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1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within you @dhume
Once, it was considered that Greece was "mother of democracy". But recent discoveries have contested
If not all, "Democracy" seems to have certainly originated first in India as/ latest researches.
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2/n We came across the Rakhigarhi Excavations.
It took the whole world by shock for the revelations it brought.
It happened to be a civilization (6.5+2.0) KY BP*
*Thousand years before present
3/n Here as stated by Dr Shinde, the Panchayat found on the site is around 5.5 KYBP.
We do not find any evidence of Monarchical Set-Up across any Indus Saraswati Civilization belt.
4/n Now, it becomes very interesting to observe that even though it was a notion that Greeks gave democracy to world.
Diodorus who is said to have visited India, around 2 centuries after Alexander talks that high level democracy of Indians was peculiar to Greeks (Diodorus 2.39)
5/n It was peculiar as Diodorous noted "No Slavery."
Slavery was very much predominant in West. In fact, Plato defines Mathematics with notion of "Slave's Soul." @dhume aware of it?
So how can a society with Slaves be considered "DEMOCRATIC"?
Once, it was considered that Greece was "mother of democracy". But recent discoveries have contested
If not all, "Democracy" seems to have certainly originated first in India as/ latest researches.
Read
Good thread on India\u2019s increasingly vocal claim to have invented democracy. [Some of the folks who buy this also believe that ancient Indians invented cruise missiles, fighter jets, and in vitro fertilization.] https://t.co/MPLVfhdx9U
— Sadanand Dhume (@dhume) September 25, 2021
2/n We came across the Rakhigarhi Excavations.
It took the whole world by shock for the revelations it brought.
It happened to be a civilization (6.5+2.0) KY BP*
*Thousand years before present
3/n Here as stated by Dr Shinde, the Panchayat found on the site is around 5.5 KYBP.
We do not find any evidence of Monarchical Set-Up across any Indus Saraswati Civilization belt.
4/n Now, it becomes very interesting to observe that even though it was a notion that Greeks gave democracy to world.
Diodorus who is said to have visited India, around 2 centuries after Alexander talks that high level democracy of Indians was peculiar to Greeks (Diodorus 2.39)
5/n It was peculiar as Diodorous noted "No Slavery."
Slavery was very much predominant in West. In fact, Plato defines Mathematics with notion of "Slave's Soul." @dhume aware of it?
So how can a society with Slaves be considered "DEMOCRATIC"?