History - No Comments » - Posted on May, 11 at 11:50 am
Qutb-ud-din Aibak, Turkish Commander of Muhammad Ghauri became the head of Delhi and surrounding acquired regions, after bloody conflicts between the successors. He was capable of being a prominent and sovereign ruler but in 1210 CE he fell victim to an accidental death. Though his career was short-lived he is remembered as the founder of [...]
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on September, 19 at 6:26 am
CE 1000-1025 saw the Muslim ruler Mahmud. He was the ruler of Gazni, a small province in Afghanistan. A Turk warrior named Alptigin, of whom Mahmud was a descendent had established Gazni province. Mahmud launched seventeen consecutive, extremely brutal attacks across the Afghan frontier into India, with frequent victories over the disunited Indians. By 1025 [...]
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on July, 19 at 11:11 pm
The reputation of the East India Company had been of ever increasing conquest and commercial exploitation. The cumulative effect of British expansionist policies, economic exploitation and administrative abuse over the years had adversely affected the position of local rulers, Sepoys, Zamindars, peasants, traders, Pandits, Moulvies and so on.
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on July, 1 at 5:35 pm
Political unification of India under the Mauryas gave a major boost to trade and various crafts. All the artisans were organized in corporate bodies or guilds and thus crafts became small-scale industries. The trading networks, both land and marine spanned the whole Indian subcontinent, Mesopotamia, Iran and the west Asia. Trade, which was diligently supervised [...]
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on May, 21 at 1:13 pm
The paraphernalia involved in performing Pujas is designed to create an appropriate ambience, a divine fervour and elevate the state of mind to prepare the performer to receive God’s grace.
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on April, 5 at 9:22 pm
Changes in the trade patterns with Asia set the stage for the arrival of Europeans in India. Arab Merchants purchased commodities like spices, precious stones, fine cotton and silk, sugar and so on from the Asian markets for sale in European markets. Towards the end of the sixteenth century, European sailors discovered new sea routes [...]
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on March, 23 at 5:56 pm
Whatever we eat is converted into life giving particles that in turn are converted into the three basic elements or Tridhatu, known as Kafa, Pitta, Vata. These elements are the basis of a body may it a human being or otherwise. Since there is no single term to describe these three in English the Sanskrit [...]
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on March, 22 at 10:11 pm
The story of India begins almost 500,000 years ago, when man first appeared on the subcontinent. Stone Age man occupied almost the entire Indian subcontinent except the Gangetic plain and some parts of Kerala. He shared his habitat with ancestors of cattle, buffalo, elephant, horse, hippopotamus and rhinoceros amongst others.
Read More..>>History - No Comments » - Posted on February, 18 at 5:44 pm
In 1505 when Sikander Lodhi was preoccupied with the Tomars of Gwalior, Zahir-ud-din Muhammad, commonly known as Babur attacked the northwestern frontier. Sikander Lodhi was fool enough to ignore the Mongol. After five expeditions in twenty years Babur took Delhi and Agra and deposed the successor of Sikandar, ending the Lodhi dynasty. Babur settled down [...]
Read More..>>