The Resistance Chronicle

Battles won and lost, in proper detail — the charter of this wing.

The Resistance Chronicle is Indopedia's wing on the centuries when the gates of India were under assault — told for once as one continuous story, by the defender's clock. Its rules are three: the full ledger (every campaign with its outcome, the invader's failures beside his victories); verdict and meaning (each battle marked victory or defeat, with what it meant for the India of that time); and sources labelled — stone, contemporary chronicle, or late tradition, never blurred.

Start here → About the Resistance Chronicle — the idea of the wing, and the four ages of resistance: history arranged not by who held Delhi, but by the answer India gave.

The Four Ages — and the tabs of each

0. The Prelude: the Huna Storm · c. 455–528

Before the Arabs came the Hunas. Skandagupta repelled them (c. 455, the Bhitari pillar); at Eran (510) Goparaja fell; at Sondani (528) Yashodharman's coalition broke Mihirakula. The price of the storm was Gandhara's cities and Takshashila. Recorded in stone at Bhitari and Mandsaur.

Skandagupta, the first repulse c. 455Eran 510Sondani 528, the Huna power broken

I. The Frontier Age · 636–1030

Four centuries beyond the Indus — Kabul, Zabul, Sindh, the passes. The gates held; the age ends with Ghazni: raids, not rule.

Ghazni — the raider's ledgerThe Caliphate timeline 636–1030Mewar — Bappa's ageThe Shahis of KabulDahir — the gate of SindhKashmir — Lohkot holds

The campaigns, page by page:

Peshawar 1001 — the door opensWaihind 1008Lohkot 1015 & 1021Kalinjar 1019–23Somnath 1025–26The Jat war 1027

II. The Watershed · 1175–1206

Ghor: raid becomes conquest, and the fight shifts from frontier India to the north-west of India proper. Won at Kasahrada, won then lost at Tarain — and closed by the Khokhar rising, with the conqueror dead on the Jhelum road.

Kasahrada 1178 — Naiki DeviTarain 1191 won · 1192 lostChandawar 1194The Khokhar rising 1205–06

III. The Long Contest · 1206–1526

Three centuries of push and recoil inside India. Every expansion answered: Konark raised in victory, Warangal retaken, Vijayanagara founded, Chittor recovered — the age ends with the Sultanate a rump and Sanga supreme.

Konark — the victory memorial 1244Ranthambore 1301 — HammiraMewar — the sakas of ChittorWarangal retaken 1336Vijayanagara 1336 — the resistance stateKumbha — Sarangpur 1437

IV. The Reversal · 1526–1761

Resistance matures into replacement. Mewar will not sign; the Ahoms hold seventeen times; the Khalsa rises; the Marathas outlast Aurangzeb and carry the flag to Attock. The age — and this portal's present frontier — closes at Panipat III.

Khanwa 1527 — Sanga's confederacyMewar — Pratap and the long warSaraighat 1671 — LachitThe Sikhs — Gurus to KhalsaThe Marathas — Shivaji to AttockDurgadas and the Rathores

Age V — resistance to the European powers (1757–1857) — waits beyond the portal's frontier at Panipat III; its tabs will open when the chronicle advances. Tabs in red are invitations: pages planned, to be written under the founder's direction.

While India fought, India built — the map

An original Indopedia schematic. While the Shahis bled at the gates and Lohkot held, the rest of India stood at a creative zenith: Bhoja wrote at Dhara, the Kandariya Mahadeva rose at Khajuraho, Mahipala renewed the Pala world of Nalanda — and in 1025, the year before Somnath fell, Rajendra Chola's fleet crossed the ocean to Srivijaya. Pressure at one gate; power at every other. Historical zones c. 1000–1025; coastline schematic; no modern boundaries depicted.

The houses themselves — the famous and the forgotten — are chronicled at Dynasties of India; the shrines they kept rebuilding, at Jyotirlingas.