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. https://t.co/37c2W68kCB
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"?
6/n Ok @dhume , now what did democracy meant to Greeks, rather Athens?

Is it not the common notion that it originated in Athens around 2.5 KYBP?

Of course, we have no clue that how exactly the discovered "Panchayat" of Rakhigarhi was operating 5.5 KYBP, but we know of Athens.
7/n In the Athenian democracy around 70% of adult population (foreign origin, slaves and women) didn't had right to participate in Legislation & Executive Bills.

Did you know this @dhume ?

Look at this source: Athenian Democracy by John Thorle, I have put pg 74
8/n In case if one is getting confused with status of women as mentioned by Plato in Republic, one need to know that Plato's ideal state wasn't a democracy.

And in Athenian Democracy, men believed women's intelligence to be same as that of animals & barbarians.
9/n Well @dhume ji, there are various reasons why with current researches, India certainly needs to be seen as place to have seen "Democracy" much earlier than West.

I showed you above how discriminatory was Athenian Democracy for Slavery unlike India. https://t.co/TDZozD0LNI
10/n Now let me let you know a bit about proto-democracies which have in place in records.

We have evidences of "Governing by assembly" in ancient Phoenicians. One such evidence is the story an Egyptian trader who traveled north to the Phoenician around 3.1 kybp.

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