Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well

dzhshnacct wrote: post #2

relatedly there is some recent debate and discussion on gunpowder in india vs china Indian Gunpowder – the Force Behind Empires https://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/indian-gunpowder-th... h/t https://mobile.twitter.com/wiavastukala/status/1022469132871...

Surprisingly this sort of coverup is a common occurrence with any story/history that originates from Ancient India. And it's not just the Western authors who did this. Indian archeologists are to also partly take some blame. The best example is that of the submerged city of Dwarka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVIsjx5X3QM

If it had been any other country, there would be lot's of excavations (example: Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt) and in-depth study of the artefacts recovered. Strangely, most archeological excavations in India start with a lot of brouhaha and then die down almost immediately. Then rumours spread about possible cover up (with the involvement of Government officials in pilfering these historical artefacts and selling them in the black market).

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Post by godelmachine » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 9:12 AM UTC

>> “the Mysorean, a prototype of British Congreve rockets used in the Napoleonic wars.”

The Mysorean is a prototype of British Congreve rockets? I thought the Brit’s adopted rockets ideas from the Mysorean!

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Post by baybal2 » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 9:52 AM UTC

The Tiger of Mysore had a fine war machine. Were he and Maratha to unite, they could've canned British few times over.

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Post by fellellor » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:00 AM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #5

The Tiger of Mysore had a fine war machine. Were he and Maratha to unite, they could've canned British few times over.

Maybe true, but that's an alliance that could only be conceived by idle nerds in the history channel.

It's like saying, were the Nazis and the Soviets to unite they would have canned the Americans a few times over.

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Post by srean » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:01 AM UTC

shripadk wrote: post #3

dzhshnacct wrote: post #2

relatedly there is some recent debate and discussion on gunpowder in india vs china Indian Gunpowder – the Force Behind Empires https://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/indian-gunpowder-th... h/t https://mobile.twitter.com/wiavastukala/status/1022469132871...

Surprisingly this sort of coverup is a common occurrence with any story/history that originates from Ancient India. And it's not just the Western authors who did this. Indian archeologists are to also partly take some blame. The best example is that of the submerged city of Dwarka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVIsjx5X3QM If it had been any other country, there would be lot's of excavations (example: Great Pyramid…

I will attribute those things to lack of funding, lack of interest of the general populace, and lack of competence and less to malice or conspiracy (as it is often made out to be) -- they stabbed us in our back.

Where I went to college in the US there was this house about a hundred odd years old. They would be absolutely drooling at that 'historic' artifact, there aren't as many (physical historical artifacts). People had a lot of time to care and funds to attend to it. Compare that with any run of the mill old city in India, or compare its capital, Delhi. It would be hard to throw stones far and not hit constructions that are 100 years old. The city is strewn with these and people are to busy fighting for their day to day needs. In such a scenario it is hard for the populace to agree that significant funds need to be allocated for preservation and restoration.

Add the political agenda to it that selectively directs the attention to artifacts that fit their agenda -- then this is what you get.

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Post by srean » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #5

The Tiger of Mysore had a fine war machine. Were he and Maratha to unite, they could've canned British few times over.

Taken care of easily by the British by dividing along Hindu/Muslim lines.

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Post by baybal2 » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:09 AM UTC

fellellor wrote: post #6

baybal2 wrote: post #5

The Tiger of Mysore had a fine war machine. Were he and Maratha to unite, they could've canned British few times over.

Maybe true, but that's an alliance that could only be conceived by idle nerds in the history channel. It's like saying, were the Nazis and the Soviets to unite they would have canned the Americans a few times over.

Indeed. In fact, dozens of minor kingdoms submitting without a fight to British is said to be them preferring British to heavy boot of Marathas or Mysorees

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Post by iamshs » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:10 AM UTC

dzhshnacct wrote: post #2

relatedly there is some recent debate and discussion on gunpowder in india vs china Indian Gunpowder – the Force Behind Empires https://2ndlook.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/indian-gunpowder-th... h/t https://mobile.twitter.com/wiavastukala/status/1022469132871...

Author of the article:- StPTBarnum. That sure lends credibility to the theory.

https://twitter.com/StPTBarnum