Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Loved this slice of past. The great things about the old Hindu Civilization are seldomly taught about or if they are then they had never been discussed in mainstream media this rationally. A great episode Prawin Sir. Would love more of such.
@@praveenswami0510 It might be the best day of my life ,one of my most admired and favorite editor noticed my feedback and replied to it . Humbled , Thank-you sir. Your research always shine and your prologues that cue us to the the nitty gritty are always so unexpected exceptional and effective. Love the work. Wish you a great health and luck sir.
I am pleasantly surprised that the Print is becoming more neutral/ objective/balanced in its views. The quality of this presentation is excellent and covers a topic many may not be aware of.
Well said.Indian traders have always been enterprising.I happened to in Peru Lima.Guess what,visited an Indian restaurant.Also learnt that Indians are trading in grains.so near home better opportunity.
Guptaji is the nice, lovable professor who teaches our favourite subjects. Praveen Swami is the strict, irascible professor who teaches the difficult one and is difficult to deal with too ;)
1. Thanks Pravin for this previously unknown details about Hindu traders going into Central Asia. 2. Now, we cannot even enter Pakistan and hence, to reach boundaries of Central Asia is impossible. So our only realistic hope is Chabhar Port in Iran and whatever we can make best out of it. 3. Thankfully, Pravin has concluded his video with a clear message. 4. Thanks Pravin for diligently collecting the details and presenting it very well.
This would be the first time anyone has spoken about the MOST UNSAID TOPIC of discussion, - THE EASTERN SLAVE TRADE. We all speak about the Atlantic Slave Trade and its Impact on Europe and US, But never speak of the Eastern Slave Trade and its Impact on Ottomon, Persian and Russian Empire.
@@bharatpandit4796no if you know the history most of the Central Asians are taken as slaves most of turkic rulers in history once slaves and still in now a days Turks are slaves of chinese
Praveen Swami Ji, don't you dare leave thePrint. :) Ever since you have come here, I have skipped CTC's for later watching, but not your episodes. Your articles are a gem. Love your topics, love your penmanship, and love your articulation. Please write more.
The wheelchair pusher l employed in lstanbul airport while taking leave said in very broken English, " you are not going to believe this, but l too used to be a Hindu in my younger days". With that he abruptly got up and disappeared in the crowd.
Thanks, my maternal great maternal grand father was also a merchant trading extensively in late 19th century, textiles, locks and spices he use to trade
@@sreyanshuchaterjee3962 I have no idea, I use to listen from them, but their were a lot of others from gujrat, Rajasthan, multan and entire western Punjab who were traders
After decades of supression of entrepreneurship and business even in independent India, through mindless regulation, bureaucracy, corruption, absence of infrastructure and red tape, it is difficult to expect the same business community to challenge China overnight but y el happen over time. Indian entrepreneurial spirit is alive.
Brilliant episode....I hope someone in South Block is watching and thinking about it....Praveen, you always have nuggets unheard of but this one is best till date....Thanks for all your efforts...tc!!
The role of media is about informing and educating about little knowns facts, be it of the past and present . Thank you Mr.Praveen and the Print for fulfilling that need. It is very painful to know about the Indian slaves and their trading. There is no point in politicizing the issue now. It would be rather useful to digress that past in the context of times yet pain would remain and should goad us to empower ourselves. As far as the Hindu merchants of the times is concerned, they are the products of times and historical circumstances just like the British merchants,who played a much bigger role leading to establishment of an empire. So they endured the ravages of times, because they influenced the events to their favkur, which the Hindu merchants could not accomplish. India produced many things,which others felt a use for then by other nations and empire. Thst was possible because India had a manufacturing base. But now India has no manufacturing base of global scale. That role has been taken over by China,so the Chubese are playing the role which Hindu merchants is played. A nation should first solve its own problems domestically by providing food,clothing,shelter, employment, education,health and sports. In addition to the anove and most importsntly, the citizens should be mentally empowered through its culture. Armed with general welfare of its citizens, borders properly protected through militarization and possession of cultural power , now-a-days called soft-power India woukd be ready for global play. What would our merchants or industrialists offer to the world. India has to first produce Rickefellers,Rithcjildes,Fords,Bill Gates,Jeff Bezos of the world backed by superior scientific and technogical knowledge , having ritual knowledge about our deep cultural past, not dwelling in the past. We have to first recognize first that all we have is this one life on one earth and play the game of life to the fullest here and now rather than living in the past. Understanding the past is the key to present and future. But living in the memories of psst glory is suicidal. However, those Hindu merchants surely deserve our tribute for undertaking a journey which was dangerous then as now. Salute to their i fo.itable courage,adventure and zeal and desire for taking risk and enthusiasm and single-mindedness for achieving the goal of Artha(wealth), one of most important objectives of life.
