American Reacts to History of India

Hello! I'm an American trying to learn more about the world, and decided to start with India. Prior to watching this, I knew very little about Asia, and almost nothing about India. So this was a good starting point! Looking forward to doing future videos on this subject. #history #india #asia #react
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[@SoGal_YT]

My favorite thing about this video was seeing the parallels between Indian and U.S. history regarding the British Empire. Can't wait to learn more! What should I watch next about India?

[@AJ_MUR]

I'm not the biggest expert on Indian history either, but the period I'm most familiar with and am the most fascinated with is that of the Mughal empire. Another look into that era would be interesting to watch, and there's a very good video that gives an overview of its history which was made by a youtuber named Epimetheus, who covers a lot of areas of history. Check the link below: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJvPen2Gopijq8U

[@SoGal_YT]

Awesome. Thanks for the video link. I'll add that to my watch list. What fascinates you about the Mughal Empire?

[@AJ_MUR]

​@@SoGal_YT My fascination with it began fairly recently and it's more of a 'casual interest' anyway, but to summarise my reasons for why in a few points: - This era serves as a long-lasting example of the synthesis of two different cultures (Indian and Persianate-Islamic), which during the Mughal period, was typically observed by foreign Turko-Mongol rulers who claimed descent from the Central Asian warlord Timur, as the name of the dynasty (Gurkani) implies. This attempt at cultural synthesis, although unsuccessful in the long-term, also showed the two extremes of the imperial policy of the empire by which, depending on the ruler in power, would either show complete religious tolerance towards their subjects or in the case of one certain Mughal emperor, even try to enforce their religion upon the native population. It was a real mess, to say the least. - As explained in the video I linked, the empire was formed under extraordinary circumstances by one person who started with nothing and still defied all odds by conquering modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India, to the point where you could almost classify it as a 'rags to riches' story. There are so many examples of this in history, and this particular one is no exception. - Out of these humble beginnings, it later became one of the wealthiest states of the early modern period. At its peak, the Mughal dynasty was able to unify most of India, become one of the world's centers for art, architecture and literature and also possess a fair bit of military power, even giving the British East India Company a crushing defeat at one point in the late 17th-century. However, it would fall just as quickly because of its internal problems and the presence of external forces, resulting its subsequent decline.

[@SoGal_YT]

@@AJ_MUR Thanks for your detailed reply. The more I read your comment, the more I realize how much there is to learn about that part of the world. I'm so clueless, but trying to get there. Look forward to watching your suggested video.

[@shounakkatke435]

Please react to "Britain does owe reparations" by Shashi Tharoor Oxford Union speech.

[@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857]

India is located in South Asia. Indian Army was also fought in ww1 and ww2. This video is just 5-7% about Indian history. Indian history is more than this video...

[@sadiqahmed4143]

U can't really Put 5000+ year's of history

[@HyperMODX]

@@sadiqahmed4143 lol yeaa

[@ianprince1698]

before the British raj what is now India / Pakistan had many princely states all independent. and the East India Co. worked through them they lent them money at low interest I was told, Britain had to act against the East India Co as a company it was far too powerful so formed the Indian Empire under Victoria and brought the rule of law (British) the British set up a transitionary government under the last Viceroy Lord Luis Mountbatten who eased I'm told Gandi into the prime minister's roll India is now in the British Commonwealth

[@shubhamsivasiya6775]

This video is not even the complete index of sallybus of history there is alot more information which i study as a history scholar, only 3% of indian study in video😂

[@dannystruggles5504]

Reason why America was able to defeat the British is because you had help from the French if they didn't get involved you would of lost.

[@BunyipToldMe]

France gave it's entire GDP to the American colonies. America was the product of the 7 years war and not the American Revolution.

[@gardraiman7731]

France Spain and the Netherlands 😂

[@bucklberryreturns]

@@gardraiman7731 It's as if they all had some kind of grudge against the British empire. I can't imagine where that came from! 🤭

[@inzlt8142]

And spain also helped

[@gardraiman7731]

@@bucklberryreturns yeah tell us where that came from 🤔

[@adityaverma6754]

U didn't kick the British out , u were the British , u just managed to break your ties with British govt and began to live the American lands by forming your own govt .

[@rohandutta9986]

they fought a war-

[@MonojitBhattacharjeeMONO]

@@rohandutta9986 yes by the same people against their kind of land lord😁

[@adityasarap]

@Lianhua Xin he meant the terms used by her weren't right and did not make sense

[@ShwetaSingh-mx7ll]

And Native Americans...

[@tonyjangala4462]

Americans kicked out the British Tyrannical Government From America..Even now, Second amendment "well regulated Militia. being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms. shall not be infringed." Which is Right to own guns and the third Amendment "A soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." in the American constitution was written to protect America from europeans powers especially British. If India have guns there will no British conquering India.

[@kirtigupta9753]

India is the oldest living civilisation On Earth with at least 7000 years of History . India was the richest country on Earth till the mid 1800s. The world's first University was built in Takshila which had more than 10,000 students, from China, Korea, Japan, Iran, South East Asia etc and was founded at least 100 years before Birth of Christ.

