NR - Re: India was: Insults

[marc-carlson at utulsa.edu]

<Chandranath <russ at randomgang.com>>
>I said I'd duck out of the barbfest (it didn't stick to 
>throwing shots at persona cultures, and become
>uncomfortable, frankly), but this is a chance to talk 
>about and in persona, and I shan't pass it up. :)

:Stepping back out of persona:

I am sorry if things were being said that were making 
you uncomfortable.  I know that for me, I have no 
interest in *offending* anyone when engaged in such a 
contest.  Admittedly, since I try to limit myself to 
attacks that were only available to my persona, some of 
the items that are correct for him are certainly not 
what we would consider politically correct today 
(including gender, ethnicity, religion, personal habits, 
 and so forth).

If I may make a small statement (which I am certain 
*you* already know, but may be unclear to others -- when 
you are referring to the Indus civilization, you are not 
referring to what modern archaologists tend to mean by 
that phrase (i.e. the Mohenjo-daro and Harappan culture) 
which died out sometime around the beginning of the 
Aryan invasions (although debate continues on whether 
that final collapse was caused by the invasion, or 
whether the invasion simply exploited the prior collapse 
of the civilization).  You are referring, if I recall 
what I know of your persona correctly, to the Mogul 
emperors.

:Returning to Persona:

Now, I, as Diarmaid, know nothing of the "Moguls" - they 
haven't been born yet.  As far as I'm concerned, it's 
1310 and Ala-ud-din's forces have not yet finished 
conquering the Deccan.  The Indus Valley is that Moslem 
controlled River, ruled by the Dehli Sultanate (the 
Khalji dynasty), on the other side of the Mountains from 
Kabul. There are some lovely ruins of the ancient Sindh, 
particularly around Thatta (Where Alexander the Great 
rested his armies), but as for the people - to quote 
Marco Polo "The people have peculiar language, they 
worship idols and have an evil disposition".

Diarmaid/Marc
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