Not!India

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>>51890395

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There are no toilets, anywhere. Lots of people have stunted growth from dystentary and related diseases as children. Everything smells terrible. Maps of cities need DESIGNATED SHITTING STREETS.

>>51890395
nigga just read the ramayana and mahabharata

>>51890395
Incredibly fractured culturally. All sorts of weird cults and groups just pocketed away.

>>51890509
This is modern India. Ancient India had sewer systems (Mohenjo-Daro) and public baths 2500 B.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-daro

>>51890395
What time period are you talking about? Different points in time give you vastly different Indias.

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Yeah, we need details on which parts of Indian history you're interested in encorporating. Mughal India was very different from British Raj India and very different again from Ancient India.

One thing I would suggest though, is keep in mind that historically 'India' was more a confederation that a single unity, with no true monoculture or even a set Lingua Franca. The Hindu supremacists are trying to push a revised view of Indian culture with them at the hostorical centre, but a great deal of that is cultural propaganda.

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Also, the boundaries of India/Hindustan were wide. At its peak it stretched from the borders of Afghanistan to Nepal. Indian today is massive, now add to it all of Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Nepalese mountains, the subcontinent islands like Sri Lanka, and a cultural projection that went through Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

That's a massive chunk of Earth.

>>51895195
Also don't forget that period in time where there was such thing as an Indo-Greek kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art

>>51895240
The most far flung of Alexander's successor states.

Just came back from a southern india trip. Take it as you will, but I actually seen some awesome lifestyle stuff in the modern Southern India.
> women would wake up at 5-6 am to wash their front porches so they can do some chalk drawing, so that they can 'invite' their day gods in. They do this at around 5-6pm as well to invite their night time deities
> a fuckton of gods in hindu mythology because they can make shit up on the fly to cater to any succint human desire/feeling/emotion
> When it gets sunny at the afternoon (which is often), many stay indoors to chill
> Women tend to dominate the household (especially the older ones) as they manage when the food is served, how money is distributed and what not
> education is key, as it means that the poorer communities can actually mobilise themselves away from their villages to a new place where the older family members can comfortably retire
> They tend to think on a very 'collectivist' ideal - rather than the western 'individualist. That is, when they decide, they ask their family members and their cousins etc to reach an outcome. From what the guide told me, this is because they think of the impact of their actions onto others, rather than doing stuff for themselves. One example was when I interviewed the head of the cotton/polyester factory - he said that he employs a 70 year-old security guard as opposed to a 20-year old because the owner himself is worried about the future of the old man.

Just some of the stuff I saw and observed from asking around

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>>51895273
Do they poo in loo there?

>>51890395
Ancient India is said to have at least 1000 different languages with no one defining language.

>>51895273
That's neat that you travelled, but we're specifically trying to talk about Ancient India in here. If we invite modern India in as a discussion subject we'll just have /int/ shitposting for days.

>>51895275
It really depends. On the poorer villages that some of my group went to, some people did not. But in the village I stayed at, they mostly had squat toilets. The more 'westernised' or ones with more wealth had the western toilets. The conditions they kept the squat toilets really depends on the household as well. Some were well kept, some you just had to throw up in as soon as you stepped in.

>>51895294
I apologise. It was my first time travelling abroad by myself and I wanted to share it around because everyone I know doesn't care.

Also, the Hindu concept of a set mythology is a bit...incorrect historically. What they did was bring together multiple gods and find a similar archetype among them, and called these gods 'Vishnu' and 'Ganesh' and 'Kali' etc, but in the mountains, lowlands, and where ever else, those 'regional variations' are really completely different gods that culture has tried to re-envision as echoes of the same (Hindu) dieties. Calling India the land of a thousand thousand gods is a completely accurate sentiment.

>>51895319
Oh fuck off

>>51895294
Come on, /int/ is a beautiful place.

>>51895303
I think your experience was a good example of Indian values; which are at least somewhat relevant to this thread.

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Does anyone happen to know a lot about the less well known religions coming out of India? I'm not talking about things that were eventually merged into Hinduism, I'm talking about specific movements that either stayed separate or died off entirely.

Jainism is the only one that I know of that remained a separate entity (I think) throughout India's history that didn't leave like Buddhism did and was a part of ancient India unlike Sikhism.

>>51895275
only in sri lanka and bangladesh

>>51895387
It's not really what you want, but Christianity was present in India since at least the 2nd century AD.

>>51895454
Were there any interesting big theological differences between Indian Christianity and western Christianity?

>>51895439
>t.sri lankan bangladeshi

>>51895387
One of the problems is that Hinduism is designed to co-opt regional variances into itself. It's only when religions predate it in a definable way (like Jainism) or are originally from outside India with distinct identities (like Zoroastrianism, Islam, Christianity) that you get surviving distinctions. Everything else gets pulled into the swamp of Hinduism, including Sikhism, which is treated as a branch of Hinduism by many Hindu and Sikh adherents.

>>51895468
It has more in common with Syriac Christianity and Nestorian Christianity than European Christianity. There's a start for you, I'm too tired to describe the differences. The most obvious is the lack of a central authority like the pope or a supreme patriarchal figure.

>>51895479
Well shit. I like exploring different religious identities whenever I do a history dive, but Hinduism is far too massive on its own, and through assimilation makes it really hard for me to find identities that used to be separate.

>>51895474
hmm
https://www.thethirdpole.net/2016/03/03/open-defecation-ends-in-bangladesh-almost/>In a remarkable achievement, official data reveals that open defecation has reduced to only 1%, a “milestone change” from the 42% in 2003,
>Approximately 595 million people in India, about half the population, do not use toilets.
>In Pakistan the number is 41 million, or about 21%, while for Nepal the number is 15.5 million, or 54% of the population.
>Only Sri Lanka, of all other South Asian states, has managed, like Bangladesh, to virtually wipe out open air defecation.

https://knoema.com/atlas/topics/Water/Sanitation-Total-Population/Open-Defecation-Sanitation-percent?type=maps

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Some inspirational art I've gathered for my not!india.

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>>51895468
look up nestorians, they are heretical to a lot of the more common western sects, but that is just fiddely bits, they are quite conservative though, and they tend to keep to themselves.