Chhatrapati Shivaji vs Afzal Khan: Pratapgad,1659
If there is a single episode that one can imagine and understand as to why Chhatrapati Shivaji is considered such a great persona, then it would be the killing of Afzal Khan. The Pratapgad campaign is much more More...
New York Times Peddles Myth and Calls it History: A response to Romila Thapar
Recently, the New York Times published an article by historian Romila Thapar titled “They Peddle Myths and Call it History“, it goes on to propagate a dozen half truths and full lies. This article attempts to More...
जगन्नाथ पुरी: 18 आक्रमणों का गवाह
कुछ दिनों पहले पुरी में जगन्नाथ यात्रा हुई थी| जैसे जैसे रथ जगन्नाथ मंदिर से पुरी More...
How Indian was the Mughal Empire?
In 1937, elections were held for the Constituent Assembly of India. This was on top of Provincial Governments already being run by Indians, not to mention many municipalities and municipal corporations. All this More...
Maratha Refusal to Dethrone the Mughal
A question is often asked – why did the Marathas, the dominant power of India in the eighteenth century, still continued with the Mughal emperor? Why wasn’t the Mughal dynasty destroyed by the Marathas, More...
Jagannath Puri: Survivor of 18 invasions
A few days back, the Jagannath Puri rath yatra took place. A grand spectacle, thronged by thousands of people, as the rathas made their way from the Jagannath temple to the Gundicha temple in Puri. This procession More...
From NCERT Joke Book: ‘British Became Supreme Power in 1765 Itself’
Most of us very clearly remember how our school history books drilled into our heads that the Mughal empire was succeeded by the British empire. To those whose memories are a bit fuzzy, I have posted a screenshot More...
Marathas and Bundelkhand – IV: Jhansi ki Rani
[contextly_sidebar id=”jHwjP0qNPKAcz4HqQhCHO7EeJPcbtjUg”] Chamak uthi san sattavan mein, yeh talwar purani thi, Bundeley Harbolon key munh hamney suni kahani thi, Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali More...
Marathas and Bundelkhand III- Govindpant Bundele and Panipat!
[contextly_sidebar id=”5DBMirKCFiWi3VmEdmpavJJdp22n4uTN”] In the previous two parts of this series, we saw how the Marathas came to influence Bundelkhand right from the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji. The More...
Marathas & Bengal: Chhatrapati Shivaji as a national hero
“Ek dharmarajyapase khanda chinna bikshipta bharat Bandhe Dibo Ami” I will unite the various states of India under one dharma — from Rabindranath Tagore’s poem Shivaji Utsav Cries of “Bande Mataram” More...