Gods own country, Bharat, prevails regardless of the thousands of attacks it has had to endure over thousands of years. The people of Bharat never equated the acquisition of land mass to define their success or their superiority. This is a nation that once spanned Eastern Iran, present day Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, present day Bangladesh, Myanmar, parts of Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Maldives, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Seychelles. There are many who believe that its influence might have been even bigger. All these nations have a commonality, an Indic influenced culture with the values of Sanathan Dharma that flavoured local religious beliefs. It became almost like a federation of like-minded nations united by their values, not because of coercion or the brutality of invaders.
Over thousands of years these peace-loving people were attacked by barbaric external forces. Each invader wanted to subjugate them, steal the nation’s wealth, and force their customs and their ‘God’.
It probably started with Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great who was one of the first to invade India in 326 B.C. More recently we had the likes of Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Thaqafi who was first Muslim to invade India in 712 A.D. Who can forget Genghis Khan, also known as Chengiz Khan in India, who was the first ‘Great Khan’ of the Mongol Empire.
There followed a series of Islamic invaders from Timūr Gurkānī in 1398. Nader Shah Afshar the ruler of Iran who invaded India in 1738 who defeated the Mughal Emperor Muhammed Shah and carried with him the Peacock throne. Ahmad Shāh Durrānī the ruler of Afghanistan invaded India several times, the most famous in 1761 when he defeated the Marathas in the 3rd battle of Panipat.
And the most recent being the ‘British Raj’. Basically, a white Christian empire built to extract the very last ounce of wealth from India. The white Christian superiority complex also got the Portuguese involved in Goa with their unique brand of brutality. All sanctioned by Pope Nicholas V and implemented by Francis Xaviers and Martin Alfonso who were sent by King John III to convert Goans to Roman Catholicism by any means.
The above gives but a glimpse of the sustained attacks by external invaders on Bharat. Sanathan Dharma, the eternal universal dharma, sustained attack after attack. Everything possible was done to the people to force them to become part of the Islamic caliphate or the Christian Christendom. Every invader wanted to dilute what existed and force their own deviant aspirations.
When you consider what the people of Bharat have gone through over thousands of years, you must marvel their resilience. Today it still maintains the very foundations of Indic dharma. The values of Satya, Dharma, Shanti and Prema sustains every aspect of the nation. It’s ancient languages not only remain, but some have seen a rebirth. And whilst western historians distort the true history of Bharat, the time is fast arriving when that truth with prevail.
As we witness the Islamic Taliban invading Afghanistan to set up their terrorist caliphate, let us not underestimate their brutality and their evil. However, let us also not underestimate our inner strength that has prevailed the test of time. The light of Bharat will shine in the 21st C, and it will emerge as the only nation that can save the world from the destructive forces of adharma. The siblings of Abraham have done much damage to this planet. Enough is enough, it’s time to expose the fruad.
