Bakwas by: Hannah Ellis-Petersen "https://twitter.com/HannahEP" wrote:
"Finally there was Bharat, a name that is traced back to an ancient Sanskrit text, the Rig Veda – written around 1500BC – which mentions the Bharata clan as one of the principal tribes occupying an area now known as north India. It is also the name of a legendary king that appears in the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, who Hindus claim was the father of the Indian race." https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...back-centuries
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) "The Greatest Epic Mahabharata is 5,000 Years Old"
“And remember that this, which forms part of the Mahabharata,
the greatest epic on earth was written four or five thousand years ago."
Source: Mountain Paths Published
Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: University of California Libraries (January 1, 1919)
Language: English
ASIN: B006FX6KPA https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-path.../dp/B006FX6KPA
"For example, when Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti settled at Ajmer he took two wives,
although he was then aged sixty-five.One of them was a Hindu raja's daughter
who had been seized during a raid on the Hindus by the local commander."
Source: Women of India: Their Status Since the Vedic Times by Arun R. https://books.google.co.uk/books/abo..._of_India.html
"He raised taxes to levels where people refused to pay any. In India's fertile lands
between Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the Sultan increased the land tax rate on non-Muslims by
tenfold in some districts, and twentyfold in others." https://books.google.co.uk/books/abo...n_Peoples.html
"His distant campaigns were expensive, although each raid and attack on non-Muslim kingdoms
brought new looted wealth and ransom payments from captured people.
The extended empire was difficult to retain, and rebellions all over Indian subcontinent became routine." https://books.google.co.uk/books/abo...y_Its_Own.html