Mr Col can u give some statistical proof of it or you are trying to spread the same propaganda of hatred...great that you have retired and your chest-beating about Maratha is ok but that does not mean that Northies are degraded and did not do anything for the country for last god knows how many centuries they were the front runner to save India. It was only when they were weakened, the outsiders were able to come-in and basically butcher the entire Indianness and Hindu Indianism. The so-called non-violence and peaceful approach that Ashoka layed late in his empire is also one of the cause that no powerful emperor was ever again able to rule akhand India.