Are Indians the 21st Century Mongols?
There is a sinister mindset prevailing in India under a "Bharat Expansion" movement, fueled by media and influential think tanks including the chief ideologue directing the regime in power .
This might have long term implications for China and other countries in the region.
The argument is that India is too overpopulated and resources strapped to exist within its geographical boundaries.The population simply cannot be sustained. Apart from depopulating its 11% minority India has two solutions to the problem.
1.A partial solution is manipulated immigration to North America and Australia, which will partially relieve the pressure of highly vocal unemployed youth. Which is why any changes to the US H1B visa system draws intense criticism in the Indian media. The assertion is that Indians have a right to immigrate all over the world particularly to the USA so that a lobby can be built up to control the governments.The intention for the USA is that sufficient persons of Indian origin will settle and rise to prominent political office which has already happened in Canada and UK and of course in smaller countries such as Trinidad, Fiji, Mauritius,Guyana etc. The Mongols in the 12th century followed a roughly similar pattern prepping countries targeted for invasion using their trading establishments infiltrated via the Silk Route.
2. The other solution is outright conquest using overwhelming military power. The doctrine being proposed is the occupation of countries with rich natural resources and with a large sparsely populated land mass that are diplomatically isolated and militarily weak. The occupation could be accomplished with the help of regional allies and superpower approval. There is much talk in the influential Indian think tanks of taking over the Iranian gas and oil fields since the population of Iran is only 83 million population ( as. compared to 200 million people in single province of India's Uttar Pradesh). Azarbaijan, Baluchistan, are also in India's cross hairs because of rich natural resources, low population density. India has also targeted Uzbekistan. India has a general approval from the "Powers that be" for its population creep.
There are two obvious major obstacles to India's north and western expansion which are China and Pakistan. Obviously the costs of facing these countries by open warfare is unacceptable. Keeping a low grade tension constant based on "territorial disputes" is an alternative with the expectation that the "Powers that be" will exert sufficient diplomatic and economic costs to weaken these adversaries for India to tackle later.
A flawed plan but this is what is hoped.
Will population pressures and economic strain, poverty and hunger ultimately propel India into open expansionism, whatever the costs?
As their population grew the Mongols were unable to sustain their nomadic lifestyle as they ran out of grazing land for their cattle. They then turned on China and the rest of the world for resources.
As Chengiz Khan famously said :
"We don't fight for any nation or land.
We fight because we are hungry ".
