what's exactly was so great about this rajputs, gujjars to celebrate about,, they were relentlessly subjugated n humiliated by anyone n everyone with a sword on horseback.
you have a weaker grasp on history, the invasions from south asia almost happened the other way around, it were people from present day punjab who ruled the ppresent day areas of afghanistan since very very ancient times, you cn read abt shortugai indus city from bronze ages to hindu shahis before ghaznavid invasion.
But pakistan celebrate Turkic central asian invaders in their missiles.
indians use hindu mythologies and gods to name their missiles, why not tipu sultan, atleast india should pay homage to the father of iron cased rockets.
Natural barriers like Sea on one side, mountains on two sides,, fertile plains, flowing rivers, huge population,,,, despite all these advantages ,the apparently "martial" people cudnt help but get sacked, humiliated n subjugated by smaller invading armies.
Not once, not twice but over n over again for milleniums.
smaller and bigger armies dont matter, strategies matter, it also matters how well the kingdoms are peaceful and not facing turmoil, India when ghaurids invaded were fragmented into smaller states by then, powerful empires had vanished.
Imo,the invasion of India by Islamic forces was a global disaster! Til today its pre Muslim era wealth,technology and living standard is UNMATCHED.
BS conclusion based on what exactly?
Afghans laughs at Pakistani Punjabis calling them 'Dal khor Hindustanis' when u celebrate their Afghan kings Gaznavis, Ghoris and Abdalis.
why does it matter to hard cores hindus what pakistanis name their missiles? ghaznavi (defeated prithvi raj), ghauri (captured delhi), abdali (defeated marathas) probably gives nightmares to hard core hindutvas, so its all well and good.
1000s of rulers and sultans + tales breached out from one root that is Muhammed of Ghor and in total 665 years rule of sultanates in the Hindustan until it was ended by the british in 1857.
what a BS, british largely defeated localized hindu and muslim kingdoms, for instance they defeated bengal sultanate, marathas, nizams, tipu sultan, wo were all infighting, mughals were at that period were nothing but puppets and received stipends from the british rulers.
Poor Indus nationalists..
Still trying to live vicariously by coopting foreign invader lineages. Must hurt when they don't have anything indigenous of their own. Stockholm syndrome. Today Abdali's my ancestor, tomorrow Porus, day after tomorrow Timur Lane.
invader history of indus valley is taught but its not taught how many periods the indus people ruled in the west esp afghanistan, they established colonies near oxus in the bronze ages for God's sake.
regards