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The history of the Roman Empire reads like a storybook, chilling and exciting. There was murder, intrigue, love and betrayal. Yet despite all this, it remains one of the greatest empires in world history and lasted for over 300 years. Rome started...

In 1757 a great battle was fought at a nondescript village a 100 miles from Calcutta. The battle between the East India Company army and the Nawab of Oudh resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Company force commanded by Robert Clive. He is...

I have long been wanting to write on the Moors. Most people have heard the word "Moor" and some relate it to character created by William Shakespeare in his play Othello. Who were the Moors? The Moors were Muslim tribesmen who hailed from North...

Not many people in India have heard of the emperor Caracalla, who ruled the Roman empire for 6 years. It is important to learn from the pages of history and what better to learn about tyranny than the rule of emperor Caracalla. The Roman empire...

 In two Anglo-Sikh wars the East India company were badly shaken. They won by the skin of their teeth, aided  by a bunch of traitors led by Raja  Gulab Singh, who was the Prime Minster at the Lahore Court of Maharajah Ranjit Singh....

Indian women are lucky as they have been given rights without any agitation or demand. I am referring to voting and property rights. I also agree that gender bias is rampant in India, but it was the same in England at the turn of the last...

Background In the summer of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte embarked on his most ambitious campaign, the invasion of Russia. The Grand Army consisting of over 600,000 soldiers commenced the invasion of Russia under the personal command of Napoleon. While...

Napoleon for all his faults and final defeat at Waterloo remains in military history a great general. He is a man credited for having mastered the principles of war. Naploeon was not alone in his sucess and along with him were a string of generals...

When I was completing my Honours degree in Physics at the Kurukshetra University in Haryana, I often used to visit the town of Thanesar which almost adjoines the university. Later I came to know that about 10 miles away from Thanesar  is the...

India became free in 1947, but the British who granted India independence by the "Indian Independence Act" of1946,  divided India on the basis of the 2 nation theory that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together. It was a master stroke leaving...