This was a pre-Islamic tradition followed by most tribes of the Indus Valley. The Greek invaders began to record such practices as soon as they entered the Suleiman mountains and saw many instances during the Cophen campaign (in modern-day Swat).
It is theorized that this practice stemmed from...
After a long time researching this specific topic. I have concluded that Rajput was never an actual 'biradari' (tribe), nor were they ever an ethno-cultural body.
It was a title earned by tribes that gained control over large regions, and later became an identity of it's own.
In the same...
It's a humanitarian exercise, only India is involving it's three military branches.
Such exercises are indeed common with non-NATO nations, especially with East Asian countries .
Because it is unlikely Pakistani will ever coordinate large-scale joint land operations with China, considering the geographic impediments.
Very interesting, wonderful pictures.
That's not true at all.
The British were quite against the creation of Pakistan and tried multiple political routes to derail the movement. They, along with the Congress, only agreed after realizing Pakistan would most likely collapse after it's independence. With Mountbatten famously referring...
A native language is not a good language to select because if you were to pick one, other ethnic groups would demand the same for their own language. This was the reason for our resistance to the imposition of Bengali language as an official language alongside Urdu.
Farsi or English are the...
I do not know too much about the non-orthodox movements of North India that arose in this period to make a conclusive statement, however, my personal theory is that they may have arisen as a reactionary movement to Brahmanism.
There is definitely a 'racial' tone to the caste system, there is no...
Brother, why is it difficult for you to accept this, there is nothing wrong in doing so. Just as some Muslim 'rulers' today are unjust (in one way or another), the same was the case in history. Many of these same rulers killed more Muslims than non-Muslims.
Mahmud of Ghaznavi who we revere...
Actually a large portion of these "3 million" are post-1971 economic migrants. Majority of the Biharis/Bengalis that migrated to Pakistan prior to 1971, were given a choice between Pakistani and Bengali nationality - though there are still some stuck in a limbo.