Mauryan Empire was far bigger than the Mughals: Amish Tripathi

In this episode of Chakravyuh, bestselling author Amish Tripathi discusses the need to decolonise Indian history, challenging the narrative that India was a land of defeats created by the British. Citing the Vishnu Purana, he explains the ancient concept of Bharat Varsha. He highlights the thousand-year rule of dynasties like the Cholas, often overlooked in Delhi-centric history books that focus on invaders like the Timurid Mughals. Amish argues for renaming the "Islamic invasion" to "Turkic colonial rule," stating it was a foreign, not religious, conflict. The central theme is India's continuous fight for its culture. As Amish states, "the real story of the last thousand years is not a thousand years of defeats. It's a thousand years of the greatest resistance in human history."