History of Metallurgy in Ancient India (Part-5)
15 Mar 2025The trade routes between India and the mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Egypt facilitated the exchange of chemi...
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Matallurgy in Ancient India (Part-4)
20 Jan 2025Statues of Nataraja and Vishnu were cast during the reign of the imperial Chola dynasty (200–1279) in the 9th century. —...
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Matallurgy in Ancient India (Part-3)
17 Dec 2024After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, many Indian wootz steel swords were ordered to be destroyed by the East India Compan...
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Matallurgy in Ancient India
14 Dec 2024The first form of crucible steel was wootz, developed in India some time around 300 BCE. — Prof. Nandini Sinha Kapur ...
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Ancient Indian Export Surplus with Rome
28 Oct 2024It is believed that to promote foreign trade, Kanîcka, the KucâGa ruler made use of the standard of the Roman gold coins...
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RSS: Mainstreaming the Indianized Curriculum
29 Aug 2024It is indeed a sad reflection on the state of mainstream curriculum that it breeds an attitude of ridiculing anything th...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XXIV)
31 Jul 2024Mewar was as also engaged militarily with Rajput powers that were its immediate neighbours, such as the Hädäs of Bundi, ...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XXIII)
20 Jun 2024The Guhilas attempted to create buffer zones and political allies in their immediate north. — Prof. Nandini Kapur Sinha ...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XIV)
25 Sep 2023In the fifteenth century, royal kinsmen do not seem to have played a significant role as their thirteenth century counte...
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Legitimation and Patronage of the Bishnoi Movement in Medieval Rajasthan
22 Aug 2020Prof. Nandini Sinha Kapoor* We continue with the series on the historic roots of Bishnoi movement. If agriculture was...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XV)
21 Oct 2023There is enough historical evidence to prove that in spite of the legendary supremacy of the Hadas of Uparmal in Eastern...
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Guhila Rajputs between the 7th and 10th century AD in Mewar (Southern Rajasthan), Part-I
15 Feb 2022A look at the 7th century map of Mewar clearly proves that Southern Rajasthan was the lineage domain of the Guhila Rajpu...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XVI)
23 Nov 2023The Guhila royal family negotiated with all the local non-Guhila Rajput families at political, military and social level...
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Guhilas between the 7th and 10th Centuries, Part-II
25 Mar 2022Three Guhila royal families enjoyed agrarian base and semi-urban economic base.There are ample evidences of political a...
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Mewar as the Locus of Guhila State (Part-VII)
28 Dec 2022The Guhila state of Mewar attained military and political heights as well as a religious landmark, Nagda and Eklingji te...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XVII)
14 Dec 2023In this period the Ghuhil State of Mewar had to forge close socio-political linkages with the Mertia Rathaurs and Jains ...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XVIII)
29 Jan 2024Once the Guhilas conquered Chittorgarh and made it their capital, they politically incorporated economically the stronge...
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Mewar as Focus of Guhila State (Part-XIX)
27 Feb 2024The Guhila state integrated many important jain personalities into socio-political and economic life of Mewar. — Prof. N...
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Mewar as the Locus of the State (Part-VIII)
01 Mar 2023The legends of Bappa, Haritarashi and Eklingaji and Brasmha-Kshatra social staus dominated the political and religious s...
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Reconstructing Identity and Situating Themselves in History: A Preliminary Note on the Meenas of Jaipur Locality-VIII
17 Aug 2021Muniji 'sanskritized' the Meena elite of the bardic traditions. He gave them a respectable past to claim a prestigious...
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