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Tika (a medallion of uncut diamonds worn on the forehead and suspended by a string of pearls) Jhoomar (a fan shaped ornament worn on the side of the head) Nath (a nose ring with a large ruby bead flanked by two pearls) Chintaak also known as Jadaoo Zevar (a choker studded with uncut diamonds and precious stones)
The Deccani–Vijayanagar wars were a series of conflicts and battles between the Deccan Sultanates and the Vijayanagar Empire from 1495 to 1678.. The conflicts began with the 1510 conquest of the Raichur Doab by Yusuf Adil Shah, who established the Bijapur Sultanate in the Deccan. [2]
Gopinath was born in Gorur, Hassan, in an iyengar family and was brought up in a small village in Gorur in the Hassan district of Karnataka State.Gopinath's father Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, a school teacher (not to be confused with Kannada Novelist Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar who is his mother's uncle), believed that schools were systems of regimentation and was resolved to teach Gopinath at home.
The Deccan wars were a series of military conflicts between the Mughal Empire and the descendants of the Maratha ruler Shivaji from the time of Shivaji's death in 1680 until the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707. [3] Shivaji was a central figure in what has been called "the Maratha insurgency" against the Mughal state. [4]
The Deccan sultanates is a historiographical term referring to five late medieval to early modern Indian kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range that were created from the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate [1] [2] and ruled by Muslim dynasties: namely Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda. [3]
Tika/maang tikka/head locket [6] - a medallion of uncut diamonds worn on the forehead and suspended by a string of pearls; Jhoomar/paasa - a fan-shaped ornament worn on the side of the head; Nath - a nose ring with a large ruby bead flanked by two pearls; Chintaak aka Jadaoo lachcha or Guluband - a choker studded with uncut diamonds and ...
The agency was created 1933 with the merger of the Kolhapur Agency (Kolhapur Residency), Poona Agency, Bijapur Agency, Dharwar Agency and Kolaba Agency.. It was composed of a number of princely states and jagirs in Western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, six of which were Salute states.
The Battle of Talikota was a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and an alliance of the Deccan sultanates. [4] The battle resulted in the defeat and death of Rama Raya, the de facto ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire, set forth the collapse of the Vijayanagara polity and reconfigured South Indian and Deccan politics.