CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF INDIAN SUBCONTINENT---MY INTERPRETATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS!

LEMURIA /KUMARI KANDAM/SUNDA LAND SUBMERGED IN WATER AT THE END OF LAST ICE AGE---SOME 8000 BC . It extended from Eastern coast of Africa to Western coast of Indonesia in East-West direction and from Kanyakumari in the North to some 150 miles South into the Indian ocean, which included SriLanka of today. For details---see link below:-
        My rearch is based on historical facts, mythological tales, Genetic findings, archeological evidences and geological study of the earth's major events. Interpolating data from recent Genetic studies on the DNA of South Asians and my study of books such as RETURN OF THE ARYANS by BS Gidwani; HIDDEN HORIZONS---10,000 Years of Indian History by Dr David Frawley and Dr NS Raja Ram; Vedic History of India by Rajesh Kochhar; "History of India" by John Keay an Indologist and a British Historian and various other sources such as "Rajtrangini" by Kalhana in 1184 AD and "Neelamat Puran" of 1st Centuryu AD ---
       I give out the brief Chronology of events in ancient India. CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORIC EVENTS IN SOUTH ASIAN LAND MASS.


       Dates                           Natural/Historical event                        Historical development

    1. 60,000BC          First humans enter Coastal India               Genetically referred to ASI or                                   from Australia or South East Asia             Ancient South Indians.

    2. 40,000BC          First Humans enter North India                 Genetically referred to ANI
                                  or from Middle East                                   Ancient North Indians
.
    3. 40,000 to     Transformation from hunting/       
         30,000  BC  nomadic man to fixed place living
                             and emergence of families, clans,
                             tribes and social groups.

    4. 30,000 to       Interaction of North and South .     Probably Nagas--
         20000BC      Emergence of HYBRID Indian      Lord Shiva Worshippers

    5.17000BC   Late Ice Age Coastal cultures             Pre-flood civilizations--Pre-historic.                            in  Sunda land/ Lemuria                     (PARLAYA---Hindu Mythology)
                         / Kumari Kandam
    6. 15000 BC    Warming begins;                              Coastal cultures under stress.
                            Unstable coast line.                          (Sunda Land/Lemuria civilisation)
                           (Sea Level begins to rise)

    7. 13000 BC  Ice Age ending; flooding                     Proto-Vedic civilizations mainly in    
                           begins in coastal areas.                       South India. North India opens up for                                                                                        the habitation.
    8. 11000 BC  Glaciations; freeze returns                   Indra -Vritra battles as per the Vedas.
    9. 10000BC  Farming spreads in                                Indra -Vritra battles continue.
                         Sunda land and Indian interiors.

   10. 10,000 BC    Renewed warming. Ice sheet         Vritra--the coverer is slain by
          to 8000 BC  finally retreats.Indian Rivers          Great North Indra--the solar deity.                               (glacier fed) begin to flow.
                              Saraswati becomes the graest river
                              and Saraswati-Drishadvati Doab
                              becomes the Rig Vedic home.

    11.8000 BC     Beginning of the post Saraswati        Manu Vivaswan period.
                             Settlements.

    12.7000 to      Prime era of ocean-going                   The early Vedic dynasties;         
         4000 BC    Saraswati.                                            Yayati, Turvash, Yadu and
                                                                                        Puru. The early rishis; Angirasas,
                                                                                        Bhrigus, Bhardwajas, Vamdev.

    13. 4000 BC   Weakening of Saraswati;                    Great kings of Ikshavakus clan              to           Late Vedic rulers                                 End of early Vedic age. and
         3100 BC                                                                 the Puru -Bhartas. Trasyadasu,
                                                                                        Mandhara, Bharat etc.
                                          ,                                              Sudas, Ram and the Panchalas.                                                                                         Battle of Ten kings (Ramayana?)
                                                                                        Rishis Vashishta and Vishavmitra .

  14. 3100 BC   Traditional date of Krishna.                Mahabharata war, Ved Vyas    
                          Sacking of Takshila by                     and his pupils compile the Vedas.
                          Janamajeya .

