Kumari

Kumari is an Indian-Lemurian nation which has lasted since the Clouded Ages. It's very much like Britain, having a parliment and prime minister but still retaining a king.

Culture & Politics
There are four major political parties in Kumari, the communist Soviet Party of Kumari, the fascist Askatva, the conservative democratic Kumari Conservative Coalition and the social-democrat Social Democratic Union of Kumari. The KCC and SDU often switch a lot in popularity, the KCC having been the major power for a long time but increasing SDU efforts have lead to the SDU gaining popularity. the Askatva party is a fascist organization based off of Hundutva but with Asakti principles and finally the SPK which is known to work with Moscow. The KCC has around 31% of the voters, the SDU having around 22%, the SPK having a popularity of around 18% and the Askatva having around 16% and around 13% do not vote or vote for non-major parties.

Kumaris official religion is Asakti, a branch of Hinduism.

One of the oldest customs of the Kumari are the fighting pits, usually they are dug so deep that the fights can't get out unless they get help. The walls are to be taller then the tallest fighter and the shortest fighter put together. Their width varies a lot from town to town but it's common to have it enough for 4 men to fight.

The national animal of Kumari is the Indian Elephant.

693BC-412AD Pre-Vasharaiji and Vasharaiji Kumari
???-693BC -Clouded Ages- Not much is known about the Kumari people that had settled there and have people named this era the "Clouded Ages" as they're covered in not only mystery but also many contradicting myths and legends.

693BC-609BC - First Kingdom of the Kumari The first Kingdom of the Kumari was ruled by a dynasty of men called the "Wise Craftsmen". They had extravagant palaces built in the Old Kumari region which are still prominent in 1936. The last King Javas began trying to expand the kingdom but failed to after dying young and without an heir.

609BC-573BC - Fragmented Kumari Kumari was fragmented and divided between different kings and warlords. This era would also see the rise of Jainism/Jain Dharma.

557BC - Establishing of the Vasharaiji Dynasty The longest ruling dynasty in the Kumari kingdom was the Vasharaiji dynasty, it ruled for around a thousand years. Differing from how the northern Indian civilizations were going through urbanization and technological innovation the Kumari wouldn't advance much as the north of Lemuria would be in relative peace for a long period of time.

511BC-493BC - Famines During this period Kumari experienced a large amount of famines which lead to an unruly peasantry.

~500BC - Territorial Rulers During a period of unrulyness the famines lead to a peasantry who wanted there to be local leaders to ensure this didn't happen again. This would mark the start of a Kumari-style nobility which was appointed rather then elected.

364BC - Copper Pongimarana Mountain Mines A lot of copper was found in the mountain range, this would mark as small economic boom.

338BC - Stories of the Greatest Pasharanayar A stories of poems and heroic acts detailing the earliy Vasharaiji and various citizens of the Kumari kingdom comes out. They'd be spread out around the kingdom in copper books.

327BC - Western Oligarchy An oligarchy based on the Indian ones was formed in the West of Kumari Kandum. They'd be Lemurian but had a notable minority of Kumari people, which Kumari tried to use to justify invasion several times.

~300BC - Notable Buddhist Authority Though Jainism and local religions still remained in highplace Buddhism started taking a good stronghold in the east of the region.

~300BC - Mauryan Influence The idea of a fully united Kumari started influencing the region after the rise and fall of the first Pan-Indian empire.

267BC-125 - Kumari Trade Empire As the Indian subcontinent lay divided the Kumari started solidifying a trade monopoly in not only Lemuria but a bit of South India.

118 - Greatest Harvest The year of the "Greatest Harvest" caused a minor economic boom which would in the end lead to the creation of the Kumari Royal Guard

125-133 - Shahakaharan Action of Independence Though the Kumari people had long ruled the island of Utura a new culture had emerged controlling the island, the Shahakaharan people. They started a war lead by the "King of Utura" Dheeraj. The war was not really fought for the people but more for Dheeraj himself, though he was a character of "great charisma" and convinced many to join his cause even managing to convince the then current leader of Kumari to form the vassalage of Utura.

127 - Princes and the first fighting pits. The many "princes"(Many were not real princes, mostly just sons of nobility or highly esteemed generals) of Kumari formed the first fighting pit. A fighting pit is a bit dug into the ground and has raised walls. It's common for it to also have a few seats at the top of the raised walls, though they were not a part of the first fighting pits. And there'd be holes in the walls where spectators would watch in. The fighting pit is a pit where men would fight 1 versus 1, swords were common It would later spread to the peasant population and evolve into a deadlier competitive sport.

134-510 - Era of the Knowledgable This era would spark a great amount of new Kumari scholars. It'd also see a slight incrase in the price of coppar as a lot of new coppar books were made.

322 - Kumari People's Stories This would be a part of the era of the knowledgable, many stories of peasants were written down.

