What profound ignorance! When the Huns invaded-
-Generations of Roman Emperors paid hefty annual tributes in gold and begged for peace.
-The defeated Persian emperor Peroz gave up his own son as hostage in 481 CE.
Then the Huns challenged the Kings of Bharatavarsa. The result-
-Generations of Roman Emperors paid hefty annual tributes in gold and begged for peace.
-The defeated Persian emperor Peroz gave up his own son as hostage in 481 CE.
Then the Huns challenged the Kings of Bharatavarsa. The result-
All the three major world powers of the time- Rome, Persia & Bharath faced the onslaught of the Huns. But unlike the Romans and Sassanians, the great Guptas never submitted nor lost. Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta and Skandagupta won major wars against many unnamed Huna barbarians.
After 480 CE, Toramana the Hun finally broke through the Gupta defenses and swept into Malwa and the Gangetic plains. He was defeated by Aulikara King Prakasadharma in 515 CE. His son Mihirakula met the same fate with Maharaja Yasodharma. Hunas were never heard of again in India.
The Indo-Hunnic wars was one of the greatest military victories of Indian civilization, along with the Indo-Arab wars. It is victories that must be highlighted when teaching history, not failures. Yet Marxist history writing has damaged the Indian psyche with a lethal defeatism.
