09-06-2006, 07:20 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thank you for your answers Bharatvarsh. Those were dark days. Still to this day, Alha-singers sing this line: 'jaki bitiya sundar dekhi... taa ghar jae dharin hathiar'<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well if we are not careful those dark days will return in a few decades due to demographic changes.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By the way, isn't marrying the powerful enemy's daughter, a Chanakya-approved method of political alliances... is Chandragupta marrying dauhter of Greek governor a fact or fable? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes but for the Mughals, in addition to creating alliances it was a way of humiliating the infidels.
Chandragupta Maurya marrying a Greek woman, I read about it all over the place but in the S N Sen book I quoted above, he says it's based on dubious grounds.
Well if we are not careful those dark days will return in a few decades due to demographic changes.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->By the way, isn't marrying the powerful enemy's daughter, a Chanakya-approved method of political alliances... is Chandragupta marrying dauhter of Greek governor a fact or fable? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes but for the Mughals, in addition to creating alliances it was a way of humiliating the infidels.
Chandragupta Maurya marrying a Greek woman, I read about it all over the place but in the S N Sen book I quoted above, he says it's based on dubious grounds.