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[Roshan]

View: https://x.com/CultChron/status/1881711243918262677

 

[shade2]

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror

As much as kings, Tamil merchants are the unsung heroes of medieval India’s global footprint. Sometimes, cultural diasporas can achieve as much, if not more, than an armed force.

theprint.in

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror​

Interesting read and it is free of the Author's usual commie/librandu slant.

@GaudaNaresh you were indeed right about the Dhandhos being the cause of wars everywhere
"Saar, pls invade Malaysia saar, glory and honor for u, and good margins for us saar!"

 

[Azaad]

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror

As much as kings, Tamil merchants are the unsung heroes of medieval India’s global footprint. Sometimes, cultural diasporas can achieve as much, if not more, than an armed force.

theprint.in

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror​

Interesting read and it is free of the Author's usual commie/librandu slant.

@GaudaNaresh you were indeed right about the Dhandhos being the cause of wars everywhere
"Saar, pls invade Malaysia saar, glory and honor for u, and good margins for us saar!"

Kani - the squint eyed pop historian is in a class of his own. In the tradition of his spiritual ancestors still practising their craft in this field where everything good & progressive is either of foreign or non Sanatan origin & everything bad & regressive is from the latter , he did a program on the Mahakumbh Mela for The Print recently & all but declared the Kumbh was first staged during Mughal times & got into the 12 year cycle during British times.

A dog's tail can yet be straightened but not this scum. They require the Mao Cultural Revolution & street justice treatment.

 

[shade2]

Kani - the squint eyed pop historian is in a class of his own. In the tradition of his spiritual ancestors still practising their craft in this field where everything good & progressive is either of foreign or non Sanatan origin & everything bad & regressive is from the latter , he did a program on the Mahakumbh Mela for The Print recently & all but declared the Kumbh was first staged during Mughal times & got into the 12 year cycle during British times.

A dog's tail can yet be straightened but not this scum. They require the Mao Cultural Revolution & street justice treatment.

Most of his articles on ThePrint are ((( gems ))) of the type shat out decades ago by the likes of Romila Thapar, Irrfan Habib, but with a tinge of Devdutt Khalnaik thrown in.

 

[GaudaNaresh]

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror

As much as kings, Tamil merchants are the unsung heroes of medieval India’s global footprint. Sometimes, cultural diasporas can achieve as much, if not more, than an armed force.

theprint.in

It was a Tamil merchant guild that helped Rajendra Chola become a global conqueror​

Interesting read and it is free of the Author's usual commie/librandu slant.

@GaudaNaresh you were indeed right about the Dhandhos being the cause of wars everywhere
"Saar, pls invade Malaysia saar, glory and honor for u, and good margins for us saar!"

I dont think the war was for Dhandomaxx exclusively, but more like dhandomaxx facilitated the war by allowing their ships to be part of the armada. I think there is more than meets the eye, because Rajendra Chola was allied with Suryavarman the 1st of Khmer empire vs the coalition of Srivijaya and Tamralinga - a coastal kingdom of malaysian mainland.
Its interesting to note that Chola empire at this point was hindu, Khmer empire was even more archaic hindu, with devarajas ruling over them, while Srivijaya was Buddhist and Tambralinga was a hindu majority entity who'd just recently become buddhist at monarchy level.

So i am sure there is some alliance-politics at play with dhandomaxx being the facilitators and finding a good opportunity to make a quick buck.