Great gems for the past having immense potential to guide our present vow what a narration Mr Swamy your top narration has made the security code the best show on the print u excel indeed....
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Interesting information. In many ways it speaks of a not so known aspect of Indian history. Indian merchant trade and as also slavery . That was new to me. Thanks for the information
Not only Multani's but Shikarpuri Khatri's were running successfull Hundi & loan businesses alongwith trading between Dhaka & Moscow trade routes. Even Mahmud Ghaznavi's expeditions were financed by these khatri's who used to get very good returns on their war investments post his successfull raids!
Praveen Swami - I simply loved this piece tremendously. Little is known about slave trading within India and across its borders. You are an asset to The Print team. Please bring forth more of these insightful historical nuggets out into the open. Can you also do a piece of Indian trade with south east Asia and it’s historical naval intervention in Indonesia and other places to further India’s business interests.
Excellent analysis, Mr. Praveen Swamy. I wish Mr. Shekhar Gupta's twin series have as much research as this article. The one on Bangalore last week was just folk wisdom and rumors masquerading as analysis. Those videos generally bring down the respect for the institution. I wish Mr. Shekhar Gupta tunes in less often and allows his young team to take over. Each of the youngsters have been marvelous addition to Indian Journalism
Indians are still going to new places for work and business, it is just that newer skills like medicine, engineering and IT are used instead of trading.
THANK YOU for the wonderful report! Last 3 decades I am involved in trade with erstwhile USSR markets. Now USAID has offered me a market development mentorship assignment for the exporters of Kazakhstan. Your research will help me a lot. Will you please recommend me a few literature on this subject for further reading ? My knowledge of Russian language and contacts in CIS region are available to you Praveen for further such researches.
If they are fake Arabs, you got rid of them. So how can it be a tragedy? You got a made up Hindu majority with 60 percent forcibly converted on paper to Hinduism.
@@hawkingdawking4572 fake Arabs is a syndrome of believing ones religion (in this case Islam) ought to define one's nation, identity and in this care foreign policy. It's a tragedy because they are essentially Indians afflicted to a communal virus, which has been a big setback to Indian civilization. The latter part of your response, I am not even sure what that means bro.
The slave trade continued in the Mughal times too right up to Aurangzeb & beyond. It ended only with Nadir Shah seizing Kandahar . With his passing away & the brief Hotaki rule before him the entire dynamics of the CAR region changed. As the video rightly points out from the mid 18th century onwards , the slave trade was mostly restricted to capturing Shi'ite Persians & the occasional Russian subject something that the Khanates in CAR came to regret later .
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Refreshing ...Hindus have kind of looked at priests, kings and professionals like doctors as the respected classes not so the merchants . Merchants have traditionally been looked down upon as swindlers ..remember Jagat Sheth ?
It is same in China, merchants were historically looked down upon by the common folks, warrior class as well as the Kings. It is unbelievable how similar Indian civilization is that to the Chinese one
Do the bengalis even read about its pre Islamic great kingdoms. How will they know? The entire murshidabad area is now a dump of madrasa and mosques built atop ancient temples.
