Why Iranians and Indians Share Ancient Civilizational Roots

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:02]Why are Iranians and Hindus often so self-correcting, philosophical, hopeful about people and world despite being betrayed or taken advantage of historically?

[00:00:13]Well, there are lots of traits that are common to Iranians and Indians, Iranians and Hindus, right? Persians and Hindus.

[00:00:19]Because we have the same origin.

[00:00:23]Uh the Persian and the Hindu people have the same origin.

[00:00:27]Our ancestors back in the day, like 3, 4,000 years ago, were the same. We all have common ancestors, right? And we had a common shared culture, which eventually which eventually Persia lost because of unfortunate circumstances, the Rashidun Caliphate's invasion and occupation of Persia.

[00:00:47]680 AD or whichever year it was, I forget.

[00:00:50]Doesn't matter.

[00:00:52]So, uh So So, India and Persia started drifting apart after the Rashidun invasion and occupation of Persia and the forcible conversion of the majority of the population to to their religion, the religion of the Arabs, Islam, right?

[00:01:06]But even if your religion changes, your deeper cultural traits persist.

[00:01:13]So, Persia is an old civilization, 3,000 years old, before the Achaemenid dynasty and the Median dynasty and so on. And the origins are the same for us and the Persians.

[00:01:25]And we are an even older civilization, right? 10,000 years. And that's where Persia's roots also lie, with us.

[00:01:33]So, there are a lot of similarities between us and the Persians. Similar cultural traits, similar similar civilizational stress, civilizational traits, shared ethnic origins, all of that. So, you're going to have a lot of similarities.

[00:01:49]And whatever drawbacks you have, you know, whatever flaws and drawbacks Indians have, you're going to see a lot of that in the among the Persians, too.

[00:01:58]Yeah?

[00:01:59]So, yeah.

[00:02:01]You know, we tend to see the world not through the lens of, you know, um that we should be predatory on the world, we should be be extractive from the world. Not We haven't We don't see the world that way, right? We We Indians think of the world in an idealistic way.

[00:02:22]Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the world is in a one family. We should all live and let be. We should all get along together.

[00:02:28]The Persians also kind of see the world in that way.

[00:02:33]I mean, historically, they did see the world that way.

[00:02:39]So, yeah, because of these shared traits, uh we kind of you know, get betrayed from time to time and we are taken advantage of from time to time.

[00:02:53]And I think we should you know, together learn the lessons of history, India and Persia.