World History (हिन्दी‪)‬ Jyoti

This is in continuation of the previous episode on Israel Palestine Conflict. It brings in a few more perspectives including a comparison of Israel with Pakistan and India with Palestine. In case of India, it understood the stark reality of its partition and the creation of an artificial state of Pakistan from within it along religious lines. India took the path of a secular republic, six years later Pakistan became the first Islamic Republic in the world. Republic of India recognized Pakistan on the first day of its independence on August 15, 1947.

Unlike India, the leaders of Arabs of the land of Mandate of Palestine and later Palestine, did not recognize Israel when it became a reality with recognition from many states in 1948. Much later Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) recognized Israel in 1993.

While a State of Palestine exists with observer status at UNGA and recognition from a large number of states(mainly in the non-west, only recently some western states have recognized Palestine), a full fledged Palestinian state with sovereignty remains a work in progress.


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Urge you to watch this: A Palestinian and an Israeli, Face to Face | Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0juLRi90kRg

After the October 7 attacks by Hamas and other groups on Israeli civilians, Israel has embarked on a series of offences that have lasted over 7 months by now. In the October 7 attacks many Israeli lives were lost. In the military actions that have followed many Gazan lives have been lost, over several times.

In response International Criminal Court has sought warrants against Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri(Deif), Ismail Haniyeh. You can read about it here: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

Recently AP published a piece on debunking of some of the claims of Hamas acts: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-sexual-violence-zaka-ca7905bf9520b1e646f86d72cdf03244

Further, this horrifying video shows the kidnapping of female Israeli soldiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRlrWHHRoU&rco=1

There are other points provided by The Hill in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5GBz4yt2k

Thus, we must understand that both sides are waging a war of narrative as well. UN found something as shown here in this video from the highly regarded Guardian News titled "UN finds ‘convincing information’ that Hamas raped and tortured Israeli hostages", almost 2 months before the above two videos. You can watch the UN statement from Guardian here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbs0vQDJ_aQ

In this long ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this seems like the latest ongoing episode. But there is more to it.

NOTE: This is an informal conversation being offered to listeners with some perspectives in mind. Some of the things being said might not be fully correct but there is context to it that might not have been possible to cover/include/mention in this podcast episode. People have spent their lifetimes to understand the issue at hand and it is a contentious issue involving emotions from both sides. My attempt is to merely scratch the surface and I am sure to have failed at that. But if it helps you in getting some new views, information and ideas, I would have succeeded by some measure.



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Hope you are enjoying this podcast and there are 68 episodes for you to go through and enjoy. There are some upcoming changes to the way we upload our podcasts. From what I understand it is expected that we make them more geared towards video/slides/animation along with the voice.



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Indo Greeks(Bactrians), Indo-Scythians(Shakas), Indo-Parthians, Kushanas all came and ruled parts of northern India. Kanishka the Great was the most famous among all these rulers. They accepted Indian cultures, beliefs and added it to their own. Many of their rulers are today known for their religious tolerance.

In this episode we shall cover the details of the Central Asian rulers(their origins or those of the founders of their dynasty lay in Central Asia) and dynasties that ruled over parts of India in their periods of rule that roughly lay between 300 BC and 300 AD. They mainly ruled over the northern parts of Indian subcontinent and parts of central Asia.

We also mention the first two Scythian rulers in India, Maues(the name means "Tiger" in the Scythian/Saka language) and Azes(the name means "Leader" in the Scythian/Saka language).

Azes won over Hippostratos, cementing Scythian rule in western India

In the present of Israel-Palestine: ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict(mainly Israeli response and military acts in Gaza) after October 7, 2023 attacks many have different persepectives. This April 2024 a TED talk took place in Vancouver, Canada with Maoz(Maoz Inon) and Aziz(Aziz Abu Sarah), two peacemakers from Israel and Palestine respectively. I mentioned this as their names are similar to those of the Scythian rulers mentioned earlier. The name Maoz means "strength" in Hebrew and Aziz means "respected" in Arabic. You can watch them talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0juLRi90kRg

We would appreciate you, our listeners, rating us on the platform you are listening this podcast on. Episode 24 would be added later and it shall cover the Mauryan rulers who came after Ashoka.



Corrigendum: Saka Era started with Kanishka's rule according to some sources, but we now know it started several decades before Kanishka. In this episode I claimed that it started with the rule of the Scythians. But to my best understanding. The Saka Era calendar probably started when some Indian ruler defeated a Scythian ruler.

Democracies, Politicians and the games they play have been known since ancient times. Remember Theron from the movie 300. Many(maybe not most) politicians are like Theron pretending to be Leonidas.



True test of a democracy is whether politicians can be criticised and taken down in verbal duels as any other man/woman. A true democracy is not a place where politicians(or their family) can get away with crimes.

As someone once joked:
...an American who tells a Russian that the United States is so free he can stand in front of the White House and yell, ''To hell with Ronald Reagan.'' The Russian replies: ''That's nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, 'To hell with Ronald Reagan,' too.''


Source of the quotation: Roberts, S.V. (1987) Reagan and the Russians: The joke’s on them, The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/21/us/washington-talk-reagan-and-the-russians-the-joke-s-on-them.html (Last Accessed by us: 20 April 2024).

During the time of the Mauryan Empire in India we see the rise of Qin Shi Huangdi in China after the period of Warring States. In Europe there were the Punic Wars that Roman Empire Won.



In India, Mauryan Empire saw further development of the second phase of Urbanisation that started in 6th century BC.