The Dharma Dispatch

The Blood-soaked Prelude to the Rise of the Vijayanagara Empire is an Age of Hindu Resistance. The real prelude that eventually birthed the grand Vijayanagara Empire has to be understood accurately to get the full context of its rise and dominance. This context is known as the Age of Resistance. -- The other great myth of Indian history is this: that the so-called Islamic conquest of Bharatavarsha was a cakewalk. On the contrary, India was the toughest country for Islam to penetrate. In fact, Bharatavarsha is the only country in which Islam met with its greatest failure. Among other things, one of the intents behind the criminal Marxist project of distorting Indian history on an epic scale was to hide the verifiable truth of this failure. Even after countless wars and incursions and Islamic despotism spread over eight hundred years, this Punyabhoomi is still Hindu majority. A Hindu-majority India is Islam’s greatest failure. -- Read the whole essay! 🔖🔖🛕🙏👍 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-blood-soaked-prelude-to-the-rise-of-the-vijayanagara-empire-is-an-age-of-hindu-resistance

The Vijayanagara Empire or the Hindu Resistance to Islamic Expansion in South India: What Europe was Doing. -- This is the introductory episode of a new series examining the pivotal role of the Vijayanagara Empire as a bulwark against Islamic expansions in South India. -- The fact that the Vijayanagara Empire was one of the world’s grandest empires cannot be emphasised enough. However, the Eurocentric version of the history of our world naturally pretends as though the Vijayanagara Empire did not exist. With no malice and based entirely on what this version of history itself propounds, it is clear that Eurocentrism remains an enduring curse, especially upon Hindu history. Thus, unless we shake off this Eurocentrism and do a comparative analysis of Europe's condition in the same period, the full grasp and appreciation of the Vijayanagara Empire and its pervasive legacy will elude us. -- Read the whole piece! 🔖🛕😊📙 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-vijayanagara-empire-or-the-hindu-resistance-to-islamic-expansion-in-south-india-what-europe-was-doing

No, You can't Separate Yoga from Sanatana Dharma https://t.co/1yD1OrbH9E

The Women Power Centres of the Gandhian Congress. In this episode, Nirad C Chaudhuri recounts his observations of the women in the close circles of the Gandhian Congress Party. -- You think Nandini Stapathy, Ambika Soni et al are a new phenomenon in the Congress? Read these startling revelations about that ultimate Congress femme fatale: Sarojini Naidu. These are Nirad Chaudhuri's personal observations. -- She was spoilt since her youth for her lively mind and literary talent and, though never a beauty, for her extraordinary personal attraction. She had acquired the reputation of being a femme galante and had outlived it. -- Read the whole brilliant piece! 🔖🔖👍 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-women-power-centres-of-the-gandhian-congress

How Indira Gandhi Almost Converted India Into a Satellite State of Soviet Russia https://t.co/KnaerosxT6

A Peek into the Congress Working Committee Under Mohandas Gandhi’s Dictatorship. The Bengali writer Nirad C Chaudhuri recounts his eyewitness experience of a typical meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC). The picture he paints is not pretty. -- I have next to describe the Congress Working Committee and its members. They were twelve in number, whether in imitation of the Apostles or not I am unable to say. But they were the leading members of the Congress Party. Congressmen had got into the habit of describing themselves in very grandiloquent political terminology. Even Mahatma Gandhi, in writing to a President of the Congress, would call the Working Committee his ‘Cabinet’. The public and the Press called it the ‘Congress High Command’, adopting a military and not civil terminology. -- Do read the whole thing and share widely! 👍🔖👍💪🔖🔖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/a-peek-into-the-congress-working-committee-under-mohandas-gandhis-dictatorship

My lecture on the rise of the Vijayanagara Empire as the greatest and the most successful epoch in the Hindu resistance to I&lamic invasions in India. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ik3tI2k2JwE&feature=share

The Lessons that three centuries of Hindu Mercantile Dominance of Muscat Teaches us. -- This is the first episode of a series narrating the history of the Hindu mercantile dominance of Muscat, Oman, and the lessons we must draw from it for our own time. An excerpt is given below. Every Hindu who migrated out of India from the ancient times not only carried our cultural gene but quietly attracted the host country to it. In fact, centuries before Islam violently burst on the world stage, Indian businessmen and travellers by land and sea routes, were also the conveyors of the immortal tradition of Indian storytelling in a vast expanse of geography that covered the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the fabled Silk Route. The businessmen did not travel alone: their extensive retinue included monks, pilgrims, peddlers, actors, acrobats, students, tourists, fortune-seekers, horse-traders, and physicians. This is the true meaning and the real-life operation of what “soft power.” -- Read the whole inspirational essay! 🔖👍🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/three-splendid-centuries-the-lessons-that-hindu-mercantile-dominance-of-muscat-teaches-us

Presenting a bouquet of three profound stories extoling the matchless devotion towards Shiva drawn from the annals of Sanatana tradition to celebrate this year's #MahaShivaratri. -- 🕉️ Namah Shivaya 🕉️ https://t.co/L0FfEmwk03