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Bakwas by: Hannah Ellis-Petersen "https://twitter.com/HannahEP" wrote:
"Finally there was Bharat, a name that is traced back to an ancient Sanskrit text, the Rig Veda – written around 1500BC – which mentions the Bharata clan as one of the principal tribes occupying an area now known as north India. It is also the name of a legendary king that appears in the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, who Hindus claim was the father of the Indian race."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/india-or-bharat-g20-invitations-throw-up-question-dating-back-centuries

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) "The Greatest Epic Mahabharata is 5,000 Years Old"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJ-0ul5wj4&t=75s
“And remember that this, which forms part of the Mahabharata,
the greatest epic on earth was written four or five thousand years ago."
Source: Mountain Paths Published
Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: University of California Libraries (January 1, 1919)
Language: English
ASIN: B006FX6KPA https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-paths-Maurice-Maeterlinck/dp/B006FX6KPA

https://sacredsites.com/asia/india/amarnath_cave.html

"For example, when Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti settled at Ajmer he took two wives,
although he was then aged sixty-five.One of them was a Hindu raja's daughter
who had been seized during a raid on the Hindus by the local commander."
Source: Women of India: Their Status Since the Vedic Times by Arun R.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Women_of_India.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Malik_Isami

Source: Jackson, Peter (2003). The Delhi Sultanate:
A Political and Military History
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delhi-Sultanate-Political-Cambridge-Civilization/dp/0521543290

"He raised taxes to levels where people refused to pay any. In India's fertile lands
between Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the Sultan increased the land tax rate on non-Muslims by
tenfold in some districts, and twentyfold in others."
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Brief_History_of_the_Indian_Peoples.html

"His distant campaigns were expensive, although each raid and attack on non-Muslim kingdoms
brought new looted wealth and ransom payments from captured people.
The extended empire was difficult to retain, and rebellions all over Indian subcontinent became routine." https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_History_of_India_as_Told_by_Its_Own.html

The Delhi SultanateA Political and Military History
By Peter Jackson · 2003
https://archive.org/details/TheDelhiSultanateAPoliticalAndMilitaryHistoryCambridgeStudiesInIslamicCivilization

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