History Archive

The revolt of 1857 left a deep mark on the history of Modern India. British policy changed after the rebellion of 1857. The uprising of 1857 played a crucial role in shaping the Indian Empire during the early nineteenth century. The display of unity among the masses and revolting led the British to rethink their existence in India and their way of working.

According to N.B. Sen, the Kohi-i-Noor, the king of diamonds and the diamond of kings was found in the ancient mine of Kolar, situated on the right bank of the Krishna river in Karnataka. Others write that this famous diamond was either discovered about 5,000 years ago in the bed of the lower Godavari river, near Machlipatnam in Central India, or in the Golkunda mines in Andhra Pradesh or in the hills of Amaravati in Maharashtra.

The Sikh Empire had grown into an independent state of conspicuous wealth and power. Its army, tutored by Prussian, French, American, and Spanish generals, had become the most formidable fighting machine outside British India.

What’s the Indian connection to NASA’s space probe Voyager I, which was launched in 1977 and became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space?

As a staggering administrator, intense warrior, a magnanimous philanthropist, and a lover of beautiful art and architecture, Raja Raja Cholan is an inevitable character in Tamil and world history.

In 2014, a huge brouhaha followed a surprise announcement by Prince William of the UK: he suggested that as a symbolic warning to ivory poachers in Africa and elsewhere, all historic ivory objects in the Royal Collections Trust should be burned and destroyed. While wildlife conservationists applauded this decision, museum professionals were aghast, saying that such a move would take historical objects and make them into “artworks of shame.”

Remember, remember not the Fifth of November but our own gunpowder, treason and plot. We see of no reason why this censored out season should ever be forgot.

‘Jagdamba ki Jai Ho! Those were the words spoken during the 1971 Bharat-Pakistan war by a wounded yet determined and courageous 2nd Lt Arun Khetrapal when he went on to destroy Pakistani battle tanks, undeterred by the injuries he had sustained.

“Though the Muhammadans’ cow killing is made the pretext for the agitation, it is in fact directed against us, who kill far more cows for our army, etc., than the Muhammadans.”
— Queen Victoria to her Viceroy, Lansdowne, December 8, 1893¹

Settled in the mountains of the Himalayan range, the state of Sikkim has a very interesting history hardly known by anyone. The state of Sikkim formally became a part of India on April 14, 1975, after the Sikkimese people unitedly demanded the end of the monarchy.