Comments on: Cultural Extinctions – Death Of Slave Societies

By: Shashi Tharoor patterns Indian foreign policy on US-Israel template « Quick Take – As It Happens

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:45:25 +0000

[...] did it ever occur to Tharoor to check where is the guarantee that the US will be in a any position to underwrite India’s long term requirements? After satisfying himself, did Tharoor ever ask, [...]

By: Cultural Dacoity « 2ndlook – View From A Square Prism

Cultural Dacoity « 2ndlook – View From A Square Prism — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:25:55 +0000

[...] Anglo-Saxon Empire was tracing the Iberian trajectory – with a 100 year interregnum. A hundred years after the collapse of the Spanish Colonial [...]

By: Too much, too soon? – Abheek Barman’s blog-The Economic Times « Quick Take – As It Happens

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:40:39 +0000

[...] rulers and armies, without recourse to such wealth, fumbled. Indian polity and economy, weakened by the foreign slave rulers from the 12th-14th century (Slave dynasty, Tughlaks, Khiljis) and then the muddled Indo-Saracenic [...]

By: Cuba in a Time Warp - The Atlantic « Quick Take - As It Happens

Cuba in a Time Warp - The Atlantic « Quick Take - As It Happens — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:50:51 +0000

[...] For roughly 250 years, the Iberian Empires were the most powerful. The slave rebellion of Haiti triggered a collapse of the Spanish colonies in South America. Simon Bolivar, aided by the Haiti’s rulers, initiated decolonization movements across South America – leading to the demise of Spanish Colonialism. The last nail in the Spanish colonial possessions was Cuba – which they lost after the Spanish American War. After the loss of Cuba, Philippines and the American colonies, and the end of slavery, the Iberians imploded much like other slave societies. [...]

By: Dravidian History no one talks about … « 2ndlook - View From A Square Prism

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:16:18 +0000

[...] the land of Bharata-ah. Aryan culture is based on values – and not race and language. The single biggest differentiators, between Aryans and other cultures, is slavery. Under Aryadhwaja (the Aryan flag), rulers were expected (as spelt out in Arthashastra) to follow [...]

By: Asuras and Slavery - The Indic Disconnect « 2ndlook - View From A Square Prism

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:57:17 +0000

[...] Unremitting and unceasing opposition to slavery – that is what Indian history is about. In fact, there is no Sanskritic word for a slave. Ghulam is an imported word, daas /daasi is an attendant. Slavery as a concept does not exist. And it is this unceasing opposition to slavery, which has made India the longest, continously extant civilization human history. [...]

By: Blood does not sleep - MJ Akbar-The Times of India « Quick Take - As It Happens

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:20:46 +0000

[...] India remembers that ‘blood does not sleep‘, we will succeed. The day we forget that, we will go the way of others. The country model of the West is built on foundations of congealed blood of slaves, genocide and [...]

By: India - 1 Country 2 Histories Many People « 2ndlook - View From A Square Prism

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:10:42 +0000

[...] World’s oldest living civilisation, India, on the other, is difficult to understand. At every stage, India challenges historians and archaeologists. To make sense of India, we have to define India in 2 set of histories and many peoples within the 2 histories. After that, the haze drifts and it becomes clearer. [...]

By: ‘What use is a heritage building if not even 10 people visit it?’-The Times of India « Quick Take - As It Happens

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:37:08 +0000

[...] many slave cultures of the past, Britain too is caught in the cross beams of history. More than half a million heritage structures [...]

By: The Gold Standard Fraud - New “Old’ Gold Standard Born Again « 2ndlook - View From A Square Prism

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:08:55 +0000

[...] of her bounty, comes to know when she arrives – or more importantly, when she flies away. Spain and Britain are two excellent examples, when Lakshmi came at night and flew away. The Spaniards and the English are still wondering, what [...]