The First Indian Immigrants to the US: A Living Elephant
The lucrative Indo-American trade began about 1790 and fortunes were being made on both shores.
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Exploring lesser known History
The Sultan & The Revolution – From Mysore to France
It was an all-out devastating loss for the French in which only two ships out of thirteen managed to escape.
Less than a year after, Arthur Wellesley and his comrades stormed Srirangapatnam, putting an end to Tipu Sultan’s rule as well as his life.
Napoleon, meanwhile, recovered quickly from his defeat and went on to become the Emperor of France.
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Book Review: Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writings by Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy was a historian of Medieval India and an important scholar of Indo-Persian Historiography. He wrote extensively on the need for new interventions in the styles of history writing that move away from the imperialist lens that puts the West in the centre.
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Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1526-1748) by Satish Chandra (Part Two)
This book written over two decades ago is one of the pioneer works on history of the medieval and early modern India. Published in 1999, it has some knowledge gaps which has been worked on by later historians.
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Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
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Half Baked Tales and other lies: The other side of Tipu Sultan
“You are a Jagat Guru! You are always performing penance in order that the whole world may prosper and
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Sati al-Nisa – The female medical practitioner in Shah Jahan’s court
Female practitioners of the medical arts were active in the ancient world and one of the earliest known female physicians in Shahjahan court was Sati al-Nisa of Amul, a city in the Caspian province of Mazandaran in Northern Iran.
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Chronicles of Khwaja Abdul Karim: The Bayan-i-Waqai the lineage
He was staying in Delhi to seek permission from the royal court to proceed for Hajj when Nadir Shah Afshar (1148-1160 A.H.) invaded and occupied Delhi in (1151 A.H.).
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Book Review: India Since Independence
This book was first published with a well-defined theme, as a continuation of India’s Struggle For Freedom in beginning of the new millennium as the first edition of this book titled India After Independence: 1947-2000.
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Arail: The village with long trail of history
According to Humayun Nama, the only reason he made it to the imperial capital at all was because of the assistance provided on the route by Raja Birbhan of Arail.
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Book Review: India’s Struggle for Independence
This book is the first of a two-part book series, which was partly a result of a research project on the Indian National Movement supervised by the renowned historian Bipan Chandra and funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
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Grave of Jallianwala Bagh’s hero, Kitchlew, lies in utter neglect
“The city’s (Amritsar’s) residents feel Gandhi (Mahatma) had no role in Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh tragedy). Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew, the local Punjabi leader, remains the most significant personality for them.”
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What did Abdul Qaiyum Ansari think on Rights of Indian Muslims and Waqf?
This Letter was submitted to Sub-Committee on Minorities of the Constituent Assembly of India by Abdul Qaiyum Ansari on July 24, 1947
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Sultan Yusuf Shah Chak, Grave of an exiled Kashmiri king lies in ruins in Bihar
Yusuf Chak of the Chak Dynasty was the last independent ruler of Kashmir before it was taken over by Emperor Akbar in 1585. He then took Yusuf Chak as a political prisoner and exiled him to Bihar.
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The Five Muslim Women Achievers You Need to Know About
Begum Qudsia Aijaz Rasul (1909 – 2001) was the only Muslim woman in the Constituent Assembly of India that drafted the Constitution of India.
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Overcoming The Odds – How Babur Arafat Brought Pride to India
Babur Arafat who hailed from Patna, Bihar, India, is also amongst the brave examples. Born on December 5, 1985, with an intellectual disability, Babur has also proven to the world that one can achieve anything they wants in life with sheer handwork and determination.
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Jamhoor, Aligarh: Champion of Democratic Values
Jamhoor was published three times in a month, on 6th, 16th, and 26th days of the month. Owned and edited by Mohammad Umar Khan Chattarvi (1924-2003), a well-known literary and pro-Urdu figure from Aligarh who was also the founding Secretary of the Urdu Board Aligarh and Idara-e- Ilm-o-Adab, Aligarh, under which he organised various Urdu literary activities and worked to promote Urdu education.
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Gaya Session of Congress 1922: A timeline for history enthusiast Gen Z
‘I do not want that sort of Swaraj which will be for middle class alone. I want a Swaraj which will be for the masses,not for the classes. I don’t care for the bourgeoisie. How few are they? Swaraj must be for the masses and must be won for the masses’
C.R.Das
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Jam-e-Jahan Numa: The Urdu cradle & it’s Brahmin caretaker
As Urdu press celebrates its lowkey bicentenary this year,it is the perfect time to tribute those who laid its foundation : A Brahmin, a Sikh and their weekly paper ‘Jam-e-Jahan Numa’
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The Kutchehri… “Manjhla Estate”
Located in the Dhadhar river valley between the thickly forested hills of the Maher and Rangaini Range the zamindari listed with the District Collector of Gaya as “Manjhla Estate” was called “sarkar” (government) by the villagers in the area. It was called sarkar because that was all the governance that was. The forests stretching over almost 3000 square miles were just one of the wildernesses that connected the Magadh region to heights of the Chotanagpur plateau. The region teemed with wild life so typical to India’s wildernesses, and was home to tigers, leopards’ herds of sambhar, cheetal, barking deer, sloth bears, wild boar pea-fowl and jungle fowl.
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