Causes of Indian Military Defeats

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The main cause of Hindus defeat by Muslims was not for Ahimsa(non-violence) due to influence of Buddhism and Jainism. By 1192 when Muslims came these 2 religion almost became extinct, Buddhists began to worship Goddess "Tara" from which perhaps Hindu Goddess "Kali" came. Buddhism then was full of Tantricism.

The causes are

1) Cast System, high class people neglected poor people, so poor people found almost difference between oppressive High class people and Muslim invaders, instead many preferred equality of Islam.

2) Buddhists betrayed during Arab conquest of Sindhudesh, in Chachnama those people were called "people with nationalistic feelings".

3) Hindus were reluctant to learn anything new, they thought no one knows like theirs so nothing to learn from others. It stopped flow of intelligence among Indian mind. Al Beruni who came with Sultan Mahmud clearly saw this. Even despite Mahmud of Ghazni's continue raids Hindus did not learn from past.

So our social system was very sick then. India was wealthy but Indians lacked will to do any thing, a type of self-satisfaction came. And it's inevitable fault was India's defeat and start of Muslim era.

If Guru Nanak was born 400 more years earlier and Bhakti movement started 400 years earlier than when actually started, Cast system's binding would be much loosed. India would be saved.

It was inevitable.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

It is what that did not happened, Rabindranath Tagore very easily stated this.

 

[Known_Unknown]

The article assumes that Indians (or "Hindus", as the author likes to put it) NEED to have an aggressive spirit. But why should we? Before the 19th century India was the richest land in the world. Who would we invade? To the north are impassable mountains, to the east dense jungles, to the west barren deserts, and to the south the Indian Ocean. Indians are content with the land that we have. Other peoples invaded us because they were attracted by India's great wealth. It is said that great beauty attracts unwanted attention!

Furthermore, there are plenty of cases of "Hindu rulers" showing "aggresive spirit". For example, Chandragupta's campaign against the Seleucid Empire and Asoka's campaign against Kalinga. Both were very successful from a military standpoint. But after these campaigns, both rulers renounced their aggresive spirit and peacefully managed their empire for the rest of their reign. Perhaps ancient Indians were wiser than other people, and realized that having an "aggresive spirit" only leads to bloodshed and turmoil?

Food for thought.

Perhaps the insight lies in understanding that a sheep cannot survive amongst a pride of lions? Enlightened as they might have been, the rest of the world was still barbaric and Indians failed to adapt to that reality.