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The Khilafat Movement(1919-1924) was a major pan-Islamic movement started to save the Ottoman Empire and extended to India against the British power. Proponents of the Khilafat see it as the spark that led to the non-cooperation movement i...
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The real Manu Smriti supports Varn Vyastha based on Merit not on the basis of Birth. Manu advises strict punishment for a higher varna : punishing the Brahman many times more than a lower varn, say, a Shudra.
Manu speaks of wise and noble ideas for women-hood. whatever misquotes we come across against Women-hood are from adulterated portion of Manu Smriti for which Maharishi Manu is no where responsible.
A short summary for those interested ancient Hinduism and its priceless knowledge of how life should be lived and its relevance in each and every persons daily life , the importance of which has unchanged even after more than 2400 years of the ...
Learned men have declared that a king, although powerful, should never consult with these four, viz., men of small sense, men that are procrastinating, men that are indolent, and men that are flatterers.
Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and th...
Max Müller was a British agent, especially employed (in 1847) to write the translations of the Vedas in such a demeaning way so that the Hindus should lose faith in them. His personal letters reveals this fact.
With the help of satellite imagery ISRO has successfully traced the path of Saraswati river which dried up around 2000BC. As major Harappan sites of Kalibangan (Rajasthan), Banawali and Rakhigarhi (Haryana), Dholavira and Lothal (Gujarat) lie a...
Ambedkar viewed the Shudras as Aryan and adamantly rejected the Aryan invasion theory, describing it as "so absurd that it ought to have been dead long ago" in his 1946 book Who Were the Shudras? In chapter 4, he gives detai...
The Indus Valley civilisation was wiped out 4,350 years ago by a 900-year-long drought, IIT Kharagpur scientists found. It was found that the rains played truant in the northwest Himalayas for 900 long years, drying up the source of water that ...
The root cause of terrorism that is being committed by some Muslims today is the religious thought, which is being preached in the Muslim Madrasas and being propogated through their political movements.
Velu Nachiyar, the queen of Sivagangai, presently parts of Tamil Nadu was the first queen to fight for the freedom from the British in India. She was trained in martial arts, use of war weapons, archery, and horse riding. She was an e...
Many left leaning historians have written that the Marathas attacked the Sringeri temple which was later restored byTipu Sultan. Howeever according to eminent historian Dr Uday S Kulkarni , author of seminal books “Solstice at Panipat&rdq...
Hillary CIinton admits [ TWO TIMES ] that American Government and Intelligence Agencies created Al Qaida. So doesn't it mean that they are responsible for everything... 9/11 ,Wars, Refugees, ISIS?
The exact location of Indraprastha is uncertain but Delhi is thought by some to be located at the site of the legendary city of Indraprastha. Historians and archaeologists have long believed that Indraprastha, the capital of the kingd...
Addressing a seminar at the India International Centre Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad invoked Hindu gods and gurus featuring in the original manuscript of Indian Constitution to suggest the extent of 'minority appeasement' ...
Ala-ud-Din Khilji was unbeatable in his thirst for the power and blood. He ruled from 1296 to 1316. He was the worst amongst the 34 Sultans in terms of genocide. Cruel to the core, he assumed power after murdering Jalaluddin Khalji who was his ...
Hadi Rani inspired her wavering husband to fulfill his duty by going to the battlefield and to save Mewar by sacrificing her head to her husband as a departing gift.
The Battle of Wai was fought in the fall of 1687 as a part of the Mughal–Maratha Wars. Sambhaji sent his forces under his senapati, Hambirao Mohite, to oppose Mughal army led by Sarja Khan. The Mughal's were drawn into the dense jungl...
Sambhaji was killed by tearing him apart from the front and back with metallic tiger claws and beheading with an axe for refusing to accept Islam. Some accounts state that Sambhaji's body was cut into pieces and thrown into t...
A thought-provoking documentary shows that a Jewish religious leader and preacher that became the central figure of Christianity, Jesus Christ—was a Buddhist Monk. It also reveals that Jesus wasn’t crucified and that He spent many y...
Ghazwa-e-Hind is Islamic doctrine that prophesizes Islamic rule over India and the conversion of all Hindus to Islam. This controversial doctrine that is based on a Hadees (saying) of Prophet Muhammad.
There are five reported sayin...
Abbakka Rani or Abbakka Mahadevi was the queen of Tulunadu who fought the Portuguese in the latter half of the 16thcentury. She fought various battles (6 battles) against Portuguese successfully defending her fort in Ullal. However s...
“Don't execute girls. First married them for one night and then execute them." In 1989, the U.N. Special Representative to Iran reported on allegations of executions by families of female Mojahedin prisoners. Families claimed to ...
India has been invaded several times over past 1000 years and every invaders has their own impact on this great Indian society. But I found my answer in Read More
Hailed as the country's first woman teacher, Savitribai Phule was also a social worker and a poet. Her husband Jyotirao Phule educated her at home and trained her to become a teacher. Savitribai Phule along with her hus...
There are many interpretation of Jihad and people use different interpretation to suit their agenda without realizing the damage they are causing to Islam and Muslims.
The meaning of combative Jihad expressed in the Quran or Hadith is <...
It can be questioned whether there was any queen named Padmavati or not due to lack of documented historical evidence but the existence of King Rawal Ratan singh, Khilji conquest of Chittor, and jauhar committed by Ratan singh's queen ...