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
While i really enjoyed this story, I hope parochial RSS, VHP folks are not watching this. I can expect a far fetched argument from them "Iran is now a part of Akhand Bharat" ... lol
Praveen Sir, please do an analysis of the Russia-Ukraine situation. It was supposed to a "one-sided war". Then, it became a "war of attrition". Now, it is "unwinnable" and the battle is mostly to salvage pride. What are the lessons for India? and what would the decimation of our most stalwart ally mean for us? Let's be honest about Uncle Sam, while our strategic interests might ally (at least, w.r.t China) but on many other matters we DO NOT SEE EYE-TO-EYE.
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
I am surprised there are references to slaves used in Central Asia even in 1800s. Wokes will make you believe slavery was a distinctly American disgrace, pillaging on African demography.
India always enjoyed good trade and commerce due to its location however access to central Asia is difficult due to US Iran relations, Chabahr port was already planned for this, only option to take POK. and create new routes
You must do a show on Muslim's in Europe, why they are getting aggressive before reaching there critical percentage of 15-18 percent of the population. Have they run out of patience?
our history books are just not educating our coming generations of their sacrifices and proud of previous generation who made contribute to present generation, instead in ciriculum we are studying about European history which is of less relevance of building a proud Indian...All state governments should include National heroes in ciriculum and cbse should dedicate 40% of it's history syllabus for local history to be included to make Indians proud of their cultural heritage
Before looking outside you should fix the ground inside the country and level the playing field for hindus, Things like: 1) Wafq board act 2) Places of worship act 4) Halal food certificates that is cruel, bigoted and affects hindus from weaker background 3) Common law only applicable to hindus 4) Taxes on Hindu places of worship, and bussiness while excluding minority despite the fact they control more wealth and land. 5) Autonomy given to minority on the basis of religion. 6) disproportionate representation of minority on all level of government and business 7) No government control on minority institution despite the fact their genocidal and discriminatory tendencies. The histroy of Indian minorities is full of blood and genocide and that continues even today. Be it muslims, christian, sikhs or buddhits they all are thieves who have stolen the fruits of labour hardworking and peaceful sanatanis. Try fixing that.
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
you need to know the the said indian merchats from multan/punjab were from kshatriya /khatri community , thats why they were brave enough to march in dangerous places...only some could become king or administrators , so remaining became merchants .......thats the history .... lohana /arora/ khatri are same blood so they ruled sindh , afghanistan , punjab , iran and also did businesses......
Why can't you just be friends with China? Why always the rivalry, India stands no chance against China, you see their economy is 20 years ahead of us, how can we even compete at this infancy stage of the 'great' Indian growth?
Don't disagree witth you on that we should be friends with China. At present however CCP regime is an existential threat।and there's no way we can just give up.
Shanghai is a waist of time. These countries with dictatorship governments can't have the will to unite where the potential is huge in the region. Remember, iran, pakistan and afghanistan planned to join an organization during shah of iran. Shanghai has not been able to recognize Emirate government. How can it solve bigger issues such as common goals of the organization. Very sorry to say another failed attempt in a failed region to unite.
Thanks for this episode. My Hindu Punjabi family is one of these...originally from Kabul. Later settled in Multan.
Are u now in pakistan 🇵🇰or settled in india 🇮🇳
Wow
Pakistani?
Are you guys in india or not
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Loved this slice of past. The great things about the old Hindu Civilization are seldomly taught about or if they are then they had never been discussed in mainstream media this rationally.
A great episode Prawin Sir. Would love more of such.
Thank you so much-I’ll keep them coming as frequently as possible, though stories like this take a bit of research :)
@@praveenswami0510 It might be the best day of my life ,one of my most admired and favorite editor noticed my feedback and replied to it . Humbled , Thank-you sir.
Your research always shine and your prologues that cue us to the the nitty gritty are always so unexpected exceptional and effective.
Love the work. Wish you a great health and luck sir.
I am pleasantly surprised that the Print is becoming more neutral/ objective/balanced in its views. The quality of this presentation is excellent and covers a topic many may not be aware of.
Praveen Swami is quickly turning into a great segment on the print, just like guptaji CTC.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Guptaji should, like he has in the past, allow others to step in for CTC
@@praveenswami0510 sir u are an asset.. Our knowledge is improving exponentially
@@chennakeshavathunga4695 Thank you, kind of you
Well said.Indian traders have always been enterprising.I happened to in Peru Lima.Guess what,visited an Indian restaurant.Also learnt that Indians are trading in grains.so near home better opportunity.
