India

Gwalior, a major city of Madhya Pradesh, is 198 miles south of Delhi and is an important railway station between Delhi and Mumbai. The Agra-Mumbai Road turns south-west from Gwalior towards Indore, while the railway line goes south-east to…

Madhya Pradesh is associated with some famous names in Indian history. The great Emperor, Ashoka, began his career as the Viceroy of Ujjain. He laid the foundation of the Great Stupa at Sanchi in the third century B.C. The Maurya Empire,…

Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi is known as “India’s Joan of Arc”. This young lady, who was still in her twenties, was the widow of Gangadhar Rao, the last ruler of Jhansi. He died in 1853 without leaving a son. The British enunciated the…

Maharani Ahilya Bai Holkar (also Ahalya Bai) was the wife of Khanderao Holkar and daughter-in-law of Malhar Rao Halkar I. After the death of her husband and father-in-law, she was crowned as the queen of the Maratha ruled Malwa Kingdom. In…

Baji Rao I was the second Peshwa of Maratha Empire. He was the son of Balaji Vishwanath (First Peshwa). He was appointed for the position of Peshwa after the death of his father. Baji Rao I proved to be a shrewd and a far-sighted…

The big phase of British expansion came when Lord Dalhousie took over the Governor-Generalship. He was an energetic and determined man but a die-hard imperialist. He believed in taking advantages of every opportunity to further British…

Pallavas of Kanchi Pallavas of Kanchi (or Kanchipuram) were always at war with the Chalukyas of Badami. Not much is known about the early history of the Pallavas. However, the Pallavas under their king Narasimhavarman conquered the whole…

Balaji Bajirao When Bajirao died, his eldest son Balaji Bajirao, also known as Nana Saheb, had not reached the age of nineteen. But Shahu treated all posts as hereditary and as far as possible he usually preferred to appoint the legal heir…

Introduction: Gandhiji moved his resolution on non-cooperation movement in a special session of the Congress held in Calcutta in September 1920. In its annual session at Nagpur in December, the Congress confirmed a resolution. The…

Shahji Bhonsle Shahji Bhonsle (also Shahji Raje Bhonsle, Shahaji Raje Bhonsle) was the father of Shivaji Maharaj. He was the first to raise the prestige of Bhonsle family ( to which Shivaji Maharaj belongs) to acquire military distinction.…