Some amazing facts about Indian Epics

All believe that Lanka in Ramayana is Srilanka.

But based on Valmiki Ramayana Lanka is not present day Srilanka (Ceylon).During those times Lanka was situated in the Indrana hills, also called 'Trikutia hill’, now surrounded by Hiran river (about 100 kms from what is now, Jabalpur) near Amarkarnataka in the vindhya mountains .The sagar (sea) mentioned in the original ramayana is the lake between the Indrana hill and Lanka of the Vindhyas, which is now a marshy land. The monkeys we read about in Ramayana were actually not monkeys but tribal people belonging to ‘Monkey tribes’ as the tribes in that area are called by the names of animals such as ‘Monkeys’,’ Serpents’, ’Jatayus’, ’Balus’ and ‘Vanaras’

All believe that Lanka in Ramayana is Srilanka.

Origin of caste system

Andhra Pradesh is the birthplace of many castes. It is also home to many other castes and cults founded outside, but who found patronage here. The different schools of thought have rise to various caste movements, reform movements, and philosophical schools of thought. Here's a potpourri of topics on the castes of Andhra Pradesh.

  

Brahmins

Kammas

Reddys

Mala

Madiga

BCs

Group-A

Group-B

Group-C

Group-D

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Brahmins: According Sir S. Radhakrishnan, although used very widely, the term Brahmin is not a correct word . In the ancient Hindu texts, the word brahmana is used to indicate "absolute" or the "infinite spirit" of Lord Brahma. In the course of history, as the Varna or the caste system developed, the group of priestly people came to be known as brahmanas or Brahmins. In this section, the word brahmin is used to refer to the community of people known as brahmins in today's India. Introduction of Brahmins, Gayatri Mantra, List of Brahmins

    

Kamma or Chowdhury:

The most influential community in Andhra Pradesh today is the Kamma, or Chowdhary community. In a numerical ranking (by population size) they would probably be fifth or sixth, but they are concentrated in some areas like Krishna, Guntur, Southern parts of the Godavari river delta, Nizamabad in Telangana and some places of Rayalseema like Anantapur.

 

Reddys:

After the kakatiya kingdom broke up, many Reddys migrated to coastal Andhra---Addanki and Kondaveedu, and later Rajahmundry on the Godavari and founded their own independent kingdoms which flourished between 1325-1448 AD. Komati Prolaya Vemareddy, son of Komati Prola reddy founded this kingdom . There are foolish elaborate explanations of why the name Komdi or Komati was their surname (apart from silly fake legends, there is an attempt to disc.

 

Backward Castes:

The Backward Classes community in Andhra Pradesh consists of 92 castes and these castes are categorized into four groups as follows:

Group-A (39 Castes)

Group-B (21 Castes)

Group-C (Harijan Convers)

Group-D (33 Castes)

 

Mala:

 

Madiga

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Development of sciences of modern India

There is no important development of sciences in India in the medivial period.Again it is started in modern period.Aryabhatta and Brahma gupta the maths,Sir C.V.Raman the physics etc

Development of science in ancient India

Actually Indians are very great in science from earlier times.Actually Vedas are full of knowledge of science,social customs,health,philosophy etc.But it is hidden in hands of few and not available to all'Kanada Maharshi' of India's ancient times described the existence of atoms.

Bronze age

The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BCE with the beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization. It was centered on the Indus River and its tributaries which extended into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley, the Ganges-Yamuna Doab, Gujarat, and northern Afghanistan. The people of the Indus Valley are believed to have been by some as Dravidians, mainly the population of today's Southern India. But there are arguments on this concept.
The civilization is primarily located in modern day India (Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan provinces) and Pakistan (Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan provinces). Historically part of Ancient India, it is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations along with Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley, the Harappans, developed new techniques in metallurgy and produced copper, bronze, lead and tin

Pre historic era

Isolated remains of Homo erectus in Hathnora in the Narmada Valley in Central India indicate that India might have been inhabited since at least the Middle Pleistocene era, somewhere between 200,000 to 500,000 years ago. Most traces of the out of Africa migration along the shores of the Indian Ocean seem to have been lost. Due to flooding in the post-Ice Age period, recent finds in Tamil Nadu (at c. 75,000 years ago, before and after the explosion of the Toba volcano) indicate the presence of the first anatomically modern humans in the area.

The Mesolithic period in the Indian subcontinent covered a timespan of around 25,000 years, starting around 30,000 years ago. More extensive settlement of the subcontinent occurred after the end of the last Ice Age, or approximately 12,000 years ago. The first confirmed permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago in the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka in modern Madhya Pradesh, India.

Early Neolithic culture in South Asia is represented by the Mehrgarh findings (7000 BCE onwards) in present day Balochistan, Pakistan. Traces of a Neolithic culture have been found submerged in the Gulf of Khambat in India, radiocarbon dated to 7500 BCE. The Edakkal Caves has one of the earliest examples of stone age writing. Late Neolithic cultures sprang up in the Indus Valley region between 6000 and 2000 BCE and in southern India between 2800 and 1200 BCE.

The north-western part of the Subcontinent has been inhabited continuously for at least two million years. The ancient history of the region includes some of South Asia's oldest settlements[10] and some of its major civilizations. The earliest archaeological site in the Subcontinent is the Paleolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. Village life began with the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, while the first urban civilization of the region began with the Indus Valley Civilization.

Known history of India

           The ancient history of India
The known history of India - the name in this context includes the areas now known as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - begins with the Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE. Its Mature Harappan period lasted from 2600-1900 BCE. This Bronze Age civilization collapsed at the beginning of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Iron Age Vedic period, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plains and which witnessed the rise of major kingdoms known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha were born in the 6th century BCE, who propagated their Shramanic philosophies among the masses.
Later, successive empires and kingdoms ruled the region and enriched its culture - from the Achaemenid Persian empire around 543 BCE, to Alexander the Great  in 326 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom, founded by Demetrius of Bactria, included Gandhara and Punjab from 184 BCE; it reached its greatest extent under Menander, establishing the Greco-Buddhist period with advances in trade and culture.

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