analogous to the concept of 'Sanātana Dharmā,' which is infinitely interpretable, thus the incredible breadth within both oral and written literature. Thus, there are literally athiest 'Hindus' since they participate in the philosophical, cultural, ethical, metaphysical traditions of Sanātana Dharmā, while not believing in 'gods'.
Also, I'd like to highlight the rich tradition of debate that is encouraged historically in such traditions, very much similar to how Jews are encouraged to debate the interpretationsof their laws and philosophy.
As a message to viewers, Aryan theory is being rethought today due to large amount of inaccuracies. Caste system was originally intended to be just a categorization of professions, and there was much equality and flexibility. Later on, it was corrupted with untouchability and all, as prophesized in our religious texts (humanity is said to degrade in this age).
Edit: I just realised I started a comment war. You let me down, guys.
Crock of bullshit. That's the crap people keep telling themselves in order to justify the wrongs done.
You do realise the only folks doing 're-thinking' are the Hindutva ecosystem brigade right ? Not the actual academics. The consensus there (after discounting the 2 RW nutjobs) is literally universal.
@@nitishkulkarni929 I'm not denying it became wrong. The basic concept was good, but later was modified and made sinister.
@Aditya Jaiman maybe read up what it is AMT is instead of regurgitating talking points?
None of what you said is mentioned in the theory. Do you realise we're talking about thousands of years before Jesus ? Or even Vedic texts ?
In some nutjobs' interpretation of the theory though...
@Aditya Jaiman oh I'm talking to an andh bhakt afterall. Farewell.
Blue looks different.
I’m not sure if my heart can take it.
Understanding a culture requires more than just knowing their history, you need to understand their beliefs as well.
I like the additional contextual information
??? what does this even mean
@@ussinussinongawd516 you cant just get whats happening or why isnt hapening in a culture just by it history you need to get the small things aslwell - i think thats what it means
I really liked this!
Even Alexander was afraid to come inside India. Indian kings are that much powerful.
But got conquerored by Mughals, British. He wasn't afraid, go learn from credible sources
@@Anonymous-cm8jy Mughal Managed To Rule India Because Of Rajput's
Britishers Ruled India Because They Had Support From Nepal And Some Indian Princely States
1857 War Of Independence Was Occurred In Just Ganga Belt Region
If It Was Occurred In Few More States Then No One Can Stop India From Being Independent In 1857 Itself.
Something is true bro
My name is prasenjit from Tripura (India 🥰🇮🇳)
3:25 PLEASE make a separate video on Hinduism and how it evolved over the past 4000-odd years! I'd love to see your take on Vedic deities and how they influenced and altered Dravidian deities and vice-versa.
why didnt you said about south india and tamilnadu
Best explanation for Ancient India
Hey 7:52 you forgot to mention an interesting fact about Siddharth Gautama.
It is still pretty common for some people in hindu culture to consult "astrologers" that look at the time and place of your birth and create a diagram of the stars alignments at your birth to see how your life will unfold.
So the king and queen called one famous astrologer of the time and he predicted something along the lines of "the day the prince sees suffering for the first time will be the day he stops being your son". So the protective parents decided it is best to keep him inside the palace at all times away from the suffering of the common people, as a result of that the prince was already an adult when he decided to venture out and to his surprise he saw a world he couldn't recognize which forever changed his life.
Really makes you think what would have happened if the prediction was never made eh?
buddhists do this too lol um
Buddhism Took Birth in India.
Indian here 🇮🇳
Soooooo happy
Thanks blue 💙
yeah the social teachers are shite
@@slickslack3644 Soo true
In my history class in school days we threw bottle at our history teacher for her lousy teaching of the class system
@@gayathrisridhar433 yo thats badass! dare to struggle dare to win comrade! solidarity from the US our public education is also ruling class indoctrination.
@@slickslack3644 It depends I was in a state level board school (which is the worst of the three carriculums.) And was had an amazing history and geography teacher, though that might have been because she was a Catholic. They speak much better English than the other non Catholic staff members
@@Alejandro-te2nt woah comrade I'm all for eradication for class but we do it through non violence cos the last time this happened a lot of good people croaked
Thanks for this video I have a ancient India test on Friday and my teacher gave me nothing to study with XD Thank you!
World : about Aryan invasion in india .
North indians : it's debunked ! it's debunked !
Others : where ,??
North indian : in north indian media 😂
@@tamilarasum1303 Ni enna bro maathi maathi pesura
@@tamilarasum1303 yaaru bro , Tamilan dhv 🤔?
I love how Blue has more details now!
Most people in the comments: I'm not hitting on him but he looks good!
Me: nah, I'm 100% hitting on him.
Tbf, me to
What the fuck ? Simping for a animation
Folks, Cyan knows violence fu. Tread softly or you'll go the way of Venice and Rome. ;)
@@clockworkkirlia7475 More like Carthage.
I thought I was the only one with this problem
Bro thanks you saved me on my test
This is amazing 🤩