Great Struggle

The Great Struggle, known to non-Hindians as the Hindian Revolutions or the Hindian Revolutionary Wars, was a period of civil, political, and military strife culminating in the defeat of the last remaining forces of the Yarildom of Doehli, the death of Sonderbeg and the extinction of the Ivorian line of Uusi Hirvimaa. It took place from the early 950s and 960s during the independence of Barasingha to 1005, where Sambari revolutionaries were finally defeated and a policy of full-scale defense and preparations for warfare were adopted by leaders of the Doehli Confederation instead of the guerrilla, revolutionary tactics that had been adopted by the Hindians during the Great Struggle. The Great Struggle was characterized by Hindians as a war for independence, as inland independent princes and revolutionaries in Olenian territory fought together to create independent states across the South of Hindia, especially in the former Yarildom of Doehli, where Thanedoms had slowly been retaken by inland natives for centuries until the Yarildom itself was eventually deposed. In Barasingha, the Thanedom there was overtaken by the forces of the great general and warrior Mikalla I, who declared herself Queen of Barasingha, while in much of the Southwest, independent princes of all different backgrounds created a decentralized confederation known as the Doehli Confederation to ward off Olenian missions from the Yarildom of Chital or from the remnants of the Sea-Kings proper in Uusi Hirvimaa.

The legacy of the Great Struggle has been debated by historians - while some believe it to be a righteous struggle for independence against the Olenians that created visionary military and revolutionary tactics and succeeded in opposing Doehli, others see it as a period of failed guerrilla violence and revolutionary tactics that eventually led to the weakening of native military authority where it existed to back revolutionaries. The main goal of the Great Struggle, deposing Barasingha, Doehlian remnants, and Sambar, was only established in two of those three nations, and many still debate on whether Doehli and Barasigha could now survive invasions from Chital and Sambar.

What is known, however, is that the guerrilla tactics and sheer desire for national independence that the Hindians exhibited is a clear case study on the nationalistic and cultural divides of the Hindian subcontinent, although the effectiveness of the brutal warfare of attrition, with critics noting sheer loss of life among Hindian forces compared to Olenian ones, is still called into question.