Talk:Gangaridai
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Hello i m kind of new in wikipedia so far i have created this article and edited History of Bangladesh.I m particularly doing some kind of research on this topic.Please provide me with any other sources on this topic and leave me your comments and suggestions and offcource help me to give this article a wiki shape and and make this article a Good Article.Thank you.---nawab_of_dhaka
[edit] This article is false and inaccurate; I nominate this article for deletion
First Alexander the Great never made it to Bengal region. He didn't even enter heart of India. He stopped at Punjab region in the fear of powerful empire of Magadha ruled by the Nanda dynasty.
Along with Bihar, Bengal forms the ancient kingdom Magadha. During the time of Alexander the Great, Bengal was ruled by Nanda dynasty.
Please read history of Alexander the Great and history of Magadha. Tarikur 17:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- I disagree, the article never says that Alexander went to the Bengal region. I have read from independent and dependable sources, that support the claim. Also, *this* article provides ample references to history research literature that support the information. So, there is no reason to nominate the article for deletion. Thanks. --Ragib 18:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- The history part should be rewritten. I dont know, where from the writer got the idea that Gongaridai was an aryan Kingdom. Even Magadh wasnt fully aryanized back that time, let alone anything farther east. Recent excavation in Warry Boteshwar( the fort city is considered to be a part of this so called Gongaridai, more specifically bromhoputro civilization) proves that east india specially Bengal was not an aryan populated place back then. In Boteshwar, several foundings suggest that it was probably a dravidian kingdom, seals like harappa were also available to suggest the nativity of its citizens)---Parvez Alam
- Most of the points above are well made. However the conception of aryanisaton of
Magadha or for that matter any other ancient kingdom is irrelevent. This due to the fact that the Aryan invasion/influx theory has been soundly denounced by experts ranging from the fields of anthropological genetics to historians.
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Parvez Alam bhai, do read the above link. It gives a nice overview and also has the relevant references.
Also, Diodorus Siculus (first century B.C.) has this to say on the origins of the people of the sub-continent :
"It is said that India, being of enormous size when taken as a whole, is peopled by races both numerous and diverse, of which not even one was originally of foreign descent, but all were evidently indigenous; and moreover that India neither received a colony from abroad, nor sent out a colony to any other nation. The legends further inform us that in primitive times the inhabitants subsisted on such fruits as the earth yielded spontaneously, and were clothed with the skins of the beasts found in the country, as was the case with the Greeks; and that, in like manner as with them, the arts and other appliances which improve human life were gradually invented, Necessity herself teaching them to an animal at once docile and furnished not only with hands ready to second all his efforts, but also with reason and a keen intelligence. "
discovery of harappan like seals doesn't mean a Dravidian civilization. The vedic civilization is better seen as a pre-cursor to the Indus-valley civilization. Subsequent Indian religion and culture carried over much of the influence of the Indus valley civilization. 59.160.210.68 (talk) Nirvik. —Preceding comment was added at 01:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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