hinduism

Polygyny is a form of polygamy entailing the marriage of a man to several women.The Hindu scriptures acknowledge polygyny. It was the norm among kings, the nobility and the extremely wealthy. Polygyny remained customary and widely acceptable among Hindus until it was legally abolished for Hindus...

In a world without Islam (let's just say Muhammad dies a sickly infant or something along those lines), an assumption is that Christianity is a religion which does better without the Islamic Conquests with how the Middle East and North Africa were very much centers of Christianity prior to the...

The Khmer Empire fascinates me for several reasons. It was a highly prosperous and deeply developed empire, invented the first modern healthcare system, was larger than the Eastern Roman Empire, and remained Hindu in an era where basically all of its neighbours were Buddhist, being the only...

Exactly what the title is asking. How would the Greeks have interpreted the major deities of Hinduism? For example, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Shaktii ans let's just add in Surya Ganesha and Kartikeya for the sake of conversation. Would they have been conflated with one of the Greek gods or would...

A while ago I made this thread: AHC: Muslim-majority Indochina. It gained quite some traction and interest before eventually dying off, which motivated to me to try something more unique. The objective of this AHC is once again to make Indochina a firmly Islamic region, but with a twist...

What if fundamentalist Hindu Mahasabha led the Indian Independence movement winning elections during independence, drafting the constitution and emerging as the dominant party after independence? How the effect Partition, Indian Politics and Cold war?

Zoroastrian migration to the subcontinent occured somewhere around 7-9th century due to increased persecution by the Caliphate (destruction of the Fire temples, etc). They settled around areas like the Sindh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The rulers of these areas while fascinated by the religion...

Okay, I know this sounds bad, but hear me out. This isn't a post comparing Nazis to Hindus, or Nazism to Hinduism, or anything like that; that would be ridiculous and hateful. Now, then. The Third Reich had a very interesting relationship to religion. While there were Christian Nazis, many felt...

Is the deity Krishna a purely mythological character, or does there exist a germ of historical truth amongst the legends that make up his life? Outwith Hinduism there are a number of religions that revere Krishna as a real personage who lived in the distant past. Do we know anything about this...

What if the Vijaynagara empire never existed ? what would be its effects on the Delhi Sultanate and Colonialism in India?

Let's keep the point of divergence simple: imagine a world where Muhammad had simply never been born. In such a scenario, what religion is most likely to be the most significant competitor to Christianity in terms of number of followers by the year 2021? Said religion does not have to garner...

The Nepalese Revolution broke out in March 19, 1923 initially as a student and dissident march against the Rana Regime of Nepal. Chandra Shumsher Rana, the autocratic Rana ruler of Nepal at the time, ordered the Nepalese Gendarmerie to open fire at the protestors. Nepal had long been dissident...

I wondered how culture and government would have changed if Prabhupada's movement grew at a significant rate. I would imagine a reasonable percentage for 60+ years would be somewhere round 30% of Americans are of the Vaishnava westernized ISKCON religion as a result of Prabhupada living slightly...

On 1660, the population of the Hindus in Saludong would turn for the better which would change the fate of the colony of the Spanish in Saludong or the Spanish Nueva Castilla, on the 1660s the Hindus would take advantage of the strife and take a few lands from the Christians in the Northern half...

Samrat Siddhartha Gautama is one of the most influential figures in Human history, Born as a Prince in Shakya Republic, He was prophesied to be either the Ruler of all India or one of histories greatest philosopher, Fearing this his father kept him locked up in his kingdom for most of his life...

What would serve as a great POD for making Hinduism a more evangelical in the sense that there is an active preaching and proselytizing religion? Buddhism was actively promoted and spread in to SE Asia and East Asia. Can Hinduism also build such a network that not only encompasses the East...

Maratha empire can be considered the last great Pan Indian Empire, they however collapsed due to wars across the regions from Afghans to Brits, so what if Marathas were more successful and were able to conquer most of South Asia, With minir PODs like Shivaji being alive longer and a stronger...

The Mandala Stands Strong: An Ancient Nepal Timeline *** Prologue *** The pomp around the city of Kasthamandap was great as Nanda quietly strode onto the great hall of the city. Nanda strode forward with his chest shown in full and his stride strong. He stopped as he reached the halls of the...

Just as there are Buddhist dynasty in Pala Empire, Jain dynasty in Kalinga, Shavist in Chola and Kashmir (and Java) and Vaishnavist in Hoysala and Vijayanagar, are there any monarch/dynasty who was (majoritily) Shaktist or Shanmanta? What about Soura, Ganapraya, Kaumaram and Shrauta...

The caliphates spread from arabia to Spain to Pakistan, and the islamic faithspread farther, into india, central asia, subsaharan africa, and indonesia, converting people from native pagan faiths, Hinduism, buddhism, zoroastrianism, and christianity. My question is, why? I know about the tax on...