<p>6/ Lords of the Deccan sweeps up almost all the kingdoms that were briefly mentioned in the books, but focuses on the Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas, and the Cholas. There are many branches of each, and they keep leaving and reappearing. There&#39;s a lot to track. ↵</p>

<p>5/ But the complex history of the non-coastal areas, the Deccan, is almost nowhere in sight. All the things I could tell you about the Rashtrakutas, for instance, could have fit in a tweet. This is what Kanisetti fixes. ↵</p>

<p>4/ Of course, what I said is not *strictly* true. You do hear about the coastal kingdoms, especially the mighty Cholas. An uncharitable view is that it&#39;s safer for central curriculum writers to not irritate Tamil Nadu. ↵</p>

<p>3/ You couldn&#39;t help but notice our textbooks had two big gaps: one of space and one of time. The space is the South, and the time is the medieval period. Hundreds of years over space the size of many countries goes largely unmentioned. ↵</p>

<p>2/ Much of Indian history is the story of glorious northern civilizations and empires, and of northern invaders, pillagers, and settlers. Then the British come. Then independence. Fin. Strike up the band and roll credits. ↵</p>

<p>Wrote a script to generate these &quot;Iso Slice-O&quot; drawings directly from 3D model files (with a tiiiny bit of manual SVG cleanup at the end). Ran it on some of the most popular models and I&#39;m obsessed with the results using white ink / black paper</p>

<p>Proposed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cycling</span></a> challenge: do a ride where the *histogram* of your wattage output matches the *altitude* profile of the ride. (It&#39;s not trivial to make them match up. Would actually be a fun programming simulation to generate these.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@postweber" class="u-url mention">@<span>postweber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn" class="u-url mention">@<span>Chip_Unicorn</span></a></span> Thanks for your explanation, Shriram. I don&#39;t make use of my local instance for finding people to follow, but admittedly it&#39;s taking me a long time to connect up with enough people with related interests.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@chris108" class="u-url mention">@<span>chris108</span></a></span> true for me as well. Same goes for the sound of my recorded voice.</p>