01-23-2009, 10:50 AM
Indians need to start tying together the various components. Is there a relationship between ( the fact of ) OIT and the rise of monotheistic cultural terrorism within a western imperial context? Quite Possibly.
As Shri Kosla Vepa has remarked, Darius knew about the Indian homeland and left the Eastern flank relatively unattended; after all, Bharat was only a sister (actually, mother) civilization. The same dynamic applied to Bharatiya view of its western border. Furthermore, Persians tried to apply the same geostrategic logic with the Greeks; arguing, probably with good evidence, that Perseus, the founder of the Greeks, had a Persian origin. Probably, the Greek connection to Persians was common knowledge at the time. But the Greeks denied the Truth of their origins. Monotheism was a consequence of this Greek endeavor.
With the demise of Persia, which was (at least) a 750 year Greco-Roman imperial project, the Indic western border threat opened up. Previous Central Asian incursions ( e.g. Hunas ) were only a small nuisance by Indian continental standards. For example, there is no Magyar speaking state in the heart of India as there is in Europe. Nor was there ever a threat perception from the west. Actually, the extreme of monotheism was *required* to reverse the general east-to-west migratory trajectories and gradients observed by the OIT group, Oppenheimer, Nichols, and so on. Alexander was the first, and only with the advent of Islam was the western border breached.
As Shri Kosla Vepa has remarked, Darius knew about the Indian homeland and left the Eastern flank relatively unattended; after all, Bharat was only a sister (actually, mother) civilization. The same dynamic applied to Bharatiya view of its western border. Furthermore, Persians tried to apply the same geostrategic logic with the Greeks; arguing, probably with good evidence, that Perseus, the founder of the Greeks, had a Persian origin. Probably, the Greek connection to Persians was common knowledge at the time. But the Greeks denied the Truth of their origins. Monotheism was a consequence of this Greek endeavor.
With the demise of Persia, which was (at least) a 750 year Greco-Roman imperial project, the Indic western border threat opened up. Previous Central Asian incursions ( e.g. Hunas ) were only a small nuisance by Indian continental standards. For example, there is no Magyar speaking state in the heart of India as there is in Europe. Nor was there ever a threat perception from the west. Actually, the extreme of monotheism was *required* to reverse the general east-to-west migratory trajectories and gradients observed by the OIT group, Oppenheimer, Nichols, and so on. Alexander was the first, and only with the advent of Islam was the western border breached.