Indian History Notes

During the 72 hours of unrestrained bloodshed, vultures dined on the thousands of corpses that were left unclaimed on the streets of Calcutta. The "Great Calcutta Killings" provided conclusive evidence that India would eventually have to be divided. Read further to know more about Direct Action … [Read more...] about Direct Action Day: The Great Calcutta Killings

The Deccan Sultanates were five states that became independent after the break up of the Bahmani Sultanate. Read here to know more about them. The Bahmani Sultanate started declining in the 1500s and fully declined after 1518 when Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire defeated the last … [Read more...] about The Deccan Sultanates

The Bahmani sultanate was an Islamic kingdom in the Deccan region rivaling the Vijayanagara empire. Read here to know more about the sultanate. During the rule of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, two new kingdoms arose in the south, the Vijayanagara empire in 1336 and the Bahmani Sultanate which broke from … [Read more...] about Bahmani Sultanate

The Vijayanagara empire was one of the most powerful kingdoms that rose in medieval times. Read here to know more about the establishment and rule. The rise of regional kingdoms in the medieval period started as the Delhi Sultanate weakened. The last dynasties of the sultanate Sayyid and Lodi … [Read more...] about Vijayanagara Kingdom

Post Tughlaq dynasty’s end, many regional kingdoms rose in medieval India. Read here to learn about the important kingdoms of the period. After Timur's invasion in 1398, Delhi's Sultan Mahmud Tughlaq fled to Gujarat and Malwa region. The sultanate started disintegrating and many regional kingdoms … [Read more...] about Regional Kingdoms of Medieval India

Have you heard of the Chola King Ponniyil Selven? Read to know more about the Chola Dynasty. Mani Ratnam’s new film PS-I aka Ponniyil Selven-I is making headlines in the film industry. It’s a mass big budget film which says the story of Chola king Ponniyil Selven. Who, however, is Ponniyil … [Read more...] about Chola Dynasty: Who is Ponniyil Selven?

The Sayyid dynasty was the fourth and Lodi dynasty the fifth and last of the Delhi Sultanate. Read here to know more about both dynasties. In 1398, the Turko-Mongol invader, Timur the lame (Tamerlane) invaded and defeated the armies of the Sultanate. The then Tughlaq Sultan fled from his … [Read more...] about Delhi Sultanate: Sayyid and Lodi Dynasty

The Tughlaq dynasty took over from the Khaljis in 1320, becoming the third dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. Read here to know more about the tughlaqs. Khusrau Khan usurped and killed the last Khalji dynasty ruler Mubarak Shah and took over the sultanate. The Turkish nobles of Delhi were … [Read more...] about Delhi Sultanate: The Tughlaq Dynasty

The khalji dynasty began after the end of the mamluk or slave dynasty. Read here to know more about the second dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. The Khilji or Khalji dynasty ruled from 1290 to 1320 CE after overthrowing the Slave dynasty, thus becoming the second dynasty of the Delhi … [Read more...] about Delhi Sultanate: Khalji Dynasty

The first Islamic rulers of India were from the slave dynasty or the mamluks of the Delhi sultanate in India. Read here to know about the mamluks. Muhammad Ghori died in 1206 CE after which the Ghurid rule declined but his slave generals established different kingdoms out of his empire: Qutb … [Read more...] about Delhi Sultanate: The Slave Dynasty