I have decided never to miss any video from Praveen, I may miss an odd one from Shekhar or Jyoti, but never from Praveen. Keep up the great work.
Very important lessons.
This may hold true, not just for central Asia, but accross the globe
Guptaji is the nice, lovable professor who teaches our favourite subjects. Praveen Swami is the strict, irascible professor who teaches the difficult one and is difficult to deal with too ;)
I recommend a very lovely book (Secrets of Sanatan Dharma) by Author Sai Prasad panda
one of the best episode from Swami ji ❤
Excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. There is so much history one doesn't know of.
Thank you for bringing us these accounts from history, Mr Swami!
Images, maps, names on screen - loved this video. Would like to see more like this
Trade has offered a great potential for nation building, for cultural exchange and keeping peace in the sub continent
1. Thanks Pravin for this previously unknown details about Hindu traders going into Central Asia. 2. Now, we cannot even enter Pakistan and hence, to reach boundaries of Central Asia is impossible. So our only realistic hope is Chabhar Port in Iran and whatever we can make best out of it. 3. Thankfully, Pravin has concluded his video with a clear message. 4. Thanks Pravin for diligently collecting the details and presenting it very well.
What about Chinese traders in central Asia?
This would be the first time anyone has spoken about the MOST UNSAID TOPIC of discussion, - THE EASTERN SLAVE TRADE. We all speak about the Atlantic Slave Trade and its Impact on Europe and US, But never speak of the Eastern Slave Trade and its Impact on Ottomon, Persian and Russian Empire.
All these slaves were Unconverted Hindus!
@@bharatpandit4796no if you know the history most of the Central Asians are taken as slaves most of turkic rulers in history once slaves and still in now a days Turks are slaves of chinese
Insightful, motivating and a "debari" of hope.
All this says we Don't need huge investments all we need Is freedom to do business, but sad that our state itself tie our hands 😢
Praveen Swami Ji, don't you dare leave thePrint. :)
Ever since you have come here, I have skipped CTC's for later watching, but not your episodes. Your articles are a gem. Love your topics, love your penmanship, and love your articulation. Please write more.
Enjoyed Mr Swami
Brilliant workk Praveen ji just loved it.
Mr. Swami's writing is so poetic, and his voice is so soothing. Please make more videos like these. Thank you. 😌
The wheelchair pusher l employed in lstanbul airport while taking leave said in very broken English, " you are not going to believe this, but l too used to be a Hindu in my younger days". With that he abruptly got up and disappeared in the crowd.
What difference does it make?
Thanks, my maternal great maternal grand father was also a merchant trading extensively in late 19th century, textiles, locks and spices he use to trade
You mean the gujrati and sindhi traders.
@@sreyanshuchaterjee3962 no punjabi traders from rawalpindi
@@vijayvohra8053 what about thr dutt, Hosseini bramhins? Did they trade too?
@@sreyanshuchaterjee3962 I have no idea, I use to listen from them, but their were a lot of others from gujrat, Rajasthan, multan and entire western Punjab who were traders
very interesting and educative.. thank you Swamy
After decades of supression of entrepreneurship and business even in independent India, through mindless regulation, bureaucracy, corruption, absence of infrastructure and red tape, it is difficult to expect the same business community to challenge China overnight but y el happen over time. Indian entrepreneurial spirit is alive.
Brilliant episode....I hope someone in South Block is watching and thinking about it....Praveen, you always have nuggets unheard of but this one is best till date....Thanks for all your efforts...tc!!
Thinking about what? Chinese traders?
Praveen Swami, appreciate your concluding note "India will need its businesses to take its place at the vanguard- not the government'.
The role of media is about informing and educating about little knowns facts, be it of the past and present . Thank you Mr.Praveen and the Print for fulfilling that need. It is very painful to know about the Indian slaves and their trading. There is no point in politicizing the issue now. It would be rather useful to digress that past in the context of times yet pain would remain and should goad us to empower ourselves.
