How did the 4,000-year-old ancient India, which has always been beaten, never beaten?
As one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, India has a good name, but it is not useful, and it has been beaten for more than 4,000 years of history, and it has never beaten others, which can be called a major miracle in the history of the world. Of course, what is even more miraculous is that all the conquerors who are integrated into Indian civilization will soon be assimilated into the scum of war, and will be crushed to the bottom of society after the invasion of new conquerors, and this cycle will never change.
The most peculiar ancient civilization, with a history of 4,000 years, has always been in a state of being beaten and conquered
From the Aryan invasion to the British colonization, it has been beaten for 4,000 years
In the 12th century BC, the Central Asian nomadic Aryans entered the Iranian plateau from the Indo-European steppe, and then invaded India from the Hindu Kush Mountains, defeated the cowardly ancient Indian Dravidians, and occupied the Indus and Ganges valleys two centuries later, gradually transitioning from a nomadic civilization to an agrarian civilization.
Some of the native Dravidians of India were slaughtered, some were expelled, and most of the rest became slaves, and it was during this period of Aryan rule that India developed the famous "caste system".
In the 5th century BC, the Persians invaded the Indus Valley and invaded northern India, eliminating the small states in northern India and persifying Indian civilization.
In the 3rd century BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Indus Valley and northern India, Hellenizing Indian civilization.
After the death of Alexander the Great, the Indian Moon Protector established the Peacock Dynasty, and the territory once penetrated deep into the Ganges River Valley, which was the first dynasty established by the Indians. But soon, the Indian Peacock Dynasty was in turmoil around the 2nd century BC, invaded by the Greeks of Bactria, the Cypriots of the Middle East, the Sabbaths, and the Kushan people of the Great Moon clan, and the native Indians continued to become slaves and prisoners in foreign invasions, and their social status was getting lower and lower. After centuries of decline, the Kushan Empire was strong and declining, and Jandhara Gupta I established the Gupta Dynasty in North India, the last powerful dynasty established by the Indians.
In the fifth century AD, the White Huns, descendants of the Huns and the Great Moon People, also known as the Wuda people, invaded and occupied India under the leadership of the leader Luo Man, and almost killed all the natives of North India.
In the eleventh century AD, the Ghaznavid dynasty in Central Asia invaded India under the leadership of Sultan Mamoud, the first time in the history of India was invaded by a Muslim country, after which the Ghaznavid dynasty was annexed by the original vassal state of the Ghurid dynasty, and the Ghurid dynasty was annexed by the slave dynasty, and India changed several rulers in a short period of time.
In the fifteenth century, descendants of the MuslimIzed Mongols invaded India in an all-round way, establishing the once-mighty Mughal Empire, which laid the territorial boundaries of present-day India. Three centuries later, the Portuguese and British invaded India until January 26, 1950, when the present-day Republic of India was finally established.
How did India manage to be invaded by foreign nations for 4,000 years?
It is not difficult to see from the above that in the past 4,000 years, India has only appeared in the Peacock Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty, two dynasties established by the natives, and the moisture of these two dynasties is still very large, not to mention that the territory only occupies the North India region, that is, militarily, but all foreign invasions are basically kneeling and licking, and there is no ability to resist. At other times, India is all outsiders in charge, why is this situation?
First, physical geography has led to military insecurity
India is located in the south of the Asian continent, surrounded by the sea on three sides and backed by mountains on one side, with many plains, fertile soil, humid climate, and very favorable conditions for agricultural production.
However, such India seems to have unique geographical conditions, but it has an extremely fatal flaw, that is, there is a natural gap between the Hindu Kush Mountains and the Suleiman Mountains - the Khyber Pass, this gap is like China's Yanyun Sixteen States, but if it is lost, it will cause the two Song Dynasties to be undefended, and the nomadic peoples can drive straight into the hinterland and form a huge military advantage.
But some people will also ask, can't India attack the Xiongnu in the north, build the Great Wall, turn unfavorable geography into a military fortress, and effectively block the invasion of nomadic peoples from going south like Qin Shi Huang in China?
The answer is no, because even if it is also a developed agricultural civilization, the native Indians have never had a strong national cohesion like the Chinese nation in China, and have never established such a reliable military force as China's feudal unified autocratic dynasty.
Second: The caste system limits the combat effectiveness of national culture
After the Aryan conquest of India, they developed a "caste system" that emphasized the inferiority of blood, with the four classes of Brahmins, Chaturis, Vedas and Sudras representing the people of the four levels of religion, politics, commerce and commerce, and dalits.
This system was closely integrated with religion to form a hierarchical social system, stipulating that different castes could not intermarry, the status of women was inferior, etc., and divided Indian society into several social groups, with distinctions between high and low, noble and low.
There is no doubt that this caste system has the natural advantage of maintaining class rule, but it also weakens the vitality of India, isolating the people from the moral level of the nation and the homeland, and it is impossible to issue the courageous and fearless enthusiasm of "the prince will have a kind of peace" when the people are oppressed and the people are not happy, and it is impossible to issue the grand hope of "the rise and fall of the country is responsible" when the nation is in the depths of the waters.
In short, who rules India is no different for the people at the bottom, who make up the majority of India's population.
This is not at all comparable to ran Min's order to kill Hu during the Wuhu Chaohua period to slaughter millions of Hu people with blood for blood, the Wei and Jin dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties han nationality to cross the south to maintain the survival of the nation, and the Qing Dynasty ruled China but was repeatedly rebelled and revolted by the Han nationality. Compared with the Chinese dragon, ancient India is undoubtedly a worm with soft bones, and anyone can step on a few feet.
Third: Scattered religions have led to a lack of national cohesion
The current Republic of India is a secularist country that adheres to secularism, but religion still has a huge influence on its politics, society, and people's livelihood. And since ancient times, India should be the country most poisoned by religion, not to mention that the caste system formed with religion as the core is still hindering the pace of India's development, that is, standing in the long river of history, its complicated and strange religious development status quo has also led to the lack of national cohesion in India.
In addition to Hinduism, India today also believes in Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Yuanism, and other religions, and Indians will certainly ask about each other's religious beliefs in their conversations, and different religions will be hostile to each other; there are temples everywhere in India, villages have sacred pools, and they consume property and goods, and even if the behavior of religious leaders to defraud money and goods is no different from the corruption and bribery of government officials, the result is that the former is praised and the latter is reviled; such situations are not limited to the present, but have always existed in past history.
Indians believe in religion and act according to religious doctrines, so when the invading enemy occupies the high point of the caste system and incorporates religious power into their hands, the Indian people basically stop thinking of resistance.
In short, under the influence of religion, different political and economic interest groups have been formed in various parts of India, which is also the source of the many small states in India, and different interest groups have different interest demands, which in turn leads to political contradictions, ethnic contradictions and religious factional contradictions.