Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

I thoroughly enjoyed the novel, as it presents a unique perspective that resonates with my background as an Indian reader. This is, without a doubt, the best literary work centered on India I have encountered.

I don't know why this book has 800 chapters, i've only read 30. It's more or less a "things happen" type of novel, and i skipped around a bit to see if it had any redemption in terms of writing quality and whatnot. (spoiler, not really). There's a couple of things that stood out to me.

First of which, and this may just well be more indicative of the quality of this novel, but side characters, and even the main characters feel like they don't exist at all. Im not Indian, so I can't speak on this, but there really isn't any indian culture displayed in the first few chapters, and the things that do happen exist only to fill quotas, is completely irrelevant to the plot, and gets forgotten about two sentencs later.

Second off is that it doesn't do anything to diverge from the typical kingdom building. It's loaded with every trope, which, is to be expected, I really wasn't going into this novel with the plan of reading some masterpiece, but it's just too blatantly deterministic. No resistance, no realization that one boot does not fit all, just pass whatever law you like. Everything works out to our MC's plan and peasants start worshipping him by chapter 11, particulary egregious given that he really didn't do anything at that point in the story.