As far as the Hindu merchants of the times is concerned, they are the products of times and historical circumstances just like the British merchants,who played a much bigger role leading to establishment of an empire. So they endured the ravages of times, because they influenced the events to their favkur, which the Hindu merchants could not accomplish. India produced many things,which others felt a use for then by other nations and empire. Thst was possible because India had a manufacturing base. But now India has no manufacturing base of global scale. That role has been taken over by China,so the Chubese are playing the role which Hindu merchants is played.
A nation should first solve its own problems domestically by providing food,clothing,shelter, employment, education,health and sports. In addition to the anove and most importsntly, the citizens should be mentally empowered through its culture. Armed with general welfare of its citizens, borders properly protected through militarization and possession of cultural power , now-a-days called soft-power India woukd be ready for global play. What would our merchants or industrialists offer to the world. India has to first produce Rickefellers,Rithcjildes,Fords,Bill Gates,Jeff Bezos of the world backed by superior scientific and technogical knowledge , having ritual knowledge about our deep cultural past, not dwelling in the past. We have to first recognize first that all we have is this one life on one earth and play the game of life to the fullest here and now rather than living in the past. Understanding the past is the key to present and future. But living in the memories of psst glory is suicidal.
However, those Hindu merchants surely deserve our tribute for undertaking a journey which was dangerous then as now. Salute to their i fo.itable courage,adventure and zeal and desire for taking risk and enthusiasm and single-mindedness for achieving the goal of Artha(wealth), one of most important objectives of life.
Wonderfully presented. Thank you!
Great gems for the past having immense potential to guide our present vow what a narration Mr Swamy your top narration has made the security code the best show on the print u excel indeed....
Really enjoyed this foray into history!
IMO Praveen sir should try his hand in poem recitations, he has all that it takes to be a perfect "kissago". What a gem!
Parveen Swami out classes himself every time.👍🙏
The old spice rout ,may come back again.MR.PRAVEEN SWAMYS narration of the subject,English language,phrases are feast to the ears.
Such enormous wealth of knowledge on such diverse socio historical issues
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
You are correct Mr Swamy but Indian bureaucracy makes it difficult for businesses and startups .
Beautiful research! Thanks a lot for doing this!
We always wanted this kind of segment
So learned. Such lucid narration. My salutations
Thank you Mr Swami …..a nice recall of the lives then….and hopes of the road ahead 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Very good information. The support of the flag is needed for business
Very original content today..kudos!
Well researched history
Interesting information. In many ways it speaks of a not so known aspect of Indian history. Indian merchant trade and as also slavery . That was new to me. Thanks for the information
Well done. Good presentation.
Not only Multani's but Shikarpuri Khatri's were running successfull Hundi & loan businesses alongwith trading between Dhaka & Moscow trade routes. Even Mahmud Ghaznavi's expeditions were financed by these khatri's who used to get very good returns on their war investments post his successfull raids!
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Shikarpuris are sindhis who mainly use to do border trade at taftan border prior to partition it was told by Ram jethmalani in his interview
Praveen Swami - I simply loved this piece tremendously. Little is known about slave trading within India and across its borders. You are an asset to The Print team. Please bring forth more of these insightful historical nuggets out into the open. Can you also do a piece of Indian trade with south east Asia and it’s historical naval intervention in Indonesia and other places to further India’s business interests.
What about English traders to india?
Excellent analysis, Mr. Praveen Swamy.
I wish Mr. Shekhar Gupta's twin series have as much research as this article. The one on Bangalore last week was just folk wisdom and rumors masquerading as analysis. Those videos generally bring down the respect for the institution. I wish Mr. Shekhar Gupta tunes in less often and allows his young team to take over. Each of the youngsters have been marvelous addition to Indian Journalism
Not aware of the m any events of past centuries,, it's deep research n corroboration by Praveen sir, making us abreast . Thanks u r unique to others.
Excellent information
Excellent and original content today.
