Buddhism is from Nepal. The original Buddha was a hindu prince. It is unknown whether this hindu prince looked more like Mongoloid Nepalis or like Caucasoid Nepali / indians.
What he is saying is correct.
The depth of ignorance about Indian history never fails to astonish me. At least when it comes to Chinese history, those of us who comment take care to read up on the salient features of the topic in question before making the comment. In sharp contrast, as in the kind of sweeping and wholly wrong generalisations that we see here, from somebody who has been around and has a number of posts to his credit, is sad to see. Naked, false propaganda is one thing; sheer ignorance is another. This is unfortunately an example of ignorance.
There were once many ancient hindu kingdoms in South Asia, but they were conquered by invaders from Central Asia.
Something like: There were once some poor countries in a continent called Europe, and then they went through the Industrial Revolution and began to rule the world.
Quite.
We can call this History in a Hurry, and patent it, perhaps.
This is a compression of approximately 2,100 years of history into one brilliant statement. What an achievement. Some teacher somewhere must be bursting with pride at having produced scholarship of this calibre. It covers, according to a vulgar account readily accessible to every fool on the Internet, and therefore an appropriate citation for the occasion, the following:
Prehistoric India and Vedic India
Religions, Society, Mahajanapadas
Spread of Buddhism,
Mauryan Period,
Satavahana Empire,
Saka-Pallavas, Kushana and White Huns,
The Classical Age,
Gurjara-Pratihara,
Pala Empire,
Rashtrakuta Empire;
I have not even attempted to list the parallel history of south India, just to shorten it sufficiently to suit the attention span of those neo-literates attempting to grip Indian history in one sentence.
Incidentally for the benefit of those same neo-literates, the Bactrian Greeks were central Asian invaders, and so were those wandering tribes who brought in Indo-Aryan languages with them in around the second millennium BC.
So, too, were the Sakas, the descendants of eastern Iranian speaking Scythians of Greek and European legend, who were intermingled with the Pallavas, also from the same region around modern Tajikistan, extending through its surrounding CIS states, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, all the way across the steppes westwards into the Ukraine, and south into Azerbaijan.
And finally, the quintessential Kushana, the Moon Dynasty or Yueh-Chi, driven out of their homeland by Hiung Nu barbarians from the Chinese borderlands, who in turn drove the Saka-Pallavas into Afghanistan, to the region of Arachosia which was named Sakastan (modern Seistan) after them and into the north of India straddling two river complexes, the Indus and the Ganges.
All these were central Asian, none of these contributed to the airily indicated Islamic-Hindu cultural mix which our overnight scholar believes marked the height of classical India. Ignorance is acceptable; arrogant ignorance is something else again.
This brought about the Islamic-Hindu cultural mix that marked the height of classical india (i.e. Taj Mahal).
A striking display of ignorance, yet again, with no knowledge of the huge development of art, sculpture, architecture, and literature in this period. Why do I bother to try and set right this kind of clownish analysis?
There are no detailed records left by the ancient hindu kingdoms because they were all destroyed. Some indian forum member's claim about "Ashoka's empire" is purely fantasy with no historical evidence.
Yeah, right.
Those interested, not those jerks who think they know everything about everything, might try the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan series; anyone REALLY interested could ask me for a detailed reading list, but be aware that this might spread over perhaps 30 or 40 books, not all of which may be readily available abroad.
Compared to China, we have detailed historical narratives detailing all the dynasties up to the unification of China in 300BC and even before that! For example, we still have the original Confucious analects and he lived in Zhou Dynasty (~600 BC).
I was not aware that history had become a competitive sport and would henceforth feature in the Olympic Games. This is exciting news.
