Category: HISTORY

Dara Shikoh: A Learned And Gifted Scholar Or Doomed Prince?

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By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem, Editor-ICN Group  NEW DELHI: It is often a debatable issue that who among the four sons of the great Mughal king, Shahjahan was the most gifted and learned and true to his expectations. He had four sons, Dara Shikoh, Shah Shuja, Murad Baksh and Aurangzeb and three daughters Jahanara, Roshanara and Gauharara. Had the great king erred in judging the true capabilities of his sons? Had he assigned the task of his kingdom according to the qualities to rule the country, the violent skirmishes which had taken…

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From The Unread Pages Of History Of Indian Freedom Struggle: Part 3

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By: Amitabh Dixit, Editor-ICN TANTIA/TANTYA MAMA Who was Tantya Mama Tantya Bhil was born as a very thin and weak but little long child in 1842 in Badda village of Pandhana tehsil of East Nimar (Khandwa) district in the then CP province. Tantya’s father, Mau Sing, vowed to his wife at the threshold of Navagaja Pir in childhood that his son would avenge the humiliation of his Bhil caste sister, daughters and daughters-in-law. Navagaja Pir was the favored deity of the Muslims as well as the Bhils. Because of being this…

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From The Unread Pages Of History Of Indian Freedom Struggle: Part 1

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By: Amitabh Dixit, Editor-ICN TANTIA/TANTYA MAMA LUCKNOW: Historian Griffin has written, “Never before has a more significant event occurred in India than the revolution of 1857.” Although the Revolt of 1857 was unsuccessful, the results were unprecedented, widespread and lasting improvements. From the womb of the same revolution of 1857, many such heroes emerged, who have got very little reference in history, but they are still alive and respected in the public even after more than 150 years, in folk tales and in folk songs. One of such them was…

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HISTORY OF GOA FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO 2017

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By: Prajal Sakhardande  PANAJI: Goa’s history goes back to her pre–historic Palaeolithic existence of the earliest humans in the caves or the banks of the Mhadei (Mandovi), Kushawati, Zuari, Dudhsagar rivers tracing their footprints through the Pansaimoll, Uzgallimall laterite beds to the Sosogad, Molanguinim, Diwar, Varkhand, Uskai, Chicalim, Sanguem, Dharbandoda, Mashem and several other caves. Its Neolithic Gaunkaris that is the village communities were its next progressive step, cultivating and creation of the khazans by the Kunbis, Gawdas, Velips, the Kharwis or the fisherfolk and later the Dravidians, Aryans building on to create…

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