The grandness of ancient Hindu temples is beyond match! The detailing in their carving is with such precision that modern day engineers and architects fail to decode its way of making and clueless about the equipment that might have been used to create such mesmerizing sculptures.
For an economy which was so rich as that of India till 1700 AD, whatever change has happened, has happened in the last 300 years. No wonder the Sun never set on the British as the darkness of a ‘third world country’ beset on India.
Islamic rulers enjoyed their stay in India using our capacity of wealth creation but kept on inflicting deep wounds in the structure of our prosperous and open society by converting it into patently hierarchical and strictly patriarchal structures to suit their habit, tradition and culture of religious expansionism. Dalits came into being during this period historically. Social scientists have until now not been allowed by the liberal-historians to do research on the emergence of Dalit and mahadalit communities during a period when actually Brahmins were being religiously persecuted continuously, were killed on a massive scale and were humiliated at the will of the medieval rulers.