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That's an Italian painting of Saladin nearly 400 years later, it's completely based off of the artist's imagination, not how Saladin actually looked.

This is a nonsensical claim that has no historical basis. The fact and irony is that "India" as a political entity and "Indian" as an identity are all products of the British. The British were an instrument of forceful amalgamation of a continent (which is what led to the creation of India) with...

They are just as much a part of our history as the British Raj were.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make or why you're making it on this specific thread. Islam is very much in tune with our cultures, it's one of the leading reasons why it was so easy for the peoples of modern-day Pakistan to convert to Islam.

Agriculture was introduced to South Asia from West Asia.

This video highlights the problem of classifying a quarter of the world's population under one category: "South Asian". The famines of the British Raj had little impact on modern-day Pakistan, the only region of modern-day Pakistan that was vulnerable to famine was Kashmir.

No one is asking Pakistan to become a secular state. However, it must be highlighted that religion as the sole pillar of an identity is not feasible, especially in these times. What I'm saying is not a new idea, in fact, it predates the notion of Pakistan as some state created solely for...

This theory has largely been debunked, there is no genetic connection between Jews and Pashtuns. What are you trying to say?

There are nearly triple the amount of native Pashto speakers compared to native Urdu speakers. Urdu is a Hindustani language developed in North India, it was roughly alien to Pakistan until the British introduced it in the 1880's under a process to amalgamate their newly conquered but...

That is not true. Pakistani ethnic groups have been living alongside each other for over a millennia. The geographic, economic, political, historic and genetic interconnection between Pakistani ethnic groups did not poof into existence with British rule but has always resided here. Once you...

These are long Kameez, not "Dhotis".

It is a Gandharan bust, likely of a warrior or nobleman.

I don't think that "bust of Ashoka" is an actual historic sculpture, but instead, a modern rendition.

How a tiny force managed to inflict 300 casualties while sustaining only 6 was quite astounding. How is Odysseas Androutsos seen today in Greece? If I had recalled correctly, he had later defected to the Ottomans but was captured and executed by the rebels.

Then you have heard wrong. Never heard of such nonsense about not eating from plates touched by certain groups. Zaat is an Arabic word and is used to denote clan or tribe. What you're saying may be true for NW India, but the rest of India cannot even pronounce 'Zaat' yet use it to denote caste...

Again, people here are confusing the caste/varna system with common social stratifications found in every society. What you're describing are "Kammis" which are guilds. Guilds are/were present in every society; English surnames such as Barber, Fisher, Hunter, Butler, Smith, Walker, Clarke...

You have created your own definition of the caste system. Every heterogeneous society has communities that are looked down upon. Europeans historically (and currently) looking down upon Gypsies, Omanis looking down upon Khaddams, Amhara Ethiopians looking down upon Southern Ethiopians, etc...

Never said that, I only stated that the handful of Jatts that do in fact follow the caste system are those that have been integrated into mainstream Hinduism. Overwhelmingly however, Jatts do not follow the caste system regardless of which side of the border they are on. If Jatts were...

Kushans were not Turkic or "Mongolid". They were Indo-European, likely Tocharian.

Mughal nobility remained in Hindustan (UP/Delhi). Currently the Mughal dynasty is survived through the children (who now live in slums) of Bedar Bakht, The great Grandson of Bahadur Shah II. If any Mughal had to have fled, it would have been to Rajputana (mostly modern-day Rajasthan) where...