NR - Re: India was: Insults

[Staci L. Myers]

Beautifully and eloquently put, Lord Chandra. My thanks both for the
entertainment & the education.

Aelfwyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chandranath [mailto:russ at randomgang.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:47 AM
> To: northern at ansteorra.org
> Subject: NR - Re: India was: Insults
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:12:39AM -0500, Decker, Terry D. wrote:
> > You mean the Indus Valley where they destroyed their 
> civilization(?) by
> > over-irrigating the soil to salinity, then got stomped on 
> by the Aryans, the
> > Greeks, the Seleucids, the Persians, the Arabs, and the 
> Turks?  That clue?
> 
> 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. :)
> 
> --
> 
> My friend, I fear you labor under some confusion about my 
> homeland.  My people
> are not the once-borns that you speak of, nor did those you 
> speak of, the
> Shudra laborers, have any real bearing on civilizing our land 
> before my
> ancestors, came and did just that.  I am Kshatriya and my 
> fathers were Aryan.
> The great emperor, Akbar, whom I served for years directly as 
> one of his ahadi,
> is of course descended from the Turk you doubtless speak of, 
> who in turn was
> descended from Tamerlane of story...again I digress.  Perhaps 
> it is a local
> custom to resent the changes that comes to a culture.  Try to 
> see our view, my
> friend, that none of the peoples you list "stomped" us, as 
> you put it, but
> instead came to us to rule and stayed, adding their gained 
> wisdom to our own.
> 
> Truly it is said that the great Ruler is bringing my homeland 
> -- Bengal, my
> friend, that you may understand me well -- the Raj Ram, which... it is
> difficult to explain, but perhaps you might view it like the 
> Camelot idea my
> English lady has told me of.  He does so by integrating these 
> peoples you have
> casually mentioned.  Did not England itself -- a mighty power in any
> consideration -- grow by blending together its various 
> conquerors -- for
> example, the Roman, the German, the Norman?  This should be considered
> carefully.
> 
> --
> 
> Grateful for the opportunity to talk about something I know 
> more thoroughly,
> and perhaps more edifyingly (is that a word?),
> 
> Chandra
> 
> -- 
> Lord Chandranath, Cadet to Don Timothy
> Musician in the King's Players
> Deputy Regional Herald, Northern Ansteorra
> Rapier Marshal and Captain of the Plumes of the Shire of Mooneschadowe
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