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Kayasthas are a notable caste in Indian society. Famous people from this caste are Swami Vivekananda, Rajendra Prasad, Subhas Chandra Bose, and many others. The Kayasthas claim origin from Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Shudras. This thread will cover all these.
1/n In historical documents, Kayasthas were typically known for record-writing and bureaucratic positions. Bilhana and Kalhana mention different positions with Kayastha suffix in their writings of Vikramankadevacharita and Rajatarangini.
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India had a long trade and travel relation with Ptolemaic Egypt, a Greek kingdom in Egypt founded around 300 BCE. Inscriptions in temple ruins still carry Indian/Hindu names there. Image shows an estimate of Ptolemaic kingdom.
1/n This inscription is found in the temple of Seti I at Khanais that falls on the road between the cities of Edfu and Mersa Alam. See map for exact location of the temple ruins. Google maps don't record the exact location
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This thread is how Christian saints crushed and destroyed Hindu idols in Armenia in 304 CE and converted the people to Christianity.
This is the work of Gregory the Illuminator, who served as the first head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
1/n Where is Armenia? It's located near the Caspian Sea, but is landlocked by Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. See map for the exact location of Armenia.
How did Hindu religion and culture reach Armenia and when?
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This guy's name was Vasco da Gama, who was the 1st European to reach India. Historical texts told us how great an explorer he was. Yet, many don't know how much brutalities and atrocities he committed on reaching India.
1/n Vasco da Gama was the captain-major of the Portuguese fleet in 1504. This was the 2nd trip of Gama to India, the 1st being in 1497. He claimed the king of Portugal to be the lord of seas and destroyed vessels with Indian people off the coast of India.
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Thread of Threads on caste

1. Evolution of caste in India

https://twitter.com/factindology/status/1352481123834597376

2. Caste like social institutions outside India

https://twitter.com/FactIndology/status/1368079533534945287

How the British enforced the rigidity of the caste and often manufactured occupational castes during Census is evident from British census officers' writings. Here's Middleton, in the Punjab Census of 1921, "these castes have been largely manufactured and almost entirely preserved as separate castes by the British Government..we pigeon-holed everyone by caste and if we could not find a true caste for them labelled them with the name of an hereditary occupation."
He further went on to add

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I had written earlier about history of caste in India. In this thread, I will show how caste-like elements were present in other parts of the world. Occupational, birth-based or endogamic groups are not unique to India.
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https://twitter.com/FactIndology/status/1352481123834597376?s=20

In this quest, I will describe primitive societies in Egypt, Western Asia, China, Japan, America, Rome and tribal Europe. Hindu society is always criticized for its caste-like segregation. Let's see how society developed all over the world.
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Why was the swastika sign used by the Nazis? Was the German hakenkreuz completely dissimilar from the swastika? Where did the Aryan myth come from? Was Hitler ever aware of the swastika sign? A detailed analysis.
1/n The Swastika sign has been unfortunately linked with the brutalities and racism of Nazi Germany. Recently, efforts have been made to differentiate between the Hindu symbol of swastika and the German hakenkreuz or 'hooked cross' to separate this symbol from memories of Nazism
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We need to understand what the purpose of whataboutery is. When you see a counter-argument to any argument, that starts with "what about", it serves only one purpose - to accuse the arguer of hypocrisy. In TV debates, press conferences or SM arguments, the only type of argument that you will see is that the person(s) raising a point has practiced the same behavior early and shows hypocrisy. That frees up the necessity of countering the actual argument.

Caste is still an extremely important term in political and social life India. What is the origin of caste? Was it just a British invention as a form of grouping into Varna? Were there any other groupings in India before the British? A look at the history of caste.
1/n The word 'caste' comes from the Protugues root 'casta' meaning 'race', 'kind', 'cast' or 'mould'. When the Portuguese first arrived in the East, they used casta to describe the religious and social distinctions as observed among the Hindu people.
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Two of the earliest mosques in India were erected during Qutbuddin Aibak's reign by destroying Hindu and Jain temples. The most famous is the Quwwat-ul-Islam in the Qutb Complex in Delhi. The other one is the Adhai din ka Jhonpra in Ajmer.
Pic - Wikipedia
1/n Qutbuddin Aibak as general of Muhammad Ghori destroyed the Hindu temples and commissioned this mosque in 1192 during his attacks on Ajmer, originally known as Ajaymeru.
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Facts on the Madurai impalement which the frescoes of Meenakshi temple show. The legend is that Shaiva saint Sambandar impaled 8000 Jains in 7th century . The Pandya king was a Jain and his wife was a Shaivite. The queen and the minister invite Sambandar to Madurai
1/8 The queen wanted Sambandar to drive the Jain monks from the Madurai hills. The monks burn Sambandar's hut, but he transfers the fire as fever to the king. Jains' mantras fail to cure the king, but the saint applies sacred ash to the king and cures him.
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