# India
Worlds largest democracy
- we are a godless country
- we are a country without any morals
- Mostly matriarcal before invasions
- Has always been a country for everybody
- Only culture on planet which constantly told you, you life is your karma (doing)
- 9th centuary, invention of gunpowder in china, The Great Wall
- Ours is a oral culture, things have been passed down from generation to generation orally
- Anybody can write facts, usually victors
- Country of geological jewels and culture
- 5-6th CE Aryabhatta
- 3rd-4th CE Indus valley, Harappa Civilization, trade with sumerian civilization
- 3900 BC
- writing system still remains undeciphered
- Vedic Period - Indo aryans
- caste system, society faction are discovered
- 500 BC
- chandragupta
- Maurayan empire Ashoka
- Battle of kalinga 100,000 soldiers on both sides
- vow of non-violence and spread buddhism
- Golden Age
- 4th-5th AD Gupta empire
- game chess was invented in this Period
- India had trade relationships with roman empire, after it fell, portugal took advange and set up many colonial ports
- East India COmpany under the leadership of rober clive
- british induced famine
- resistance fom sikhs
- sepoy mutiny failed in 1857
- British crown took direct control of india, with queen victoria as empress of india in 1876
- indian soldiers contributed in WW1
- Gandhi lead indians to challenge the british for independence
- WW2 - india fought as allied nations, over 2,5 million indian volunteered to fight
- 1947 - granted independence
- one of the largest mass migration ever recorded in history
- 1971 - east pakistan - Bangladesh
- Indians helped built a temple in lebanon Phoenicia temple
- Tamil Indian kings built Angkor Thom
- If there is no pride, why would you want to create it!
- No other culture on planet has the variety of weaves that India has.
- all of them are endangered, chinese silk might kill them all
- World is imitating America, because of theor power and infuence
- world wears american workers clothes
- if they wear torn clothes, entire world imitates
- If they drink CO2, entire world does. Every child knows we need O2 and not CO2
- Nations
- Hard power
- Soft Power
- beijing olympics
- Biggest telecommunication market in the world
- 15 Million cell phones a month
- empowerment of underclass is the real result of interconnect
- Afganistan - india does not have a military mission there
- 8:30 kyoki saash bhi kabhi bahu thee broadcast
- Ayurveda
- Story of civilization, been a open society for millenia
- gave refuge to Jews after the destruction of solomon temple by babylonians
- first recorded religion to came to india
- lived without any anti-semitism
- gave refuge to Jews after the destruction of solomon temple by babylonians
- Extraordinary Phenomenon
- election won by a woman political leader of italian origin and roman catholic faith
- made way fro sikh manmohan singh
- to be sworn in as PM by muslim PM kalam
- in a country 81% hindu
- India is an idea of ever ever land
- We are super power and super power, we cannot be both
- 70% of indias wealth is in 10% of the wealthy people, 50% of wealth is in 1%
- Before Independence life expantency in india was 28 years
- Harappa society could be Matriarcal
- possibly Matriarcal society,
- Followed yogi and samkhya philosophies
- possible democratic, and disciplined society
Indian culture
Unity in diversity
- ISRO - cheapest moon mission
- Boloywood is largest
- cricket - god of cricket
- Birthplace of Hinduism
- 7th Largest country by area
- 2nd largest country by popullation
- Overtake china by 2034
- Worlds 4th largest army
- Birthplace of many religions
- Hinduism
- Jainism
- Buddhism
- Sikhism
- Clothing
- Foods
- Celebrations
- Traditional Music
- Carnatik music
- Hindustani music
- melofy, drone, tala
- Traditional dances in India
- Bharatnatyam
- Kathakali
- Kathak
- Manipuri
- Kuchipudi
- Odissi
- Lotus is important
- 23 Languages
# Indian Legends - Mahabharat
# Family tree
- Kunti + Sun God = karan
- Kunti + Pandu = {Arjun, Bhim , Yudhistir}
- Madri + Pandu = {Nakul, Sehdev}
- Dhristrashtr (pandus brother) + Gandhari = {Duriyodhan ...100... kids}
- Bhishma pledge of celibacy
- Duryodhana tried to burn them in palace during sleep
- Arjun ki aankh - swaymvar contest, 5 years after burnt palace incident
- came back to Hastinapur, land was split and divided into 2
- Arjun + Subhadra (karishna, balrams sister) = Abhimanyu
- 13 years of agyatvass after loosing in gambling
- after 13 years of vanvas
- Gita
- killing in self defense is courage and duty not violence
- largest poem on planet
- each chapter concludes with yoga
- covers all 25 elements of samkhya philosophy
18 days of total massacre and brutal war
- Kurukshetra war
- Indraprastha carved by the chief architect of indra when krishna summoned them after split of region b/w kauravs and pandavas
- Bhishma fell on 10th day of war
- folloowing the code of war, that he will not attack a woman
- Battle formations were predetermined and trained by kshtriyas
- spinning wheel formations
- crocodile formations
- cresent moon formations
- day 13th abhimanyu (Arjuna's son) was ambushed and killed
- Drona starts using astras (occult weapons to be used against warriors only) on foot soldiers
- on 16th day, kauravs army was 1/4 of pandavas
- War aftermath
- ashathama kills 5 pandavas kids in sleep
# Vedas
- Rigveds 3000 - 2000 BC
- Gayatri manta
- dhi mahi - dhyaan kare, not worship
- Gayatri manta
- Atharva Vedas
# Ramayana
So what is the learning
- Do you want leader of nation who puts people above his own personal family and love or dhritrashtra, at any cost my son
- Ram married sita and his brothers married sitas' sisters
- sotry if ram is a series of misfortunes and harships, one after another
- Jatayu - vulture
- Heros journey towards lanka to save the princess
- Sujriv and Bali Battle
- Laxman gets wounded in battle, human brings the mountain top
- sita was a hostage for 1 year
- after 14 years return home
# Mughal Empire 14th-16th CE
BHAJSA rules for almost 2 centuaries
- 15th C Babar
- 1st Battle of Panipat, won due to use of canons
- Humayun
- mostly fighting internal family fueds
- Akbar
- tried to unify religion
- Jahangir
- Shah Jahan
- Aurangzeb
- authorotarian, tyrant
# British Rule
- WW1 1/6th of all british forces who fought in WW1 were indian
- 54 million lost their lives
- 8 billion pounds in todays money
- India pulled scotland out of poverty during coloniasm
- You cannot opress, enslave, kill, torture, rape, loot, discriminate people for 200 years and celebrate the fact that they are democratic at the end of it.
- Nature of colonization - slave society
- Without india and afric. Europe would be 3rd world nations.
- British looted in India approximate 45 trillion dollars in 200 year.
# SWOT Analysis on India
- nation is made up of citizens, so make better citizens
- Limbs of Nations
- Executive
- Judiciary
- military
- Civil Services
- Peoples aspiration should keep alive, not an empty dream
- nationals aspiration to be peoples aspiration and peoples aspiration as nations aspiration
- We have been trading with the rest of the world for over 10,000 years
- If you dont pride in what you are, you will want to run away
- Just 250 years ago we were the largest economy, whole of europe was thursting to come to india
- wealtiest nation
- knowledgable country
- everyone wanted to be here
- Vibration of sun matches when you utter the word AUM
- We were the largest traders and exportes for 1000s of years