You may hardly have come across a Maharaja with a big empire refusing to sit on a throne or wearing a crown and abstaining from having his name struck...
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21st Nov 2024 | Updated at 11:25pm 21st Nov 2024
Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers’ Conflict with Judiciary
- 16 Dec 2020
Decades before Jagan Mohan Reddy, the present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India making wild allegations against the High Court judges, Damodaram Sanjivayya, the second Chief Minister of Andhra...
Emperor Krishnadevaraya and World Heritage Hampi
- 08 Dec 2020
Recently the news flashed in The Hindu of Chennai attracted global attention since it is of international as well as historical importance: “Tourists can no longer get too close to the iconic stone chariot in front of the Vijaya Vittala Temple...
Heritage and History
- 04 Nov 2020
In April 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guest was King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
The History of India would have been different had it not been Prithviraj Chauhan, the King of Ajmer and Delhi, who pardoned Muhammad Ghori.
The Indian Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had specially gone to Amarakot ( now Umarkot in Sindh, Pakistan) to extend invitation to Rana Arjun Singh Sodha, the ruler of a small princely state, to get associated with Congress Party.
Sometimes history does injustice to individuals, institutions and even to communities.
Bihar, the ancient land of Buddha and Mahavira, the cradle of democracy and the Janpadas (Republics), has been the best example for the world to learn...
What a coincidence, the person, under whose chairmanship the British Government formed a committee in 1929 on linguistic affinity demanding a separate...
The wealthiest in the world would borrow cigarettes from his guests!
Bhopal has been the heart of British India and even post- independence India.
The aspirations of the people of British India were raised following declaration of Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the House of Commons on February 20, 1947,...
