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๐Ÿ‘€ Attention, Thread Alert! ๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ

Here's a brief history of Kamarupa Kings' Inscriptions and Seals:

Ruling Dynasties:
- Varman Dynasty (350โ€“650 CE)
- Mlechchha Dynasty (650โ€“900 CE)
- Pala Dynasty (900โ€“1100 CE)

#KamarupaKings #History #Archaeology ImageImage
2/ Unearthed in Assam's Golaghat district, the Nagajari-Khanikargaon #Sanskrit inscription is a 5th-century land grant. The document grants land between "Dibrumukkhada" and a Banyan tree - now that's ancient GPS #Archaeology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
@pranabjsarmahg1 3/ Another Assam's oldest epigraphic source: the Umachal rock inscription from the 5th century. Found on the slopes of Nilachal Hills, it commemorates the construction of a cave for Lord Balabhadra by Maharajadhiraja Sri Surendra Varman himself. Image
4/ Barganga Rock Inscription: 6th Century #Sanskrit carved in Brahmi.

Found on the banks of Barganga rivulet near Dakmaka, Nowgong district #Assam. References: N.K Bhattasali,...
5/ The Nidhanpur copperplate inscription, authored by 7th-century Kamarupa king Bhaskaravarman, offers a detailed account of land grants given to Brahmins.

The inscription records land grants made to more than two hundred vaidika brahmanas belonging to 56 gotras

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Dec 12
๐Ÿงต๐Ÿฐ What kind of fort gets called "minor" at 2,700 feet with multi-tiered defences visible for miles?

The kind that didn't fit colonial narratives. Rayadurgam Fort, Anantapur โ€” massive, sophisticated, erased.

We're still using their textbooks. The stones outlasted empires. The lie outlasted the stones.

#GemsofASI MNI#20

1/15Ancient stone fort perched atop a rocky hill, winding battlements and stairways bathed in warm golden sunset light.
๐Ÿ›• Built by ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š ๐๐š๐ฒ๐š๐ค๐š (1520sโ€“30s), this was a Vijayanagara frontier fort controlling movement between AP & Karnataka. Colonial historians later downgraded it as "minor". Minor? A 2,700-ft citadel controlling two regions. But the empire narrative couldn't accommodate decentralised power. So it became "minor".

2/15Bearded, armored ruler with sword and staff overseeing laborers building a massive stone fort wall from scaffolding and blocks beneath a dusty sky
โ›ฐ๏ธ At ~๐Ÿ,๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐Ÿ๐ญ, Rayadurgam was built for surveillance: long-range visibility, multi-tiered access paths, natural cliffs turned to defence. But British-era archaeology catalogued it under 'regional ruins'. Right โ€” altitude high, curiosity low. Classic imperial scholarship.

3/15Steep rocky hill with ruined stone fortifications and terraced walls, scattered vegetation and a rectangular ruin at the base under a cloudy sky
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Dec 9
1/ They taught us the British ended Sati. Saved us from our barbarism. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

Then why did Sati cases spike from 1 in 8 years to 5000 per year under British rule?

Why did cases DROP under Mughal emperors?

Let's talk about the history they never taught you. ๐Ÿงต Image
2/ From 1900 BCE to 1900 CEโ€”2,500 yearsโ€”historians found fewer than 500 verified Sati incidents.

That's one every 8 years. Rare. Tragic. But rare.

Between 1813-1829, just 16 years under British rule, they documented THOUSANDS.

What changed? Image
3/ In 1813, British administrators LEGALIZED Sati.

They created two categories:
"Legal" Sati (voluntary)
"Illegal" Sati (forced)

By defining legal Sati, they gave official sanction. Approval.

Court of Directors later admitted Indians saw this as a RECOMMENDATION. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Image
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Dec 6
1๏ธโƒฃ The Taj Mahal was built using measurements from 3300 BCE.

Same unit. Same system. 5000 years apart.

Your history textbooks never mentioned this. Why? ๐Ÿงต Half clay Harappan brick slab engraved with "1.763 cm" beside the white marble Taj Mahal facade, split composition highlighting same measurement unit across 5,000 years
@narendramodi @PMOIndia @mygovindia @sanjeevsanyal @IndicMeenakshi 2๏ธโƒฃ The Harappan civilization used the angulaโ€”a finger-width of exactly 1.763 cm.

That same unit designed the Taj Mahal in 1648 CE.

5000 years. Zero breaks. Uninterrupted architectural DNA. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Hand pressing a weathered clay brick beside a translucent ruler marking 1.766 cm, highlighting a finger-width measurement used in ancient construction
3๏ธโƒฃ Harappan bricks: 28ร—14ร—7 cm. Perfect 4:2:1 ratio.

Or in their terms: 16ร—8ร—4 angulas.

This wasn't art. It was engineering. Strength through geometry across every cityโ€”Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Lothal. Rectangular fired clay brick with worn edges on a clear display stand, showcasing an ancient Harappan 4:2:1 proportion (approx. 28ร—14ร—7 cm).
Isometric drawing of brick wall sections with staggered Harappan-style 4:2:1 ratio bricks, dimensions marked and a single brick shown separately.
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Dec 5
๐Ÿงต The Bhagavata Purana tells a wild story about Ajamilaโ€”a Brahmin who spent 88 years sinning, then accidentally hacked moksha at his deathbed.

