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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

Oct 29, 2021 • 22 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X

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See. Another state, same story. The British increase the taxes drastically and it's the king of Nilagiri who takes the beating because of that.

Let me try to make this a thread. Whenever I come across my old stuff, I will plug it here.
Vishwanath Shahdeo, the Zamindar of Barkagarh joined the War of Independence in 1857 because the missionaries converted tribals and instigated them to forcibly take over his lands.

https://twitter.com/cbkwgl/status/1441763478847442957

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The role of land settlement in fomenting unrest. Did this alienation between the ruler and the ruled paved way for missionary activity?

https://twitter.com/cbkwgl/status/1449759668188823558

But, what is not told here is, there is no king in Keonjhar in 1915.

Guess Keonjhar needs to be looked more closely - not just Keonjhar but every kingdom where there was a regency.

On Ravenshaw of Ravenshaw College fame. Guess the college should be named Ratna Naik College or Rani Bishnupriya College?

Further more on Keonjhar settlement

How consistently the British used the minority of kings to increase their profits!! Bamra this time.

Land Settlement in Nayagarh

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's Razor
On Sambalpur Fort

Can the same reason be attributed to Bamanghati mess?

Baud Kandhamal rebellion

Well, Ravenshaw doesn't turn out to be as great as he is projected to be...he was the one who presided over the 1866 famine which forced the British not to plan for a repeat.

"embodied a valued tradition of Indian culture and civilization"

Bikaner. The king has no authority to change the decisions made during his regency.

Another minority regency ruling.

Jaora this time. King sacked a minister, the British retaliated by imposing an advisory council on him and the advices the council gave, the kingdom soon slipped into arrears and had to go for loans!!

And how do you clear off the debts? Insult Talukdars, get offended by the offended Talukdars and impose fines on them.

Experiments, eh?

We are happy to allow the king to do whatever he wants till he doesn't cross the line. What are the lines?

Pudukkottai again. The legal position of an Indian king.

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Eztainutlacatl

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Jun 11

These verses are interesting. The host facing Sudasa is much powerful than him but he was able to defeat them. Now, if one dates this to 1900 BC, it possibly means people from the South moved north to divert the major rivers to stop Mohenjodaro from flooding. And that would mean flooding of Sudasa's kingdom - the point of argument here being, Indra supported the weak Sudasa against his enemies even though some of them were pious because they sided Adharma - diverting rivers and stealing cows. This battle talks more of desperation from every side than any totentanz towards glory.

Now, Sharmaji wrote the names in reverse -> Notice, he crossed Vipas first and then Sutudri. In the Dasarajna, he crossed Parusni. That means he ruled in the area between those three rivers(cross South and North) -> major city being Harappa. The question then would be, what is the time when Harappa was hemmed from all sides?

Now, what other hints of "not a totentanz" do we have? While during the battle, Purus are crushed, Vasistha prays to Indra to protect the Purus in the next Rik but such leeway is not given to the others.

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May 18

Chase-Dunn here, on World Systems. Why aren't we taught such simple models in schools? They are realistic and more easy to understand than the stuff which is thrust down the throats of students in their formative years.

This is just one small paper of 12 pages. See the amount of learning in this. The trends on which the world operates(above), the tango between capitalism and socialism, the philosophy behind communism(the other one, the better one) and the obvious argument in favour of capitalist democratic movement,

Liberalization, when it met globalization in a core-periphery context demanded a lapse back towards socialism. And the next one is a beauty. Socialism led to State Capitalism. Internally, it's a Socialist State but externally, it's a capitalist state, a phenomenon perfectly identifiable with China.

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May 14

Let me quote Fairservis's paper on IVC. He is one of the leading figures in IVC archaeology from an article dating to 1961. No Bhandarkar, no Banerji, no anybody.

The decade of 1950s saw nothing of worth coming out of IVC.

Now, how did the civilization start? Like Edison. 1000 times he failed to make a bulb and finally he made one.

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Aug 18, 2025

When the Rani of Jhansi realized that the fort is about to fall, there was absolute silence for some time. The outer corridor has already fallen while the Rani was holed up in the inner fort. One fine day, the main gates opened and bust out of it, the Rani in person with an escort of 500 mercenaries and the royal treasury on a state elephant amidst.

They charged directly into the cannons, destroying them and breaking away. She didn't jump out of a window in the night. She crashed through the main gate in pomp. The British took some time to realize what happened and the hunt started.

By then, the troops split the treasury and scattered(to join back again at a rendezvous). A considerable number of them weren't able to reach the rendezvous and the most prominent amongst them was a heavily injured Moropant Tambe, the Rani's father.

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Aug 17, 2025

One geopolitical mess which no one bothers to look into, is North Myanmar. There is a near clean demarcation between Tai, Burmese and Chin. You can ignore Chin - even till 1900, they were primitive tribes. Real deal here is the Shan and their allied Kachin.

Now, if you expand the scope out of Myanmar, you will see that there are historically two Tai nodes - one in the West, including Tai Ahom and their parent state Mongkwang, and one in the East centred around Thailand. The eastern node is not our concern.

While the border between Ahom Kingdom and Mongkwang is loosely defined and there were clashes between the both some times(Mongkwang is not actually the parent state of Tai Ahom but it was the political successor of Mong Mao, the parent state for Ahoms), the relations were

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Aug 11, 2025

So, was reading some book over Sangam Era history. Some important points. While I am not happy with the quality of scholarship, the book, however, reveals some interesting insights.
1. The earliest kingdom Tamils know is that of Nagas. Nagas ruled from Puhar and they were conquered by Cholas. The story is exactly identical to Pallava conquest of Chutu Naga Vaijayanti. This means that Tamils had no concept of a kingdom before 200-250 AD.

2. The historic trajectory is divided into two sets of tribes - the first wave is just tribes which mainstreamed themselves like the Vedar, Kurumbar and others. They just had raw valour unlike the next wave including Malavar, Kosar and others who were sophisticated militarily. In fact, Malavar is assumed to be first ones who used horses in the Tamil country.

3. There is not much clarity on the origin of tribes: They can be local, nomadic and pastoral, or they can be remnants of armies which marched from the North. For instance, around 250-300 AD or so, we start hearing of Kongans - is that a variant of the word Ganga, indicating Ganga armies?

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