>>162246
Crossing Sea would have made them outcaste, I am not joking It's true, this is also a reason why No Indian empire had a proper naval fleet, this is also resson why hinduism stuck in subcontinet also the reason why Indian empire never expanded outside subcontinet
>>162253
Yeah in mordern contect hinduism never had any ideology to expand.
Cholas however did and spresdy the influence of Hinduism, If they really focused on building Naval Prowess, India might today also include much of SEA and Indonesia
>>162254
Jinnah's grsndfather belonging to some gujjew kshatriya caste started doing seafaring with foreign traders and doing fish buisness, which caused dispute with his caste ppl and he converted to make them even morr pissed, this is one of the reason there might have been many reason, but not well documented.