Sinking State of Bangladesh: Idiotic Musings

Oldworld said:
Considering what the Inhabitants of region surrounding modern-day Mumbai did to them back in the day

I am sure their descendants will invite Kanglus with open arms and a hidden bagh nakh

Maratha invasions of Bengal
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That's something you can't hold your head high about, the behaviour of the Marathas, particularly the Bagris/ Pindaris, in Bengal. Hindu armies historically have, overwhelmingly, been restrained, disciplined, honourable, and focused on the battlefield. The Maratha extortion and murder, and rape, is a real aberration in Indian history. One disclaimer, is that it is quite possible that the Dutch and English observers exaggerated the extent of the Maratha atrocities, in order to justify their own colonial predelictions and ambitions. But even if they exaggerated by a factor of 10, it still looks bad.
 
Varoon4 said:
That's something you can't hold your head high about, the behaviour of the Marathas, particularly the Bagris/ Pindaris, in Bengal. Hindu armies historically have, overwhelmingly, been restrained, disciplined, honourable, and focused on the battlefield. The Maratha extortion and murder, and rape, is a real aberration in Indian history. One disclaimer, is that it is quite possible that the Dutch and English observers exaggerated the extent of the Maratha atrocities, in order to justify their own colonial predelictions and ambitions. But even if they exaggerated by a factor of 10, it still looks bad.
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This is because the Marathas were not a traditional military power in the true sense as ethos. The secret to maratha success became its later major weakness, as Maratha secret to success is adopting guerilla warfare with war of attrition in mind, over classic set-piece battle with all the chest thumping glory to be had.

Bargi raids in Bengal are mostly true because Bengalis themselves have folk songs about it, but its not specific to the case of bengal, it also happened in other parts of India that would not submit to Maratha power and were also ruled by muslim dynasties, such as Hyderabad.

This emphasis on 'hit and run' tactics and strategy is one of the main reasons why marathas left their modernization of the armed forces too late and still employed light harassment cavalry well into the 1800s.

the Maratha war strategy was to harry around the opponent, mess with their supply lines and bring them to the field already half beaten. This strategy's severe flaw was demonstrated in the anglo-maratha wars, where instead of the maratha light forces moving through the land burning supplies and hunting you, they are now running away from you burning supplies you cant have, etc. against a much more heavily armed british lead forces.

We often focus on the infighting and betrayals and administrative structure of the marathas but rarely do we focus on the actual nature of their military culture and style of warfare.

Militarily at least, i feel that the very seeds of the maratha empire being in a insurgency-guerilla forces fighters vs the mughals is what lead to it failing to fully mature as an imperial army machine in its imperial phase
 
Azaad said:
If there's plenty of local supply of hilsa whom exactly are the Bangladeshi exports catering to ? Maharashtrians or South Indians or perhaps Odias ?

Indians & Paxtanis hate each other too yet both consume each others products in varying proportions . Since when has hate come in the way of trade & commerce either locally or globally ?

What happens in your home doesn't necessarily hold good for the entire Bengali community or does it ?

As regards whether people would riot in WB to protest BD's banning of hilsa , well the same people never protested the treatment of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh . Not now not in 1971. But as legend goes even a 5 paise hike in tram fares used to cause riots in Calcutta not very long ago.

I can straight away see you've also an awesome sense of humour perhaps a reflection of the same in your people.
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Do you think mere 3000-5000 ton of hilsa that too during September/October is sufficient enough for Bongs of WB?

Also, unfortunately, hindu bengalis actually never protests for the treatment of hindus in BD, just like hindus of Punjab or Rajasthan never do for the treatment of their counterparts in Pakistan. It is not a bong psyche, but general hindu psyche who rarely cares for the burning huts of next village over.

I also don't know where you get your legends from. But, it is true for Indians in general where price hikes by govt in any case always meets with protest. Not an unique bong characteristics either.

So again. You have no idea about bongs, so lay off your barely contained trolling.

As a matter of fact, every ethnic group in India has its quirks and failings. Listing them out to troll each other ain't gonna help any.
 
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