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Aug 19, 2023 25 tweets 5 min read
AHIK PANINI 480-410 BCE
There have been many languages that flourished and changed. So many languages, which even though vanished, resurfaced, and several others do not exist in any form. There is one language which is thousands of years old and will probably never vanish.
(1/n) That language is Sanskrit and the person who found the way to make this language immortal is Panini. It was Panini who wrote the universally acceptable grammar of Sanskrit. And to this day, we know by his maternal grandfather's surname.
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Apr 30, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read
Colonial Courts (1500-1700):
The First Courts of India

This is the 1st thread of 3 thread series on European Courts in India. To avoid a long thread this part would only deal with Portuguese Judicial System in India
- so let's call this thread that.
(1/n) When Europeans first arrived in India,they attempted to set up a judicial system alongside their administrative machinery.Three colonial powers- Portuguese, French & English would invest their efforts primarily to secure financial interests & the rights of their citizens.
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Apr 22, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
This is the third part of the thread on Indian Judicial System.
Let's call this thread:
Ancient Legal System of Court.
Here is added the previous thread so that one can have a connect.
*Also this is the end of 3 thread series on Ancient Indian Judicial System.
So ratt lo!
(1/n) There was prevalence of courts to satisfy all different communities at various levels in India, matching unlimited diversity and flexibility in the source of law.
(2/n) Nalanda Copper Plate Charter of King Devapala, Bengal 9th c. CE
Apr 20, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
Here is the second part of the thread of Indian Judicial System.
Let's call this thread:
The Spirit of Justice in the Hindu Legal System from 1500 BCE to 1100 CE

*Those who have not read the earlier thread can the supplemented link of previous thread in this tweet.
(1/n) The quest for perfection in social order in Ancient India prescribed ways of good conduct of individuals and aspired for considerable degree of social harmony by balancing between authoritarianism and local autonomy.
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Apr 9, 2023 12 tweets 2 min read
Let us have a thread on Judicial System in India. It's history, evolution and some facts that may be found useful in the long run.

This is the first thread, others will follow subsequently.
Let's call this thread:
The BEGINNINGS of Indigenous Judicial Structures of India
(1/n) The first ever reference of the concept of fraternity cones from Rig Veda:
संगच्छध्वं संवदध्वं
सं वो मनांसि जानताम्।
समानो मन्त्र: समिति: समानी
समानं मन: सहचित्तमेषाम्।
समानी व आकूति: समाना हृदयानि व: |
समानमस्तु वो मनो यथा व: सुसहासति ||
Book 10, Hymn 191, Mantra 4
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Jan 9, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Stoicism, a Hellenistic School of Philosophy that crystallised the idea of "virtue ethics" was founded in 3rd BCE. One of its popular proponents was Epictetus, whose disciple Arrian, a Great Roman commander and a philosopher-historian
(1/n) got his master's Discourses and Enchiridion written and distrulibuted in Rome. The famous Marcus Aurelius was also a follower of Stoicism. Arrian had come to India and wrote about it. Marcus went on to become Roman Emperor.
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Jul 4, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Anwar Ratol of Pakistan is Chaunsa of India.
Mango lovers know that. But what many don't know is that Anwar Ratol has it's roots in a village Rataul (Baghoat district, Western UP)
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ndtv.com/india-news/why… How can we be so sure?
The answer is simple - the oldest Ratol mango bearing tree still stands in this village that is just over hundred years old. This mango variety travelled all the way from a village Chause (Bihar) in the medieval era. The same place where
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Jun 15, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
Isn't it a mockery of India's premium university DU & the teachers that they can promote students on the basis of 1 and also 3 semester results but require to take #OpenBookExam for those who have given exam already for 5 semesters? MHRD must intervene.
#DuAgainstOnlineExam
(1/n) A blind student who stays with other blind students in a Seva Kutir has her set of problems. In the message she wrote that she got it typed by someone because no one was actually around to type it for her. How will the university provide a typist for such students?
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