Why India was Conquered?

We all know how many times our country was invaded and how many times it bravely defended itself from falling into the hands of perpetrators. Definitely I am not going to talk about that in this blog, because repeating same type of history once in 6th, then again in 8th and once again (dedicated to our patriotism!!! Congrats) in 10th and finally for most, a Board exam which puts an end to that, clears our concept of "How India was conquered?" and a one line answer to " Why India was conquered?" (definitely due to its enormous wealth). Now, let us focus on the following paragraphs.

Discovery from Discovery of India

While I was going through the book Discovery of India, one of the best written books about India till now, by one of the best men of the world, Jawahar Lal Nehru, in an indigenous way, I discovered this question, Why India was conquered? Unfortunately it varied a lot with what I was taught in my secondary education, and the difference was completely having a profound impact on the way I had thought and the way I had grew. What added to the proof of my perception was an article in the most reputed and perhaps the most clean daily, The Hindu. The article, named "Inaccessible India" written by Rohan Mukherjee dated 13th August, 2013, without any doubt cleared my perverse about the knowledge sharing India. 

In his book, Nehru not only put the conservative Indians who secluded themselves from the rest of the world assuming that not only their culture is the greatest but also their knowledge is. They were so proud of the wealth they possess that only a few Indians bothered to look into the outer world and share knowledge, technology with them. People from nations far away came to India and also hold clergical posts, helped this nation and when went back to their country, went with translated manuscripts for their people. In Baghdad, perhaps a library was established which had a separate section for what their alumni had learned and brought from India. Even in modern days, you visit any library, there will be a massive collection in it which will be Indian. 

But, hail India!!!! What do we have from them, neither you can say nothing nor you can say something. 

From Inaccessible India

While I was having a discussion with one of my Sri Lankan friend on Visa related issue, he made his point that one has to go through relatively tougher rules in case of India as compared to other SAARC nations. I thought that it may be part of his hatred due to the old Tamil and Lankan controversy. But then came this The Hindu article followed by my own amateur research on this issue. Clear enough, we are strict followers and firm believers of "History repeats itself". When Britain denies visa for education we make an outcry so loud that within the next few days it is resolved. Well, vice-versa is not true. Many of them have stopped making any kind of outcry. Tourism visa is so easy to get but visa for internships, research, and accessing Indian article is so tough to get. Universities simply deny to put their outdated research paper on their websites, going digital is strictly against their principles and definitely, in many cases, it has much to do with sentiments of some of the residing sects. 

Let's Import

We all are completely aware of this fact that what inspired Vivekanada the most in his foreign trips, what imprint it had on us when we went global during Ashoka, and what value we lost when we denied to see Britishers as a threat because they were Alien for us and thus, powerless. For me, India was conquered not because it was invaded but because it secluded itself (and most of them still want to practice the same) in its conservative society. Technology it never practiced and never bothered to practice and test. The extent of negligence it showed and still continues to show when it comes to sharing of knowledge, the extent of underestimating one's culture and denying the forward loop it has on the sheer basis of its few backward, and the best part, being cynic to itself when it comes to financial markets and ingenious products. 

I guess sometime, why our other activities do not reflect as that of our financial market, I mean, we import a lot !!!!!!