Indo-Persian culture

[SrNair]

You're living in a fools paradise, Indus valley has nothing to do with present day India, India's culture was developed around Ganges and Jumuna river valleys, Indus valley civilization, Gandhara civilization and Mehrghar civilization of Balochistan are unique to Pakistan..nothing to do with India...learn history before commenting......Persian language came much later when muslim empires ruled the region,....before that this region of Indus valley was always separate from what is today's India for thousands of years, except for a few years under one or two empires...then when muslims came ...they combined it with today's india..that too not whole of it...KPK used to be part of Afghanistan..and Balochistan was separate....1947....this region was separated again from India...which was natural......Pakistan means five regions accoring to ch rehmat ali ..who coined this name...Punjab, Afghania (KPK old name), Kashmir, Sindh, balochisTAN....the history of these 5 regions is ancient..and when I say Pakistan's history is ancient...i mean these 5 regions..so stop your obsession with Pakistan.

You can talk to yourself like that in this PDF.

All of this is now a part of Indian civilization and whole world is learn like that.

 

[livingdead]

pardon me ? what does nejad mean ?

 

[KingMamba]

You can talk to yourself like that in this PDF.

All of this is now a part of Indian civilization and whole world is learn like that.

You wish the whole world taught as such.

 

[SrNair]

You wish the whole world taught as such.

I mean whole world is learn like that.So teachings will remain on that basis.

 

[MadDog]

You can talk to yourself like that in this PDF.

All of this is now a part of Indian civilization and whole world is learn like that.

Good to know your view, how on earth it is now part of Indian civilization...one should speak something which makes sense.
What do you have to do with Mehrghar civilization (Balochistan) and Gandhara civilization (Kpk/Afghanistan) and Indus valley civilization...kindly enlighten me. The Indus Saga: From Pataliputra to Partition: Aitzaz Ahsan: 9788174364210: Amazon.com: Books

 

[Contrarian]

Persian culture was first introduced by the Muslims in India is a misconception. Facts are quite different. Even the ancient religious texts such as Avesta have some description of northern India and in the ‘Rig Veda’ there are references to Persia. At the famous Naqshe Rustum located just north of Persepolis; Darius the Great declares:

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By the favour of Ahuramazda these are the countries which I seized outside of Persia; I ruled over them; they bore tribute to me; what was said to them by me, that they did; m - See more at:

I ruled over them; they bore tribute to me; what was said to them by me, that they did; my law -- that held them firm; Media, Elam, Parthia, Aria, Bactria, Sogdiana, Chorasmia, Drangiana, Arachosia, Sattagydia, Gandara, Sind, Amyrgian Scythians, Scythians with pointed caps, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Cappadocia, Sardis, Ionia, Scythians who are across the sea, Skudra, petasos-wearing Ionians, Libyans, Ethiopians, men of Maka, Carians

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Thus from the time of Achmanaed empire much of what is now Pakistan, basically north and west of Indus river was ruled by the Iranian shahs. Situation was not different under the Arsacids (247 BC to 224 AD) and the Sassanians well into the 7th century AD.

Sometime in between, Kushan Kings ruled much of Northern India along with Eastern Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. This gave rise to Hindu Shahi period of Afghanistan and the Budha statues of Bamian; quite a few centuries before the capture of the region by the Muslims. My point is that Iranian influence on the subcontinent culture, language and ethnicity did not start with the Ghaznavids in the 10th Century it started more than 500 years earlier.

One of the links is existence of about 3-million or so Brohis, who are ethnic Iranians but speak a Dravidian related language. This suggests cultural links between Western part of the subcontinent and Iran dating back to the Indus civilization period!

Indians and Iranians share a culture preceding thousands of years. Avesta and Rig Veda have almost the same language with phonetic differences.
Many of our religious practices are the same.
Our historical figures are the same.

 

[Saiful Islam]

I think both cultures share equal amounts, but then it depends which part of India you're talking about.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Interesting!!

Dont want another babri masjid (in this case a taj mahal demolition )happening.
I would be always thankful to Indira gandhi's government for removing Oak's book from the stores immediately after it was released.

Oak was just a stupid "pamphleteer" attempt to masquerade his "pamphlets" as history. He even went far enough to base his bogus "theory" on the extensive appearance of the "padma motif" on structures like the Taj Mahal and other Mughal buildings. The 'Padma motif" appears again and again on buildings in Golconda and Bijapur. So were all of them built by Hindu Kings? It just shows that the Mughals and all of their satraps and subedars freely assimilated from Hindu ideas just as the Islamic ideas in the Indian Subcontinent did. But imbeciles like Oak and his sort existed; they simply pop up periodically. Just as his equivalents are to be found across the border.

 

[Levina]

Oak was just a stupid "pamphleteer" attempt to masquerade his "pamphlets" as history. He even went far enough to base his bogus "theory" on the extensive appearance of the "padma motif" on structures like the Taj Mahal and other Mughal buildings. The 'Padma motif" appears again and again on buildings in Golconda and Bijapur. So were all of them built by Hindu Kings? It just shows that the Mughals and all of their satraps and subedars freely assimilated from Hindu ideas just as the Islamic ideas in the Indian Subcontinent did. But imbeciles like Oak and his sort existed; they simply pop up periodically. Just as his equivalents are to be found across the border.

I hope our media doesnt dig this up issue again or else we know what to expect.