[@Dylan-pr6fu]

Hinduism was created by Indo european Aryans

[@mtk3755]

@@Dylan-pr6fu lmao you don't anything, for starters the aryan theory has already been debunked

[@Vibing_sigma]

@@Dylan-pr6fu then why the Europeans no longer practice Hinduism if they started it .

[@igbladeplays6494]

@@Dylan-pr6fu there were no religion named Hindu........europian peoples called them hindu (people of Sindhu valley) ..... actually it was 'Sanatan dharma' (dharma - religion)... When Aryans came here they started to practicing Sanatan dharma... And some of there culture mixed with 'sanatan dharma ' ......that's why u can find some similarities between Indian culture and Mesopotamia's culture.

[@nikcantsnipe]

Wouldn't Egyptians be the oldest living civilizations? What about Southern Iraqis? Sumeria is older than Indus Valley. I know we're one of the oldest. But there's a big difference between the Harrapans and people from Mohenjodaro and modern Indians who while somewhat related definitely have a more mixed origins. It's really not that productive to call ourselves the oldest living civilization. Mostly because, most of India isn't even related to the IV civilization.

[@siddharthmishra4116]

Author skipped the part where Alexander's army refused to fight in India after getting to know about Nanda Army of Magadh. Alexander conquered areas of modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan and portion of Punjab, but his army rebelled and refused to fight any further war into India.

[@siddharthmishra4116]

Reason for decline of Buddhism in India is due to recognition of Buddha as an avatar of Hindu God Vishnu. Due to this many people started worshipping Buddha as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. And Buddhism preists started using Sanskrit instead of Parkrit (language of common people) in worshipping and this alienated common masses from this religion. But Buddhism still exist in India.

[@ianprince1698]

@@siddharthmishra4116 both Hindu and Buddhism exist in the UK

[@karanchougule6075]

Alexandra's army was stopped by King Porus brother...

[@greaterbharat4175]

@@siddharthmishra4116 buddism decline becouse of lacking in warrior mentality after greek their was line of invastion started huns ,sakas due to buddism was degrading for khatriyas those people who were buddist simply started rejecting and re- accepting warrior mentality and they only saw hinduism capable to give this mentality

[@DKS007]

you were able to kick british because you are also british or europian its was like "ok mom i am getting my new house "

[@tonyjangala4462]

"ok mom I am getting my new house" is totally different than fighting a war for 6 years to end tyrannical government (British Empire) America is the only country that got their independence by winning a war against Britain..For india, British gave us independence. Which means mom finally gave you a new house after years of fighting and begging for a new house

[@gandalf1423]

@@tonyjangala4462 Actually , there was many years of peaceful struggle in the Indian subcontinent. The people were all united. The British couldn't really stay there much longer .It's just a more democratic way of fighting .So , no, the British did not give it to us . We took it.

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@gandalf1423 the Britisj ggovernment came to be socialist and anti-imerialist in 1945. Thee Brit forces wanted to gohome. Game over.

[@crobert79]

there is hardly any comparison between what happened in America and India, the only thing they had in common was the British presence. The fact you are drawing so many flawed conclusions shows the problem with these overly simplistic history videos

[@OMUNDRA699]

Mother of all language-Sanskrit (Ex- English,Hindi__)many words comes from Sanskrit. chandrgupta mayur- Defeated Romen Empire Alexender-Sikender,Forgive by Marry of Daughter (so not to war again own family again by Roman)of Alexender-Sikender .who want to Conquer the whole World's.

[@shrey4558]

Indus valley civilization is very much old then the civilizations you spoke about.

[@pkumar3447]

India's history is very very very complex even being Indian I know only about 10% which is actually a lot By the way the university you are talking here in the starting of the video is the first university in this whole world its name is Nalanda

[@kirtigupta9753]

It's Taksha University and not Nalanda It was founded around Gupta empire. Nalanda was founded in 7th century AD.

[@KishanSingh-he9ds]

Takshasila

[@icechoc]

China fought on the UK, France, Russia and the U.S's side in both world wars, as did India. When people say 'the UK' when referring to the war they should say the British Empire as it was the empire that fought against the Axies. A massive failure on this video's part is to not even mention the partition of India which is one of the biggest events of the 20th century. When this video states India it actually refers to modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. After India won independence, India was partitioned into modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The partition was handled very poorly by the British and the consequences are still felt today in India and Pakistan. The country was ripped into three.

[@gf1917]

> The partition was handled very poorly and the consequences are still felt today Oh yes, India. And the Ottoman Empire (especially today's Israel-Palestine). And pretty much all of Africa. (Even Hungary, although the EU helped a lot.) I think the entire planet is glad that the Brits and the French no longer have that power.

[@donquixote3927]

Don’t forget Ceylon and Goa and that is to say nothing of Burma, the Maldives and Aden. I think the real failing though was Kashmir.

[@JJaqn05]

@@gf1917 It's not Britains fault that they were given the pencil

[@RaghuVarierSIESGSTMECHANICAL]

@@JJaqn05 Who told them to pick in first place in 1800s? And what foolish decision by MountBatten to handover the responsibility of partition to a person who had then just arrived in India, had no clue about the culture or the sense of belongingness they had and partitioned the sub continent without any logic. Kashmir issue is a creation of the British that both India-Pakistan now have to deal with.

