The Battle of Chakan was fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire in the year 1660. The Mughal army advancing towards Pune had to overcome the fort of Chakan around 30 km from the city. The fort of Chakan was a Bhuikot, i.e. a land fort and was occupied by around 800 infantry. Mughal forces laid siege to the fort
The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22/23 October 1764, between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, led by Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal till 1764; the Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II accompanied by Raja Balwant Singh of Kashi. The battle was fought at Buxar, a “small fortified town”
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Barley has been used as animal fodder, as a source of fermentable material for beer and certain distilled beverages, and as a component of various health foods. It is used in soups and
Bara Katra (Bengali: বড় কাটরা; Great Caravanserai), a historical and architectural monument, is one of the oldest buildings in Dhaka.The word Katra may have originated from Arabic word Katara which means colonnaded building. ‘Katra/ katara’ in Arabic and Persian means ‘Caravan (Karwan) Sarai’ or simply a ‘Sarai’. It is a palatial building dating to the reign of the Mughal dynasty in
The Badshahi Mosque (Punjabi and |بادشاہی مسجد}, “Imperial Mosque”) is a Mughal era mosque in Lahore, capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan. The mosque is located west of Lahore Fort along the outskirts of the Walled City of Lahore, and is widely considered to be one of Lahore’s most iconic landmarks. The Badshahi Mosque was constructed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb between 1671 and 1673. The mosque is an
The Bāburnāma (Chagatai/Persian: بابر نامہ;´, literally: “History of Babur” or “Letters of Babur”; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as “Turki” (meaning Turkic), the spoken language of the Andijan-Timurids. During Emperor Akbar’s reign, the work was completely translated to Persian, the usual literary language of the
Azimpur Mosque (Bengali: আজিমপুর মসজিদ) is located beside the Azimpur graveyard in Dhaka. A Persian inscription in the mosque indicates that the mosque was built in 1746 AD by one Fayzul Alam. The mosque was built during the reign of Mughal Nawab Alivardi Khan and is the last existing example of a mosque structure with a single dome and a flanking half-domed
Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Ayesha is married to Indian historian and politician Sugata Bose. Contents 1Education 2Early life 3Career 4Awards 5Praise 5.1Books 5.2Chapters in books 6References 7External links Education Born in Lahore in 1956, Ayesha Jalal studied at Wellesley College before
Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d’état or other forms of rebellion). In earlier times, the term autocrat was coined as a favorable description of a ruler,
Atia Mosque (Bengali: আতিয়া মসজিদ, Arabic: مسجد عطية) is a four-domed mosque located in Bangladesh’s Tangail District. It was built in the 17th century during the Mughal period and lies on the eastern banks of the Louhajang River. The country’s Department of Archaeology has designated it as a protected monument. Contents 1Location 2History 3Description 4Legacy 5See also 6References Location The mosque, which is located about 6 kilometres