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
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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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
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
We do not find any evidence of Monarchical Set-Up across any Indus Saraswati Civilization belt. https://t.co/37c2W68kCB
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)
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"?
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.
Did you know this @dhume ?
Look at this source: Athenian Democracy by John Thorle, I have put pg 74
And in Athenian Democracy, men believed women's intelligence to be same as that of animals & barbarians.
I showed you above how discriminatory was Athenian Democracy for Slavery unlike India. https://t.co/TDZozD0LNI
But what does seem new is this \u201cmother of democracy\u201d expression. Can\u2019t recall any PM using it before.
— Constantino Xavier (@ConstantinoX) September 25, 2021
And while India\u2019s democracy is known internationally, I\u2019ve never heard anyone refer to it as \u201cmother of democracy\u201d... very doubtful that this is a popular perception abroad. 3/4
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