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It is said that when Shivaji saw the fort of Raigad built by Hiroji, he asked Hiroji what he wanted as a gift. Then Hiroji asked the King to gift him a small tile with the carving of his (Hiroji) name on it, accompanied by a condition, that the tile should be placed at the entrance of Jagadeeshwar Temple so that whenever the King visits the Temple, his foot would touch Hiroji's name and with ...
[1] [2] The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. [3] Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal. [4] [5] Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters were inhabited by Homo erectus more than 100,000 years ago. [6] [7]
Prithviraja III (IAST: Pṛthvī-rāja; 22 May 1166 – December 1192), popularly known as Prithviraj Chauhan or Rai Pithora, was a king from the Chauhan (Chahamana) dynasty who ruled the territory of Sapadalaksha, with his capital at Ajmer in present-day Rajasthan in north-western India.
Seventh grade (also 7th Grade or Grade 7) is the seventh year of formal or compulsory education. The seventh grade is typically the first or second year of middle school. In the United States, kids in seventh grade are usually around 12–13 years old. Different terms and numbers are used in other parts of the world.
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The jagirdar system was introduced by the Delhi Sultanate, [2] and continued during the Mughal Empire, [6] but with a difference. In the Mughal times, the jagirdar collected taxes which paid his salary and the rest to the Mughal treasury, while the administration and military authority was given to a separate Mughal appointee. [ 7 ]
It focused on recorded history since the invention of writing, leaving prehistory [b] to other fields, such as archaeology. [7] Today, history has a broader scope that includes prehistory, starting with the earliest human origins several million years ago. [8] [c] It is controversial whether history is a social science or forms part of the ...
[2]: 20 The war ultimately resulted in Nagabhata II, King of the Gurjaras, winning the crown of Kannauj in 816, [3] [4] [5] and proclaiming himself King of Kannauj. In the eighth century, the two major powers of Aryavarta (northern India) were the Pratiharas who ruled the Gurjara Kingdom and the Palas who ruled the Kingdom of Gauda (Bengal).