I found this Channel by searching for the politics, military and economy of the Mughal Empire. And I found a hidden Gem here. Great Work :D
@callusklaus24136 жыл бұрын
There are many channels that deal with grand strategy and geopolitics, but your factualism and clean presentation of ideas sets you apart. With more production value, you could compete with big channels. This is excellent, as an amateur fantasy writer, a sober strategic map like this would be useful for me to draw myself. Thank you for posting.
@dondeestaCarter5 жыл бұрын
Many channels?? There are more? Which ones? So far I've only seen this one. You may mean Kings and Generals, Invicta or Bazz Battles and such, who deal with basic strategy and history, specially on battlefields. But regarding geopolitics, logistics and GRAND strategy, this channel is alone.
@Danquebec015 жыл бұрын
@@dondeestaCarter There’s Caspian Report.
@FreedomFox15 жыл бұрын
@@Danquebec01 Caspian Reports is fantastic. KJ Vids is another one. Not many content creators (especially for such a universally important topic) because KZbin is notorious for demonitizing videos on Geopolitics. Anything that challenges the Washington Consensus narrative (which means anything that is not propaganda) is going to be a problem for KZbin.
@dondeestaCarter5 жыл бұрын
Honestly I see the Caspian Report more as an "International Stage" TV newsflash on "and now stay tuned for what's going on in Russia!!!" than a channel related to this one. It's kind of silly fantasy to attempt to analyse what's going on today when there's so little known and available to the public, when the outcome is not yet visible in the horizon, when so much things are done behind closed doors and when propaganda machines from both sides of a conflict flood the system with misinformation. Safer is to talk about the Moghul Empire or the Roman Defense Grand Strategy, because neither the moghuls or the romans are around us anymore and it's much less likely for the Strategy-Stuff-guy to have a horse on that race. EDIT: Went to check the Caspian Report channel to see if what I was saying was true, it turns out it does talk about ancient and medieval grand strategies, but for some strange reason all I've been recommended until now are videos about today China and Russia. Lol.
@genovayork2468 Жыл бұрын
@@FreedomFox1😂
@Geopoliticus6 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Looking forward to going through all your videos. (I’m trying to bring some Geopolitics onto KZbin too! Great to see another Samurai fighting for the cause.)
@androkvijinadze73476 жыл бұрын
Excellent. The raw quality of the content and the presentation really makes one root for the channel to explode on popularity
@harshgupta_india11 ай бұрын
a look into mauyan empire will also be of great help
@bjarke78866 жыл бұрын
Why have i first found this channel now, gonna watch all the videos because DAMN they're good
@bloodfiredrake72596 жыл бұрын
Those eu4 textures though
@apotato62786 жыл бұрын
Truly a man of great culture
@iuriepripa31716 жыл бұрын
cheeky eu4 trade goods spotted
@Haider08 Жыл бұрын
lol
@matheuscecilio99773 жыл бұрын
This channel is a hidden gem! Thank you for the content and also for not placing too many ads.
@sahhaf12345 жыл бұрын
This is the best channel of this channel, and one of the best in the whole youtube... Is it possible to make such a geographical analysis of some european countries, like germany, italy or bohemia? For exanple, I really wonder how carpathians and their passes affected the campaigns of 30 years wars, 7 years war etc.. There is also the question of which parts of the europe is agriculturally more fertile.
@sll36957 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks for the video, it's so informative!
@KingofEuropa075 жыл бұрын
Would you do a more in depth analysis of the monsoon zone as a geomilitary/economic case study?
@eliascristante53065 жыл бұрын
Awesome channel!
@roma913 Жыл бұрын
Really well explained with clear well explained detail. 👏🏽
@coachhannah24036 жыл бұрын
Civilization iconography is interesting.
@RoyalAnarchist6 жыл бұрын
Nice. Can you do (or have you done) an analysis like this for China? I’m interested if there are similar inter-regional dynamics
@StrategyStuff6 жыл бұрын
I would love to, but this is essentially a visualization of a particular chapter in a book about Mughal history. I'm not as comfortable making these sort of claims by myself, but I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this (most of the Stratfor country guides follow this sort of geopolitical analysis).
@RoyalAnarchist5 жыл бұрын
@@StrategyStuff That's very relatable. I've read a lot of history recently and felt like I could often make videos about events I've read about that are as informative as many of the popular history videos on KZbin, but would have trouble going beyond what I've read. Are there any books related to China that you've been reading recently?
@takshashila29956 жыл бұрын
great!
