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The Battle of Chinsurah, also known as the Battle of Biderra or the Battle of Hoogly, took place on 25 November 1759 near Chinsurah during the Seven Years' War.It was fought between forces of the British East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the latter of whom had been invited in 1759 by the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar, to help him expel the EIC and establish the VOC ...
An Ahir - Raja Rao Puran Singh of Rewari [8]. Theories regarding the origins of the ancient Abhira – the putative ancestors of the Ahirs – are varied for the same reasons as are the theories regarding their location; that is, there is a reliance on interpretation of linguistic and factual analysis of old texts that are known to be unreliable and ambiguous.
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An Appeal from the Death Row (Rajiv Murder Case – The Truth Speaks) (OCLC 230730652) – The book was released by Communist Party of India general secretary A. B. Bardhan, [40] in English, Tamil and Hindi versions. [41]
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive? is a 2016 book written by Rajiv Malhotra which criticizes the academic discipline of Indology, as practiced by Western scholars and particularly Sheldon Pollock.
[citation needed] According to Harihar Nivas Dvivedi, all Ahirs and their sub-castes are Shudras, but Dauwa Ahir is considered as comparatively lower as a caste than pure Ahirs. [20] In Bundelkhand, Dauwa Ahirs were allied with Bundela Rajputs and Dauwa women served as wetnurses for Bundela princes as part of a symbolic ritual.
The system of subsidiary alliances was pioneered in the Carnatic region. [2] The system was subsequently adopted by the British East India Company, with Robert Clive negotiating a series of conditions with Mir Jafar following his victory in the 1757 Battle of Plassey, and subsequently those in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, as a result of the company's success in the 1764 Battle of Buxar.
He also wrote and published two comprehensive volumes on Indian history, The Early History of India and The Oxford History of India, as well as a book about the history of fine arts in India and Sri Lanka. [1] Smith was honoured with the award of Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire [6] and awarded a doctorate by Trinity College Dublin ...