Threads
Let’s examine this claim for a moment. We shall here examine Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Persian sources to determine what the natives of these lands considered the political, soci...
Ethnicity of the Hindu Shahi dynasty of Kabul. Thread. Al Biruni was the first source to mention the ethnicity of the Hindu Shahis and he mentions them as Brahmins. https://t.co/3z...
A short thread on India and the Indus Valley. The lower Indus Valley was known to the Achaemenids as “Hindūš” which roughly coincides to regions in modern Pakistan since India beyo...
According to the Chachnama, the Brahmin king Dahir of Sindh, conquered the territory of Makran and parts of Kerman, which he historically considered parts of Sindhian kings (the pr...
Presence and Influence of Brahminical theistic groups in Gandhāra and Afghanistan! Thread 🧵 https://t.co/lxf1W283Yf
The Alchon Huns under Toraman and Mihirakula ravage and destroy Buddhism in Afghanistan and Gandhāra and relay the foundations of Pashupat Shaivism in the region. The man in the...
Vedic Aryans conduct a Yajna fire ritual in the snow capped mountains of Gandhāra, in an era when Hinduism flourished in Gandhāra. Thread. https://t.co/VcsZlL5JD6 https://t.co/fFsm...
Since this is in the news, I think it’s time for a brief introduction to Kalasha history. Thread https://t.co/CFSdjGpMnP
A thread on the Afghan (Pashtun) expansion from the Sulaiman mountain ranges. The general pattern followed by Pashtuns when they descended and colonised regions around the Sulaiman...
A thread on the worship of the Vedic deity Indrā in the former Kafiristan (Nuristan) , Afghanistan. https://t.co/aBCOWtM6Rt
Dogra attitudes towards cow slaughter in their kingdom. Thread. https://t.co/I4BEOICel6
Kalhana in his Rajatarangini describes Mihirakula as trikotihan, "the killer of three crores". A reference most likely to his ordeals against the buddhists. https://t.co/tiTW7EIq2Y