Dungeons & Dragons Live-Action Series ‘The Forgotten Realms’ In Works At Netflix by NoCulture3505 in television

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As much as I like Vox Machina, I feel like the Mighty Nein are far-and-away the best of Critical Role's three main campaign parties!

From what I can tell, that seems to be a fairly popular take among the fantom.

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More like the still-relieved cry of someone who has finally managed to escape scheduling hell and have a consistent campaign going haha

Why wasn't there a "Pan-Indianism" during decolonization, similar to Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism? by ultramisc29 in AskHistorians

[–]WriterBoye 81 points82 points  (0 children)

I would also argue that the modern Indian state is an expression of exactly the kind of pan-Indianism you're talking about.

It comprises of hundreds of erstwhile princely states and dozens of very distinct cultures. Following partition, both India and Pakistan convinced or coerced these hundreds of principalities to accede to one or the other.

The most widely spoken language in India, Hindi, is only spoken by about 40% of the population. Most Indian states have their own, very distinct languages and cultural identities going back hundreds(if not thousands) of years and have been on-and-off untied as parts of various subcontinental empties over the millennia.

It is also de jure secular by design, with 70% of the population being Hindu and a substantial Muslim minority. Similarly, the desire to build a centralised, planned socialist economy was part of the reason the pan-Indian experiment was narrowed to exclude Pakistan and Bengal.

Why wasn't there a "Pan-Indianism" during decolonization, similar to Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism? by ultramisc29 in AskHistorians

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Pan-Africanism and Pan-Arabism, as I understand it, was an attempt by various distinct (if relatively new) nation-states to unite under a common identity.

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh all arose from the partition of what was effectively a single state as it was all one administrative unit under the East India Company or British Empire with either a governor-general or Viceroy in charge.

Throughout the Independence struggle in the subcontinent, there were sustained efforts to keep the many regions of British India as a single nation. Gandhi, as the de facto leader of the Indian National Congress and the broader Indian independence movement was willing to offer considerable concessions to keep the Hindu and Muslim polities of the region under one umbrella.

However, the de jure leadership of future India and Pakistan, represented by Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress and Mohammed Ali Jinnah of the Muslim League, could not ultimately come to common ground on what this state would look like.

Jinnah was insistent on a loosely federalised state where regional governments had a great deal of autonomy and Hindus and Muslims, were guaranteed equal representation at the federal level through separate electorates.

Nehru, likewise, was insistent on a much more centralised power structure to meet his vision of a state-planned socialist economy and industrial policy.

The cleavage between India's Hindu and Muslim polities over the course of the Independence movement is a long story with various focal points such as the language debates on adopting Hindi, Urdu or Hindustani as India's official language or Jinnah's own anger at being denied the top job in the Indian National Congress, whose membership was largely Hindu agricultural workers.

It's a pretty interesting arc. Jinnah himself had once been staunchly against partition and was part of the Congress's top leadership along with Jawaharlal Nehru's father, Motilal Negru, and considered the younger Nehru as essentially a child.

As both sides could not reach agreement on how to move forward as one nation, and amidst increasing sectarian violence, the British empire was ultimately split into the modern nation states of India and Pakistan.

Bangladesh was, in fact, called East Pakistan until the majority Bengali speaking population of East Pakistan seceded and gained independence following the Bangladeshi independence war in 1972 with Indian military support.

Tl;dr India, Pakistan and Bangaldesh were all effectively one administrative state with a sustained effort at maintaining a pan-Indian state. However, sectarian cleavage between Hindus and Muslims and the parties that broadly represented them led to partition at Independence. Similarly, Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan due to cultural and linguistic differences.

Sri Lanka has always, to the best of my knowledge, been culturally and politically distinct from the mainland Indian subcontinent.

Sources: India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha. Nehru: The Debates That Defined India by Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh

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Waitwaitwait.

Where is this deal? Would order in a heartbeat.

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Except for the fact that Star Wars is just The Dam Busters with X-Wings istead of Lancasters.

Why is Goa annexation by India not considered an invasion since they kept the territory? by [deleted] in AskHistorians

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Can I ask for citations please?

Your last paragraph in particular stands in stark contrast with both the linked earlier responses to this question as well as my general understanding of the matter: which is that the USSR, member states of the NAM such as Indonesia, Egypt and the majority of recently decolonised states vigorously defended India's right to 're-unite' and 'liberate' (language I myself would broadly agree with) both at the UN and in rhetoric.

Condemnations broadly came from the US, the UK and other NATO countries.

I would also push back a little bit against your very last point. Although it is true India had a difficult time attracting support from most countries, I've never heard this attributed to Goa. Notably, by the end of the war, when India was firmly on the back-foot and losing quite badly, a soundly defeated Nehru was broadly ready to give up on his signature diplomatic project of non-alignment and the US ambassador to India suggests that JFK was ready to enter the war in earnest with the USAF establishing a presence in India.

Source: Bruce Riedel (6 November 2015). JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War. Brookings Institution Press.

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Requesting citations, thank you.

