This passage is from a book used as a textbook for Class 7 , ICSE.
Max nonsense in ten lines :
Meanwhile Namdev
Namdev lived from 1270 to 1350. Exactly the time Maharashtra got exposed to equality and brotherhood.
Hinduism faced a calamity due to Khilji invasion. Temples were broken, pilgrimage centres rendered desolate. The Bhakti movement, with its focus on simplicity kept people within the Hindu fold.
Ref : Shri Shiv Samarth Anonya Sambandh.
Here is the source of your simplicity.
One of Maharashtra's earliest and tallest historians
Justice Ranade on importance of Bhakti movement. This pertains to Maratha history, but the base theme of keeping Hindus within Hinduism holds everywhere.
" At a time when invaders had obliterated the open display of Hindu religion, the Bhakti movement, through its simplicity of worship, kirtans and Bhajans, kept the masses within the Hindu fold"
- VK Rajwade.
Now this is not my domain of knowledge, but surely, if you are going back to Original Hinduism .. you would go to the Vedas (Including Yajurveda) rather than Upanishads no ?
Attaching Bhakti movement solely to caste and calling it some neo liberal movement, bereft of the points described above, has been a common leftist theme for decades.
Romila Thapar from an article in NYT
There are 2,00,000 students in ICSE
Small number, but still sufficient to supply sufficient number of wokes to drive the Commie narrative.
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Portuguese version of “Islam was not always imposed, just look at Taj Mahal”
Well not quite, for as Pliny The Elder says in the 1st Century AD
“In no year does India drain our empire of less than five hundred and fifty million sesterces, giving back her own wares in exchange, which are sold to us at fully hundred times their prime cost”
Military control of trade routes was a new dynamic that Europeans brought in. Earlier that control happened via an interdependent economy. Involving India, Arabia and the East African coast.
Where India failed was in recognising this new form of mercantilist behaviour.
While environmental concerns should be addressed, buddhi jeevis should not be allowed to hijack India's Inland Water Transport and destroy it.
We are already behind the whole world.
Canada and United States
St Lawrence seaway. Runs for 600 km and raises ships 170m via a series of locks between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Superior.
Ships of considerable size - 200m long, can transport goods from anywhere in the world right into America's Midwest using the St Lawrence seaway system.
For a route that shaved 3000 miles off the distance to India and provided a short cut that brought a months long voyage to weeks, the main opposition to it came from... Great Britain !
A canal through the desert had been given serious by Napolean Bonaparte during his Egypt invasion. His engineers had told him it was not feasible. Finally, it was another Frenchman - Ferdinand Lesseps who built it.