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The Only Man The Afghans Were Scared Of, The Valiant Tale Of Sikh Warrior Hari Singh Nalwa

- August 05, 2018

H ow the vast Afghani Empire on Punjabi soil disappeared in Kasur, Multan, Kashmir and Peshawar is a subject closely associated with the campaigns of Sardar Hari Singh Nalua, the Marshal of the Khalsa and terror for the Afghans. Being the 'Murat of the Khalsa' as he was appropriately called by Sir Henry Griffin, the famous British dignitary and a prominent writer of significant treatise on the Sikhs, his name figures among those patriots who participated bravely rather passionately in almost all battles fought constantly against the Afghans during the Sikh rule under Maharaja Ranjit Singh for a period of three decades from A.D. 1807 to A.D. 1837. S ardar Hari Singh Nalua, the typical product of his age was born at Gujranwala now in the West Pakistan in A.D. 1791 in Uppal family in the house of Sardar Gurdial Singh to Dharam Kaur. He was the only son of his parents. The ancestors of Nalua sardars were originally from Majitha town situated in the vicinity of Amritsar. His g

The Untold Story Of Udham Singh, The Braveheart Who Avenged The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

- July 31, 2018

U dham Singh, a revolutionary nationalist, was born Sher Singh on 26 December 1899, at Sunam, in the then princely state of Patiala. His father, Tahal Singh, was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. Sher Singh lost his parents before he was seven years and was admitted along with his brother Mukta Singh to the Central Khalsa Orphanage at Amritsar on 24 October 1907. As both brothers were administered the Sikh initiatory rites at the Orphanage, they received new names, Sher Singh becoming Udham Singh and Mukta Singh Sadhu Singh. In 1917, Udham Singh's brother also died, leaving him alone in the world. U dham Singh left the Orphanage after passing the matriculation examination in 1918. He was present in the Jallianvala Bag on the fateful Baisakhi day , 13 April 1919, when a peaceful assembly of people was fired upon by General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, killing over one thousand people. The event which Udham Singh used

Alexander vs Porus: Battle of the Hydaspes

- July 27, 2018

Marshal Gregory Zhukov, the legendary Russian commander, said the Macedonians had suffered a catastrophic defeat in India. In the final part of this analysis, fact and fiction are separated. After defeating Persia in the year 334 BCE, Alexander of Macedon was irresistibly drawn towards the great Indian landmass. However, the Persians warned him the country was no easy target; that several famous conquerors had fallen at the gates of India. The Persians told him how their greatest king, Cyrus, who had conquered much of the civilised world, had been killed in a battle with Indian soldiers exactly two centuries before Alexander. And in an earlier antiquity, the Assyrian queen Semiramis, who had crossed the Indus with 400,000 highly trained troops, escaped with just 20 troops, the rest being slaughtered by the Indians. In his book, Foreign Influence on Ancient India, Krishna Chandra Sagar says 150 years before Alexander, Indian archers and cavalry formed a significant component

The man who moved a mountain – Dashrath Manjhi

- July 26, 2018

This is the story of a man who did not just think. He was among India’s poorest of poor. He decided, if those in power would not help his people, he would. This is a man who wanted to do it himself! This is the story of Dashrath Manjhi: the man who moved a mountain, so his people could reach civilization (including a doctor) in time. Dashrath Manjhi: The Man Who Moved a Mountain The hamlet of Gehlour It was 1960. Landless labourers, the Musahars lived amid rocky terrain in the remote Atri block of Gaya, Bihar, in Northern India. In the hamlet of Gehlour, they were regarded the lowest of the low in a caste-ridden society and denied the basics: water supply, electricity, a school, a medical centre. A 300-foot tall mountain – Gehlour Ganj – loomed between them and civilization. Like all the Musahar men, Dashrath Manjhi, worked on the other side of the mountain. At noon, his wife Phaguni would bring his lunch. As they had no road, the

BIOGRAPHY OF SARDAR UDHAM SINGH

- July 24, 2018

सरदार उधम सिंह (26 दिसम्बर 1899 से 31 जुलाई 1940) का नाम भारत की आज़ादी की लड़ाई में पंजाब के क्रान्तिकारी के रूप में दर्ज है। उन्होंने जलियांवाला बाग कांड के समय पंजाब के गर्वनर जनरल रहे माइकल ओ' ड्वायर (en:Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer) को लन्दन में जाकर गोली मारी।[1] कई इतिहासकारों का मानना है कि यह हत्याकाण्ड ओ' ड्वायर व अन्य ब्रिटिश अधिकारियों का एक सुनियोजित षड्यंत्र था, जो पंजाब पर नियंत्रण बनाए रखने के लिए पंजाबियों को डराने के उद्देश्य से किया गया था। यही नहीं, ओ' ड्वायर बाद में भी जनरल डायर के समर्थन से पीछे नहीं हटा था।[2][3][4] मिलते जुलते नाम के कारण यह एक आम धारणा है कि उधम सिंह ने जालियाँवाला बाग हत्याकांड के उत्तरदायी जनरल डायर (पूरा नाम - रेजिनाल्ड एडवार्ड हैरी डायर, Reginald Edward Harry Dyer) को मारा था, लेकिन इतिहासकारों का मानना है कि प्रशासक ओ' ड्वायर जहां उधम सिंह की गोली से मरा (सन् १९४०), वहीं गोलीबारी को अंजाम देने वाला जनरल डायर १९२७ में पक्षाघात तथा कई तरह की बीमारियों से ग्रसित होकर मरा। उत्तर भारतीय राज्य उत्तराखण्ड के एक ज़िले क

Biography of Sardar Bhagat Singh - The Real Hero

- July 23, 2018

Bhagat Singh was born in Punjab, India (now Pakistan), on September 27, 1907, to a Sikh family deeply involved in political activities. He quit school at thirteen to devote his life to Indian independence. He became involved in several violent demonstrations of political defiance and was arrested several times. Singh was found guilty of killing a British police officer and hanged on March 23, 1931. Early Years Born on September 27, 1907, to a Sikh family in Punjab, India (now Pakistan), Bhagat Singh was the second son of Kishan Singh and Vidya Vati. The family was steeped in nationalism and involved in movements for independence. At the time of Bhagat's birth, his father was in jail for political agitation. By the time Bhagat Singh was 13, he was well familiar with this family’s revolutionary activities. His father was a supporter of Mahatma Gandhi , and after Gandhi called for boycotting government-aided institutions, Singh left school and enrolled

FIRST KING OF INDIA

- July 23, 2018

The great ruler Chandragupta Maurya, who founded Maurya Dynasty was indisputably the first king of India, as he not only won almost all the fragmented kingdoms in ancient India but also combined them into a large empire, boundaries of which were even extended to Afghanistan and towards the edge of Persia. Chandragupta Maurya was born around 340BC in Patliputra in Magadh, the region which is currently known as Bihar. He was only 20 years old when he founded Maurya Dynasty in Magadh with the help of great economist, scholar, philosopher and a learned Brahmin Chanakya. In fact, it was Chanakya who discovered Chandragupta Maurya in Vinjha Forest. Chanakya wanted to take revenge from Dhana Nand, the King of the then ruling Nanda Dynasty of Magadh. Chanakya was in the search of a young warrior who could help him eliminate Nanda Empire as the King Dhana Nand had once insulted him badly due to his ugly looks. On his orders, the soldiers of Dhana Nand had even forcefully thrown Chanakya

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