Ancient Greece used to wear animal skins India started cultivating cotton, jute, silk etc long before it was a thing in the world hence India exported clothes to others.

@arnavranka4510

4 ай бұрын

True. Cotton plant originated in India; ancient Greeks believed that there were trees in India on which sheep grew.

@gauravtejpal8901

3 ай бұрын

​​@@arnavranka4510 😂 The Greeks had some wild stories about India. They had flax though. And they could get cotton from Egypt.

@ITZ_ONLY_YOUR_HIMANSHU

3 ай бұрын

True

My great Grandpa had his 4 fingers cut off because he touched some British officers car, he was only 7-8 years old at the time, I remember my grandpa crying as he told me this story

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

That is unbelievably heartbreaking

@bernard3303

Ай бұрын

People in power do horrible things as they are drunk on the feeling of control. That is the human nature. amd thats why every government must be kept in check by the people

What happened? - British happened.😅

@rajandwivedi8590

Ай бұрын

Actually yes, How Britain, France, Portuguese,Japan destroyed the world. Final nail in the coffin, Germans Nazis. All these threw most of the countries in a very very poor Condition. Humans remember horror stories😂😂😂😂 Britain played a significant (almost in 80% cases) role in that Horror. That's why Britain happened.

10:05 Due to British policies against production of Wootz/Damascus steel in India, this ancient skill is now lost; and no person alive knows how to make it.

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

I thought Damascus originated in Syria but read it has roots of origination in India, very interesting

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

@@ReldrikGeo Many things invented/originated from India where given Arabic/Persian names in English, since the Europeans imported merchandise from Arabia, while they themselves imported it from India. Vatingana to Al-Badingan to Aubergine Sharkara to Shakkar to Sugara Khanda to Qand to Candy The number system we use is called Arabic number system in the West, while the Arabs call it the Hindu number system.

@CuriousINDIA101

3 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeoDamascus was made from the alloy(wootz steel) imported from India

@harshith789

2 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeo, Woots - Ukku meaning a steel , originated from deccan region of india ( southern india) they mass produced swords and steel bars sold it to damascus market from where western world found about its unique pattern and incredible capacity to hold sharp edge even after tough use

My Turkish friend had told me that there is an idiom Turks use in their language "The unattainable Indian Cloth" ---> Because Indian cloth was so perfect before the British smashed the thumbs of the weavers that no one ever now can make a cloth that fine (which turks used to buy), that it has become a legend even over there.

@SuziQ499

3 ай бұрын

Same Turkish friend who denies its country committed Genocide on 4 million Armenians and Greeks .

@HartajTrehan

3 ай бұрын

@@SuziQ499 no Turkish person denies it if u speak to them. They all say its not in their interest to officially accept the genocide happened. Same as a British will personally agree colonisation was bad but it is not in their national interest to accept it. If u grow up and talk to people on the other side, you might just understand how the world works.

@SuziQ499

3 ай бұрын

@@HartajTrehan Funny that the whole Turkish nation denies the genocide ever happened that's their official position , The world is full of hypocrites.

@HartajTrehan

3 ай бұрын

@@SuziQ499 like I just said, not in their interest to agree even tho they know they did it. What's the point of taking out confessions? doesn't do much anyways, we all know what happened. If a country says they are not hypocrites, they are lying, every country is, its power play. Anyways its not even relevant to what my original comment was

And the shocking fact they named Hitler's Hakenkruez as swastika and swastika is a peaceful symbol of India this is reality that Hitler never used swastika but he used Hakenkruez which is symbol of christianity

The worst thing is that the west doesn't teach sbout this, stuff like the bengal famine or the jallianwala bagh massacre (where the british open fired on thousands of peaceful indian protests in a closed space), there is an oscar worthy movie called "Sardar Udham" which revolved around the jallianwala bagh massacre, I would highly recommend that

@Damian_HENRY

4 ай бұрын

Do you go around telling people how much your shit 💩💩💩 smell

@AfianySnow29802

3 ай бұрын

​@@Damian_HENRYGet out of here. 😑😒😑.

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

True. That movie will truly shake one to the core. It's a shame our Film Division didn't nominate this, but a random stereotypical "Indian" production.

