February 27th, 2002 - That was the fateful morning when a mob of a thousand Muslims burnt an entire coupe of Sabarmati E..

India, our holy motherland, since the prehistoric times had
abundance of natural resources. From the start of human
civilisation, i.e the bronze age, one can see the vast expanse of
civilisation stretched across the lengths of vast rivers like
Sindhu, Saraswati, etc. India is truly 'The Golden bird'.
As an amateur historian, I have read and
researched about various other civilisations throughout the world.
Be it be the Gold laden Egyptian Civilisation better known as
'Misr', The civilisation between the two great rivers of Iran:
Euphrates and Tigris, the Yanking Civilisation of China, The Greeks
of Europe, The Romans of Italian peninsula, the
Phoenicians who spread throughout the Mediterranean, etc. But one
thing I must say that no other civilisation has that kind of
distinction with respect to society, philosophy, theology,
science,etc. The Indian civilisation is a class apart
civilisation.
Even though it outlived many other civilisations of the world who
are now dead or just lingering in historical accounts, there is
enough amount of mutations in this Indian 'way of
life'. The glorious past is just a shadow here where
intellectual subversion, pseudo-secularism has taken deep roots in
the Indian Society. The society where God resided in knowledge and
unhindered flow of knowledge, freedom for each soul, etc. is now
taken the form of blind worship and imitation of the west or the
Arabic world. Despite this grave condition, the Sanathana way of
life lives, desperately seeking the desire to be revived back to
life.
We all know the glory of our motherland, but we rarely ponder about
the fact that in these 1000 years, India has been deprived of her
place in world politics. What is the reason for this? Why this
perfect society fell to the wave of invaders? Well I have tried to
make some analysis on this topic:
Inter-State Relations in the Ancient Righvedic
India:
The Righvedic scholars understood the urge and ambitions of the
Kings to expand their territories of the kingdom. But they also
created a set of rules which all the Kings must
follow. Here are some of the rules:
- Armies must only fight on the battlefields and not lay siege on cities.
- No civilian of either kingdom must be harmed economically or physically during the course of war.
- Battle between armies must happen only during day time.
- Same army units must fight similar army units, i.e.: Archers must only fight only with the archers of the opposite side; Cavalry units must fight only with the cavalry units and infantry with only infantry…
- Rulers had to follow righteous methods of war, during the course of war and even after the war.
- Conqueror was to remain satisfied if the conquered paid tributes.
- Conqueror was not to annex conquered Kingdoms.
- Conqueror must not disturb the local laws, traditions, philosophy or the way of life of the conquered subjects.
- New subjects must be treated properly.
These are some of the important rules which Ancient thinkers framed in the Indian Subcontinent. Most of the times, rulers were engaged only in negotiations with neighboring states and were to resort to war against them as a last resort.
To quote, these were the immediate advantages of the above stated rules in the Indian subcontinent:
- Cities were never harmed in wars.
- Civilian casualty was minimal.
- No form of deceit was possible.
- Mass massacres of armies didn’t happen. (For Ex: If archers were allowed to fight against infantry, archers would have killed many infantry units and may not even get harmed by the infantry units!)
- The basic framework of kingdoms was more or less stable.
- As local laws, traditions, way of life was not disturbed; the lifestyle of the subjects didn’t change drastically.
- As there was less attention towards Imperial policies, peace was ensured in the Indian subcontinent.
- Due to this, intellectual and spiritual growth of the nation was visible.
As I have mentioned pros of these rules, I would also like to mention the cons of these rules. Though the cons of these rules became real and visible only after 1000 A.D.
- No uniform one rule in the Indian subcontinent.
- Over-dharma reliability of the army proved to be the cause of defeat in the battles between invading armies who didn’t followed the ethics of battle.
- These rules ensured peace between states but the enmity was not resolved. This enmity proved the basic reason for treachery of many Kings with the holy motherland in order to meet their selfish motives.
- Rulers wanted their lines to rule for eternity. For this they introduced new forms of languages by mutating Sanskrit and Tamil (Sanskrit in North India and Tamil in South India) in order to ensure their separate cultural hold over their subjects. This paved way for multi-lingual states in the Indian Subcontinent.
- Though the people residing in the Indian Subcontinent had same ‘way of life’, rules, ethics, traditions, etc. they distinguished themselves on petty differences based on caste, language, philosophy, etc.
- The very long duration of peace made people of the subcontinent to neglect the butchery which happened around the Indian Subcontinent.
Though from this point of view much good can be seen about the
political theories of human nature of the ancient Indians, it is a
fact that as they had not permitted the annexation of the conquered
states to the conqueror, no other ancient Indian monarch except
Chandragupta Maurya under the able guidance of Acharya
Chanakya, could establish a sound political unity of
the Indian people in such a manner that they could be able to repel
the dangers which constantly lurked ob the North-Western
borders of India and which brought Indian Independence always in
danger…
These cons were slightly visible during the period of Alexander’s
invasion of India. But the invasion of the Macedonians never proved
to be too grave for India. Many invaders followed their path like:
White Huns, Kushanas, etc. but these invader rather imposing their
foreign rules, absorbed the local rules of India and became a part
of the Indian Subcontinent. But by the beginning of 1000
A.D, the Islamic invaders entered into the Subcontinent
and wrenched havoc throughout. They never followed the ethics of
war which the armies of numerous kingdoms of Bharata held as their
pride. In spite of this, the brave warriors of the holy motherland
held the brutal Islamic invasion with courage and bravery. But due
to deceit and enmity between small kingdoms, this proved to be
fractures and cracks through which Islamic invaders pushed into the
subcontinent. They were brutal on the conquered
subjects. Mass massacres took place in many parts of India.
Conversions by force took place. The normal way of life in the
subcontinent was totally disrupted.
I know many of the enthusiasts of Indian History (who know what
true history of India is!) would like to know why this nation which
consisted of brave warriors, brilliant scholars, and able rulers
fell to the wave of Islamic invaders. I have drawn here some
conclusions by using the ‘cause-effect’ phenomena. Sometimes those
rules which may seem to be beneficial to the people currently may
prove to be the cause of destruction later…
Reference: Cultural History of Ancient India by
P.S.Joshi
(Though I don’t agree with the acceptance of Aryan-Invasion
theory of the author in this book.)
Author : Mahesh V. Pai
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