11-17-2006, 03:37 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I believe another perspective of modernity is the emergence of national consciousness, for it bound together a Maratha with a Jat, a Sikh with a Tamilian, a Gujarati or Parsi with Bengali to believe that they have something in common. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The only thing modernism brought about was the concept of political unity under a single state, the Jat and the Sikh already knew what they had in common which was why they tried to cooperate with the Marathas in facing Abdali, the same reason was the case when Sawai Jai Singh (even though his ambitions of a larger kingdom including Malwa clashed with those of the Marathas) and other Rajput rulers cooperated with the Marathas since it concerned Hindu honour, that was why Peshwa Baji Rao went and saved Chhatrasal and liberated Bassein from the Christian fanatics upon the request of the Hindus there.
The only thing modernism brought about was the concept of political unity under a single state, the Jat and the Sikh already knew what they had in common which was why they tried to cooperate with the Marathas in facing Abdali, the same reason was the case when Sawai Jai Singh (even though his ambitions of a larger kingdom including Malwa clashed with those of the Marathas) and other Rajput rulers cooperated with the Marathas since it concerned Hindu honour, that was why Peshwa Baji Rao went and saved Chhatrasal and liberated Bassein from the Christian fanatics upon the request of the Hindus there.