Notes on Indian History

After the fall of Bijapur and Golconda in 1686 and 1687, the Marathas were the only enemy left whom Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (r: 1658-1707) had to sub

Chitradurga (Chitaldrug of the British) in Karnataka was governed by local chieftains well before the rise of the Vijayanagara empire. By the 1500s, i

As we all know, Timur, the Turkic conqueror of Central Asia, invaded India in 1398 during the reign of Sultan Mahmud Tughlaq (1394-1413) of Delhi Sult

Maryam Zamani also pronounced Mariam Zamani or Mariam-uz-Zamani is not the name of Jahangir's mother, but the title given to Jahangir's mother

A Genoese merchant, Hieronimo di Santo Stefano visited India at the close of the fifteen century, about 1494-99.  Santo Stefano and his partner Adorno

Nicolo` de' Conti, a Venetian travelled in India and the East for 25 years, between 1419 and 1444. On his return from India when he reached Mecca,

Nicolo` de' Conti was a Venetian merchant and perhaps the earliest visitor to the kingdom of Vijayanagar. The ruins of the great city of Vijayanag

"<i> In the year 845 (A. D. 1442), the author of this narrative, Abdur Razzak, the son of Ishaq, in obedience to the orders of the sovereign of the w

Followed by Tipu Sultan's defeat in the 3rd Anglo-Mysore war, he had to sign a treaty of peace by ceding a large part of his dominions and a subst