382 - Trade Influx A great trade influx would come in from southern Lemuria as they sell foods to a starving native-Lemurian populace. This would fund the creation of the Grand Palce of the Vashaja. A palace decorated in a great amount of plantlife.

403 - Buddhist King of Kumari The first truly buddhist king of Kumari. He didn't do much besides starting to solidify buddhism in Kumari.

408-412 - Noble Rise A rise of the nobles as it's called was a moment where the nobility rose in opposition to buddhism, seeing the local religions as superior and buddhism along with the other mainland indian religions as "enemy" religions.

412 - Fall of the Vasharaiji and the rise of the Davarariri dynasty The Vasharaiji dynasty fell with the last buddhist king praying in his chamber, still meditating when his head was chopped off by men who stormed his palace.

412AD-711AD Gahava Vasharaiji
Gahava is the name of the period, the name for ignorance to corruption and when the royalty meddled little in the affairs of those lesser.

414 - Gupta Bride A bride from the Gupta dynasty arrived in Kumari to be wedded to the Davarariri heir. This caused a great outrage from the nobles as they had just risen up against a king who was following the customs of the subcontinent of India.

419 - Indian Warriors of Sahan A small pact of warriors in Kumari travelled to India and came back forming under the name of Sahan. They'd form a shortly lived elite guard which would spark the tradition of the Royal Kumari Guardsmen which later became the Royal Larkates.

421-532 - Cholan-Kumari Alliance In an effort to solidify their place in North Lemuria the Cholans made an alliance with the Kumari king.

537 - Cholan Trade Monopoly The Cholans would form a trade monopoly in the Gulf of Chola and a part of the Bay of Bengal, threatening the Kumari trade. This would mark the first start of true competition in the gulfs of chola and kumari, as Kumari and Chola merchants would compete heavily.

544 - First Dushabar Dinner What would later become an important royal tradition was the Dushabar Dinner In Dushabar, a province in Kumari, there's a grand palace in which a royal dinner is held biannually.

547-711 - Age of Turbulence A great amount of turbulence occurred in Kumari as the fighting pits, an unregulated sport, starting spurring and funding local lords, using those funds they'd hire their own force and impose their own hegemoney on their "owned" towns. The lords which took away from the local power of the kumari king would become quite numerous.

566 - Ending of the Lemurian Incursions Native Lemurians used to often make incursions into Kumari, stealing and plundering.

575 - Burning of Neejaak Neejaak was an important trade port and city in the Kumarigulf.

683 - Shajaherajav-Vetamamkamaharan Two local lords fought a war which lead to a lot of destruction and death in the south of Kumari.

699 - Royal Meeting In an effort to decide what to do the king calls for a meeting between his advisors to decide what to do.

709 - Passing of the king After a suspicious death of the king the prince takes over, he's radically anti-local lords and immiediantly starts rallying lords which haven't taken advantage of the fighting pits to form their own armies.

711-735 - New King War The new king lead a "glorious war" where he eliminated an estimated 65% of the nobility and imprisoning around 10%.

It would be notable not only due to the affect on the nobles but also on the increasing centrilzation.

711AD-1411AD Kumari Re-Defined
880 - Islamic Spread The year 880 would mark the start of a new age of Islam in North-Lemuria, they would pass through Kumari not being able to spread their religion as they were thrown out of every town and city they came to. It would mostly influence the Cholan territory but it would also spread to the heart of the Kumari and east of Utura.

~880 - Asakti Dominance Asakti would rise to dominate as a new form of Hinduism, becoming iconic in the region and replacing "Old" Hinduism.

889-1079 - Peaceful Kings Nothing much would happen during these years except for the Kumari doctrine of "Complete Peace" where they'd negotiate for total peace and try to facilitate culture and trade.

987 - Kharenja Revolt The revolt of the Kharenja, a small population of people that later became the Meru Kumari (Meaning Lesser Kumari). It was a short-lived revolt but it was lead by the Christians of Kumari and the Kharenjan Nobles.

998 - Expulsion of the Christians and Muslims The Kumari king would expulse the christians to the oligarchs in the west and the muslims to the Cholas in the east.

1008-1232 - Jaharee Kaval The "Jaharee Kaval" was an era where the indian subcultures of north lemuria experienced decline as a new ideology spread throughout the churches of the "Unchanged Culture". It'd of course not be completely followed but it was official state policy.

1353 - Pandyan Landings Before evolving into the Pantiyan culture it started with the landings of a rich Pandyan nobleman and a few troop deployments who would buy up loads of lands from other nobles and arrange a marriage with the biggest noble in the oligarchy. The Kumari military would be sent in to aid the Pandyans.

1399 - Kumari Market Boom Solidifying itself as the controler of trade in Lemuria the markets would blow up and become ever more popular, controling the trade flowing in and out.

