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history of mairrage
Marriage is a social institution. Without marriage it would be chaotic out there. We will descend to our true animal behavior. Finding mate could be violent and the family structure, if any, would be far different from what we have.

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st.thomas and india....
http://hamsa.org/index.htm An interesting read on the "myth". It seems to be controversial.

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Copper Plates
Swarna: Thanks a bunch for posting those links. Back in the days, Kings patronized art and culture. These days it has to be a private-public participation to nourish art and culture and preserve the past. R.E.A.C.H exists, but its website does not …

Comment by intellisurfer January 2010 permalink
PALLAVAS
Isn't the word 'civilising' a little misplaced? Westerners, typically the Imperial Colonists had used the term with regards to what they did to people that belonged to different culture and faith.

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'? - An Apology and Clarifications
This 'adiyen' will attempt to address some points of the "adiyen 1" {hence forth I will be called Adiyen 2 onlee} Charge of being parochial: For Heaven sake, the year was 900AD-1000AD ~. Adiyen 1 is just trying to foist contempo…

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
Looks like Cholas seem to have preferred conquering coastal areas..... GRS

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Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
Germaine to the discussion here. Just more Conspiracy Theories {apiddi partha all theories are Conspiracy until proven otherwise :-)))))))) } http://controversialhistory.blogspot.com/2007/10/origin-of-cholas-tamil-myth.html

Comment by intellisurfer December 2009 permalink
Are the later Cholas a 'robber dynasty'?
> Can I acuse the following on Later Cholas: Hell, we can accuse them and any other Kingdom of everything and anything. They are not here to defend :-)))) > 1. They attcked and weakened the Kingdoms of Kadaram, Savakam, Java. This ultimatel…

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Meaning of Alexander
How so? If one entertains the thoughts that Murugan is Alexander, why not entertain the thought that Alexander is Murugan? Just asking.

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Meaning of Alexander
So there are only literary evidences? Funny how the West (and others) never care for the literary evidences of Kumari Kandam or earlier Sangam era; but are not so 'closed' when it comes to Greek or the Romans. Since he is known to have at…

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Meaning of Alexander
I think the Murugan link also talks about Dionysus. Let me ask this question: Is it not possible that the Greeks come to the sub-continent and create the entire Alexander myth based on what they find out? Sometime back I read that, there was really…

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Meaning of Alexander
Relevant to this discussion.... http://murugan.org/research/gopalapillai.htm

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Early Ganapathy worship
What is the etymology of the word Pillaiyar, how did come to refer to Vinayagar?

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Chola_navy
Ahh.....I was looking for information on this subject. This group is a treasure chest; and you guys are great!!!

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Toilets
I live in a place that gets colder than Detroit. In my experience the body just gets used to the climate and adapts accordingly. Yes not everybody lived near lakes and rivers. For example inside what about the people that lived in the Forts? What a…

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Toilets
It is my theory that the scavenging/cleaning the toilet system came because of the Britishers. That is one reason I wanted to find what kind of toilets/bathrooms we had 500,1000....yrs ago. I read that with the advent of toilets in the European cit…

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Why Manickavasagar is not part of 63 nayanmars?
And what about before Buddha or Mahavir's times? I think my answer is we must have been "Homo Sapiens" once upon a time. Then evolution caused us to evolve into "Homo Conspirator Theorators"

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Toilets
Looks like your olden days is matter of few decades or centuries. I am looking little beyond that, say 1000 years ago. Or for that matter 2000 years ago? What were the conditions before the Europeans arrived?

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Toilets
Thanks. Any word on how things were done in South India?

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Toilets

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Ashok Pillar - Book store - The Chola by KAN S
I tried it last year at the University book shop. They had ran out of copies.

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Downfall of Chola Dynasty
That argument could be posed for any other Kingdom as well. If one can believe that moats around forts helped in defense, then a sea certainly did more than a moat as deterrence. It is not to say the Lankan Kingdoms did not trouble the Tamil Kingdom…

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
I agree :-) Actually vaithueruchal. I was schooled in Kendriya Vidyalaya, and not much about South was taught way back when I did my schooling. Hopefully things have changed. Moreover when there was an exhibition that was being organized about Aura…

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Rev St Shree Ramanujar
The word - Sant - generally is not much used in Southern India. It is used more in the non-Southern parts of India. Sringeri Mutt is still there at Sringeri.

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
Well, then how do you answer for the Turkic forces, or the Mughals? Mughal Empire which is considered to be the largest after the Gupta Empire (thousands of years ago); had multiple ethnicity in its population. Be it then or now, be it Cholas or Mu…

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
Thanks for the kind summary. So why are Mughals more popular than say any of the other dynasties - Chola or the Chalukyas? It is it because Britishers (almost) took over them, that more focus is bestowed on them? I use the word almost because, ther…

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Downfall of Chola Dynasty
According to below source Mughals had over 4 million square km. I don't think sea and ocean counts when we are talking about land coverage. source: http://www.allfreeessays.com/essays/Mughal-Essay/5685.html

Comment by intellisurfer November 2009 permalink
Downfall of Chola Dynasty
Sateesh: Ah....some time back I had argued on similar lines here. In fact I started a thread about Chola invaders vs Muslim invaders. IIRC, I just got lectured out. People said (paraphrasing my memory): killing is killing, looting is looting, raping…

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Rev St Shree Ramanujar
Dear SPS: uh...oh; things are now going to get really really tricky. Your question could open a sub-discussion in itself. One school of thought says Sankara established only 4 mutts. The southern one was in Sringeri. According to the source down be…

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Downfall of Chola Dynasty
Venketesh: You were right, I was wrong. I checked the numbers, Mughals indeed ruled for a shorter time than the Cholas. Thanks for correcting me. The lethargy that you describe is probably what Glubb Pasha described too in the cases of Empires.

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