Recent content by Yudhisthira

No, there is near unanimous agreement among scholars that vedas from early stage were composed inside India. Infact the earliest book the 6th Mandala of Rig Veda has relatively eastern location between Saraswati & Ganga. The later mandalas show knowledge of more western areas which is...

Personally I m fine with both, having Mughal ruler leading India or having separate Mughal civ altogether.

Sir, I m no expert, far from it a student with very modest knowledge of Indian history. Personally I m open to all the interesting ideas here,since tbh I m also very puzzled over this issue. I believe political side is dominant one in civ 6 style game, & to represent India in this regard is...

For many reasons a Dravidian blob looks more bad than an Indian blob. Just like the whole subcontient, south India or dravidian language family speaking regions was rarely politically unified & unlike north India there wasn't any concept of united south India distinct from whole subcontinent...

'Arya' term(not strictly used in ethnic sense) is the self designator of Indians. So, Aryavarta literally means 'land of aryas'. This term had been used extensively in literature as well as in inscriptions, but with flexible boundaries. & Nobody bought Vedas to India, It was composed in India...

That's actually would had been historically,lexically more sound approach but I m afraid that boat has already sailed with the modern nation states as civs. The term you r looking for is 'Aryavarta' or during Persian age known as Hindustan, known to Europeans as India since ancient period...

I just gave example of 2 regions back of my mind, ofcourse there are others including Tibet. & I believe Uyghurs live in Xinjiang only.

Yes, that is the case at least for now & I don't see it changing very rapidly anytime soon. Yet with expanding market & demand in Asia, I do think we might see increase in representation of these regions gradually, may be by civ 8 :mischief:. Yeah, that has been a very solid & dominating...

I don't think that India is going to get 3,4 or more civs any time soon but regions of India,China & Central Asia do require more representation & only place to cut for it is Europe. & contrary to prevailing sentiment here, I m of the view that only one Chinese civ is not enough to cover the...

Arjun wasn't king in Mahabharat also, only a great warrior assisting his elder brother & King Yuddhisthira in war & expansion. But speaking of heroes even Ramayana is quite open & full of amazing characters like Jatayu the eagle who died fighting Ravana or Garuda, the mount of Vishnu & currently...

As others have pointed out before,deities like Rama,Krishna are extensively deified & subject to active worship in Hinduism & other Indian religions. Now to see them as playable characters fighting under the command of the player and possibly being killed and dying, might be perceived as...

Completely agree, figures like Rama,Krishna,Muhammed, Jesus, etc hold immense importance in their respective culture & generally people are quite sensitive of their portrayal. That doesn't mean Ofcourse they are completely sacrosanct & cant be touched it just that a deeper reading is required to...

Thank You Sir, & please accept my apology also if I have overreacted. I really love your post & I am also in awe of your knowledge about myths & overall culture of Indosphere. It is that please just be little considerate sometimes with these modern events.

Let's not go in this direction please, let's try to keep it as historical as possible. Mixing religion with history won't be of any help.

Again we have gone through much debate regarding this. As I have said before, I certainly see Mughal or other Indo-Islamic empires as civ material in game framework but the arguments which are made to exclusively connect them with Pakistan/Afghanistan/Bangadesh are wrong on many level.