@SuziQ499

3 ай бұрын

Yep happened but famines happened before the British even arrived in India and Indian factions killed more of their own people than British ever did.

@Masani605

3 ай бұрын

@@SuziQ499 irrelevant and also inaccurate what aboutism

England became rich because of India. Whole Europe

@pissupehelwan

2 ай бұрын

Not all counties in Europe were colonial powers.

I watched a video some time back by a historian stating that USA's national anthem was written on the ship build in India

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Oh really?

@harshvardhanagrawal2225

3 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeo Actually there is something about rockets being fired by Brits on an American castle in the American national Anthem, those rockets were actually engineered by Tipu Sultan's Army and fended off British attacks on multiple occassions, but when they finally lost, British took over that technology and used it against Americans

8:18 While ancient India indeed had navigators and seafarers who went as far as Greece and Korea, there developed a great stigma against leaving Indian shores during the middle ages. Maybe due to frequent invasions? South India, shielded from invasions, still had a flourishing sea-charting mindset, and had strong links on the Indian ocean uptil the Phillipines. The last major Indian navy was that of the Maratha empire, in the 17th and 18th centuries. They were quite modern for their time, and did defeat the Portuguese and other colonial powers in many battles. Alas, the British took benefit of an internal power struggle, and the entire Maratha navy was burnt down by a faction of Marathas themselves.

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

I need to read more on this, it's all so fascinating to me

@CuriousINDIA101

3 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeocheck out Sanjeev Sanyal talking about ships

@ihl0700677525

3 ай бұрын

The problem for many states in early modern India (and Qing China) was their false sense of superiority. They indeed inherited illustrious history from their predecessors, and the subcontinent of India was indeed home of many powerful and advanced states/empires, and yet, by the time Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1490s, it was clear that the pendulum begin to swing to the West (as stated by the lord of Calicut to his vassals, warning them against aiding the Portuguese), and by 1740s, it was so clear and undeniable that the West had significant superiority in finance, science, and military technology. Unfortunately, even after string of defeats, many Indian states (and Qing China) choose to cling on their old and obsolete culture/tradition, refusing to learn anything from the West beyond adopting some Western military technique and equipment. I mean the Japanese was in exact same situation. In 1850s they found themselves completely outclassed by the Western powers. Instead of clinging to their ancient tradition, they choose to humble themselves and adopted Western science, arts, and culture ASAP. The Japanese had to invent many new words/terms to translate and explain western concept of Economics, Physics, Biology, Philosophy/Ideology, etc. This mindset serve the Japanese well. They always willing to learn from whoever they deemed as superior, whether the Chinese, the Koreans, the Portuguese, the Dutch, or the Americans. Instead of blaming the West for Commodore Perry incident, unequal treaties, or the nukes, they choose to learn from the West and work hard to be better than the West.

Next you should definitely watch without Miss is "Sahebs who never left" It's a great and accurately made documentary

Well lemme tell you this there's no history of the world "tragic " than India . There is more history before British colonial rule and there is more things that gonna surprise you how good and advanced Indians were .

@desiputtar89

2 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as British rule. The term British rule was coined by Western historians. None of the freedom fighters in India before 1947 referred to Britishers as rulers. Anyone who coined the term "British rule" has committed the biggest blunder in history writing and misled millions of people even up to this day. It was simply a British occupation of foreign lands. Britishers were just a bunch of foreign tyrants that should not 🚫 be referred to as rulers but rather opportunists.

*🕉️ 🚩 🇮🇳 INDIA 🇮🇳 🚩 🕉️*

@Robert_austia

3 ай бұрын

We need to spread hare Krishna movement

India is forgiving but not forgetful, and today's Britons are not responsible for these atrocities. I think people also don't talk about it in the west because indians don't have a victim mentality in general and its contrary of indian culture to keep nagging and we try to look onto the future and the bright side. We were weak and they crushed us, that is the nature of foreign western powers. We are not looking for revenge from those whose ancestors were the culprits. We as a collective world family should keep these horrors in mind so that they are not repeated again to any people or nation.