@dijondermaku4 жыл бұрын
Where and what have you to study exactly to be able to make such analysis? And averagely, how many hours does it take for the research and the simplification? I just wonder, because indeed your Channel is a hidden gem (as someone here pointed out). And how do you justify to use only one source for this video specifically? Oh man, please do some more videos, I can not get enough of this - great job👍
@StrategyStuff4 жыл бұрын
Well seeing that this is an early video, yeah I wouldn’t say my research standards were as extensive as they are now - and in any case, this video was meant to simply be a description of Jos Gommans’ very interesting thoughts on how geography and politics intersected in Mughal India. As for studying, I did politics at uni, but I also did a bit of historical research, so I’m used to the heavy reading. On average I think I would read about 1000 pages for research, so that takes up about a week? Simplification takes 2 days: one to write the draft and another to clean it up.
@dijondermaku4 жыл бұрын
Alright, so there is no cooperation on your channel, just you and doing the vids and the research? Are there plans for Extention/Expansion of this Channel?
@StrategyStuff4 жыл бұрын
well I did a cooperative video with CaspianReport on the Peloponnesian War, but yes apart from that it's a 1-man powerpoint operation. As for expansion... I need a better video upload schedule first. I'm not relying on this channel for anything, anyway.
@dijondermaku4 жыл бұрын
Good to hear, well now I am going to let you rest , thanks for the quick responses - have a nice strategic planned day👋
@ShahjahanMasood6 жыл бұрын
Your Channel is amazing
@praiseoffolly42355 жыл бұрын
A very interesting video, but where do you get the idea that the Mughals were a horse archer based army? At the battle of Panipat 1525 it was the Sultanate of Delhi with the cavalry army and they lost to Babar's disciplined musket men and canons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Panipat
@Progamermove_2003 Жыл бұрын
Maybe they incorporated the surviving horse archers into their army and hired more from Persia and Central Asia later on? It is a general consensus that they used a lot of horse archers.
@knowledgedesk1653 Жыл бұрын
@@Progamermove_2003 Neither delhi sultanate nor Mughals were really horse archers army. Delhi sultanate army(in 15-16th cent) mainly comprised of heavy cavalry while early mughals army mainly comprised of heavy cavalry and heavy infantry muskeeters. Late mughal army relied more of musketeers. Horse archery was more of central asian and khurasani thing. Most Cavalry armies in India were heavy cavalry or armed light Cavalry.
@knowledgedesk1653 Жыл бұрын
@@Progamermove_2003 They may have used horse archery to an extent but their tactics were not similar with what you expect from horse archer armies. Mughal armies lead fairly straightforward charges
@Progamermove_2003 Жыл бұрын
@@knowledgedesk1653 Yes I know that Indian cavalries were not typically made up of horse archers. But Mughals originated from Central Asia, so I thought that maybe they had some knowledge of cavalry archers.
@Resil270212 жыл бұрын
keep up the good work
@arielquelme9 ай бұрын
I ought too know how Bengal region could produce ship freights 10 times larger than entire North America in 16th century
@nirupamakumar39176 жыл бұрын
Great video But missed Bhramaputra river
@aneesh21156 жыл бұрын
The ahom empire beat the mughals
@rohitrai61876 жыл бұрын
I think this is a bit inaccurate at a point, as Mughal armies were based more on heavy cavalry than bow cavalry
@Alcorr6 жыл бұрын
Excellent.
@michaelanthony83946 жыл бұрын
i have a sudden urge to play civ 5.lol
@javierescamilla44575 жыл бұрын
i fucking love your videos because my mind loves to think of everything especially topics like this. sooo thank you from me and my mind, you keep us very entertained with our inception (:
@alexop59194 жыл бұрын
Can it be video about British conquest of India?
@aksmex25766 жыл бұрын
India is interesting. Its rich in those days.
@juelznjules5 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on ibn khaldun's muqqadimah please? Thank you. Great work.
@StrategyStuff5 жыл бұрын
I will when I have time. His insight imho is one of the most relevant yet least appreciated in history
@Poszlakowaneopinie6 жыл бұрын
Can you do the video about Russia/Poland?
@Danquebec015 жыл бұрын
@tdr Poland is in a though spot because it’s in the middle of the North European Plain. It can get invaded by two sides.
@genovayork2468 Жыл бұрын
@@Danquebec01 Belarus can get invaded by two sides too.
@georgejpg2 жыл бұрын
I like that you used the EU4 cloth trade good icon lol
@thedoomedheroes6 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@Fakeslimshady5 жыл бұрын
isnt mughals one of the gunpowder empires?