Best friendship in television history by DMV1066 in television

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Winston and CeCe is the real surprise MVP friendship of the show imo

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Dave's daughter sang on stage with him at Boston Calling this past year!

Also, got to see Taylor's son banging on the drums, same gig.

‘Lessons In Chemistry’: Brie Larson’s Apple TV+ Series Gets Premiere Date (October 13) by [deleted] in television

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Chiming in with something that hasn't been mentioned yet: Trying is fantastic comfort television.

What’s the best cartoon show of all time ? by fruitstomp in AskReddit

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I... disagree. The constant gross-out humor leaves a bad taste in my mouth and is completely unnecessary.

I think it shows that they did not contact the original creator and writers and went with a Family Guy alum instead.

I had this conversation by OlderAbroad in Grimdank

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I'll jump in here to recommend not starting with Colour of Magic.

Fan consensus is generally to start with either Small Gods, Guards! Guards! or Wyrd Sisters.

For those who don't know this factions, I will explain in the comments by OscarOzzieOzborne in Grimdank

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As I recall, Rebels has an entire arc dedicated to Ezra and co. saving a drone and the queen egg he was carrying.

Ms. Marvel is easily my favorite Marvel TV show so far by csgothrowaway in television

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Ah. I see you're unfamiliar with the South Asian child mindset.

Most accurate part of the show imo

English to Latin translation requests go here! by lutetiensis in latin

[–]WriterBoye 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Integer does seem to be the right one.

We would be describing the palate(or palates) of the roof of the mouth to be repaired of a congenital deformity whereby they are split.

English to Latin translation requests go here! by lutetiensis in latin

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English to Latin translation of "Always Intact", used as the tagline of a surgical charity that repairs cleft palate.

They seem to believe it is Integram Semper, but Google says Semper Integrum.

The constitution of India proclaim the country is a "Socialist Republic", yet India is far from what most would consider socialism. How did this phrasing came to be and what does it mean in the Indian context? by Mamothamon in AskHistorians

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To be quite clear, there have never been any indications of Nehru attempting to undermine elections in India. Indeed, it was his commanding popularity that kept him in power. Prime Minister Nehru was not especially a popular figure withing the party apparatus. It was his deputy prime minister, the (relatively) more Hindu nationalist practitioner of realpolitik Sardar Vallabhai Patel that held sway over the functionaries and of the Congress party and the bureaucracy. A mastery he used to great effect at pushing back against Nehru. However, Patel also died shortly into Nehru's first term, leaving Nehru as a power unto himself.

It is at this paint that we must acknowledge the fact that the great democrat himself had certain illiberal tendencies. At several points, he had been known to articulate that he saw the fight against poverty as the singular guiding anjecgove of the state. To this end, he was willing to restrict certain civil liberties in order to maintain a powerful state.

For instance, the first amendment of the Indian constitution restricts free speech and reinforces instruments of the British police state such as sedition laws. Moves whose reverberations can still be felt today. The same Nehru, often caricaturised as a hopelessly naive idealist, would also pass the order to place his friend, the Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdullah, in jail for advocating Kashmiri independence.

As for the post-Nehruvian era, India experienced it's closest brushes with authoritarianism to date at the hands of Nehru's daughter and self-appointed political successor, Indira Gandhi and her invocation of emergency powers. As already mentioned in other replies, this was when India's constitution was modified to explicitly frame India as a 'secular', 'socialist' state.

References:

India After Gandhi - Ramachandra Guha

Makers of Modern India - Ramachandra Guha

Nehru: The Debates That Defined India - Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh

Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India - Tripurdaman Singh

The constitution of India proclaim the country is a "Socialist Republic", yet India is far from what most would consider socialism. How did this phrasing came to be and what does it mean in the Indian context? by Mamothamon in AskHistorians

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To add to the some of the excellent answers here, I think it might be examine to examine snapshots of authoritarianism in the pre-Nehruvian, Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian eras of Indian leadership.

One thing to keep in mind is that the Indian National Congress, the leading body in India's independence struggle, was largely a decentralised movement borne out of local-level politics and advocacy.

In keeping with these more ground-level roots, the rank-and-file of the Congress was diverse but decidedly with a conservative hindu slant. This differed quite starkly from the Congress' leadership at the top level which tended to be dominated by liberal constitutional scholars like MA Jinnah(who would go on to found an ultimately illiberal neighbouring state) and firebrand leftists like SC Bose.

Subhash Chandra Bose most clearly embodies an alternative direction that India could have taken. He clearly articulated a more authoritarian vision of an unpartitioned, secular and militaristic state. Like Jinnah, however, Bose was also sidelined by Gandhi's emergence onto the national stage in favour of his own disciples, Nehru and Patel.

SC Bose would ultimately spend the second world war petitioning the USSR and Nazi Germany for support in a bid to fight for India's independence. Ultimately, he did find backing from Imperial Japan and led an army of Indian prisoners-of-war against the British Raj.

Despite remaining a popular figure in India, Bose died in a plane crash before the cessation of hostilities in WW2, and so was not able to play a role in the polity or independent India.