@AfianySnow29802

4 ай бұрын

😑

@spilltea4241

4 ай бұрын

Really coz indian whine a lot on the internet

@AniMangHwa_

4 ай бұрын

​@@AfianySnow29802🤡

@atharvatar

4 ай бұрын

​@@spilltea4241yeah we "whine" but we dont encourage predatory practices, you seem to be linking the online world to your irl wayy too much 😂

@maghamsateshkumar6355

Ай бұрын

Then give us back my looted monuments which are in BRITISH MUSEUM ,LONDON and the looted KOHINOOR DIAMOND which your queen is wearing in her crown. If you are feeling bad about INDIA.

Thank you for being a decent human being!

Well the British government was comprised of British people. The British people were the British government, so yes as an Indian I would always hate British, but as a Hindu, I will never discriminate with them.

@bernard3303

Ай бұрын

Are the British people of today the same people who did these horrible things? Will you hate someone if his ancestor wronged your ancestor?

@Ghost_7070

25 күн бұрын

​@@bernard3303you pretty much answered your own question.

@solidbhatt

21 күн бұрын

​@@bernard3303Yep, modern Britishers also think they developed India, they didn't return the money or even apologized, they kept the loot in a fucking museum

Exactly No one freaking talks about this. Holocaust was no less inhuman or cruel, but people just keep talking about it forever. No one even knows about crimes on india. Anyways. I loved your channel Bro. I got to know by shahsi tharoor video but I stayed for all the geoguessr games man. Too entertaining and interesting

@AniMangHwa_

4 ай бұрын

Agreed

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I didn't know about these things until I was recommended to watch them on this channel

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

And thank you for enjoying the videos

There is also a temple called somnath on west coast of india,everytime portiguese were out of money for trade they will loot from there.since temple was on beach it was easy to invade so they did 14 times

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Is this the one in Gujarat?

@toxoreed9334

3 ай бұрын

@@ReldrikGeo yes

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

The Portuguese didn't invade Somnath; it was the Arabs, Persians and Turks. Portuguese raided a bit more South, towards Maharashtra and Goa. For example, the ancient statues and idols at Elephanta Island, which were used and defaced by them as a target practice for flintlocks.

@Robert_austia

3 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeo how you know

@Robert_austia

3 ай бұрын

​@@ReldrikGeo thanks for Knowing and admitting it

india was the end destination of the silk road....like the saying all roads end in rome like that all of the silk road end in india..

This is sad, poor India. 🇮🇳💔😢.

Nice reaction bro, do check out british museum with indian articles, they have literally taken walls from India

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

British museums?

@avish5959

3 ай бұрын

@@ReldrikGeo yes there're some vidéos on utube of all the artefacts british looted during colonism which is now in british museum

@Krankenwagen571

3 ай бұрын

Is the peacock throne in Britain .? I know that tigerclaw of chatrapati shivaji is with em

@dhwani6939

25 күн бұрын

British museums? More like the great museum with looted stuff all around the world. The only British thing there is their guards probably. 🙄

You can watch who are cholas kings of south india by cogito I guess

Some really good videos (I know you've seen the Tharoor one) to watch in general, but especially if you're going to be making India-focussed content on YT): 1. Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations 2. The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country 3. How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India with Trains 4. How The British Elite Re-Wrote World History 5. What The British Really Did To India 6. How Britain Used India To Replace Slave Labor 7. Churchill's legacy still painful for Indians 8. Winston Churchill from India's perspective 9. Meet The Man Who Drew India's Borders 10 How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan 11 WW2 From India's Perspective | Animated History 12 Why the Formidable INDIANS Importance in WW2 is too often Overlooked 13 Western museums must return stolen artefacts

Thanks for reaction ❤

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

No problem

still we are more to give others just like in Covid times and any emergency situations like in turkiye. we are forgiving not forgeting. Also, you could the whole narrative was push in west to squeeze India, However we rose like a phoenix. This Bengal food femine issue was during 1930s when winston churchil was the PM and this was all his policy to take grains to UK rather use to prevent horrific deaths. Also, Our top leaders that time were so fascinated with the UK that they didn't find this as a self respect to aware west about these incidents. also, west has their agenda to always try to bully India and its people so that they will be undermine themselves always.

They might have done the same things to other countries as well but the returns from India were the ones actually giving them resources and money to do it for a long time. They took everything out of India and controlled the technology. 30~ million people died in 200 years of British rule because of starvation.

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Yeah that amount of death is heartbreaking

"How britain looted $45 trillion from India" by VICE is also a must watch.

