{"id":38,"date":"2004-05-10T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2004-05-10T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T19:30:58","slug":"india-has-never-invaded-another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200405\/india-has-never-invaded-another-country\/","title":{"rendered":"India has never invaded another country&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think by now everyone has received this chain mail which extolls the virtues of India. It contains the line &#8220;India has never invaded another country in the 10000 years of its history. (The whole text is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.sunysb.edu\/Stu\/hshanbha\/india.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, that sentence is false even if you take a very generous definition of India to include Afghanistan. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikhtimes.com\/news_062903a.html\">this column<\/a> details the exploits of the Chola kings in South East Asia. <\/p>\n<p>You know what I am leading upto right? Here is your question. Give me another example where Indians have invaded another country. Remember that I am literally stretching the map of India, so anything that the Mughals might have done in present day Afghanistan is out.  There might be more than one answer. The specific event  I am thinking of happened within the past three hundred years, but any other examples are also welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think by now everyone has received this chain mail which extolls the virtues of India. It contains the line &#8220;India has never invaded another country in the 10000 years of its history. (The whole text is here.) The problem is, that sentence is false even if you take a very generous definition of India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}