Notes on Indian History

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

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