Pre-modern Warfare:India And Elsewhere

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Do you think only Brahmins & rajputs were manning these armies?
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Since the times of Manu only Brahmins and Rajputs have manned the India Armies and thus decline of India.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->None were ever conquered by the islamic armies, unlike your punjab.
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Punjab and Punjabi culture and religion were transformed only after Guru Nanak and then when Guru Gobind Singh militarize them. Earlier no one from India helped Punjab and/or Punjabis. In fact all Indian kings faced the foreigners at Panipat/Karnal/ in other words closer to Delhi. Punjab had no defenses. and then starting from 1760s Punjab was defended by the Sikh misls where 13 Sikh misls ruled the area between Indus and Jamuna and thus Abdali attacked India 7 times but could not control it., his son was defeated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1799.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vijayanagara empire of south india defeated the islamic hordes for hundreds of years.
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Only well established powers in Delhi dared to attack South India. Most only attacked north, plundered the temples of Mathura, Dwarka, Delhi, Varanasi and went back. Mughals under Aurungzeb seriously tried to win South and thus established the Nizam of Hyderabad.