Ep. 82 | The History of China-India Relations
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2012
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Firstly, Laszlo apologizes in advance for the horrific pronunciation of all Hindi terms. In this updated version of a very old episode from 2012, we look at the long history of Sino-Indian Relations. Many online writers and in the media like to frame this relationship in rather militaristic terms. There's way more to it than that. And there are limitless online resources available that can teach you about all the details and nuances. If you didn't know much beyond the negative vibes being disseminated, here's a nice big-picture two-thousand-year perspective. No question about it, whatever their differences, China and India are part of a small and elite club of great civilizations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, me again, Lhasla Montgomery, coming your way as a do each time from the China History |
| 0:05.0 | podcast.com. |
| 0:07.3 | With the recent test on April 19th of the Agney 5 ICBM. |
| 0:13.3 | The whole China-India relationship sort of reached a new stage. |
| 0:17.6 | What stage exactly, I don't know, but despite the whole column and measured response from Beijing, I thought it might be a good idea to look at the history of Sino-Indian relations. |
| 0:28.0 | These two superpowers and supercultures go way back. So let's take a look and maybe gain some sort of |
| 0:36.4 | perspective about China and Indian relations today. China and India are two of the |
| 0:41.8 | most amazing civilizations on Earth, like Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
| 0:47.0 | They are places that grew up along great rivers. |
| 0:50.0 | The art, science, religion, philosophy, technology that came out of ancient China and India |
| 0:58.2 | puts them in a very small and elite club of great civilizations. |
| 1:03.0 | And they're right next to each other. |
| 1:05.0 | Over 2 billion people living side by side. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, the autonomous region of Tibet, the millennia old historical natural buffer between the two Uber. the And more than Tibet, the natural landscape itself acted as a huge impassable curtain that sort of kept everyone in their part of Asia and didn't allow for easy migration back and forth. If you wanted to go to China way back in the day, you |
| 1:36.6 | really had to want to go there because it was a long and treacherous journey. Which civilization is older? India or China, that's always a fun, |
| 1:47.0 | nationalistic game to play. They both win, actually. Pre-Horapan culture that saw the earliest settlements along the Indus River, |
| 1:56.0 | happened around 2950 BC, 4,962 years ago. |
| 2:02.0 | Let's call it 5,000 years ago. What was going on in China then? |
| 2:07.0 | Well, all the many Neolithic cultures had already happened in China. |
| 2:13.0 | Pungto Shan, Pele Gang, Tsi Shan, Khmer du, |
| 2:17.0 | Yang Shao, long Shan. |
| 2:19.0 | He can't really say which one China or India developed first. |
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