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حصہ اول - کچھ تصانیف جنکا ذکر میں @Shehzad89 صاحب سے بات کرتے ہوۓ بھول گیا تھا اس میں بہت ہی محترم اور بہترین محقق جناب عقیل عباس جعفری صاحب کی پاکستان کے سیاسی وڈیرے، اور پاکستان کرانیکل ہیں ۔ ہہلی فرصت میں خریدیں اور فوری طور پر حفظ کرلیں ۔ دیگر یہ ہیں ImageImageImageImage
حصہ دوم - کچھ تصانیف جنکا ذکر میں @Shehzad89 صاحب سے بات کرتے ہوۓ کیا اور جنکا بھول گیا وہ یہ ہیں ، بنیادی معلومات ان کتابوں سے لیں تاکہ آپ تمام کا جہل آپ پر واضح ہوجائے ImageImageImageImage
حصہ سوم - کچھ تصانیف جنکا ذکر میں @Shehzad89 صاحب سے بات کرتے ہوۓ کیا اور ایک بہت ہی محترم عالم کا ذکر بھول گیا تھا انکا نام سید سبط حسن (مرحوم) ہے اور انکی کتابوں میں پاکستان کے پیچیدہ سیاسی مسائل کا حل بھی ہے ImageImageImageImage
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India's Muslim rulers frustrated every effort of Mongols to invade India. While #Mongols were ravaging world, from China to Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, Baghdad, Russia n entire Europe, they miserably failed to conquer India. They were repeatedly beaten by Muslim rulers.
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In 1297, Kadar from Mongol Chagatai Khanate invaded India ruled. They ravaged the Punjab region. Alauddin sent an army led by his brother Ulugh Khan to check their advance. They defeated invaders on 6 Feb 1298, killing around 20,000 of them, and forcing the Mongols to flee.
According to the contemporary chronicler Amir Khusrau's Dawal Rani, battle was fought on the banks of the Sutlej River. The name of the place appears as "Jadwa o Manjur" in various manuscripts of Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi,, a work by the near-contemporary chronicler Ziauddin Barani.
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🧵Four by @ChawlaSwati

1/ 🚨🚨Who is a #Tibetan?🚨🚨

Relatedly,
❓Where is #Tibet?
❓Are all Tibetans #Buddhist?
❓Do all of them revere @DalaiLama?
❓Are there Tibetans (other than #exiled pop"n) outside Tibet?
❓Do all #Tibetans identify as... erm ..Tibetan?

#TweetHistorians
2/ The 11th Zurmang Trungpa (1939-87) said #Tibetan 'insiders' (ནང་པ་) share these common features:

☑️speaking some variant of Tibetan lang
☑️following #Buddhist faith
☑️eating tsampa (roasted barley flour)

Who was he?
treasuryoflives.org/biographies/vi…

A handy definition, but...

~SC
3/ Let's tackle the big one first: #Tibet has long been identified as a pristine Buddhist #Shangrila.
But,

❌Not Tibetans are Buddhist.

❌Not all Tibetan Buddhists revere the @DalaiLama in the same way.

See #himalayanhistories 🧵on #Shangrila:

~SC
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1) Let’s talk about #Nakhichevan - a lost homeland. ImageImageImageImage
2) The the name "Nakhichevan" in #Armenian literally means "the place of first descent", a Biblical reference to the descent of Noah's Ark on the adjacent Mount #Ararat. Armenian tradition says that Nakhichevan was founded by Noah. Image
3) The region was at the center of the ancient Kingdom of #Armenia (858 BC-428 CE). During the invasion by Sassanid #Persian Shah Shapur II (r. 309-379) he removed 2,000 Armenian and 16,000 #Jewish families from #Nakhichevan (360-370 CE). ImageImage
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