1404 - Asakti Resurgance With various different hinduist variations ruling over parts of Kumari for quite some time one of the oldest started having a resurgance in popularity all over Kumari. The reason for the large popularity of it was that it included greater sexual freedoms.

1407-1411 - Exodus of the Old Hinduists Old Hinduism as it became known as in Kumari migrated to the territory of modern-day Meru-Kumari. The reason for the exodus was the small amount of discrimination that was targeted towards the Old Hinduists and how much the Old Hinduists disproved of the new Askati hinduism.

1407-1423 - Pandyan War For long there was a spirit among the Pandiyans of their "supremacy" over the "Old Lemurians" as they called them.

During the war there was a major importing of elephants, they would be a part of the Pandyan War Doctrine and decreased native Lemurian morale increasingly.

1411-1468 First Kumari Expansion Period
1424 - Pandyan-Kumari Trade Kumari, in an effort to enforce their trade superiority, sign an agreement with Pandya opening up trade between Kumari and Pandya officially.

1425 - Pantiya Pandya evolves into Pantiya as they become a part of the Indian-Lemurian cultures.

1427 - Meru Kumari Uralualualua! The Uralualualua war cry is first used in the glorious The war cry signifies a "destined" victory by the native-Lemurian war god which became a part of the Asakti later.

1428-1433 - Great Pantiyan Conquest What would lead to the ultimate assimilation and destruction of the native-lemurians in west-lemurian all came from the Pantiyans, a "glorious" war which lead to them offically getting into contact with the Afro-Lemurians.

1431 - Lemurian Migration What would ultimately make the modern Kumari citizen more Lemurian would be the massive immigration to Kumari by native Lemurians fleeing chaotic native-Lemurian warfare in the south. They would bring forth the first notion of what would later become the Lemurian version of the Royal Gurkhas (or called so by the British later on), named the Royal Larkates, which would become the royal guard of the royal family for many generations.

1437 - Second Christian Migration There was a great migration of Christians and a spreading of christianity in Kumari in the year 1437 as 7 churches were founded in Kumari.

1446 - Kumari Annexation What would ultimately solidify the current borders in East-Kumari was marked in 1446 after Kumari, Chola and the Kalari kingdoms divided a small nation named often "Indian Kalari" or "Shajateira".

~1450 - Fighting Pit Decade What would later become the first true Kumari fighting pit league was a part of a series of regional leagues which were formed during the decade, it was also a part of the first organized betting in Kumari fighting pits.

1459 - Biskeet and the fire of Vasharajaa "Biskeet" was the name of the otherwise unknown Kumari Christian which is believe to have started the fire in the city of Vasharajaa

It would lead to discrimination towards Christians as the fire in the city began from a Christian church.

1463-1467 - Christian Insurgence Due to increased persecution and the priests in Kumari believing the Asakti religion to be a part of satanic degeneracy they began an insurrection which lead to the final destruction of Vasharajaa as the king decrees the city to be razed to the ground and all christians beheaded.

1468-1632 - Kumari Period of Darkness During this period there was once again a period of instability and civil unrest.

1468-1664 New Kumari Culture
1478 - Vasco da Gama reaches Kumari Vasco da Gama would go to India but he would first come to Kumari. This would be the first Kumari-European contact and still today Kumari and Portugal maintain friendly relations.

???-1512-??? - Maeirada Vashinu Maeirada would become a cultural icon when he released a series of paintings and poems from both Indian and Indian-Lemurian origins. The cultural objects would become parts of the central Kumari culture. They'd form a strong basis for the "later Asaktu cultural bloom" and a flourishing Kumari culture.

1566 - Lemurian Incursion A large amount of native-Lemurian soldiers went for a new incursion into Kumari, for the first time for a thousand years.

They'd go all the way to Maharaj where they fought they Royal Larkates alongside the king in a desperate fight on the fields outside the city. The king would managed to knock the incursion back to their "Wild Lands" after executing the unnamed leader of the incursion.

1632-1664 - Asaktu Cultural Bloom A cultural boom coming from the Asaktu appears.

1683-1752 Kumari and Kandam
This era is marked with anti-Lemurian and imperialistic sentiment, seeing how the Europeans managed to become very rich they desired an empire of their own.

1683 - Portuguese-Kumari Trade Company A trade company is established in Kumari by the portuguese, sanctioned by Kumari for a good portion of the money.

1686 - Portuguese Dinner A dinner was held with Portuguese dignateries and would mark friendly Kumari-Portuguese relations.

1696 - Another Great Migration With massive colonization moves in Southern-Lemuria there was another great migration of native-Lemurians, this time it brought with itself war.

1696-1707 - The Last Incursion The last Incursion of native Lemurians lead to a great amount of death of native-Lemurians in the major cities and the establishment of an Indian-Lemurian "nation" in southern Kumari.

