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✅ Historical Reality: Wheeler's Aryan invasion theory has been refuted by physical anthropological and geological evidence. The decline was multi-causal: hydro-climatic desiccation of the Ghaggar-Hakra system, erratic monsoons, and shifts in trade networks.

✅ Historical Reality: Ashoka was already drawn to Buddhism before the Kalinga War; the war transformed his policy into state patronage of Dhamma, but he explicitly retained the judicial death penalty and warned forest tribes (*Atavikas*) of state punitive force in Major Rock Edict XIII.

✅ Historical Reality: The price controls and grain rationing systems were strictly confined to metropolitan Delhi and immediate environs to maintain a massive standing army without overburdening imperial coffers.

✅ Historical Reality: Din-i-Ilahi (Tauhid-i-Ilahi) was an elite ethical and spiritual brotherhood based on rational monotheism and universal tolerance (*Sulh-i-Kul*), with only around 18 prominent court disciples (e.g., Birbal).

✅ Historical Reality: Only seven prisoners were incarcerated in the Bastille on July 14, 1789. The fortress was stormed primarily to seize large caches of gunpowder and ammunition to arm the newly formed Paris National Guard.

✅ Historical Reality: While greased cartridges served as the immediate tactical trigger, the rebellion involved deep civil peasant participation, dispossessed taluqdars, urban artisans, and coordinated political proclamations (Azamgarh Proclamation).

✅ Historical Reality: The Poona Pact abandoned separate electorates and replaced them with reserved seats within a single joint electorate, while increasing their seats from 71 to 148.