[@deepdhillon3708]

Indus Valley civilization is the oldest one, before western countries got civilized.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Who says ptherwise?

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Sumeria is the oldest civilization. (Modern day Iraq).

[@Swastikanothookcross]

@@miguelpadeiro762 Indian civs are much other mate

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@@Swastikanothookcross They're not. Actually, the Sumerian civilization predates the Indus Valley Civilization in about 1000 years. Show me your sources, if you want, look up wikipedia for the quickest way to find the historical fact

[@ChadBenjamin]

West Asia is the Middle East, Central Asia is the former Soviet Republics & South Asia is the Indian subcontinent.

[@SoGal_YT]

Oh, okay...so India would be considered South Asia? Is there an East Asia as well?

[@ChadBenjamin]

@@SoGal_YT Yes, East Asia is China, Japan and the Korean peninsula. South East Asia is Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. And there is even a North Asia, which is mostly Siberia.

[@SoGal_YT]

Great, thanks for the info!

[@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857]

@@ChadBenjamin Actually Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and Philippines are located in Southeast Asia...

[@ChadBenjamin]

@@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857 Yeah that's what I said

[@davetye]

In WW2 Indians fought in North Africa, Italy, Syria, Burma, Malaysia and some other places. The Indian brigades were often mixed serving alongside British and Nepalese Ghurkas. They formed a large part of the commonwealth forces along with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and troops from both West and East africa.

[@ss14111429]

There was one Brigade fighting in Burma which was called the Indian Brigade. All battalion commanders were Indian including the men. Many of the officers went on to become high ranking officials in the independent India's Indian Army. Includes Lt. Gen L.P Sen, Gen Thimayya and Lt. Gen. SPP Thorat. All winners of the Distinguished Service Order.

[@theguywiththehat5691]

Imagine the two greatest libraries The TakshShila in North Western region And Nalanda University in Central India getting ripped off, burnt down and remaining only ruins of brutal destruction And then we question how old is this country...? No offence to your reaction..Loved it.. Great work Carry on learning

[@mohitkanyal2119]

Buddhism didn't change into Hinduism. Hinduism was already prevalent in India as you saw in the starting of the video. In fact Buddhism came from Hinduism like Jainism and Sikhism. Siddharth Gautama(Budhha) was born a Hindu to Hindu parents in ancient India . In Hinduism Buddha is considered an avatar of Vishnu(The Hindu God). Buddhism and Hinduism share many same beliefs and practices and their language for prayers is also mostly the same(Sanskrit).What the man in this video wants to say is that Buddhism which was part of Hinduism gained more prominence than Hinduism for a short duration . After which eventually Hinduism again gained prominence back and Buddhism spread from India to South-East Asia and East Asia.

[@user-wf7ic9hu4r]

Indians fought under the name of British Army and Indians lost the most lives and were never credited for that.

[@PujaSingh-nb4xg]

British was most powerful empire of 18th and 19th century. If British wanted they would the crushed the rebellion in USA with full force. But they didn't wanted to do that because many businesses were both working in USA and UK.

[@jarazy1232]

Not only that, but they were distracted by other affairs when the colonies revolted like the French. Besides, US colonies weren't as important to them as India was, (the Jewel in the Crown).

[@mrpredator8131]

at the time of 7000 years ago , india has written books on architecture, engineering, literature , Astronomi, dance, and different types of arts. india has even knowledge of all planets and there are written proofs ,at the time where no technology was present..

[@anujchauhan1522]

Because India's share of world's Gdp when EIC came to India was 25% and britain's share was 2%. They found it much easier to "permanently" borrow our resources for next 300 years to sustain all that jazz.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Swho was doing the books?

[@mbangroo]

@@stuarthastie6374 me

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@mbangroo cooking the books with too many currie leaves.

[@adityamukherjee2426]

@@stuarthastie6374 what are you trying to say???

[@finalarbitrator4551]

@@stuarthastie6374 It's curry leaves, not currie leaves. Learn how to spell properly before making snarky remarks.

[@jantake]

America was basically just a side quest to the British, and India was the main story line xd

[@thegreattitan132]

Ten minutes later started forming assumptions and perspective without knowing 😓🤣🤣🤣

[@abhishekrg135gmail]

Class system has been misinterpreted by Britishers to divide india ancient India system was based on karma one can go up in society through his her karma and vice versa we had a king called chandragupt maurya who ruled over biggest region in South Asia (indian subcontinent) in history and he was from lower cast , there have been many cases where lower class people become great sages indian history by their knowledge it was not a rigid system originally later the it become fixed by corrupt kings and Britishers taught it was birth based but no it was based on karma of individual initial . In mordern india caste system doesn't exist that much people live happily together and do what ever work they want or have capacity to do it successfully 🙏

[@JohnSmith-fr7js]

The French, Spanish and Dutch "kicked the British out of America" not the Colonials.

[@sushantsingh1243]

Ashoka was not passive he just didn't want to capture other it doesn't mean he was weak in any way no one dared to attack

[@AbuLaith1963]

The Aryans that went into India were from a mass of people who from about 4000bc lived in the Russia/Ukraine area. All of them are now called Indo-European. Sanskrit is a language sharing a common origin with Latin, Greek, the Germanic and Celtic languages as is Iranian, Armenian etc. Vedas is related to the word video. The Hindu god of fire is Agni. Ignition\ignite to start a fire coming from Latin I believe.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Are you a Persian/Iranian.