I never learned this in school either

@Krankenwagen571

3 ай бұрын

Winners write history.

I like your vids

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Thank you

In British now Karma is on 😂

I know trillion dollar eco

How can you talk about it, when the media is literally of the ones who narrate the story. The whole west & east scenario originates from here, also before British left, they partitioned india on grounds of religion, into india and pakistan, they wanted a state close to the soviets in the future, hence a proxy state with their influence was their top priority, thus originated Pakistan. Lines were drawn, and they became an ally sort of the ones that you dont talk about in public. Since its creation, to this day we have fought 4 wars, have seen numerous bomb blasts, terrorist activities etc because of the same religious intolerance that was fueled for ulterior purposes, britain also sent it's nuclear warships to attack India during the 1971, india pakistan war, which lead to creation of Bangladesh. Around 3 million Bengali people were killed by the Pak army in Bangladesh druing that time, and Britain sent their nuclear subs to protect pakistan, and attack india. So much for democracy, isnt it. Bbc published continuous agenda against India for decades, considering us below them. . However, times change. A new dawn is breaking, snd on the horizon is rise of that very same nation, that was plundered for thousands of years. It's Time to reclaim. And the sad reality is Britain is going down, with inflation, with illegal migrants from the same Pakistan they created. I don't hate Britain, nor British people. . But the irony is, east is rising because it has acknowledged the past and the truth, and the west is starting to shrink, because of ignorance. Comparing a young kid from accessible institutes on avg in india and UK will show you the difference.

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

I don't know much about India and Pakistan wars, it's something I need to look more into

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

Partition with Pakistan was inevitable. However, the British made sure that it was messy, and India still continues to grapple with the poorly demarcated border till this day. For example, giving the cultural capital of Punjab, the great city of Lahore, a city with 80% Sikhs and Hindus, to Pakistan. Or perhaps giving the entirety of Sindh, the land where Indian culture perhaps originated, to Pakistan; despite having an overwhelming Hindu population. Or the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a region of Buddhists, who overwhelmingly voted in a plebiscite to join India; being given to East Pakistan, and making entire Indian Northeast landlocked and detached, except for the narrow Siliguri corridor. Or giving the holiest place of Sikhism to Pakistan, which until very recently, was in ruins under the Pakistani administration.

@percentbigfoot

3 ай бұрын

@@ReldrikGeo Hey, nothing is directed towards you. I don't want to come as bitter or aggressive, just mentioning the reality for what it is. You can look it up to confirm. All states work in their interests but my problem is not all states claim to be human rights champion and leader of good around the world. Also, if you read about the British and Pak relationship, you will get to understand certain issues of the present day Britain.

@desiputtar89

2 ай бұрын

No, the West is not declining. It's just that the rest of the world 🌎 is catching up.

@dhwani6939

25 күн бұрын

Facts! Despite the attempts to keep India down for centuries, we have prevailed and still managed to be a good example for secular democracy that actually stands for humanity and peace against all its enemies.

👍👍

@19:40 Govt was bad???? for 200 years???? you knw how many terms of govt is 200 years???? btw there was no govt in britain during that time. .. it was monarchy!!!

First ❤ You should react to a video called " Why india is great part 2 " It talks a lot about India's history , present and intresting facts about its culture and civilization ❤

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Nice

Its funny how everyone today just see's India as a poor country. hey but these are the "WHY's" no one ever talks about. The main thing being why did India got Poor? It doest matter today casue we are rebuilidng and pbv our society has issues.. but i guess its in our gens hands to fix this country for the better in future. Once the Boomers are done with corruptly tearing this country apart. A new country must rise from the ashes.

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

I think India will be the next big powerhouse country in the world

8:30 he didn't pronounce it right either

When the brits put insane taxes on indian farmers. What hapoened was, indians stopped growing food and started growing cash crops to pay those inflated taxes. By cash crops i mean, cotton, rubber, jute etc. More than 50% of india was only growing cash crops to pay taxes, but you cant eat cotton. Hence the man made famines. Also all the ship builders, metallurgist became farmers for 200 years. So we lost many of our skills like damascas steel is a lost art. No one even now knows how they originally made it without electricity. Cause those workers became farmers. Lastly, during WWI. To make up of britians debt, the british sold the taj mahals gold tops and replaced it with brass ones which turn black. Indian govt even now spends a lot of money to maintain it. And the railways were so badly designed, indian govt after independence had to spend a lot of money undoing the railways to meer the demands of its people. Even after independence, Britain kept us poor for 50 years trying to undo the damages they have done. Not to mention they broke our country.

