Sawai
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These opinions on the Gupta Empire are genuinely confused. Usually, the production of culture is credited to the regime in power, this is a standard practice for any pre-modern period of history, in any part of the world, since it was the political power which patronized aesthetic, inspired it, standardized it and encourage its imitation. The king may not personally have built the temple, or written the text, but it was the peace his armies afforded and the patronage of his coffers, which begot the cultural capital that modern nations enjoy and harken back to. Saying "the Byzantines built this or this was done under the Byzantines", does not mean we're saying that the contemporary Greek house wearing the Royal purple, personally wrote the verses or chiseled the marble, but that the work is inseparable from the contemporary zeitgeist that the ruling power is greatly responsible for. I don't get this idea that the Guptas had nothing to do with the cultural expansion of Sanskrit literature and intellectual output during their reign. Second "an overblown kingdom, not really an empire", define the two words. "Most people alive then didn't know the Guptas existed", except that they created an alliance with the Vakatakas and virtually were sovereign of the North and the Deccan, stretching from the Eastern to Western shores. Inscriptions of the period, name them as overlords of the regions where these are found. Kings were forced in vassalage to the Gupta power. Most people in any period are least concerned with the name and genealogy of their ruling dynasty. No common peasant in Orissa knew who Aurangzeb was in the 1600s. "Most people", unfortunately for most of history, don't count. Also "people talk about Kalidasa not Manu", I'm sorry, which people? What period of modern Indian cultural discourse are we referring to? Manu and his work, have been the focal point of sociocultural discourse since even before the Republic, to the extent it shaped political thinking and outcomes. Kalidasa finds no memory beyond secondary level NCERT books. People memorize the names of his works for civil services exams. "Patriarchy was rising", implying that it was less prominent in the period before, when any evidence to support this is fairly limited, and reads again, modern values in atypical pre-Gupta political structures. "Not a golden age", by what fair metric?
Sawai15,677 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
You were hated by fellow Marathis first. Interesting you mention Mughals, British and Northie Bamans, but somehow forgot the people who have blood libel against you. But again, you're a Svnghaut. The reason for any Northie vs Marathi Brom friction in the first place.
Sawai16,214 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
For those dreaming about mushroom clouds over Tehran and Isfahan
Sawai11,006 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
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