  15. 3100 To     Harappan civilization to                        Late Vedic age and the early
         2200 BC  Declining Saraswati.                              Puranic Age
.
  16.2200 To   Worldwide droughts--.                            End of late Vedic Age.
       1900 BC  Europe to China.                                      The focus shifts to East-Gangetic
                        Saraswati dries up.                                  Plains. Janpadas are established and
                                                                                         kingdoms vanish.

 17.  1900 BC Post- Harappa period.                            Some Vedic people still        
             to                                                                       move out of India   to west               1300BC                                                            .   Mesopotamia is conquered.
                                                                                       And Kassette Empire established.

18.  1300 BC  Period of Confusion                             Migrations TO and FRO South Asia    
     to 500 BC                                                                Continue .

19. 500 BC   Buddha, Mahavira and Mauryan Empire--- Battle of Kalinga---
   to 100 BC  ------------Alexander's invasion.

20 100 BC   Sakas, Kushans, Bacterian, Scythians , Huns and other Chinese Tribes
  to 500AD    come to India and get merged.

 21. 500AD    Hindu Kingdoms from Kashmir to Kanyakumari including
  to 1200 AD   present day Pakistan and Afghanistan except Sindh where Caliphatite rule
                        of Mohammed Bin Kassim established.

22. 1200 AD   Muslim and Mogul Period--      Advent of Mohammed Gori and his  
   to 1757 AD                                                     wars with Prithviraj Chohan---
                                                                           Arrival of Europeans .

23. 1764 AD    British set- up Colony             ---The only people who did not
    to 1947 AD  and rule Indian subcontinent.      merge with the native people 
                                                                              and stayed aloof----rest all       
                                                                              migrants in the past and
                                                                              ancient India had merged
                                                                               into great Indian SOCIAL
                                                                              MASS to give it a unique   
                                                                              'Cosmopolitan Society ' look.

          As for as the mystery of DRAVIDIANS is concerned ---it is a brainchild of Christian missionaries, led by one ROBERT CALDWEL who had done so in 1856 AD. Robert Caldwell, a renowned linguist, in his book “Grammar of the Dravidians or the People of South India, published in 1856, recognized 73 Dravidian languages spoken from South India to Baluchistan(PAKISTAN),Western Iran, Afghanistan and Urals. It is now believed they were the people who established Pre –Aryan or the HARAPPAN civilization .I call it the civilization of NAGA people who were the worshippers of Lord Shiva. The VEDIC knowledge belongs to them which had been usurped by the ARYANS because by that time, say around 1900 BC to 2800 BC NATURAL UPHEAVALS had devastated the NAGA CIVILISATION.

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China's India strategy!