Those princlings were invaders tooo‼️‼️‼️ Islamic invasion‼️

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I was reading that, the Mughal empire ruled over India longer than even the British did

before mughal and delhi sultanate India was sharing 36% of worlds gdp

@SuziQ499

3 ай бұрын

And spending on defence or acquiring modern military weapons to defend their nations?. Of course not they were spending it on luxury items.

@venomxlalix2107

3 ай бұрын

@@SuziQ499 Indians did spent on weapon's advancements when they came to know or saw some new weapons .... yes Indians did failed big weapons field but it doesn't mean they didn't spent anything on weapons

British take India to Martha Empire not to mughl Empire, because Martha destroyed mughl in 1720

Automation in west is the biggest problem for India

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Why is this?

India haf verylittle to do with silk road . India is a primarily a sea trading nation till mugals take over they focused on inland trade and hence no innovation for yeara and foreighners controlled the ports not indian kings. Shivaji maharaj revived the indian ship building

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

Ah okay, thank you for the info. I still have much to learn

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

Nah bro, North India indeed was a part of the Silk Road trade; read about the journeys by ancient Chinese monks such as Xuanzang to India.

@muktiprateekdas9769

3 ай бұрын

@@arnavranka4510 u are talking about afgansistan and Sindh region but that's very miniscule of our total trade

@arnavranka4510

3 ай бұрын

@@muktiprateekdas9769 I meant Uttarakhand, Himachal, Kashmir etc. And these regions are on the periphery of the Great Plains as well. These routes stopped after the Mongol empire though.

India would be in the place of USA now if this isn't happens I bet

If you feel sorry, then say it loud

@ReldrikGeo

3 ай бұрын

I'm not British, but I do think the British should apologies

@user-jt3lx1wp4h

3 ай бұрын

@@ReldrikGeo sorry i don't know, thank you

@pissupehelwan

2 ай бұрын

@@user-jt3lx1wp4h You should be. How foolish can one be to misidentify an American accent for British?

First comment!!???!!!!????

@AniMangHwa_

4 ай бұрын

Nope

Having watched the whole Vid where are the facts to back up all the accusations?. Famines had been happing in India well before the British arrived its takes 2 mins to fact check this BS on the net.

@pissupehelwan

2 ай бұрын

There's a difference between a natural famine and an engineered one. It takes more than 2 minutes to grow a brain though. It's been a month since you commented so I am hopeful for a few more brain cells.

Cry more

The British , before India , were a naked , hungry and beggarly nation .

Now Britain is slowly descending back to its old beggarly condition .

But they build railways in India. And for that Indians should always be grateful and subservient to the British crown.

@rahuljadhav7490

3 ай бұрын

Lol you think we wouldn't have build it

@elsamathew6335

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah ,so that they could loot more...

@rohanch07

Ай бұрын

@@elsamathew6335 Its not about the loot. British crown brought civilization to India. They introduced machinery, modern medicine, engineering, education, law and most importantly Christianity. Before the British India was just a bunch of uncivilized warring tribals. They would worship stones and sticks and burn their women. Without the British influence India would still be in the same situation.

@dhwani6939

25 күн бұрын

They basically built it to make the systematic looting more efficient. As far as modernisation and education, medicine, law and order are concerned if you go into history of what India has given to humanity you would realise we were the founding fathers for a society with law and order when the west was just hunting for living and wearing animal skins. We invented clothes, mathematics, astronomy, surgical medicine and so much more. The Sanskrit language is mother of all languages. Hinduism is the 5000 years old religion that predates the Christ. So do some educating yourself first

@dhwani6939

25 күн бұрын

Today India is the strongest democracy and fastest growing nation with nuclear power and state of the art space technology. Despite the British atrocities and if you want to compare might as well look at our neighbour the epicentre of terrorism that British gave us. They too got independence with us and look where are they now. Why aren’t they thriving now if the British gave everything to us they should be thriving too.