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<div class="ind-card | <div class="ind-card"><div class="ind-card-h">Featured article · I</div><span class="ind-badge">TEMPLES & ARCHITECTURE · WEST INDIA</span> | ||
<div class="ind-t">[[Somnath Temple — The Shrine Eternal]]</div> | <div class="ind-t">[[Somnath Temple — The Shrine Eternal]]</div> | ||
<p>First of the twelve [[Jyotirlingas]], on the Saurashtra shore. Founded in stone by the 10th century | <p>First of the twelve [[Jyotirlingas]], on the Saurashtra shore. Founded in stone by the 10th century, razed by [[Mahmud of Ghazni — The Raider and the Resistance|Mahmud of Ghazni]] in 1026, rebuilt by Kumarapala, and raised again by the Republic in 1951. Told through period photographs and the raider's own chroniclers.</p> | ||
<p class="ind-meta">Epoch: [[:Category:Age of Regional Empires| | <p class="ind-meta">Epoch: [[:Category:Age of Regional Empires|Regional Empires]] · ''([[Somnath Temple — The Shrine Eternal|Read →]])''</p></div> | ||
<div class="ind-card"><div class="ind-card-h">Featured article · II</div><span class="ind-badge">THE RESISTANCE CHRONICLE · AGE I</span> | |||
<div class="ind-t">[[Battle of Peshawar (1001)]]</div> | |||
<p>27 November 1001: the battle that opened the door. Jayapala's defeat, his capture with three generations of his house, and the pyre by which he answered it. The Gandhara of Panini and the epics, the Shahi kings, their temples and their silver, and why India forgot. With photographs of the standing ruins.</p> | |||
<p class="ind-meta">Wing: [[The Resistance Chronicle]] · ''([[Battle of Peshawar (1001)|Read →]])''</p></div> | |||
<div class="ind-card"><div class="ind-card-h">On this day</div> | <div class="ind-card"><div class="ind-card-h">On this day</div> | ||
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<div class="ind-t">[[The Resistance Chronicle|The Four Ages of Resistance]]</div> | <div class="ind-t">[[The Resistance Chronicle|The Four Ages of Resistance]]</div> | ||
<p>Not "the Sultanate period" and "the Mughal period" — the same centuries arranged by '''the answer India gave'''. Four ages, one unbroken thread from the first Arab sail off Thana (636) to Panipat (1761): every ledger complete, every battle marked victory ''or'' defeat with what it meant for the India of that time, every source labelled — stone, chronicle, or tradition.</p> | <p>Not "the Sultanate period" and "the Mughal period" — the same centuries arranged by '''the answer India gave'''. Four ages, one unbroken thread from the first Arab sail off Thana (636) to Panipat (1761): every ledger complete, every battle marked victory ''or'' defeat with what it meant for the India of that time, every source labelled — stone, chronicle, or tradition.</p> | ||
<div class="ind-chips"><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#I. The Frontier Age · 636–1030|I · The Frontier Age 636–1030]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#II. The Watershed · 1175–1206|II · The Watershed 1175–1206]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#III. The Long Contest · 1206–1526|III · The Long Contest 1206–1526]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#IV. The Reversal · 1526–1761|IV · The Reversal 1526–1761]]</span></div> | <div class="ind-chips"><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#0. The Prelude: the Huna Storm · c. 455–528|0 · The Huna Storm 455–528]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#I. The Frontier Age · 636–1030|I · The Frontier Age 636–1030]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#II. The Watershed · 1175–1206|II · The Watershed 1175–1206]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#III. The Long Contest · 1206–1526|III · The Long Contest 1206–1526]]</span><span>[[The Resistance Chronicle#IV. The Reversal · 1526–1761|IV · The Reversal 1526–1761]]</span></div> | ||
<p class="ind-meta">[[About the Resistance Chronicle|About the four ages →]] · [[The Resistance Chronicle|Enter the wing →]] · [[Mahmud of Ghazni — The Raider and the Resistance|The Ghazni ledger →]] · [[Mewar — The House of Eklingji|Mewar →]]</p></div> | <p class="ind-meta">[[About the Resistance Chronicle|About the four ages →]] · [[The Resistance Chronicle|Enter the wing →]] · [[Mahmud of Ghazni — The Raider and the Resistance|The Ghazni ledger →]] · [[Mewar — The House of Eklingji|Mewar →]]</p></div> | ||
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TEMPLES & ARCHITECTURE · WEST INDIA
First of the twelve Jyotirlingas, on the Saurashtra shore. Founded in stone by the 10th century, razed by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026, rebuilt by Kumarapala, and raised again by the Republic in 1951. Told through period photographs and the raider's own chroniclers.
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THE RESISTANCE CHRONICLE · AGE I
27 November 1001: the battle that opened the door. Jayapala's defeat, his capture with three generations of his house, and the pyre by which he answered it. The Gandhara of Panini and the epics, the Shahi kings, their temples and their silver, and why India forgot. With photographs of the standing ruins.
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