[@AbuLaith1963]

No, British but of South African Indian origin. However, I am fascinated by linguistics.

[@AERallert]

Always glad to see comments from educated people like you, Rashad.

[@deeponchaudhuri106]

Regarding the Languages of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek. They were derived from Proto Indo-European. Sanskrit from the Indo-Iranian Branch, Latin from Italic Branch and Greek from Hellenic Branch.

[@abirpal291]

The name of the university is NALANDA. And you should definitely try and find out more about it.

[@gandalf1423]

This is such a brief overview, in terms of empires, there were others like cholas, rashtrakutas , the marathas etc..

[@anujvarshney8200]

History of India is very different from other countries. Ancient India: Ruled by Greatest Kingdoms and Kings Medieval India: Marauders and Marauders Modern India: Ruled by a Company and Then Colony of Britain.

[@pevanspe85]

India played a big part in ww1 mobilise d a million men

[@ianprince1698]

and contributed to ww2 in British ww2 films people from India are shown fighting for the allies

[@ianprince1698]

@Sainath Reddy a film from the 1960s sorry I can't remember the name

[@stuarthastie6374]

@Sainath Reddy therw arw Newsreals of Indians fighting in North Africa, Syria, Somalia, Italy, and Vurma.

[@stuarthastie6374]

@Sainath Reddy France ive not seen pictures. Israel did not exist then.

[@stuarthastie6374]

@Sainath Reddy i dont know boutthat. Maybe it happened in WW1, against the Orraman Turks With German officers. In Syria in WW2, they were fighting the Vichy French, but that campain has been dwleted ao asnot to offend the French.

[@tomnicholson2115]

The Indians united and drove the British out, but the original people of America were destroyed by rebellious colonists, so not really comparable as your ancestors (British one's anyway) never left at all.

[@stuarthastie6374]

A bit like what iIndians did to the jungly people.

[@darynreeds870]

You deserve full respect for learning but Asian history is 3000+ years older than yours.

[@alejandroparedes2500]

5000+*

[@starry2006]

Japan was planning to take over India had the Axis powers won, and it's unlikely they would have then got independence. There's a reason WW2 is called a world war. Britain paid a very large amount of money to India in the 50s as part of their agreement. Hitler was considered more a figure of curiosity than anything in India for a long time, and they liked to depict British people as villains in films.

[@deeponchaudhuri106]

Source of information?

[@ads2686]

India fought in the first world war & the 2nd World War. India was a major supply route for British & American troops and the Chinese fighting the Japanese.

[@-vib-]

Caste system is not based on wealth. It is based on the occupation. A Brahmin can be poor and a vyshya can be rich! Initially caste system was not rigid. There was one person who wrote a text which made caste system more rigid and moving between caste impossible

[@davidb3979]

26:00, it's only now called the "first war or independence", but it wasn't anything of the kind when compared to the US insurrection. It was a mutiny which didn't have such lofty goals and in fact committed terrible atrocities which meant a lot of normal people supported the British.

[@TheGohan09]

I would like to recommend you how british enter India, In order to understand how british took over India you have to check out Maratha Empire. Especialy events like this 1. Maratha rise in power 2. Mughal were defeated by marathas 3. which created power vaccum and Afghan an britsh wanted to conquer 4. British failed because marathas were powerful and never dare to attack marathas but real problem started when Afgan (Durrani Empire) sacked Delhi (Mughals) 5. This leads to 3rd Battle of Panipat (Afgan vs Maratha) and had major causalities one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on earth before WW1 and WW2 6. 3rd Battle of Panipat where Marathas lost alot of people and even afgan lost alot, so afgan left India, which created Vaccum of power in India which inspired british to go war with marathas. 7. Check out 3 wars Anglo-Maratha wars (Maratha vs British)

[@premsingha6202]

Actually Siddhartha Gautma (a Hindu king) as known as Buddha was born in Limpi which is Todays Nepal, in 500BC. He was on road to witness his kingdom, where he saw lots of empathy, hunger, conflict, wars, he thought that peace teaching could be a major role. So he started preaching peace and love. He achieved enlightenment under a tree which is now located in Bihar, India. So Buddhism is actually not a Religion, it is just a teaching, but over a time it become religion, you can say it was a sub religion of Hinduism. So conversion of buddhism to Hinduism is not that a issue.

[@toxoreed9334]

hinduism is oldest religion still in existance so is the language that comes with it.actually two of the world's most ancient and advance languages are from india,tamil and Sanskrit.about 1/3 of the total words in russian dictionary are originated from sanskrit and about 1/6 are totally the same. scripts are diffrent but language writing pattern of all of the indian languages and most southeast asian languages and west chinese language and nepali,bangladeshi and sri lankan are the same

[@stuarthastie6374]

That is why they are called indo-european

[@madmandelphamine9937]

Wait till you find out Judaism became Christianity which then became Islam. Same god, different beliefs of how to worship him and what he wants people to do

[@sohanm3051]

Islamic rulers not only invaded India but also destroyed entire knowledge and architecture

[@temuulmunkhtur]

Cave paintings are something 2 of your cultures have in common? you mean Indigenous people of the Americas and early people of the Indian subcontinent. Cave paintings are not found only in India and America because they are "so much better than the rest of the world", they are found in Europe ,Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia. She is literally how I imagine all the Americans, their superiority complex is spilling over.

