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Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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The Inequality of the Indian Subcontinent
There's evidence to indicate that chicken pox, dangy fever, measles and rubella might have originated in the indian subcontinent round this time. Crime, disease and filth were rampant in these early cities. Most importantly, inequality was a massive problem. Royalty and their relatives and connections owned vast swates of land,. while the vast majority of people toiled, thanklessly, in the fields and canals. The made up ideas and nations that they had been toiling under became the very fabric and limits of their existence.
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