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Aurangzeb is one of the greats of Indian history, though many have different interpretations about him and his rule. To be frank it is not possible to write everything about this emperor in a short article and god willing I shall write a book on...

Shehanshah e Hindustan Babur is a great figure in Indian history. No history of India can be written without reference to Babur. Luckily Babur left behind a chronicle that has great historical value. This is the Babur Nama which chronicles his...

Prophet Muhammad has a unique place in world history. During his life time  he propounded a new faith, which for its time and age was progressive.  It struck at idolatry and  propounded the theme of one omnipotent god. After his...

Recent statistics published by various research organizations point to a single fact that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and also in India. In India the Muslim population will grow at a phenomenal pace and by 2050 India will...

While undergoing the 41st Staff Course at Wellington an interesting case study of  Hitler and Napoleon came up in a module. I will now reproduce the discussion in the succeeding paragraphs. Firstly both Hitler and Napoleon came to power...

The word martial denotes 'relating to war' and is synonymous with   soldierly, valiant and heroic. The British when they ruled India divided the Indian races into martial  and non-martial races. They based their assessment on their...

The case of Tibet shows that mistakes once made cannot be rectified. In this the blunders committed by Jwaharlal Nehru, India's prime minister( 1947-64) stand out, but for his inaction in the fifties of the last century the present state of affair...

Generally it is an accepted fact of history, that at many places Muslims converted local people to Islam by the sword. I must however point out that in composite Bengal ( Bangladesh and West Bengal) most conversions were not by the sword, but by...

Mahatma Gandhi is credited by the Congress party led Indian government as the architect of India's freedom. but the facts speak otherwise. If Gandhi won freedom for India then why did  freedom have to come from an act of the British...

Life has many twists and turns and it affects all human beings. It is hard to imagine that a felon on death row, charged with 17 counts  of rape and robbery can turn into  a writer. It did happen and the man was Caryl Chessman who was...