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Some of these, however, were followed by Hindu reconquests and resistance from the native powers and states, such as the Telugu Nayakas, Vijayanagara, [7] and Rajput states under the Kingdom of Mewar. [8] [9] The Delhi Sultanate was replaced by the Mughal Empire in 1526, which was one of the three gunpowder empires.
The day signifies the completion of "naati" – meaning the transplantation of the rice (paddy) crop. The festival signifies the day when men should prepare to guard their crop from wild boars and other animals, since during the preceding months, in which the family were engaged in the fields, all weapons were normally deposited in the "Kanni ...
The Kalinga war (ended c. 261 BCE) [1] was fought in ancient India between the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka the Great and Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast, in the present-day state of Odisha and northern parts of Andhra Pradesh. [6]
The Sanskrit word mleccha does not have a standard Indo-European etymology and has no counterpart in Iranian languages. [19] It is composed of two roots Mala (filth/impurity) and Ichha (desire) referring to the one who loves filth, probably referring to the Non Vedic lifestyle of foreigners which Indo Aryans considered as impure and filthy.
The term "Nayak" is derived from the Sanskrit word Nāyaka, meaning "leader" or "governor." The rise of the Nayak family to power occurred after the death of King Vira Narendrasinha, who left no legitimate heir. As a result, the throne passed to his brother-in-law, Sri Vijaya Rajasinha, who was crowned in 1739. [1]
The copper plate grants of the early Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi are written in Sanskrit, but a few charters like the Aladankaram plates are written partly in Sanskrit and partly in Telugu [25] Telugu poetry makes its early appearance in the Addanki, Kandukur and Dharmavaram inscriptions of Pandaranga, Army Chief of Vijayaditya III, in the later ...
The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, c.1910. Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, [1] [2] was a Hindu Rajput practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls [3] in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, enslavement, [4] and rape by islamic invaders [5] when facing certain defeat during a war.
Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction [1] that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, [2] and that the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in India into their present locations. [2]