The Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh(1923-1952), was about to give consent to sign the Instrument of Accession to Pakistan Union in 1948 and would have been the villain for all Indians, but he was not to be.
The Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh(1923-1952), was about to give consent to sign the Instrument of Accession to Pakistan Union in 1948 and would have been the villain for all Indians, but he was not to be.

His detractors consider him “a treacherous and insatiable tyrant” who was ruthless as well as heartless ruler who not only imprisoned his Emperor father,...

History is full of contradictions or different interpretations of the same event. The Jain philosophy has coined a word for different interpretations of...

Not many Indians born in India could become Nobel Laureate in pre-independence India.

As such Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of Nation, as he was addressed as by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in his 1944 broadcast from Singapore, was known for...
Not that we intend to present a picture here to malign the Indian Maharajas, but the recorded history of some of the Maharajas by their own top officials in the memoirs exposing the love traps of pleasure seeking Princely rulers of British India...

None should be shocked or surprised if one says that Sardar Patel (31 October 1875 - 10 December 1950) was the first person to accept the Partition of...

Ghazni is a province in Afghanistan but when someone talks about Ghazni in India, bitter memories of Mahmud Ghazni of the Ghaznavid Empire attacking the...

The historical events and documents may lead to various forms of interpretations.

Even after seven decades of independence, the citizens from the mainland India and the North Eastern India are maintaining rather an unusual distinction....