The Queen of Kittur

The Queen of Kittur
Author: Basavaraj Naikar
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1482886197

The novel depicts the colonial encounter between Rani Chennamma and the authorities of the East India Company around 1824 for land and political power. Although the Rani put up a heroic fight with the East India Company authorities and succeeded in killing Mr. Thackeray, the Political Agent of South India and Collector of Dharwad, she was betrayed by her own courtiers later, and consequently, she was defeated by the East India Company authorities headed by the Commissioner of the Deccan, Mr. Chaplin. Then her kingdom of Kittur was annexed to the British Raj, and she was imprisoned in her own fort at Bailahongala, where she breathed her last in 1829 after suffering from nostalgia for the past glory of her kingdom.

Perspectives in Indian History

Perspectives in Indian History
Author: M. Jankiraman Ph.D.
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1649839952

Perspectives in Indian History deals with the history of India from 10,000 BC until 1857 AD. It delves into the story of the Indus-Saraswati civilization and the development of the Vedas. Such a book has been written for the first time, wherein India’s history has been analyzed from the early Hindu period. Hitherto most history books have emphasized the Muslim period or the British period. These have been written by Muslim historians or European colonists, which was often skewed by their fundamental bias that no civilization could equal their own. During this retelling, the author covers the interesting aspects of each age starting with the Ramayana. He then examines hotly debated issues like whether Alexander the Great won or lost in India. The author carries out an analysis of the causes of the conquest of India by the Muslims. The author analyses detailed battleplans of major battles, which affected India’s history, like Panipat, Plassey, and many others, and discusses the weaponry and tactics used in these wars.

A HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND UNIFICATION MOVEMENT IN KARNATAKA

A HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND UNIFICATION MOVEMENT IN KARNATAKA
Author: Dr. Melkunde Shashidhar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1329825012

Geographically located on the south western part of South India, Karnataka has abundant natural resources. Its western ghats with rich forest resources, and plain valleys, is crowned with more prosperous narrow coast line. Its Mangalore Newport has enhanced its value in terms of international trade with rich foreign exchange. Above all, it has rich cultural tradition and puranic legends of historical importance.

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The Women Who Ruled India

The Women Who Ruled India
Author: Archana Garodia Gupta
Publisher: Hachette India
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9351951537

‘People say that I am a quarrelsome woman...’ TARABAI, MARATHA QUEEN (1675–1761) The history of India, more often than not, is a history of the men who were in charge. Largely forgotten are the women who, even centuries earlier, shaped the fates of entire kingdoms. In The Women Who Ruled India, writer and researcher Archana Garodia Gupta revives 20 such powerful figures from the archives, offering us a glimpse of their fascinating lives. Among them are Begum Samru, a courtesan who went on to become the head of a mercenary army and the ruler of Sardhana; Didda of Kashmir, known for her keen political instinct and a ruthlessness that spared no one; Rani Abbakka of Ullal, the fearless queen who took on Portuguese colonizers in their heyday; and Rani Mangammal of Madurai, the famed administrator who built alliances at a time when going to war was the order of the day. These women and others like them built roads, instituted laws and were generous patrons of the arts and sciences. Their stories of valour and diplomacy, leadership and wit continue to inspire today. Peppered with anecdotes that showcase little-known facets of their personalities, the accounts in this book celebrate heroic rulers who – ‘quarrelsome’ though they might have been – were iconoclasts: unafraid to forge new paths.

Queens of India

Queens of India
Author: Shubham Srivastava
Publisher: Shubham Srivastava
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Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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Queens of India is a collection of biographical essays of lesser known queens whose valor and bravery is either faded with the time or confined to specific area either which they belong to. Reader is sure to have a trip of glorious past which these queens brought to the motherland.

Rani Chennamma

Rani Chennamma
Author: Sadashiva Wodeyar
Publisher: NBT India
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
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ISBN: 9788123727516

The Chaos of Empire

The Chaos of Empire
Author: Jon Wilson
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610392949

The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson upends the carefully sanitized image of unity, order, and success to reveal an empire rooted far more in violence than in virtue, far more in chaos than in control. Through the lives of administrators, soldiers, and subjects-both British and Indian-The Chaos of Empire traces Britain's imperial rule from the East India Company's first transactions in the 1600s to Indian Independence in 1947. The Raj was the most public demonstration of a state's ability to project power far from home, and its perceived success was used to justify interventions around the world in the years that followed. But the Raj's institutions-from law courts to railway lines-were designed to protect British power without benefiting the people they ruled. This self-serving and careless governance resulted in an impoverished people and a stifled society, not a glorious Indian empire. Jon Wilson's new portrait of a much-mythologized era finally and convincingly proves that the story of benign British triumph was a carefully concocted fiction, here thoroughly and totally debunked.

The Double X Factor

The Double X Factor
Author: Pratap Nair
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 8184959931