He arrived in America to speak at the World Parliament of Religions. But there was a problem, The event in Chicago was postponed by 3 months.
Worse: He had no credentials to speak.
When doors slammed shut, train ride to Boston changed his fate
The man was Swami Vivekananda. 🧵 👇🏽 In 1893, Swami Vivekananda reached Chicago to speak at the Parliament of Religions. Chicago was expensive and he was running out of money. America was still racially segregated.
A brown-skinned monk in saffron stood out for all the wrong reasons.

🧵 Who really destroyed Nalanda - the greatest centre of Buddhist learning?
Was it Hindu fanatics as the tibetan text ‘Pang sam jon zong’ claims?
Or Was it Islamic invaders as ‘Tabaqat-i-nasir’i claims?
📚📌Detailed analysis of evidence 👇(1/11) 2. Nalanda Mahavihara (university) :
🏛️ 3-storeyed main building, a 100 ft tall stupa
📚 10,000 residents
🧘‍♂️ 3,700 monks
🏯 7 monasteries each comprising:
Surrounded by 40 feet walls, enclosing in 100+ stupas
8 big monasteries and 140 smaller monasteries

Who was the real cause of partition? Gandhi or the British or Indian muslims themselves?
📌🤔How is it that Dravidian separatism, Naga separatism, Sikh separatism ALL FAILED, but muslim separatism was an unstoppable success?
👉The fiery truth about the creation of Pakistan(1/14) 🧨🧵 2.Let me tell you some hard facts noone is willing to say…
❌No the British did not ‘invent’ Pakistan to divide Hindus and muslims
❌No the RSS and Muslim league are NOT equally responsible for Partition
🇬🇧The british just took advantage of the existing divisions

⚔️🕉️Pakistan would still exist without RSS and Hindu mahasabha
The roots of Partition were sown centuries before 1947…

India didn’t create the caste system as we know it—Britain did.

One man measured noses to divide 300 million people.
Meet Herbert Risley: the bureaucrat who weaponized caste through 1901 Census to divide India.

🧵👇 In 1901, the British Raj conducted its most ambitious social experiment — a caste census across India.
At the helm was Herbert Risley, an ethnographer who believed "caste = race" and used nose measurements to prove it. No, seriously.

In the 1980s, campuses across India 🇮🇳were under siege.
Radical groups like RSU and Maoists ☭ ruled with violence and fear.

But one young man from Warangal, Telangana refused to bow.
This is the story of Amar Sama Jagan Mohan Reddy.
👇 Born into a humble middle-class family, Jagan Mohan Reddy was a brilliant student.
A gold medallist in Economics, a law student, and a civil services aspirant.
But above all, a proud nationalist. 🇮🇳

📰🤯In 1857, An absurd article appeared in the Scientific American Magazine…

There was an Indian method of making ice —way before the refrigerator was invented. This is not an absurd claim of mystical powers in the east, but a scientific documented process!
📚History of ice making in India👉🧵(1/13) 2.Worldwide Ice trade:
🚢🧊Before the invention of refrigeration, Europe depended on natural ice
📌Ice was imported from Norway and was stored in underground icehouses
📌 Wealthy homes had private ice pits in basements
This continued until artificial refrigeration emerged.

In 15th-century Southern India, a European missionary pulled off the wildest conversion scam—disguising himself as a Brahmin to spread Christianity.
✝️🤯He even wrote a "fifth Veda", included caste in his church
📌Today... he is honored with statues, colleges, and schools in his name.
Meet Robert de Nobili - 🧵👇(1/14) 2. In 1605, Robert de Nobili arrived in India with an intense desire to spread Christianity. He was sent south to Tamil Nadu.
But there was a problem—despite decades of effort, missionaries had failed miserably at converting Indians.
Why? 👇

Indians invented the vaccine way before the Britishers claimed to invent it in 1796
Is this just another absurd claim or the truth ?
Detailed Fact check 👉🧵 (1/12) 🦠💉Smallpox was considered eradicated in 1977, after decades of extensive vaccination worldwide.
☠️📈But before that it had been utterly ravaging human civilisation claiming 400,000 annually,
500 million perished from 1520 - 1977

After the crushing defeat at Talikota, Vijayanagara seemed doomed - more defeats, shrinking territory, infighting. History books might end the story here, but the empire wasn’t finished yet.