Yes, accidentally.

Let me explain. ๐Ÿชท Image
1/ Ajamila started pure. Born into a respectable Brahmin family, mastered the Vedas, lived virtuously with his devoted wife.

Textbook dharma. Perfect resume.

Then one day in the forest, he saw something that broke him. ๐Ÿ‘€ Image
2/ A beautiful, intoxicated courtesan Intimate with a low-caste man. Right there.

Ajamila's carefully constructed virtue collapsed in minutes.

Lust won. Dharma lost. ๐Ÿ’” Image
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Dec 2
๐Ÿงต Delhi chokes every winter. Politicians blame farmers. Farmers blame weather. Weather experts blame geography.

Nobody blames the real culprit: traffic mismanagement.

Here's the math they don't want you to see:

โ‚น60,000 Cr lost annually. 37 deaths daily. 16 cigarettes worth of air per day.

The fix? โ‚น13,900 Cr. Payback? 11 months.

Every number below is sourced from IIT Kanpur, WHO, EPCA, CSE. Every solution has worked elsewhere. Every excuse has expired.

@BJP4India controls both centre and state. @gupta_rekha has 4 years left.

Let's see if data trumps inertia ๐Ÿ‘‡ Bookmark and RT.Image
1) The damage โ€” Quantified

- AQI ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽโ€“๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ during winter months (safar data)
- WHO: every 10 ยตg/mยณ rise in pm2.5 increases mortality by 6โ€“8%
- Delhi averages ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽโ€“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–๐ŸŽ ยต๐ /๐ฆยณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ“ โ€” ~10ร— the safe limit
- A๐ง๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ง: โ‚น๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽโ€“โ‚น๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ“,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐ซ (moefcc + teri)
- P๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: 13,752 deaths/year (gbd dataset)
- Exposure equivalent: ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”โ€“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐œ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ/๐๐š๐ฒ

Sources of pm2.5 (IIT kanpur source apportionment):

- Vehicles: ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ%
- Road dust: ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ“%
- Industry: 18%
- Construction: 8%
- Waste burning: 6%
- Stubble burning: ๐Ÿ“.๐Ÿ“%
- Firecrackers: <1%

Here's the problem:

Everyone cites these percentages. No one asks ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ vehicles contribute 41%. No one asks ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ road dust is 21.5%. No one asks ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ construction spikes PM by 8%.

The real question isn't WHAT pollutes.

It's WHY Delhi's vehicles pollute 3โ€“4ร— more than vehicles in Mumbai, Bangalore, or Singapore.

WHY does road dust account for 21.5% here but <5% in Tokyo?

WHY does construction create such massive spikes?

The answer: ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž.

This thread dissects the failure pointsโ€”and presents engineered fixes with ROI under 12 months.Image
๐“๐‘๐€๐…๐…๐ˆ๐‚ ๐Œ๐€๐๐€๐†๐„๐Œ๐„๐๐“ (๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‘๐Ž๐ˆ, ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง)

Vehicles aren't the problem.

How Delhi moves them is.

2) No-Parking-on-Crossings Enforcement

๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ฑ: โ‚น๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐‚๐ซ | ๐€๐ง๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ: โ‚น๐Ÿ–๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐‚๐ซ | ๐‘๐Ž๐ˆ: <๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ

Delhi has ๐Ÿ,๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.

Blocked junctions slash throughput by ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽโ€“๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ% (CPWD traffic flow model).

Every car stuck at a choked crossing = idling engine.
Idle emissions at intersections = ๐Ÿ๐Ÿโ€“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐๐Œ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ“.

Intervention:

- AI-enabled camera network with ANPR
- Auto-challan โ‚น2,000 base penalty
- Tow enforcement on 500+ red-flagged intersections

Expected outcomes:

- ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘โ€“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–% ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ž-๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ
- City-wide fuel savings: ~โ‚น๐Ÿ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐‚๐ซ/๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ

One blocked junction cascades into 12 surrounding roads. Clear the junction, clear the corridor.
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Nov 30
1/9
 Welcome to Jalore Fort, Rajasthan: the โ€œGolden Fortโ€ that literally glows at sunset yet remains invisible to 99.9 % of Indian tourists. Built to laugh at invaders, now dying of Instagram indifference. Classic. ๐Ÿœ๏ธโœจ
#SonarKila #GemsofASI
State protected monument number S-RJ-223,224Ancient hill fort ruins and white temple complex nestled in green valleys and rocky hills under a misty sky.
@UNESCO @narendramodi @PMOIndia @gssjodhpur @ASIGoI @MinOfCultureGoI 2/9
10th-century Paramaras: โ€œLetโ€™s park a fortress on a lone volcanic plug no army can climb.โ€
Result: Never fully conquered. Alauddin tried in 1311, lost 40,000 men, still had to bribe the gatekeeper. Peak medieval flex. Image
3/9
 Songara Chauhans take over, rename it Swarnagiri (โ€œHill of Goldโ€). Because when your walls shine like Fort Knox, subtlety is overrated. Meanwhile Delhi historians call it โ€œa local disturbanceโ€. Sure Jan.
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