Notes on Indian History

In addition to Arabic inscriptions, there are also Nagari inscriptions engraved on the Qutb Minar. Most of them are records of the various repairs on

Every Muslim monument was once a Hindu temple or structure, according to self-proclaimed pseudo-historians. One of their claims is that the Delhi Mina

Recently, some people have started writing history books, with the sole purpose of spreading communal propaganda. Tipu Sultan is one of the popular su

In this post, we are not going into the details of the Mysore-Travancore war, but only discussing about the exaggerations made by some British and Tra

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