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India - Online Essay

India

Around 2000 B.C. people called Aryan started invading . This process
continued to approximately 1000 B.C. Aryan tribes were led by kings. The
Aryans conquered the native population, intermarried with it and settled in
peasant villages.
The Aryans brought their religion to India. The various sacrifices of the Aryan
cults were accompanied by chanted hymns. These hymns comprised the first great
religion work of the Aryans - the Rig Veda. The Veda and the Brahmins, the
priests, came to hold a most prominent place in Vedic society.

By about the forth century B.C. Hinduism had supplanted the older Vedic faith
and became supreme. During this period two new religions Buddhism and ...

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and administrators. The third varna
consisted of the Vaishya or merchants. The Shudras belonged to the lowest varna.
During classic period, hundreds of sub-varnas, jatis, developed. Membership in
a caste was determined by birth and Hindus were not allowed to marry members of
other castes.

The village was governed by its headman and a council. Both were members of
highest caste in the village. Villages compose kingdoms and empires which were
ruled by monarchs.

In 1018 A.D. Mahmud of Chazhi invaded India from Afghanistan. This was the date
when Muslims started to rule India. Islam, the religion of new invaders had a
great influence on Indian culture. Muslim invaders intermarried with Hindus,
and this process produced a Muslim minority with Hindu heritage. During this
time a new language called Hindustani emerged replacing Sanskrit.

Then came European merchants looking for spices. In 1707 the British found it
possible to intervene India. Alliances with native kings ...

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