Did Indians Really Never Conquer Abroad? The Real Evidence

#ThinkingMedieval
One of the most widespread myths about ancient India is that “Indians never conquered abroad”. However, that idea really came from British colonial historians, who had their own political agendas for saying so. Host Anirudh Kanisetti takes us through evidence from the length and breadth of medieval India to show that the way that the people of the past thought about war and expansion is very different from what we expect.


Map courtesy at 1:42 : Ollie Bye
Sources
Archaeological Survey of India. South Indian Inscriptions Volume II: Tamil Inscriptions. 1991.
Haksar, AND. Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsam: The Line of Raghu. Penguin, 2016.
Spencer, George Woolley. The Politics of Expansion: The Chola Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya. New Era Publications, 1983.
Stein, Marc Aurel. Kalhana's Rajatarangini: A chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir. 2 vols. Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, Westminster, 1900.

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