संवाद # 194: From Alexander Vs Porus to 1857, India's military history explained by Shiv Kunal Verma

Shiv Kunal Verma is a journalist, a filmmaker, and a writer. He worked briefly with India Today, the Associated Press, and Sanctuary Films before he teamed up with his associate Dipti Bhalla and formed KaleidoIndia, under whose banner some classic films like Salt of the Earth and Standard Bearers were shot and produced.

In 1999, he filmed the Kargil War and, in the last decade and a half, has authored some exceptional books that include the Northeast Trilogy, 1962: The War That Wasn’t, and 1965: A Western Sunrise. He is now working on the seminal Value Education Program for schools that aims at bringing India to Indians especially at the school and college levels. His latest book 'Yodha: Illustrated Military History of India Volume 1' is a step in this direction.

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0:00 Porus Vs Alexander battle
2:51 How Porus Vs Alexander changed India
4:26 Horses Vs War Elephants
9:28 Chanakya-Chandragupt's BIG achievement
12:10 Alexander helped establish Mauryan empire?
15:07 What Guptas learnt from Kushans?
18:24 Great Navy creates great empire like Cholas
23:00 How European ships colonized India
27:41 Why India is always defensive - due to geography?
30:31 India's diversity a problem in becoming a great power?
33:44 Vision of Lord Curzon for India
36:33 Indians & their eternal problem of division
40:36 Forgotten Madras Famine of 1876
42:28 British terror tactics
45:03 How British invented martial race theory
50:13 We must have vision of 'Fortress India'
53:13 Why Indians lost the 1857 uprising
56:08 Terror tactics of Islamic Sultanate & Mughals
59:20 The greatness of Lachit Borphukan
1:01:45 God is on the side of the best artillery
1:03:44 Mughals wouldn't have succeeded without Delhi Sultanate
1:05:05 Why India kept losing - Prithvi Raj Chauhan to Panipat
1:08:41 Top 5 military generals of India
1:10:51 Let's all be Yodhas for Fortress India