Gd Bakshi Quotes

Mughals to the importance of sea power. The Mughals had a predominantly continental outlook. Preoccupation with cavalry warfare blinded the Indian rulers to the maritime challenge of the European powers. The Mughals would only take an enemy seriously if he confronted them with large contingents of cavalry. Thus, they neglected the Indian Ocean as the most important element of the total Indian environment. They knew the monsoon would not permit a sustained maritime invasion of India. Thus, a maritime invader would find his supply lines cut in a short time-frame. The European powers, however, never attempted such an invasion. India itself had a huge military manpower pool with a mercenary orientation. It generally flocked to the banner of whichever local ruler paid the best. The European success lay in nativisation. They built up their military contingents in India by drilling local infantry troops who were far less expensive to maintain but in the end proved fatal to the Indian cavalry.

The crux of the [AIT and IAMT ] debate therefore centers around the a priori existence of the Vedic Sarasvati river. With the existence of the Sarasvati established the entire construct of the geographically contiguous Harrapan and Rig Vedic Civilizations falls neatly into place.

It was an egalitarian civilisation. There were no armies of slave labour used to build massive Pyramids and Sphinxes, palaces, tombs or mausoleums for dead despots and kings.

The Rig Veda mentions a primordial Goddess called Danu. Her children were the Danvas who fought with the Devas, the Gods, and lost. This Rig Vedic tribe was banished into exile. The word Danu itself means fluid drop in Rig Vedic Sanskrit. The Avestan (old Iranian) word for river is Danu. So do the Scythians (Sakas) and Sarmatians call rivers—Danu. Now comes the surprise. Linguistically the names of many rivers in Europe and Russia can be traced back to the Sanskrit/ Avestan Danu. thus- Danube Deniper Donets Don Dunajec Dvina Dysna Does this seem to indicate the gradual westward out-migration of the Rig Vedic Danava clans of the Indo-Aryans from the Indus- Sarasvati civilisational area into Russia and Europe?