@mahfuzannan82704 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Progamermove_2003 Жыл бұрын
From what I understand, their gunpowder technology was mostly focused on/limited to cannons, which were usually larger than the European counterparts. While they do have some small arms units as well, they were not organised in the most effective manner, and cavalry continued to play a major role.
@ssa31016 жыл бұрын
Out of the triad of medieval muslim powers of mughals, safavids anf the ottamans, mughals were probably the greatest.
@genovayork2468 Жыл бұрын
These three are modern, not medieval.
@Rynewulf5 жыл бұрын
You state that Mughal armies relied on Mongol-inspired cavalry archer masses, but weren't the Mughals famed for their use of gunpowder and responsible for spreading that type of warfare into and across the Indian subcontinent? And if this is indeed true, then surely one of your final points to do with the Mughals losing power due to their rivals outgunning their cavalry inaccurate?
@StrategyStuff5 жыл бұрын
The Mughals (though not just them in India - Gujarat another key adopter) indeed combined cavalry archers with light cannon + muskets into a lethal battlefield combination. The key point lies in the tactical deployment of gunpowder units where massed cavalry archer tactics were a thing. The low rate/volume of fire of early gunpowder meant that, in Europe and India, it was at first a static and defensive weapon (think Zizka's wagenberg tactics in Bohemia - the Mughals used similar tactics at Panipat). Against this problem, European tactics evolved in the direction of increasing volume/reliability of fire: massed musketeers, infantry drill, gun development etc. But for the Mughals, their cavalry-archer armies already provided an alternative for gunpowder's weaknesses. So while the Mughals had a use for gunpowder - sieges, wagenbergs, and in the Monsoon zone such as Bengal (and for local units that couldn't afford horses) - they had little incentive to develop European-style armaments or infantry training. So the 1700s, as increasingly-autonomous regional lords began importing European armaments that by now were much-improved from their 1500s version, the Mughals were abruptly confronted with infantry that now had the mobility/range/volume of fire to stand toe-to-toe and even best traditional cavalry-archer tactics.
@Brahmdagh5 жыл бұрын
I don't think Mughals used Cavalry archers.
@curiouskid15473 жыл бұрын
They did. That's why they were mughal i.e mongols.
@knowledgedesk1653 Жыл бұрын
@@curiouskid1547 Mongols and Mughals were vastly different
@BallyBoy956 жыл бұрын
Don't mean to be religiously polarising, but I'm going to be polarising nonetheless. The number one policy of the mughal empire was to convert as many non-muslims to islam as soon as possible. Babur, the first mughal emperor of india, introduced the tradition of writing autobiographies in the indian subcontinent. In this autobiography, he very clearly and explicitly states that he had three goals in life, to be victorious in war, to loot and rape as many hindu women as possible. Shah Jahan, the reason the taj mahal exists, for his wife, jhanara bhegum, had a policy of hindu men selling their wives if they could not pay the jizya tax (tax for being non-muslim, very high, left the non-muslims dirt poor, and to be paid with shame), whereas muslims paid the zakat (more mild, for non-muslims, to be paid with pride). Aurengzeb, his son, went on to massacre as many hindus as possible. Many european (non-indian) sources corroborate with this in their accounts, and was defeated by the Marathas, Sikhs, Rajputs, Jats and Ahomis whom all had rebelled against the Mughals at this time. As well as the Afghan Durranis, who were more or less interested in just looting India and convert them to Islam, the same way the Mughals had done. I like this video, but everyone is either not interested in mentioning, isn't aware of, and mostly in the case of actual Indians, always afraid of mentioning that the Mughals gave near zero shits about Hindus. You will not find any of this in the Indian curriculum, as the Indian deep state and Indian National Congress party is filled with Marxists, neo-marxists and all other types of marxists (e.g. maoists).
@BallyBoy956 жыл бұрын
I only mentioned the policy of three mughal emperors btw, I could go on to detail policies led by every mughal emperor (barring Akbar, who was a good mughal emperor) and how they hated hindus, sikhs, buddhists and christians.
@shorewall6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we just need to say Islam. As someone of European descent, when I learn about the abuses of the Ottoman Empire (on my own, of course), I am aghast. Religion of Peace...More like Religion of Slavery.