[@prateeksinha3291]

India has a very long history, infact it's the oldest living civilization/culture on the planet. Hinduism is the world's oldest culture. Actually Hinduism is not a religion, it's original name is "Sanatan Dharm" meaning - The eternal traditon. When Persians came to India they called the people living between the Hindukush mountains and the Indian ocean as "Hindus". Hinduism is a Vedic culture. The four Vedas are the basis of this culture. These Vedas were written somewhere around 10,000 to 12,000 B.C. FYI - Hinduism is not derived from Buddhism. Hindu culture was there far before Buddha was even born. In reality Buddhism has taken many concepts from Hinduism

[@ramendusingh6187]

Barely watched 15 Mins... can't take this gnarly knowledge. India is having big number internet user's and people are out of CONTENT. 12 min torture turned into 38 min ... 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️

[@Bridge_2702]

Exactly, she's so dumb that I was already watching it at 1.5x and had to stop at around 17mins. So dumb😭😭😭

[@ramendusingh6187]

@@Bridge_2702 🤣

[@devplasna7188]

- The Middle East can be referred to as Western Asia, although parts of it are in Africa. - - - Central Asia can be defined as the 5 countries between Russia, China, and Iran: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. India is in South Asia, which also includes Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. East Asia consists of China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Southeast Asia is the area east of India and South of China, includes Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. Northern Asia is Siberia, which is controlled by Russia, hope this helps.

[@JohnSmith-fr7js]

"India fought in WW2? Didn't know that"...Hollywood didn't tell you?

[@stuarthastie6374]

Thats right... It doesn't get much mention anywhere...

[@JohnSmith-fr7js]

@@stuarthastie6374Indians fought on both sides during WW2, although most fought for for Britain some fought with Germany and Japan.

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@JohnSmith-fr7js yes i know aboutINA but they werw used for propaganda not much for fighting.

[@JohnSmith-fr7js]

@@stuarthastie6374 There were 2.5 million Indians fighting in the armed forces in WW2 and the total of Indian military and civilian deaths was 2.5 million which was 5 times more than the total military and civilian deaths suffered by the U.S.

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@JohnSmith-fr7js i specifically reffered to Undian Nationaal Army. being used for propaganda by the Jpnese.

[@Anbumpanbum]

And The Cholas captured Indonesia . And the Angkor Wat was built by a Hindu king and is indeed a Hindu temple. And Bodhi Dharma was from Tamil Nadu too

[@lifestyleboss3829]

Here in India we say- 1)East Asia 2)South Asia 3)Southeast Asia 4)Central Asia 5)Middle East

[@thebones]

wow I had no idea that you only started this channel recently, I love your curiosity and humbleness.

[@latvialava6644]

8:58 Point to be noted : New discoveries in Sinauli can compel historians to re write ancient Indian history!!!

[@stuarthastie6374]

Such as?

[@stuarthastie6374]

@Fire Hymn what does it proove?

[@DeepakGupta-cz7pt]

Britishers used divide and rule policy in INDIA and not in U.S they divided hindu and muslim brotherhood

[@RifleEyez]

The only reason this was successful is because there was no united front to begin with. People can't think of the conflict like it was Country A invades Country B and then divides. It was Country A is invited by Country B while fighting Country C and Country D etc on a single subcontinent.

[@headshot2011]

Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism all together called sanatan dharm, we hindu belive that Buddha was avatar of lord vishnu.

[@nimbus9373]

But Buddhists doesn't believe that.🧐

[@headshot2011]

@Fire Hymn why u pray ganesh???? Tripatika is copy of manusmriti 😂😂

[@peterhall6514]

The British only had 12k troops in the USA and the majority of the forces were concentrated on India which was regarded as having more resources .

[@peterhall6514]

Also an English guy called George Washington knew this and could take advantage and enlisted help from the French and Spanish? I lived in VA for sometime so have done the old house etc where there is a place where he buried his slaves, banged my head on his low ceilings etc, seen his old place before his presidency etc which is quite a big jump in class even though he came from good root's ! From a personal British point of view this is fine but breaking the rules and crossing the Potomac to take the Few British at Christmas when they are drunk is not cricket and the sign of a power laden individual against his own! It was for himself which proved lucrative for him but not so much for his slaves buried in the garden's alongside the Potomac?

[@stuarthastie6374]

@@peterhall6514 you are rambling

[@zhubajie6940]

The theory with the greatest consensus currently is the Vedic peoples were that they were an Indo-European speaking people who originated around the Pontic steppes (grasslands) north of the Black and Capsian seas (the Kurgan Hypothesis) some migrating west into Europe, others into Turkey (Hittites), still others into Western China, and the Indo-Iranian branch migrating into Iran and finally into the Indian subcontinent. Of course, there were people there also but India was not so greatly affected by the Mesopotamia and Nilotic empires such as Sumer and Babylon, and Egypt.

