Forts are made to withstand enemy attacks since ancient times, and serve as the residence of the ruler of the kingdom. Today ...

In an earlier article for IrishCentral, this author has written about the fascinating life of Irishman George Thomas, who went on to create his Kingdom in the Indian state of Haryana. Thomas was one ...

The Maratha Empire is considered one of the greatest empires of India. The empire emerged during the 17th century and ruled over the entire subcontinent of India. The empire at its zenith covered the ...

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was able to ascend to a hill fort chieftain and architect of Maratha rule, challenging the Mughal rule by daring raids, and using shrewd governance. It was the historic ...

MUMBAI: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court by descendants of Maratha royal families, challenging the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s ...

MUMBAI: The removal of a map of the erstwhile Maratha empire from social science textbooks has left descendants of royal Maratha families in a huff. So peeved are they at the omission that they have ...

Mumbai: The controversial map depicting the 1759 extent of the Maratha Empire in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)'s Class 8 history textbook was problematic because of ...

Kolhapur: Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati, the 13th descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, has written to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressing displeasure over the removal of a 1758 map ...

Two battles were fought at Bhima Koregaon, one 200 years after the other. The first took place in January 1818, when the forces of the Maratha army of King Baji Rao II and units of the East India ...