@gplastic6 жыл бұрын
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@leaveme35596 жыл бұрын
@@shorewall ottomans were much more tolerant than mughals its why they lasted till the 20th century
@ahmedshaharyarejaz98866 жыл бұрын
Oh indeed indeed the Mughals tried to convert all of India to Islam, which is why they had many Hindu ministers, many hindu and jain wives, borrowed money from major hindu moneylending combines and allied with hindu nobles against muslim rebels and read and practiced the Kamasutras teachings with their concubines. Boy wake up. The mughals were royalty and like all Indian royalty whether hindu, muslim, jain, sikh, buddhist or otherwise they were interested only in living the good life at the peasants expense even if it meant going to war and killing people for it; they were not the religious soldiers you portray them to be. Grow Up.
@brandonlee9344 жыл бұрын
gotta love the mongols
@Richard_is_cool4 жыл бұрын
other words: *geopolitics*
@atanumaulik70933 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Shows why any North India based power finds it so difficult to penetrate Bengal or Tamil Nadu. Even today Modi's empire is facing difficulties bringing those regions under control. That's the power of geopolitics. Geographical realities are enduring, even though technologies change.
@MrPoornakumar6 жыл бұрын
India (the subcontinent) is trammeled by the Himalaya & their spurs - Kirthar & Suleman ranges in West & Patkai, Arakan`yoma ranges in East (abutting Burma)-enclosing it totally & isolating it. Don't say "Moogle" like Google (it is grating on the ears). Say 'Moghals'. In Akbar's regime, his aunt (father Humayun's sister) wanted to make Hajj pilgrimage (to Mecca that all Muslims want to make). She was sent to Surat, a port on Gujarat coast. Just a hundred miles into the sea on the ship, the Portuguese pirates who have none to confront them on Indian seas (they took full control of the two seas - Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal after they established their foothold in Goa), looted the royal entourage. The party was obliged to return, back in Surat, sans any money or cash. Nevertheless, Akbar was the greatest of the Moghals & perhaps the richest Emperor then, in the world. You know why it happened so? What lessons can one learn?All history of India that you read ignores South India- defined by (straight west flowing) Narmada & Tapati rivers as well as Vindhya & Satpura mountain ranges. This, the peninsular half of present day (political) India, with the coast line is the Deccan plateau, rimmed by thin coastal stretch. It is largely free from the great Indian Empires in th Indo-Gangetic plains with Central Asian, continental (non-maritime) mindset. Its kingdoms to the south, were minding their own business. Some (in extreme south - Chola & Pandya kingdoms) colonised South East Asia & ruled till Arab traders (peacefully) & the Portuguese displaced them there. Their regimes were not colonising in the European sense but only as a process of acculturation. All that was left behind is a tiny outpost - 'Bali', a Hindu island & a vocabulary (Thai for instance) partly derived from Sanskrit. The trade with the West(Roman Empire, predominantly) was roaring & the coastal region in extreme south was prosperous in fact. There was peace (trade can thrive only then). The taxes from the trade were never (or hardly if any) given to the Moghals. At times there were forays by armies from North & consequences from them were brief. Before Moghals took over (North) India, five Muslim 'Bahmani' kingdoms (connected by filial relations as they originated from one Muslim kingdom) ruled over North Deccan, chief of them was 'Golconda' (the capital & fort are in present day Hyderabad city). Later, a Hindu kingdom - Vijaya`nagara Empire embraced the whole of southern part of peninsular India. Its capital (Vijaya`nagara, 'Hampi' as known now, was totally destroyed by the combined Bahmani armies in the last, decisive 'Talikota' battle) was said to be second biggest city after Rome. Portuguese men (mostly military) were frequenting Vijaya`nagara court. Fernão Nunes, also known as Fernao Nuniz, was a Portuguese traveler, chronicler & horse trader who spent three years in Vijayanagara. Abu Abdullah/lbn Batuta (Morocco), Nicolo de Conti (Italy), Abdur Razzaq (Persia), Athanasius Nikitin (Russia) were some of the other travellers. All these kingdoms were outside the purview (control) of Moghal Empire, until the last of the great Moghals, the intolerant & determined 'Aurangzeb' camped in the south till his last days, to subdue Shivaji, the 'MaraTha' chieftain, who engaged in guerrilla warfare & defeated Moghal forces. Later Moghals were weak, insignificant & all their territories became independent, but some declared 'nominal' loyalty to the Moghal Emperor of the day. This trend (the dormant loyalty) came in handy when in 1857, they rose against the English East India Company with the last Moghal, (old poet) Bahadur shah 'Zafar', pushed to the fore in the battles. The English captured him & deposed him to Burma, thus bringing the curtains on the nominal Moghal Empire. Then English Crown stepped into their (the suzerain of India) shoes that was the sure way acceptable to Indian public. It was the British who brought the south into mainstream history of the Indian nation. Else it was only notional.