#pseudohistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pseudohistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Tartary (Cartography 🗺️)
Tartary or Tatary was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, the Ural Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the northern borders of Medieval China, India, and Persia, at a time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers. The active use of the toponym can be traced f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary
#Tartary #Exonyms #EastAsia #Cartography #MongolStates #Pseudohistory
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Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics
Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.
#BJP #caste #CastePolitics #history #pseudohistory #FreedomStruggle #karnataka #TipuSultan #vokkaligas #gurjars #muslims #elections #hindutva #india