1699 - Anti-Lemurian Peasant War Peasants in Southern Kumari begin rising up in droves killing many native Lemurians, as a part of the Last Incursion.

1735 - Kumari Nation Festival A festival for unity in Kumari is held as increasing tensions divide the southern regions

1752 - Kumari Mercantile Organization An organization of Kumari merchants starts, it would further enforce Kumari trade control in north/indian lemuria.

1789-1883 Second Kumari Expansion Period
1789 - Meru Kumari Invasion Meru Kumari has been a territory which has never been under centralized control. This would mark the invasion of the Kumari Kingdom into the Meru Kumari region and the establishment of the Lesser Kumari Kingdom.

1797 - Pantiyan Civil War A civil war in Pantiya emerges as the king is deposed and rival nobles rise in war to take over the region.

1801 - French-Kumari Treaty regarding Pantiya A treaty is signed between Kumari and France regarding Pantiya as France establishes a beach-head in North-West Lemuria and Kumari annexes a part of Pantiya with no fighting back.

1827 - The Islamic War A war known as the "Islamic War" is begun in Kumari as men from Chola begin to try and create their own nation in Kumari using Sharia law. It lasted only 1 year but started the second expulsion of muslims.

1854-1934 - Aurtura War Aurtura "secedes" from Kumari and is launched into a long period of war between native-Lemurians, Indian-Lemurians and Europeans.

1857-1885 - French War in Pantiya A brutal war for Pantiya as the French go around exterminating native-Lemurians and Indian-Lemurians. It would lead to a band of men going to the Kumari king to ask for him to occupy more of Kumari to prevent more of the genocide, he would not adhere to their please for help. This period would also be known as the "Great Betrayal" and would spark the great migration to Kumari

1867 - Kumari the Empire! Kumari is declared an official Empire and the "Gem of Lemuria".

1870-1887 - Pantiyan Migration to Kumari A large portion of the population migrates to Kumari after the brutal war in Pantiya.

1879 - Kumari Delegation to Paris Kumari sends a delegation to Paris silently telling the French to back down or they'd be forced into war with Kumari while they're still campaigning in Pantiya.

1880 - French Delegation to Maharaj France sends a delegation to Maharaj silently telling them basically "yes, we'll back down *temporarily* but you need to seize your claim to Eastern-Pantiya". This would lead to negotiations which would lead to the modern Pantiyan borders.

1882-1883 - Maharaj Protests A large amassing of liberals appear outside the kings palace in Maharaj, demanding a consitution.

1883 - Constituition! After a long period of protests the king "submits to the peoples will" and orders for a diet to assemble a consitution. The constitution would transform it into a republic, with the monarchy still retaining a small part of power and the power to override the democratic governments laws and orders.

1883-1936 Kumari Democracy
1896 - Kumari Royal Science Assocation The first government-owned science insituition is opened in Kumari.

1897 - Kumari Military College In an effort to modernize their military a Kumari military college is opened, this would mark the end of the exclusively royal officer class and the start of a proper professional Kumari army.

1899-1904 - Civilwar in French Pantiya A civilwar emerges in French pantiya, this time the Kumari military would guard the Western borders per the French agreement.

1911 - Pantiyan Terror Group A terror group emerges in Pantiya known as the "Pantiyan Tigers" they'd be a part of Kumari Anti-European efforts and dreams

1914-1918 - Kumari-French Food Trade Kumari would become rich off of selling France cheap food for its troops. It would spark the true industrialization phase of Kumari

1917-1929 - Kumari Major Industrialization Phase With recent money flowing in from Kumari selling ammunition and food to France the Kumari government funds a major initiative to industrialize Kumari.

1919 - Commune of Kumari A small rebel commune on the border regions of Aurtura declares independence from Kumari. It would only exist for 1919 as the Kumari government deploys its troops to swiftly take care of it.

1923 - Meru Kumari Republic The Meru Kumari nation reforms into a Republic, still retaining its status as a part of the "Kumari Sphere".

1925 - Winds of Fire A major fire starts in the south of Kumari after the war in Aurtura sparks a series of fires which lead to a lot of destruction in the southern regions.

1927 - Kumari Military Expansion In response to the increased threat to the south the Kumari military expands, leaning towards a worse off army due to quantity over quality.

1929 - The reintroduction of British Imperialism on Old-Kumari territories The generalship would spark a crisis in the government as it threatens the Kumari-loyalists in the region, Kumari would try and send in their troops and secure some territory but they were blocked by pacifists.

1933 - Succession Crisis A succession crisis emerges in Kumari as the kings only possible heir is deemed "illegitimate" as he is the child of the king and a concubine. The democrats would prefer that the government rather go to his cousin which aims to weaken the status of the government.