Chand Bibi Chand Bibi also known as Chand Khatun or Chand Sultana was an Indian Muslim woman warrior. She acted as the Regent of Bijapur and Regent of Ahmednagar. Chand Bibi is best known for defending Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar. Chand Bibi was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah I of Ahmednagar‚ and the sister of Burhan-ul-Mulk‚ the Sultan of Ahmednagar. She knew many languages including Arabic‚ Persian‚ Turkish‚ Marathi and Kannada. She played sitar‚ and painting flowers
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Partition of India 1947 In 1600‚ the British East India Company was established‚ and in 1858‚ The India Act allowed for power to be transferred to the British government. The British Government never had complete control‚ but it certainly had power. The Partition of India happened on August 14th‚ 1947 and August 15th‚ 1947. When the British left India on August 15th‚ 1947 (after the formation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)‚ they left the country divided. This led to the formation of Pakistan
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Origin and History of the Language Published on February 17 2014 by www.eautytask.com The term ’Urdu’ and its origin The term Urdu derives from a Turkish word ordu meaning camp or army. The Urdu languagedeveloped between the Muslim soldiers of the Mughals armies who belonged to various ethnicities like Turks‚ Arabs‚ Persians‚ Pathans‚ Balochis‚ Rajputs‚ Jats and Afghans. These soldiers lived in close contact with each other and communicated in different dialects‚ which slowly and gradually evolved
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Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi. Within its fortifications are exquisite palaces‚ a finely proportioned mosque‚ the Moti Masjid or Pearl Mosque‚ the Diwan-i-Am or hall of public audience and the finely ornamented Diwan-i-Khas or hall of private audience‚ where the Mughal emperors held court seated on the bejewelled golden Peacock Throne. The small holes on the walls of Diwan-i-Khas and Diwan-i-Am narrate the vacancy of the jewels and stones that were used to decorate the facade. Recently‚ Red Fort has been recognised
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WE tend to forget that our lifestyle and mindset have largely been influenced by our colonial past. The British influence has changed the way we look at ourselves and has stripped us of a confidence that comes naturally to a people belonging to an ancient and great civilisation. Colonisation coerces people from subordinated culture to denigrate themselves. A kind of a virtual reality is created to expedite this attitude of self-hate among the native population. An alternate reality is created
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HISTORY OF MUGHALS EMPIRE This historical era of this empire was stared in 1504 where Babur‚ a brave guy fight with full of courage to get some part of the fragile and destroyed empire. Babur had fight all out to get some place or land in the destroyed empire. He fight with many other guy who thirst for victory. In only three times of the seizure‚ Babur was able to take over Samarkand. When he recorded the new world victory‚ he was only fourteen. It was out of the mind of the citizen on that particular
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the medieval India comes by persian and mughal texual sources. Historians‚ whether colonial or national such as Dhdhabai Naroji‚ Romesh Chanader dutt‚ Whmore land stated that economics problems such as low standard of living‚ widespread poverty were there in Mughal empire. Other of the Marxist view eg Irfan Habib‚ athar ali‚ Nurul Hasan stated that high revenue demands by state‚ rural exploitation‚ agrarian crisis were there in the later half of the mughal empire. Important to note here is that Irfan
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Diwan-i-Aam with its painted marble canopy‚the adjacent Diwan-i-Khas ‚the Shah Burj in a secluded corner‚built for no other purpose but the emperor’s luxury of whiling away time ‚the ‘marble tents’ all of them.This architecture is understood as a Mughal legacy of living in central Asia where the kings operated from tents.The fort also has an exquisite Moti Masjid (1659)‚nmed for the pearl-like lustre of its marble‚built by emperor Aurangzeb.For filing in the blanks of life as its must have been in
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history of around 300 years. Generally Sikhism has had amicable relations with other religions. However‚ during the Mughal rule of India (1556–1707)‚ the emerging religion had strained relation with the ruling Mughals. Prominent Sikh Gurus were martyred by Mughals for opposing some Mughal emperors’ persecution of Sikhs and Hindus.[3]Subsequently‚ Sikhism militarized to oppose Mughal hegemony. The emergence of the Sikh Confederacy under the misls and Sikh Empire under reign of the Maharajah Ranjit
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originally from the Jammu region‚ is revered as one of greatest Sikh warriors as well as one of the most hallowed martyrs of the Khalsa Army. The Khalsa were engaged in a prolonged fight against the cruel Mughals‚ who were practising their tyranny and terrorism. His confrontation with the Mughal administration in Northern India‚ though brief‚ was strong and vigorous enough to shake the foundations of this evil empire. The agrarian uprising that he led in the Punjab was the underpinning on which
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