A king would soon rise to restore its grandeur and strike fear into the enemies

Venkatapati Deva Raya II 🧵👇 In 1565, the Deccan sultanates united to crush Vijayanagara Empire at Talikota. Emperor Rama Raya was captured & beheaded on BattleField.
Their capital, among the world’s richest, fell to ruins after months of plunder.

🔥🗡 The empire was shrinking, the sultans were enslaving and massacring across deccan

⚔️ Mighty Vijayanagara Empire was on decline during the reign of two successive Emperors

👑 At Penukonda, Venkatapati raya ascended the throne

He would go on to reverse the fate of the empire

Was education in India denied to lower castes for 5000 years?
Or was there no education at all before the British arrived? The British conducted extensive surveys on indigenous education in the 1820s-30s.

The truth about our forgotten past will make you rethink our very own history….. 🧵👇 When the British arrived, there were thousands of schools known as pathshalas across the country.

📌 William Adam, a missionary who surveyed Bengal & Bihar, estimated 100,000 schools for 150,748 villages.

📌 British official G.L. Prendergast noted: “There is hardly a village in which there is not at least one school.”

These findings indicate that indigenous education was widespread

The Goa Inquisition - One of the most brutal religious persecutions in history—remains largely forgotten.

But Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj made the Portuguese pay for it.

This is the story of colonial terror, forced conversions, and fierce Hindu resistance. 🧵👇 By 1510, Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa, helped by Hindu groups unhappy with Muslim rule.

The Portuguese promised religious freedom—but it was a trap.

Once in power, their true objective was forced Christianization

Imagine being born into a group labeled "untouchable," not for your beliefs, actions, or even physical differences. Barred from public spaces, marked as impure, and shunned by society.

This isn’t about Dalits in India. It’s about the Cagots of Europe.

Small🧵 The Cagots were a marginalized group France and Spain, living in ghettos called Cagoteries.

They spoke the same language, practiced the same Christian faith, and looked no different from their neighbors.
Yet, they were treated as spiritually dangerous and morally impure

Imagine being forced to give up your cultural identity just to survive.

For Indian Americans in 1980s Jersey City, this wasn’t a choice—it was a necessity.

Traditional attire, bindis, symbols of faith? They became targets of hate.

🧵 The story of the Dotbusters The Dotbusters were a hate group in Jersey City, NJ, targeting Indian Americans.

Their name mocked the sacred bindi worn by Hindu women. Their goal? Drive South Asians out through violence and terror.

This wasn’t just hate speech. It was a call to action.

During WWII, Japanese planes airdropped propaganda leaflets over India in 1944, urging Pan-Asian unity against European colonialism.

They exposed the Bengal Famine, the destruction of India’s cotton industry, and British exploitation.

🧵 Drive Out the English from Asia

This leaflet depicts five Asian men, including a Japanese soldier, united and raising a toast, while an injured British figure falls off a globe. It symbolizes harmony among Asian nations and calls for collective action to expel the British from Asia.

Swami Vivekananda faced an absurd question during his American tour in the 1890s:

"Do Hindu mothers really throw their babies to crocodiles in the Ganges?"

How did such a bizarre myth spread? The truth is as shocking. Like the myth of Sati, it was fueled by the usual suspects.

Small Thread 🧵: Swami Vivekananda, who electrified audiences with his wisdom at the 1893 Parliament of Religions, often faced this offensive and absurd question during his U.S. lectures. But the origins of this myth run deep into history and cultural propaganda

Christian Missionary Rev. Robert Liddell commissioned a set of 92 drawings depicting various Jati-Varna groups. These drawings usually show a couple in their traditional occupations.

The artist paid great attention to the details in textiles, costumes, and jewelry.

Thread 🧵 Pic of a Vaidya (Ayurvedic Doctor), wearing a dhoti, a shawl draped over his left shoulder and a turban pointed at the back. He carries in his right hand a bottle and apparently a book, and in his left hand is a cloth bundle