Been trying to get The Animal Kingdom achievement along with Ganges Khan for about a week now. I have probably 12 failed games and that all ended with me getting stackwiped within the first 15 years.

My current strategy has been to eat up the minor neighbors such as tripura, kachar, assam, sadiya and kale if Ava won’t join the war. Eventually striking at bengal when they are weakened or my nation is strong enough. However, I keep getting stackwiped in the war with Assam and their ally Koch. Sometimes Orissa attacks bengal and carves them up so I’ll go in and take a chunk. That only fails because then all of the more powerful neighbors see me as a threat. I can’t get any decent allies so I’m basically on my own. Plus, to make matters worse, most provinces I take are Hindu and I’m a animist which results in ~10% religious unity = high unrest.

Anyone have any advice?

why is ae so much. its infuriating. i was playing as bengal and i annexed koch and assam early. BOOM. instant large coalition. im salty.

There are people who desire to return their monarchs and movements like this are most common in Romania, Bulgaria, Iran, Afghanistan, Brazil and Germany. However many ask why are there no monarchist movements in India or Pakistan? My answer is that the people have no memory of being ruled by a monarch (except for the British), however the many ethnic groups in India and Pakistan did have rulers of their own ethnic kingdoms whom were called Princely States. These Princely States were vassals and protectorates of the British Raj, Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire whom all ruled the Indian Subcontinent long ago.

Plus Pakistan and India were colonial creations of the authorities of the British Raj. The reason of their creation was due to idiotic ideological and religious differences the Hindu Indian National Congress and their former friends/hated enemies the Muslim League. The reason these two political parties were enemies was because their peoples were enemies for generations. The Hindus were enemies of the Muslims because in many Hindu majority regions, Muslims were victims to ethnic cleansing and the Muslims were enemies of the Hindus because the Hindus were oppressed under Muslim aristocrats and autocratic Muslim monarchs for thousands of years. This and the Kashmir region dispute were reasons why the partition and the constant wars between the two nations is a thing in OTL.

Origin of Partition (India was never unified as one nation)

India was never a united nation as many would like to think, India was nothing more than multiple kingdoms waging war with each other. These Kingdoms were created by ethnic groups with different cultural and religious backgrounds that had a habit of not getting along with their neighbors and constantly waging war with each other. There were many empires throughout India's history that tried to create a united India, but it never worked because the rulers of those Empires always had opposition against them which made centralization really hard. The only Empires that came close to creating a fully united India were the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Empire. The Mughals were successful due to their Persian Emperors (whom are descendants of the Persian Emperor Tamerlane) adapting to the culture of India, but sadly they were Islamic like their predecessors, the rulers of the Sultanate of Delhi and they lost wars to various rivals and to the British. The Marathas created an Empire that was secular and tolerated the practices of

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

PS BEFORE READING: The views are exclusively the author's own and are purely based on all available information and sources compiled from the Internet.

Stage I: P.M.S Blackett's Scientific Strategy, India's Dangerous Geopolitical Game of Chicken Against the PRC (1947-1962)

Part A: Post Independence Scenario (1947-1961)

The original Indian military-strategic theory of tactical and strategic restraint and Pakistani-focused defense strategy can be credited to Nobel Prize-Winning British scientist PMS Blackett- a pivotal member of the British wartime community in World War 2 who was pivotal in developing the ULTRA signals intel network and organizing a coherent bombing strategy of going against maritime targets in the Atlantic - was hired by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946 to present a scientific strategy for the defense of the newly formed Republic of India. The Armed Forces had retained Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck's, Armed Force Organisation Plan calling for 200,000 Active Duty Ground troops, a 20 squadron Air Force and a Navy centered around 2 Aircraft Carriers with a primary threat coming from the Great Indian Desert Region (i.e. the post-independence state of Pakistan). P.M.S Blackett had submitted the following recommendations to the Indian Government,:-

1. Maintain a small territorial defense force focusing exclusively on a Defensive Minded Strategy
2. Maintaining a Non Aligned posture against the Soviet Union and the United States
3. Military Expenditure MUST NOT exceed 2% of India's GDP
4. No need to pursue any Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons)
5. Focus Extensively on Generating economic growth by modernizing core industries, infrastructure, and poverty alleviation.
6. To ensure the Indian Armed Force do not get entangled in a war against a major power, extensive civilian control of the Armed Forces must be maintained in all affairs related to defense.