Awesome one Sir
In Iran an Old Hindu temple builded by Hindu Merchants.... 🙏
Very interesting and good information. First time saw Praveen Swami laughing
Excellent and very informative
Instead of doing "Akhand bharat" - they silently ceded land to china and act as heros in front of public.
This was an excellent analysis. How about focussing on the Sheths of Gujarat ! Great pity analysis, loved it
Vow, my second online professor after Gupta ji
Thanks Praveen for these insights. Incisive analysis.
Can you suggest any good book on this topic?
Great insights thanks for sharing
"Indian" selling Indians...Thats our country !
Kudos to you for being factual
Indians are still going to new places for work and business, it is just that newer skills like medicine, engineering and IT are used instead of trading.
There is a Hindu temple at Azerbaijan ( Baku) it's now their's National Monument.
THANK YOU for the wonderful report! Last 3 decades I am involved in trade with erstwhile USSR markets. Now USAID has offered me a market development mentorship assignment for the exporters of Kazakhstan. Your research will help me a lot. Will you please recommend me a few literature on this subject for further reading ? My knowledge of Russian language and contacts in CIS region are available to you Praveen for further such researches.
I recommend a very lovely book (Secrets of Sanatan Dharma) by Author Sai Prasad panda...
Indian partition has been such a tragedy our age old access to west has been cut off by fake Arabs.
Pakistanis have decent amount of foreign blood flowing their veins .
If they are fake Arabs, you got rid of them. So how can it be a tragedy? You got a made up Hindu majority with 60 percent forcibly converted on paper to Hinduism.
@@hawkingdawking4572 fake Arabs is a syndrome of believing ones religion (in this case Islam) ought to define one's nation, identity and in this care foreign policy. It's a tragedy because they are essentially Indians afflicted to a communal virus, which has been a big setback to Indian civilization.
The latter part of your response, I am not even sure what that means bro.
@@davidwood5647 who doesn't? Every one is deep down an African.
@Liberalism was a Mistake no doubt.
The slave trade continued in the Mughal times too right up to Aurangzeb & beyond. It ended only with Nadir Shah seizing Kandahar . With his passing away & the brief Hotaki rule before him the entire dynamics of the CAR region changed.
As the video rightly points out from the mid 18th century onwards , the slave trade was mostly restricted to capturing Shi'ite Persians & the occasional Russian subject something that the Khanates in CAR came to regret later .
Tyrant Aurangzeb was not the problem, the teachings that he was following were. Slavery is allowed so he carried on the tradition.
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Amazing history
Refreshing ...Hindus have kind of looked at priests, kings and professionals like doctors as the respected classes not so the merchants . Merchants have traditionally been looked down upon as swindlers ..remember Jagat Sheth ?
It is same in China, merchants were historically looked down upon by the common folks, warrior class as well as the Kings.
It is unbelievable how similar Indian civilization is that to the Chinese one
Main reason is merchant often changes side to the greater advantage..... remember it's all about money.....
Do the bengalis even read about its pre Islamic great kingdoms. How will they know? The entire murshidabad area is now a dump of madrasa and mosques built atop ancient temples.
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
I would advise caution on this strategy after what Gupta brothers did in South Africa.
Part 2 of this videos should be called - The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk....lol
While i really enjoyed this story, I hope parochial RSS, VHP folks are not watching this. I can expect a far fetched argument from them "Iran is now a part of Akhand Bharat" ... lol
We have traders in Lagos, south africa and phillipines now.
Wow 😳😲
We need freedom to do business not investment.
Praveen Sir, please do an analysis of the Russia-Ukraine situation. It was supposed to a "one-sided war". Then, it became a "war of attrition". Now, it is "unwinnable" and the battle is mostly to salvage pride. What are the lessons for India? and what would the decimation of our most stalwart ally mean for us? Let's be honest about Uncle Sam, while our strategic interests might ally (at least, w.r.t China) but on many other matters we DO NOT SEE EYE-TO-EYE.
Fascinating... Quite robust Eastern Slave Trade existed
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
Unlike today, it looks like we didn't have crony capitalism in our history. Wish we had the free markets of our yesteryears.
We have not been taught about these things....
