Mughals

It's not an empire though. It is a democracy.

Besides which the Raj was larger.

Every country's ministry of foreign affairs urges their countryment to take vaccines before they go.

>modern day India
>empire

They seemed to have pretty great aesthetics, what went wrong?

Yeah but the Raj wasn't Indian, it was a British entity that ruled the entirety of India.

In the Raj you were also liable to starve to death or get shot by British soldiers.

>mughal
>indian

nope.

If your country is literally the country with the most suffering and pestilence and dirt on earth, you are not fucking rad and getting there, you are hell on earth.
even in africa, nothing can compete with india at its worst, wild animals fight over the right to eat dead infants in the street, everyone has some disease, people have no concept of not shitting where they eat and perhaps worst of all, their source of art and entertainment is bollywood

India is mid ranked in HDI and while the high level of street defecation is disgusting saying " people have no concept of not shitting where they eat" is just /pol/ style shitposting.

>Mughals
>Indian

>It's not an empire though. It is a democracy.
So the British Empire wasn't an empire?

Touche.

But modern India has no monarch, which is a prerequisite for being described as an empire.

Oh, India is poor as fuck. But it's always been poor as fuck, the great thing about modern India is they seem to be making some progress away from this. By now their economic growth has even surpassed China.

>perhaps worst of all, their source of art and entertainment is bollywood
Don't you shit on glorious Bollywood, bro.

To be fair neither did the Third Reich yet people still call it an empire.

>To be fair neither did the Third Reich yet people still call it an empire.

Who?

India isn't poor at all, it's got plenty of money. Don't confuse people being poor with a country being poor. Not that Indians are particularly poor anymore, huge expanding middle class.

Do you not know that "Reich" literally means empire?

>perhaps worst of all, their source of art and entertainment is bollywood

How can you hate on this?
youtube.com/watch?v=pcpqnI3gXsE

>Indian

>owns literally less land than the Raj
>empire

>mid ranked HDI

>Like 75% the size of Europe
>Not an empire.

It does.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index#Medium_human_development

Finally growing faster than China after 30 years isn't an accomplishment.

>big middle class

Uhh

It is an accomplishment.

China's growth is still huge, the fact that India has managed to overtake it means that they're definitely doing something right even if it's taken them a while.

Median PPP wage is a far better indicator than HDI and in that area India is bottom 30%.

>at its worst
you think quality of life is even in india?

Reich doesn't have a precise English translation but 'realm' would be closer than 'empire'.

>Canada
>not an Empire

youtube.com/watch?v=PDHCLjuOzXY

In English it's invariably used as a synonym for empire, thus why it's referred to as the "Third Reich" which is half in English and half in German.

When English speaking people say the "Third Reich", they never mean "Third Realm".

Nigger the only reason it overtook China's growth is because it slowed down.

Yeah but the population of Canada is fucking tiny.

There's a reason why Canada wasn't an empire during the British empire, yet India was.

Reich isn't used at all in English except in relation to Germany. You never hear the Third Reich described as an empire.

No it is not synonymous with Empire in english.

because canada is newly settled while the landscape that comprises india is composed of many previous kingdoms, which is usually what qualifies you to be an empire?

Except India is literally not an empire.

no of course not, but it was.

Yes you do.

Yes it is, we also call the Holy Roman Empire as such when in German it was called "Heiliges Römisches Reich".

Everytime "Reich" is used to describe an empire of some description it is always translated into English as "Empire".

No it is not.

It is interchangeable with a number of words. There is no direct official translation of reich.

Even at their height they lacked the relative strength that earlier Indian empires had.

The Marathas put up a much better fight then they did.

But the modern Indian Republic is much stronger and more united than any of its predecessors.

Curious, are Indian Muslims just as dirty as Indian Hindus?

They are literally the same, and every bit as autistic.

>mughals
>exclusively within India

>Mfw one random autistic facebook post in India gets 80 replies

I always wondered if Salman was the dude in the right or the left, and if he knew that Asif had this autistic shit in mind when taking the photo.

Funny you ask.. there's an actual study called the "Muslim mortality "paradox that concluded that Muslims in India have a longer lifespan than Hindus despite having less income because they are less likely to practice open deification

You do realise the bigger your economy the smaller you grow right?

> There is cause to worry about China’s economy, but this special report will show that there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful as well. Growth may be sagging, but even if, as many believe, it is only 5% today, that represents more economic output than the 14% seen in 2007 because the economy is so much bigger.

economist.com/news/special-report/21663327-despite-chinas-recent-troubles-prospects-its-entrepreneurial-private-sector

>i get my world knowledge from Veeky Forums

Akbar was pretty cool.

Salman is the guy on the left

Mudasir really really likes that shirt

> It has always been poor
Indus valley civilization suggest otherwise, fun fact, they actually invented sewers and indoor plumbing, as well as hoth baths.

>mughals
>great
found the paki

>muslims actively resist moving to better places because on muh zameen
>they are more hygenic

spotted the buttblasted poo

the numbers dont lie pajeet

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>Cambodia.
Welp, look like I have to cancel my Cambodian trip.

If you live in a country where the ground is literally landmines, you'd shit a lot too.

What the FUCK, Greece?

nice, a reaction image. truly the highest amount of scholarly work