This extremely pacifist recommendation was taken to an extreme level that pushed India's Defense Budget below the recommended 2% target- the Army went through a massive demobilization period in which 7 World War II era Divisions were disbanded while the Frontier Guards were divided between India and Pakistan- with Pakistan gaining 7 of the 11 Frontier Divisions, [with defense becoming an afterthought.](https://eparlib.nic.in/bit

Salam brothers and sister,

I recently found this news article about a genetic study done on the Gujjar in Jammu & Kashmir, they found that the nomadic Gujjar were closely related to nomads in Afghanistan:

Gujjars' Have Pashtun Origins, Lastest Study Reveal

>They found the Gujjars were genetically close to Pashtuns in Baghlans and Kunduz provinces of Afghanistan and Pashtuns and Sindhis in Pakistan, while the Ladakhi were close to Chinese Uighurs and Magars in Nepal.

The study also found that the Gujjar were also genetically distant to other ethnic groups in India:

>The new study used various genetic markers and found that genetic samples taken from people in other parts of India – Assam, Bengal, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, or Rajasthan — cluster into a group. But the samples from Gujjars and Ladakhis appear outside the group.

I am a Gujjar from northern Pakistan and it is nice to know where we originally come from, as there is a lot of debate about our origins, but now we know for certain. Love to all Pashtun brothers and sisters.

Do your worst!

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Ideas: Quantity, Influence, Exploration, Expansion

Took me multiple tries over 1 year but finally did it. A run involving way too much luck at the start and border gore. Started with the usual strat of humiliate rival and showing strength on Manipur, then rivalling/eating Kachar straight after they kill Manipur. Then rivalled Assam, took their clay and vassalized Koch in the same war (by this point 100+PP). I got stupendously lucky and had the talented daughter event AND Bengal was losing hard to Orissa. Jumped on Bengal and took enough land from them that I could culture shift to Bengali and accept hindu as my religion.

From then on it was a case of conquering the bits of Orissa that I needed, vassalising Andrha (and stealing one province from VJ to release Madurai, then doing a mass reconquest on VJ. As well as Andrha and Madurai the best vassals for this run were Pasai, Punjab, Multan, Timurids (hadn’t lost their cores in the Samarkand node).

Got even luckier as Russia never formed (no silly wars in siberia) and Ming exploded relatively early with some help from me raiding their bank. Final wars were stealing last bits from Bukhara and a large faf with the Ottomans (who had made it to Basra by about 1570).

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

They were cooked in Greece.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Japan had a hatred for the three nations of France, Germany and Russia. The reason Japan was unable to get the territories it won in Manchuria was due to the West having no desire to see China suffer the cruel terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

The reason they didn't want China to suffer unequal treaties drafted by Japan, was due to Several Western newspaper correspondents present at the time revealed that Japanese troops "indiscriminately killed" thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians, and the story of a Japanese massacre soon spread among the Western public, damaging Japan's public image and the movement in the United States to renegotiate the unequal treaties between that country and Japan. The event came to be known as the Port Arthur massacre. Japan won the war and gained the territories of Taiwan and Southern Manchuria, however they would not gain Southern Manchuria due to Russia, Germany and France intervening with the treaty. However they had reasons.

Russia's reasons of intervening were due to it's paranoia of not extending the Trans-Siberian railway into Manchuria to get warm water, because the Russians need warm water to do stuff they can't do in cold water and sadly, most of their coasts and bodies of water are sadly cold due to Russia's geographical location.

Germany's reasons of intervening were firstly, its desire to draw Russia's attention to the east and away from itself and secondly, to enlist Russia's support in establishing German territorial concessions in China. Germany hoped that support for Russia would encourage Russia, in turn, to support Germany's colonial ambitions, which were especially vexed since Germany had only recently formed itself into a unified nation and had arrived late in the colonial "game."

France's reason of intervening was due to it being friends with Russia due to the fact French bankers did have financial interests in Russia (especially railroads) and the fact France fears of loosing Indochina to Japan.

The Triple Intervention was successful for the three European Powers because Japan had to back down as it's Armed Forces would automatically loose against the European Powers who have more powerful and larger armed forces. The victory of France, Germany and Russia against Japan was called a g

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

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There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

Salam brothers and sister,

I recently found this news article about a genetic study done on the Gujjar in Jammu & Kashmir, they found that the nomadic Gujjar were closely related to nomads in Afghanistan:

Gujjars' Have Pashtun Origins, Lastest Study Reveal

>They found the Gujjars were genetically close to Pashtuns in Baghlans and Kunduz provinces of Afghanistan and Pashtuns and Sindhis in Pakistan, while the Ladakhi were close to Chinese Uighurs and Magars in Nepal.

The study also found that the Gujjar were also genetically distant to other ethnic groups in India:

>The new study used various genetic markers and found that genetic samples taken from people in other parts of India – Assam, Bengal, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, or Rajasthan — cluster into a group. But the samples from Gujjars and Ladakhis appear outside the group.

I am a Gujjar from northern Pakistan and it is nice to know where we originally come from, as there is a lot of debate about our origins, but now we know for certain. Love to all Pashtun brothers and sisters.