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>Why would they? Religion? Most alliances are usually sealed with marriage in royal affairs. As weird as it sounds for Rajputs, they probably weren't raring to marry off their daughters/sons to people who speak a different language, eat different food and wear different clothes. Inter religion marriage is still present. Inter regional marriages though, very rare in India.

You couldn't be more wrong! There are many many instances of Indian empires (cutting across regions and languages) forming alliances.

You have had the Chalukya (South Indian, Kannadiga) empire ally itself with the Gurjara Pratiharas (North Indians) and the Palas (Buddhist Bengalis) and fight off the Arab invaders for close to 50 years. This was after the Chalukyas, Pratiharas and Palas had been fighting each other for half a century. They basically stopped fighting each other and allied against a common enemy.

You have the Kalachuri dynasty (North India) getting into alliances (strengthened by Matrimonial ties) with the Rashtrakutas and Chandellas.

I won't write a list of 20 such alliances I can think off, you can simply buy this book that goes into this at great length. It is titled.... Matrimonial Alliances and Ancient India Polity (Reconstructing Indian History and Culture).

I know this bakchodi, but the amount of shitty Indian history is just off the fucking charts.

I am tired, and hence won't go into how wrong your post on 1857 is. You literally sound like you picked up some English propaganda letter from 1858 and are basing your comments on this.