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Battle-flag of Maharaja #Ranjit Singh of Punjab (1780 - 1839) had images of Devi दुर्गा Durgā with हनुमान् Hanumān and #लक्ष्मण Lakṣmaṇa.

A picture of the flag from Sotheby's auction:

कौमारी Kaumarī the power of Kārtikeya, the commander-in-chief of the devas is also on the flags, as is वाराही Vārāhī, the power of Varāha, the boar-headed form of Vishnu.

Kaumari rides peacock, holds spear etc.

Maharaja Sher Singh 1842, by Alexis Soltykoff, British Library

The earliest records of India’s maritime history are found in the Vedic literature, but the first instances of naval wars are only found during the Cholas reign over southern India.

When the two other Tamil dynasty - the Pandyas and Cheras allied with the SriLankan kingdom (1/3)

of Sinhalas against the Cholas, Rajaraja I defeated the Chera navy at Kandalur, perhaps to break the their monopoly in trade. Tamil inscriptions from his rule draw a record of his victory.

Certain details of raid are available in Tanjore inscription of his son Rajendra. (2/3)

While Raja Raja Chola was the first king with a naval fleet, his successor Rajendra continued the expansion of the empire in the far East. (3/3)

A pernicious attempt to connect Hinduism with Nazism.

Audrey (@audreyTruschke) claims Indic philosophy inspired Nazism & Nazism inspired Hindu revivalism.

She comes from a long line of protestant Indologists making such connections

But is it really so?

[Myth breaking THREAD]

Audrey insists Nazi "Hakenkreuz" is nothing but "German translation" of Swastika.

She even goes on to say the Nazi translation did not erase "the basic meaning and history" of swastika.

Is this really so?

This thread EXPOSES closely guarded academic secrets about this topic

As I have mentioned elsewhere, Hitler never used the word Swastika himself. He used the word Hakenkreuz.

This claim is FALSE.

Germans did not use "Hakenkreuz" for Swastika. They used it for Christian hooked cross.

Hakenkreuz is literal German translation of "hooked cross"

But what is Hakenkreuz/ Hooked cross? What did Nazis understand by it?

What were they so enamored by this symbol? Did they see the symbol as mere translation of Indic symbol Swastika?

Did they see the Hakenkreuz as an ancient Indian symbol? Did they borrow this Indian symbol?

Only the contemporary Nazi literature can tell us what the Nazis actually thought about Swastika.

I begin by considering the views of Erich Koch. Koch was a top officer of Nazi Germany. He organised Nazi concentration camps. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after the war.