While India keeps dithering in her resolve to tackle China firmly, her Northern neighbor has been steadfastly moving towards making India a non-entity in global affairs. China has adopted a no non-sense approach and it treats her as a weak and unstable nation. Indian responses are not only poor to Chinese high handedness but smacks of awe and fear. It is not a secret that China strongly opposes India’s membership of UN Security Council. Further, it had been reported in the media, sometimes back, that Chinese troops had entered Indian border in Laddakh (Demochek village) and threatened the villagers and border road organization persons to stop developmental activities. China is in illegal occupation of a large chunk of Indian territory of Aksai Chin in J&K. China claims entire Arunachal Pradesh of India. Recently China has published a map showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as Part of China. Chinese embassy in India has been issuing stapled visas to residents of J&K and Arunachal Pradesh. Are these acts aimed at generating peace or to create tension in the region? In order to engage India, China has embarked upon a three-pronged strategy:- No major military conflict with china in the near future other than the exploitation of India’s vulnerabilities by China as part of an ‘Outsourced war’ Encirclement and Containment of India. This is to be achieved by creation of hostile neighbors on the land borders and making a ‘Sting of pearls’ around peninsular India to dominate the sea routes in the Indian Ocean. This would not only isolate India but break her links with ASEAN and Africa. It seeks to roll back India’s ‘look East’ policy. To carry out encirclement, China has created a 'String of Pearls' around Indian coastline from Gwador in Pakistan to Hambantota in Sri Lanka to Sree Port (ARAKANS) in Myanmar and also in Thailand. This is an attempt to encircle and contain India. It wants to dominate the sea routes of trade in the Indian Ocean and checkmate India in her trade with Africa and ASEAN. China is helping Myanmar to get nuclear weapons with the help of North Korea. It has been creating a set of hostile nations on the periphery of India, from Pakistan and Nepal to Myanmar and Srilanka. It won over Sri Lanka by supporting her militarily in war against LTTE. Induction of some 7000-11000 troops in POK is towards this end. Breakup of India through ‘Outsourced War’. Induce internal implosion and create an external attrition. Internal implosion to be affected by exploiting militancy and insurgency, such as ULFA in Assam and Naga insurgency in the Nagaland, along with fast spreading Maoists/ Naxalites in the Centre and South India. External attrition to be caused by Pakistan- sponsored violence and Terrorism in Punjab, Kashmir and entire Northern and Western India. A Chinese defence strategist, Zhong Guo Zhan Lue Gang wrote an article, published in Chinese language on the internet, on August 08, 2009. Though the article was meant for domestic consumption of China but it was linked to Chinese international institute for Strategic studies (IISS). Therefore, it could not be ignored that it was not China’s official thinking. The article was later deleted from the website. The main thrust of the article was to break up India into 20-30 states. To do so, it advocated usage of hostile neighbors such as Pakistan and Maoist Nepal and cultivation of other countries around India. Besides, it sought to support insurgencies, such as ULFA and other North East separatist movements. Also read: China supports Pakistan's claim on Kashmir! Strangely, it also suggested creating separatist movement in West Bengal with the help of Bangla Desh. The Nandigram and Singur events of 2009 in West Bengal must be seen in this context of exploitation of internal dissent by China. ...it advocated usage of hostile neighbors such as Pakistan and Maoist Nepal and cultivation of other countries around India. Besides, it sought to support insurgencies, such as ULFA and other North East separatist movements. In fact, China seeks to use Pakistan as an instrument of ‘asymmetric war’ against India in a similar fashion as it herself seeks to battle it out for supremacy with USA. An ‘asymmetric’ war is the strategy adopted by a weaker nation against her more powerful adversary to curtail the advantages accruing to the powerful opponent. Ross Babbage an Australian defence strategist wrote in ‘The Australian’ that Asymmetric warfare was a tactics adopted by the weaker party in a conflict to inflict crippling costs on the strong party. China was doing this to USA through ‘anti access area denial’ strategy. It seeks to employ means which curtails the strength of stronger party. It therefore lays emphasis on cyber warfare, space warfare, submarines and missiles. No doubts, Pakistan keeps harping about use of nuclear weapons and ‘Good Taliban’ as her ‘Strategic Asset’, primarily to keep away India. Covert Cyber & Trade War. China has been covertly conducting ‘Cyber Warfare’ against India, aimed at affecting the command and control systems by virus attack on Indian official computers, either to make them dysfunctional or hack them to extract vital information. Towards this end, China has recently demonstrated her capability to shoot a satellite, which can cripple command and control systems based on satellite communications. Also, China has been carrying out a clandestine trade war to capture markets frequented by Indian goods---like the Nigerian Malaria drug incident, where spurious medicines were being sold under brand name India. We all know that some months back, China had tried to block aid to Arunachal Pradesh from Asian Development Bank. There is a hot debate in the media worldwide about an article, recently published in a Chinese ‘Qiushi Journal’, an official publication of communist party of China, which seemingly threatened her neighbors from Japan, Australia, Philippines to Vietnam and India to stop ganging up against China, which it believed was being orchestrated by USA. In fact, China warned her neighbors of a war, if she found her national interests being threatened. A specific mention was made of use of her economic might to harm the nations. Also read: China: is it enough to just watch? In conclusion, I see no major military conflict with china in the near future other than the exploitation of India’s vulnerabilities by China as part of an ‘Outsourced war’ or which I would like to call a “ designer war package” for India. I expect a spurt in the verbal spats as part of the Cold war between two Asian giants—more from China and muted response from India. In fact, this century is the century of a Cold War between two Asian neighbors, which has just begun. India can no more ignore deliberate Chinese acts of sending a contingent of PLA into Gilgit and getting into threatening postures. We have to respond by cultivating nations like Vietnam, Japan, Australia and USA. To counter China’s trump card of Pakistan, India has to pay more attention to Afghanistan.
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