Did Hinduism make Punjab weak for thousands of years?

Punjabi Hindus were conquered by Greeks, Persians, Scythians, Huns, Turks over a span of approx 2000 years. King Porus is an overhyped failure of a king.

After defeating Porus, Alexander proceeded to venture down into South Punjab into Multan to humiliate the local Malli tribe there, whom would have been some variant of Punjabi Hindus. He came and defeated them with ease. Punjabi Hindus gave no noteworthy resistance to Sikandar, maybe that's why Sikandar became a notable name amongst Punjabis, rather than whatever Porus' original name was. xD

Also read about how Turk rule began in Punjab, it began when Mahmud of Ghazni defeated Jayapala of the Hindu Shahi dynasty and made the Hindu Shahi kingdom a tributary of his empire.

Jayapala was a Punjabi Hindu king who ruled the Hindu Shahi kingdom (a Punjabi Hindu kingdom), he fought against Mahmud's father Sabuktigin and got humiliated in battle. Then Sabuktigin's son Mahmud took to the throne of the Ghaznavid empire and humiliated Jayapala, the Punjabi Hindu king.

Jayapala got humiliated by both father Sabuktigin and son Mahmud, both were Turks ruling their Ghaznavid empire from Afgnanistan. Both of them fought Jayapala in battle and defeated him.

Bro probably chanted Jai Jwala Ji in battle, thinking the seven sacred chakras of Jwala Devi would summon and give Jayapala the power to smite Mahmud into eternal Narak, loll. Peak Punjabi Hinduesque.

Jayapala is probably the most embarrassing, humiliating king in Punjabi history. Dude fought a guy, failed miserably, fought the guy's SON, and lost again like a sore gobarfool. Punjabi Hindus can cope knowing their last kingdom, the Hindu Shahi kingdom, died 1k years ago, lol.

While I don't outright defend any religion, the Punjabi Muslims did indeed give some resistance to foreigners, more than Punjabi Hindus ever did. Jasrat Khokhar fought against Turks and sorta kept them out of Punjab for 2 decades without outright humiliating himself like Jayapala the Punjabi Hindu. Punjabi Muslims also founded Sayyid dynasty, and some other kingdom in south Punjab I forgot the name of.

Then Sikhs came along and put Punjabi Hindus and Punjabi Muslims to mega shame by conquering most of Punjab while being a 5% persecuted minority of the region.

Now, if we reasonably analyse the history, wouldn't it be safe to assume Hinduism made Punjab weak for millennia? They were conquered all the time and barely had any Punjabi Hindu kingdoms of their own, besides ancient Vedic janapadas, and the Taank Kingdom, Hindu Shahi kingdom.

Jayapala is the most humiliating person in Punjabi history. He was a Punjabi Hindu. Brought great disgrace to Punjab by getting diddled by a guy and his SON, many decades later after his father already taught him to learn his place. Jayapala is the beginning of 700 years long Turkic humiliation of Punjab. Dude shouted Jai Mata Di on the battlefield thinking he was gonna get special mythological Hindu powers to smite the Turks into eternal Narak, lol. Real life is not funny Hindu mythology.

After Punjab was conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni, it was then conquered by Muhammed Ghori, then Delhi Sultanate was carved out of Ghurid empire of Muhammed Ghori, and Delhi Sultanate ruled Punjab for like 300 yrs, then Mughals ruled Punjab, then a small 5% persecuted minority aka the Sikhs come and suddenly establish Sikh Misls which then merge to form Sikh empire, putting Punjabi Hindus and Punjabi Muslims to shame by doing what those 2 groups failed to do.

I think religion impacts how strong and formidable a society is. Hindu society was weaker than Muslim society and were humiliated by them, because Hindu society focuses too much on fancy aesthetics and consuming gobar as an alternative medicine. However, Muslim itself is weaker than Sikh society as Muslim society focuses on too much nonsense regarding the treatment of Kafirs and other unnecessary BS such as believing in moon splitting in half and promoting paedophilia as Muhammed married Ayesha at 6 years old and had sex with her at 9 yrs old.

Thankfully, Sikhs were historically more secular and reasonable compared to these two communities, though I don't necessarily defend Sikhi, I just acknowledge that a Sikh society will generally be safer for non-Sikhs than a Hindu or Muslim society.

However, moral of the story is that Hinduism made Punjab weak for thousands of yrs.

Posted Nov 5, 2025, 11:54 PM UTC

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