Martial Races of sub-continent

[muqawwee123]

Re: Martial Races of sub-continent

@khoji

Arabs used to fight among each other. But for making of an empire it needs organization and a single focused goal. Many a times the religion becomes this single goal.

I have also heard that Mughals killed their gurus. This compelled them to pick up arms. Like I said, religion gave them a reason to be united, created a sense of unity, sense of belonging to a group, sense of being deprived, and this resulted in passion to fight.

What I don’t understand is that if they were angry with Mughals then why did they attacked Pashtuns instead of attacking Mughals?!

In respect of Arabs, religion lead them away from internal conflicts. Islam didn’t actively teach to attack for purposes of expansion, but Arab nature and psyche did raids and conquests (which is now defended by some historians as wars in the name of Islam). Factually, neither Muslim conquest of Sindh nor Spain were religiously motivated.

Sikh - Pashtun rivalry took place when Mughals got weaker. I think prior to Ranjeet Singh, there might not be fights between Sikhs and Pashtuns. Till Mughal era (upto Auranghzeb), Sikhs were mainly in defensive position and after that during Ranjeet Singh’s era its about expanding Punjab / Khalsa Raj (don’t know what they exactly called it).