13th century Persian historian Minhaj-i-Siraj in his book Tabaqat-i Nasiri recorded many of Bakhtiyar Khilji’s battlefield exploits, loot, and plunder in India. Tabaqat-i Nasiri contains a detailed account of Khilji’s attack of Kamrupa and his defeat

Much of the historical records available about the glories and victories of Indian warriors were destroyed by the British. This was to prove their superiority and show the later generations and the world that they were superior and that they civilized India

Earlier too, they had always suspected her to be the root cause behind the emergence of anti-colonial resistance movements in the Lushai Hills and its neighbouring areas. She was even accused of having been involved in many attacks of the British troops by the Lushais at that time

Damodar, Balkrishna and Vasudev were waiting patiently in pitch darkness on the road each with a gun and sword in their hands and revenge on their mind. Just as a carriage passed by the eldest brother, Damodar, he followed it and as it reached the yellow bungalow, shouted the decided call of “Gondya ala re ala”

'Direct Action Day' - The day - 16th August - was chosen deliberately with utmost care to provoke Islamist sentiments. That day in 1946 was the eighteenth day of Ramzan, and it was on that day that Prophet Muhammad waged the bloody Battle of Badr

If the Marathas had won at Panipat, it would probably have meant the liberation of the holy towns along with the demolition of the Gyanvapi mosque and restoration of the Kashi Vishwanath temple. When it came to opposing the temple destroying armies of Abdali, it was the Marathas who sacrificed thousands of their men hundreds of miles from their homes

As understood that the role played by Karkotas especially by Lalitaditya Muktapida in the history of Kashmiris remarkable. He was strongest ruler of this dynasty, that is why he is called Samudragupta of Kashmir. Some of the main conquests he made were upto Bengal that made Kashmir the most powerful kingdom after the time of the Guptas.

Although wounded in the shoulder and leg, he pressed on his solitary charge with grim determination, until he closed in on the first bunker. Then in ferocious hand-to-hand combat, he killed two of the enemy and cleared the first bunker

His ideals of freedom struggle stood in stark contrast to that of Mahatma Gandhi and he would reportedly say “independence would not be achieved by means of non-violence”

During his reign, the Maurya Empire stretched from Bengal and Assam in the East, to Afghanistan and Balochistan in the West, to Kashmir and Nepal in the North and to the Deccan Plateau in the South.