I wonder then could a potential crusade have arisen from south india? Keeping in mind the cholas and various other South Indian kingdoms did expand a lot in the region.
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Wouldn't work because the Huns were Shaivites and there was a huge Shaivite population in the Gupta Empire.
Could you elaborate on this? I never knew the huns were shivaite and as far as I knew their religion was mostly unknown
Ok just a bit of theorising but the Guptas predate Islam significantly. What if they declared Holy War on the Hunic peoples invading india?
Keeping in mind in IRL they did put up a significant fight it's not impossible to imagine they'd be able to do that.
Hmm this raises an interesting point assuming the Guptas remained unified could easily say the storming of the Somnath Temple to be sort of a rallying point. Also the Guptas could see it as an opportunity to expand into lands beyound their stronghold.
That's one thing I realised Hinduism doesn't really have a centralised sort of leader who could call for such a thing.
So maybe one fundamental change is that Adi Shankara establishes a more centralised leadership structure in Hinduism seeing the divide between the various sects.
As he's also...
I've always been facisinated with fact the fact that Hinduism never really had a holy war in the manner of the Crusades.
Is their any point when a hindu version of a holy war of the crusades could have occured?
Malcolm X was born in 1925 so he might well live long enough to see Barrack Obama elected in 2008.
Given that he was extremely intelligent and articulate could see him taking up the reins of the movement after dr king's passing.
I'm not sure of he strictly counts as a conqueror but King Ashoka from India definitely fits the bill. His reformation from bloodthirsty conqueror sounds like something from a myth.
Add to that his largely successful buddhist missionary activity and he definitely comes across as a legendary...
I'm also wondering one thing. Marines tend to be trained to a higher standard than the average infantryman purely by the nature of their jobs.
It won't be long before they're deployed into UN peacekeeping actions. I wonder of given a more expansionist indian foreign policy we'll see more action...
Had a timeline planned at the back of my head where a coup takes place in India Or escalates to all out war but can't figure out a way to actually see india governed by a military regime
I'm not sure the then govt would be willing to escalate the war that much. The Kargil War was a very measured response by the BJP government.
It's worth noting indian forces didn't really breach the LOC or try to escalate it by attacking other fronts
This actually brings up an interesting conversation. If india developed a marine Corps Pakistan would to given the relationship between the two nations.
This does raise an interesting idea for a timeline what if the USSR encouraged india to go into Pakistan in the 1980s? Pakistan had just backed an insurgency in Punjab so can imagine India might well be angry over that.
That would be an interesting idea for a Marcos led marine force to do.