[@syam1234567]

Indian subcontinent is known as South Asia

[@deeponchaudhuri106]

You are right. But South Asia also includes Maldives and Mauritius. And Sri Lanka is geographically part of the Indian Subcontinent.

[@premsingha6202]

Every country has their unique history. Its good to learn. In India, we are taught most of the world history since primary, we have history subject which divide various segment, civic, ancient history covering world history, Indian history, contemporary history, or modern history, that's how we learn

[@premsingha6202]

But I got know more about civil war in Amercia, Golden age in Europe, Dark age of Africa, Inca , Aztec, Greek, Rome, caesar, Alexander, ancient civilization, Chinese, Indus, Greek, Mesopotamia, etc, Apartheid in Amercia, Africa, wars and conflict and lot more

[@carlwebster4217]

My third great grandfather was MAJOR Charles Newman he was second in charge of the 52nd Bengal Native Infantry. East India Company He spent 30 years in the army and retired in 1834 and migrated to Australia.

[@amangill3154]

Love your videos about history

[@barnstar2077]

Have you seen Daughters of Destiny on Netflix? It is about a doctor who opens a school for the lowest caste's children. Children that many say cannot be educated. It is a real eye opener!

[@AkhileshSingh-or3hg]

As u saw in this vedio u got an empire in such a short period that means there as so many blanks which were not told.

[@abhishekonker4862]

Divide and rule policy of the brits helped them achieve what they wanted. A better understanding of Indian modern history and British rule is explained by Dr shahshi tharoor in his books very well. He also has a video on Oxford union channel called does Britain owe reparations? Do check that out. Also there were several many other freedom fighters and one that stands out because of his contributions was Subhash Chandra Bose. Its better to read about him than Gandhi.

[@andrewclayton4181]

While Britain was dealing with the American rebellion, it was also involved in quite a major European war. It had its hands full. It only seriously moved into other parts of the globe, after it lost the American colonies. In 1857, at the time of the Indian mutiny, it was a more powerful country, and had no distractions. India had many people loyal to the British rule as well as those seeking independence. Many thousands fought on the allied side, along side other countries from the British empire, in WWI and II. The Japanese were invading and fighting in China in the 1930s. It was American actions against them over this conflict that sparked Pearl Harbour. They swept through a lot of south East Asian countries , many of them colonies. Vietnam (France ) Dutch Indonesia, British controlled Burma. They reached the north east border of India and even threatened to invade, but they were stretched quite thin at that point. The twin battles of Kohima and Imphal stopped an invasion. For information on Ghandi and the struggle for independence, you can't do better than watch the film directed by Richard Attenborough Ghandi. It is rather long, an epic, but unlike a lot of Hollywood, it is historically accurate and well worth seeing.

[@casparvonsader4505]

All very well said.

[@akshaykkulkarni6100]

The Indian civilization is the only surviving ancient civilization that hasn't lost its culture unlike the Greeks or Egyptians or even Mesopotamiams.

[@akshaykkulkarni6100]

@Fire Hymn Mesopotamians had a religion that gave importance to fire , it was called Zoroastrianism , please do check about it.And I would say proudly that indian civilization not only is the only old civilization in existence but also gave refuge to one of the last surviving Zoroastrians who are known as Parsis and are a minority surviving religion in india. Please check about this.

[@justchilling503]

"Takshila" first university in the world. Please check it.

[@sumitkumawat1507]

Hinduism stated 5000 bc but buddism came in 600 bc

[@barnstar2077]

Sorry, but where is the link to your other channel, I can't seem to find it?

[@manaschaudhari9409]

World's first republic was created in India. Vaishali nagar rajya was the first republic in world.

[@game-f-un-limitedgamer8958]

Fun fact: America was discovered by Columbus (accidently) in his expedition to find a sea route to India.

[@Mundarapilly]

The biggest empire was the Mauryan Empire. India comes in South Asia and it is often called as the Indian Sub-continent which comprises of several countries. It's so called because the geography of these regions is very different from the region just above it. Why didn't the rebellion in India of 1857 lost and US won? 1. In India, the British had support of many rulers and some of them stood with them. Typically, Indians helped British to defeat Indians(not all had nationalist ideologies at that time). 2. British applied Divide and Rule strategy in India. They created a sense of division in the minds of Indians,especially in respect of religion, that is, as Hindus and Muslims so that the people don't unite. It even resulted in a two nation theory and India was split into India and Pakistan. 3. And most probably the British would have used more power in India because they knew if they lose India they would lose all what they have as India was their biggest source of wealth and resources. Just imagine India had accounted for almost 25% of the world's GDP before EIC arrived and when British left India has less than 2% of the world's GDP.

[@DearTech]

The university he's talking about is most probably the world's oldest university which still exist although once this university was completely destroyed by Mughals which resulted in loss of greatest knowledge this world had. The worse thing is that the western countries never agreed on it as India has always been ignored by Western nations it's only today we have started getting importance in the global stage mostly coz India is going to be the next global superpower according to every surveys out there.

[@rohetchauhan]

Majority of INDIAN HAPLOGROUPS are 10000-15000 years old With max diversity and R1A1 haplogroup which is common across eurasia originated in INDIA.

