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Hindu History of Gandhaar

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  Time changed, names changed, memories faded and monuments were demolished. Yet traces can be knitted together to narrate the glorious history of the land of Gandhaar and Jabul. Indian Subcontinent, a geographical descendant of Indus Saraswati civilization traces its oldest existence through great compilation and reference in four Ved. The Rig Veda earlier than any human imagination appears to refer to a period between 1500 BC to 3000 BC when river Kubha. Rig Ved refers to a city called Kubha along this river and thus the earliest reference of present day Afghanistan begins . Avesta another religious text of Zoroastrianism refers to a similar name Kubha and reference about its inhabitant. The word Afghanistan itself has a Sanskrit origin. In Sanskrit the word “Ashwa” means Horse. If this is suffixed with “Ghan” which means tribe or group, it completes into a word Ashwaghan. The meaning of this is “who is the Keeper of Horses”. The word “Stan” means place or land. Thus, the ori...

Kafir and Mleccha: Two competing medieval Terminology.

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  Medieval India should be appropriately connoted as the darkest era of Indian subcontinent. An unproductive, destructive and tumultuous journey of time which was presided over by the kith and clan of an arsonist who set The Nalanda University on fire.   Violent Social schism, desecration of Temple, destruction of library and education institution, political treachery, fratricidal war among the ruling Mughal, fanaticism and destruction of civilizational value were the other stinging truth. It was a fall out of an absolutely alien culture that had invaded India. The social cost and damage to social fabric were irreparable. A large segment of Sanatani Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain were subjected to religious persecution. Those who pinned their trust among the leader like Bappa Rawal, Nagbhatta, Lalitaditya Muktipada, Rana Sanga, Prithivi Raj Chouhan, Vikramaditya Hemchandra, Maha Rana Pratap, Raja Suheldeo Singh, Raja Krishna Deo Roy, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Veer Sambhaj...