🕉🕉🕉🕉🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can Praveen Swami’s episodes be numbered and indexed just like cut the clutter.
The bottom-line hit hard, although I found this piece to be too long-winded to express a simple message, even with the quips and history.
I am surprised there are references to slaves used in Central Asia even in 1800s. Wokes will make you believe slavery was a distinctly American disgrace, pillaging on African demography.
I recommend a very lovely book (Secrets of Sanatan Dharma) by Author Sai Prasad panda...
Why do you peddle the idea that China and India should fight each other. Regional harmony is best options
India always enjoyed good trade and commerce due to its location however access to central Asia is difficult due to US Iran relations, Chabahr port was already planned for this, only option to take POK. and create new routes
this is very hard to hear
You must do a show on Muslim's in Europe, why they are getting aggressive before reaching there critical percentage of 15-18 percent of the population. Have they run out of patience?
Did the Hindus put up a good show , historically ?
@@davidwood5647 yes they did, your colonial white and Arab jealously wrote ill about Hindus. Read the xenophobic Churchill.
@@davidwood5647 what's the percentage of the population of Hindus & Momins in the whole of the Indian sub continent ? Therein lies your answer.
our history books are just not educating our coming generations of their sacrifices and proud of previous generation who made contribute to present generation, instead in ciriculum we are studying about European history which is of less relevance of building a proud Indian...All state governments should include National heroes in ciriculum and cbse should dedicate 40% of it's history syllabus for local history to be included to make Indians proud of their cultural heritage
Before looking outside you should fix the ground inside the country and level the playing field for hindus, Things like:
1) Wafq board act
2) Places of worship act
4) Halal food certificates that is cruel, bigoted and affects hindus from weaker background
3) Common law only applicable to hindus
4) Taxes on Hindu places of worship, and bussiness while excluding minority despite the fact they control more wealth and land.
5) Autonomy given to minority on the basis of religion.
6) disproportionate representation of minority on all level of government and business
7) No government control on minority institution despite the fact their genocidal and discriminatory tendencies.
The histroy of Indian minorities is full of blood and genocide and that continues even today. Be it muslims, christian, sikhs or buddhits they all are thieves who have stolen the fruits of labour hardworking and peaceful sanatanis. Try fixing that.
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How are temples and waqf related to business? Stop pushing your agenda everywhere.
Not sikhs and buddhists they are also sanatanis
What a bunch Tindu lies. "Over representation of minorities".
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The great game ?
& communist/muslim historians tell us we were tribal folks who don't even wear cloths 😐
Majority of these traders were of Punjabi Khatri & Sindhi origins, Sindhi traders were present in East Turkestan (now Xinjiang) uptill early 1930s after which riots broke out there. Partition of India severally affected their relations with central Asia ( as we lost border with Iran/ Afghanistan) Also these communities got destroyed financially
you need to know the the said indian merchats from multan/punjab were from kshatriya /khatri community , thats why they were brave enough to march in dangerous places...only some could become king or administrators , so remaining became merchants .......thats the history .... lohana /arora/ khatri are same blood so they ruled sindh , afghanistan , punjab , iran and also did businesses......
Why can't you just be friends with China? Why always the rivalry, India stands no chance against China, you see their economy is 20 years ahead of us, how can we even compete at this infancy stage of the 'great' Indian growth?
Don't disagree witth you on that we should be friends with China. At present however CCP regime is an existential threat।and there's no way we can just give up.
Next episode.. how Modi govt is favouring some business families..
Modi govt favouring business families who are patriotic to the nation and doing their work perfectly.
Very good mythology😀
Hindus are very interested in mythology. Come out of dreams..
Do they also believe in breaking of moon into two?
Shanghai is a waist of time. These countries with dictatorship governments can't have the will to unite where the potential is huge in the region. Remember, iran, pakistan and afghanistan planned to join an organization during shah of iran. Shanghai has not been able to recognize Emirate government. How can it solve bigger issues such as common goals of the organization. Very sorry to say another failed attempt in a failed region to unite.
This guy is a freak….i’m telling you.