Kingdom of the Indus

### Regional Archive

First Chitralian Government, Second Sjevrean Government, Second Chitralian Government, First Potenzian Government, First Madri Government, Second Potenzian Government, Third Potenzian Government, Third Sjevrean Government - (LDU Research Society)

## Culture

### Official languages

Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Esperanto, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

## National Government

### Executive power

Head of State (Monarch): Ravi Holkar-Gaekwar IIHead of Government (Prime Minister): Anand Singh

### Legislative power

Upper House: House of AcademiciansLower House: House of Representatives

## Economy

### GDP per capita

$ 16.284,31

The Kingdom of the Indus or officially the Constitutional Monarchy of the Kingdom of the Indus is an Asian state that occupies approximately all the territory of the vast and populous Indus Valley. The Kingdom borders Chitral to the west, Almitruz. In addition to its mainland, the Kingdom also has several small colonies on the Arabian Peninsula overlooking the Persian Gulf. The Kingdom has 23 official languages and has a very ancient origin, considering that it still boasts many traditions of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.

## History of Kingdom of the Indus in LDU's politics

Kingdom of the Indus joined the LDU in April 2021. Among its most important contributions can be counted the Indusian Broadcasting Network, which is the official newspaper of the Kingdom which also served as an account to create RP events, such as WorldVision. Furthermore, the Kingdom of the Indus is in charge of the management of LDU Research Society, that mainly create a regional news service on a weekly basis since 28 June 2022. The Kingdom of the Indus is one of the four members of the Knighthood.

## History of Kingdom of the Indus in LDU's roleplay

### The foundation of the Kingdom of the Indus

In 1510, seven princely states in India formed an alliance with the aim of unifying the Indian subcontinent, however they failed to do so. Despite the failure of the objective on which this alliance was based, the seven states did not dissolved the alliance but rather they increased the relations between them. So much so that in April 1521 the seven states founded a confederation known as the Kingdom of the Indus, once to increase commercial relations and protect themselves from possible invasions.

### Colonization of the Persian Gulf

In 1580, Indusian explorers traveled across the Persian Gulf and established many colonies to take advantage of their strategic location and natural resources. Later there were many protests by the natives against the indusian rule, but thanks to their stronger army they managed to suppress the protests and expand their colonial empire in many parts of the Arabian coast

### Indusian Renaissance

The 17th century materialized with an Indusian Rnaissance, which thanks to its colonies and thriving economy had managed to become a regional power throughout the western part of the Indian subcontinent. Great strides were made in science, indusian astronomers became well respected worldwide for naming many constellations, while indusian biologists developed their own taxonomic system which was widely used in South Asia until the invention of the Linnaean system.

### Indusian fall and the Indusian Civil Wars

In 1720, the Kingdom suffered an economic downturn and severe famine following a long and costly war with the nation of Kirat, a nation that the Kingdom wanted to colonize. In late 1725, another escalation of tensions between the Kingdom of the Indus and Kirat threatened to escalate into another costly war, however the Indusian parliament split in two: The parliamentary advisers of the southern states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat argued the idea of war, while advisers from the northern states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Ladakh strongly opposed another invasion. Despite the efforts in 1727, the king announced that he would again wage war on Kirat and ordered the arrest of the anti-war advisers for treason.

The pacifist states of the north finally had enough and launched a rebellion against the king and the pro-war states of the south, marking the beginning of the Indusian Civil Wars. In 1732, the northern states finally defeated the southern states and deposed the king, before asking the princes of the northern states to elect another king. From this moment on, several kings followed one another who were promptly deposed until 1737, when another king was deposed but the states of the Kingdom did not elect a new monarch. This power vacuum lasted five years, until 1742 when a republican leader took over the reins of the country, immediately proving to be a bloodthirsty dictator. A few years later his government was also deposed and a new monarch was elected in his place, this time a permanent one.

### Reforms and economic growth

Numerous economic and political reforms were made in the late 18th century and early 19th century, with the most famous one giving far greater power to Parliament. Furthermore, towards the end of the 1770s numerous machines began to be imported which would greatly facilitate the imminent industrial revolution, which lasted until the 1840s. In 1859 slavery was abolished following numerous popular protests.

### WWI

At the outbreak of the First World War. The Kingdom of the Indus remained neutral throughout the war. However Oruzia tried many times to get the Kingdom to join the war on their side. In 1915, Oruzian officials promised to give to the Kingdom of the Indus the territory of Kay Ry (Kirat), however, the government abstained and continued its line of neutrality. The action brought many discontent among the people, so much that in 1917 Rishu Dheer, a pro-Oruzia politician, went to Oruzia to negotiate a possible entry into the Indus war. Dheer was later arrested and sentenced to prison.

### Great Depression

Before the start of World War II, the Kingdom of the Indus was hit hard by the Great Depression, making the maintenance of the colonial empire unprofitable. Thus in the 1930s many colonies broke away from the Kingdom of the Indus, only two colonies remained under indusian control: New Indusia and Rhyddhad.

### WWII

During the Second World War, the Kingdom of the Indus again remained neutral but increased the military spending. In June 1942, Oruzia accidentally bombed a city near the border between the Kingdom of the Indus and Kai Ry, Oruzia later explained that it was an error due to navigational errors, but many rumors assumed that the Fourth Empire was attempting to stop the Kingdom from cooperation with Oruzia's enemies. In August 1947 the Kingdom of the Indus began a nuclear arsenal construction program which within months led to the construction of the first A-bomb.

### The rest of the 1900s: The remainder of the 1900s: The mines crisis and the SRI

In 1978, Arun Sardar of the Right Authoritarian Party became Prime Minister of India. He implemented massive deregulation and privatization of state-owned companies. In August 1984, he ordered the Indian National Coal Board (INCB) to close 20 of the state's 180 mines. The mines were reportedly unprofitable and Arun Sardar, along with many world leaders in the 1980s, had recently become aware of the effects of coal burning on the environment. However, for many rural towns, the coal mines were the only way for locals to find work, and the workers of the 20 mines decided to call a nationwide strike until the INCB promised to reverse their decision. The national strike lasted for a year but given little consent it fall, leading to the closure of the mines and the cities that housed the mines soon fell into poverty.

In September 1985, a radical group of socialists known as the Indus Socialist Republic was established in the city of Ojha to protest the closure of the mines and the extreme privatization of the government. SRI soon began advocating for the total overthrow of capitalism and monarchy in the Indus Kingdom. The group's tactics became increasingly extreme and they eventually resorted to terrorism. However, the early 1990s and early 2000s were primarily remembered by Indians for the disturbingly high frequency of terrorist attacks by SRI. SRI's most infamous act of terrorism was the January 2001 arson attack on Parliament House, in which 786 people died after SRI set fire to Parliament and the Royal Palace. The attack on the Parliament remains the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of India. In 2002, SRI attempted to overthrow the Indian Embassy in Erimea by bombing it, but the building did not collapse and the perpetrators were quickly arrested by police. After this failure, the attack frequency of SRI decreased.