[@vishwanathvishwa8067]

Not mogals mangolians. Not only constract many temples distroyed and built many masjids. Exmple ayodya, kashi, mathura, somanath temples

[@Paltse]

Boston harbour 1773, a couple of East India Company, or their associates tea carrying ships are moored and boarded, their contents are emptied to the sea and people are about to start the party. What a wild ride.

[@carlomercorio1250]

France and Spain helped the Americans win the War of Independence (American Revolution). Indians had no such help. Plus the British were ruthless in suppressing revolt - including firing people out of canons to discourage rebellion.

[@kyakaruvlogs2784]

India has sand and salt deserts and the largest mountain ranges in the world too. However, it has a huge population because cities were formed 3000-4000 years ago and people settled there. And this just went higher and higher in the next 4000 years. India is South Asia. And if I still remember my history classes, the Nalanda University was established around 500 B.C. And Alexander the Great of Macedonia was also not willing to enter into India because he was not sure if he could defeat the great Mauryan Empire. The Gupta Empire constituted about 30% of World's GDP during its era. The Mughal Empire at its peak was the richest Empire in the world for 2 centuries. Their GDP was about 25% of the World's GDP during those days. Everyone wanted a piece of the pie. That made Christopher Columbus to set out sail to India but failed and discovered the Americas instead. The United States were able to defeat the British because they were the same people and were united whereas India in those days comprised of 600+ kingdoms who were always at war with each other for centuries before the British arrived and the British used this to their advantage.

[@anujvarshney8200]

Classes in Ancient India were based on occupations but gradually it turned towards the hierarchy.

[@ravishrai1107]

Hinduism and Buddhism are and were two different religions, however Hinduism is much older than Buddhism, that info in the video was incorrect.

[@SubhamSingh-tm2qr]

Greetings from Darjeeling, 🇮🇳

[@WitcherBoss]

Here are some corrections and important facts--1.Mehergarh civilization was 7,500 years old and Harappa was a 4000 years old civilization..Mesopotamia or Egyptian civilization were not the oldest.. You can search about "Dwarka City",archeologist around the world are still in researching on it they think it could be more than 10-20 thousands years old..you can watch "Sanauli" at Discovery +.. It was 4000 years old a very modern civilization recently found in 2009..it changed Indian and world history 2. The oldest religion in the world is Sanatana Dharma an old form of Hinduism.. It was 5 to 10 thousands years old..Lord Budhha the founder of Buddhism was born in a hindu royal family..2.Selucas the commander of Alexander Army was an ally of Chandragupta Maurya..Chandragupta married Celucas daughter.. 3.Ashoka is the grandson of Chandragupta and in his time Buddhism spread to Tibet and S.E asian countries..He became a Buddhist after the great war against Kalinga..he united whole India.. He called the Great Ashoka..Buddhist People from china, japan, korea, Thailand respect him a lor even worship him for his involvement to spread Buddhism out of India to S. E asian countries 4. The university was called "Nalanda".. The oldest university of the world.Almost 10,000 students were admitted.. People from china, S. E Asia and middle east came to study thousands years ago.. 5. Maratha dynasty broke the Mughal empire into pieces.. Maratha were the bravest Hindu warriors who fought against the Muslim Mughal rulers who murdered millions of Hindus, tortured and forced them to convert into islam, raped and looted for hundreds of years.. The greatest Maratha king was Chatrapati Shivaji who stood for our freedom and to protect our women from mughals..when the mughal became weak by Marathas then East India Company entered in India and made Indian dynasties to fight with eachother so they became weak 6. In 1857 we lost the revolt called "Sipahi" because many kings didn't participate in it 7. 1/6 th of whole british army was Indian in both World Wars.. Millions of Indian died in world war in a hope that british would left India but they betrayed us..britain looted almost 45 trillion from India.. You can search on google or KZbin about it.. India shared over 40% of world gdp before Mughals invaded India, before britain invaded it was 24% of world gdp but when british left it became less than 4% of world gdp..In the time of Alexander greek used to call India the "Golden Bird" cause it was the richest of all 8. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bhagat Sing, Rashbihari Bose, Bagha Jatin and many more were the true heroes who sacrificed there life to give India independence.. I hope you learn a little bit about indian history today.. Thank You❤️🙏

[@Scythe-9]

9:42 India is India. It's a different geographical entity just like Australia which smashed itself into Asia. India is not south Asia or west Asia or east Asia. India is part of the India subcontinent.

[@russellfernandes9607]

One video is not enough to cover 3000 years of the history of India. You need to watch the movie Gandhi and the video by Dr. Shashi Tharoor on why the British owe reparations to India. Most of your questions on the British would be answered.

[@meetrayjadhav]

Read a book - India's struggle for independence. you will get some information about how british ruled India more than 150 years

[@bbbbbccccd]

India was already affected by Mughal invasion before British rule, and Britishers was second one to attack India. It happened without any gap of time.That's why delay in Independence occur. We face challanges before Britishers by Mughals. Mughals were huge in no. s but now India is getting back.

[@christophergooding3975]

Why India failed to overthrow the British vs the Americans. Well several large factors, in India a large number of the local rulers did not side with the revolt instead supporting or staying neutral in the conflict. The people who revolted stood alone with whatever arms they could steal or capture from British forces. America on the other hand fought against Britain alongside the French, many more important people in the US sided with the Patriots against the crown and America received so much aid from the French that it led to the French revolution. Having all that support and a cohesive leadership of the important players in the area is why the US succeeded.

[@ianprince1698]

the Mongolian empire swept down from the Mongolian steps right down to the gates of Vienna but the empire collapsed as the Emporer died and each section divided up amongst his family

[@miguelpadeiro762]

The mongols didn't reach Austria🤔

[@cicada3301dash]

my grandfather fought in world war 2 in africa core and in east asian theater , british were so much racist towards the troops no indian officer would be appointed

[@guilzd5836]

Hey I was just watching your reaction on the Napoleonic wars. Check out Easy peasy's history of India. That's more detailed.

[@sadiqahmed4143]

It's kinda Wrong

[@sadiqahmed4143]

It's not made properly they didn't even say things about 99%of my countries history

[@guilzd5836]

@@sadiqahmed4143 You mean easy peasy's video?

[@ChakraVart1]

I think the Indian experience under British rule resembles the experience on the Native American people rather than that of the European colonists. Britain’s role in India was that of a conqueror, not an estranged homeland

[@premsingha6202]

Britain could rule India because we had different religion, which was a factor to instigate conflict among people, and aside from religion, since ancient time of kings and queen, there was no union of kingdom due to internal difference. Since there was no unity among different sect, Britain took advantage and control over India, since Mughal emperor Babar. Biritsh came to India during Babar rule around 1500AD, to do trade, later on take took various company and merchants and expand their business in india. They knew that India was not United at that time, so they started to infuse conflict among Sikh, Muslim, Hindus kings. Since there was no unity they could conquer lots of kingdom, and at the end of 1700 AD they stated East india Company, even enforcing so many rules for King and queen which limits their power, and ultimately British rose and expand their rule and conquer all India. Only until late 19 and 20th century where people of India realised that unity of people can provide strength to suppress british power and oppression. Lots of heroes like Subhash Chandra Bise, Bhagat Singh, Queen Rani Lakshmi Bai, etc laid their live. 1857 was the first war of independence led by Lakshmi Bai but she died after battle carrying her son along with her. She was forced to leave her palace.

[@adhumon55]

We indians during the first war of independence 1857 had no armors, military power, no rifles, guns and missiles unlike Britain... Indians used to fought was with using elephants, swords, sheilds, bow & arrow and the fighting style was very ancient, traditional and not updated And we had no external supporting unions to tackle the brits.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Do some research

[@adhumon55]

@@stuarthastie6374 which country your from

[@stuarthastie6374]

Nepal beat theBritish...Afghanistan beat the British. TheMoguls had canon and muskets. Brits outnumbered 1000s to one. Even Zulus beat the Brits at the begining. Fact is india was corrupt.

[@ianprince1698]

a lot of problems were caused by the British after the industrial revolution or about that time our ruling classes" knew" they were right with God on their side that showed in how they treated people. including the British working class. arrogance springs to mind but we do a great flag-lowering ceremony

[@naveenrathi1997]

Britishers stole $45 trillion from INDIA in 200 years of colonisation. You can also find so many Indian artifects in UK and it's museums are full of Indian artifects. Also, the the most precious "KOHINOOR" diamond was stolen from India , which is now on the crown of Queen of UK. Always Remember :- "Truth is always Bitter". You may accept it or you may offend.

[@CovfefeDotard]

1 year anniversary woohoo

[@ianprince1698]

you need to look into the class system in the UK

[@adityaramachandran5142]

At 21:47, what they mean by "Buddhism and later Hinduism" just means the timeline...like for example..Buddhism was the principal religion in some time and after sometime Hinduism was the principal religion...just a clarification...Actually Buddhism was started wayy later as compared to Hinduism

[@DmitryRocha]

You should do "History of the entire world. I guess". It will be fun

[@bucklberryreturns]

The US, though not having thousand of years of history pertaining to class, does have blue collar, white collar and the rich. Although in theory, as with most modern countries, people are free to rise up the social ladder, when it comes down to it, if you don't have the right accent, appearance, or as we British say an old school tie, many doors are still closed.

[@barryevans791]

I think the parallels with American history are on purpose, this video is very unkind to the British Empire, which I suspect is also on purpose.

[@omarsabih]

Note: History of India is usually generalized as the history of the northern-most part. The reason is that the north controlled the passage into India from the West (through Afghanistan)- it's like a bottleneck with the Himalayas to the north and the Arab sea to the south. The passage was crucial for military reasons, primarily because India did not have access to war horses or gunpowder inland. It had to come from the West. So whoever controlled North India was the most powerful and had a bigger say in the sub-continent's affair. Also, this is the reason you see Afghan/Turkic/Persian/Mongol tribes attacking (North) India with such ease and establishing century-long dynasties.

[@AlfonsJQuack]

More people were the reason why the Infizns werent able to gain independence, the british played different religions, ethnicities and regional powers against eachother, and played huge mercenary armies, made up of Indians to conquer each other. So the Indians conquered themselves.