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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.
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.
12 June
1665 — The Treaty of Purandar concluded (signed 11–12 June): Shivaji cedes twenty-three forts to Mirza Raja Jai Singh — and lives to take every one of them back.
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.
"In all their grandeur, they never slackened in the ardent desire of doing that which is good and right… men of noble sentiment and noble bearing."
- New excavation season announced at Rakhigarhi (sample item)
- Chola-era copper plates found in Tamil Nadu (sample item)
- Conservation milestone at Hampi (sample item)
Walk the boulders of the Tungabhadra through the Virupaksha temple, the Vitthala stone chariot and the royal enclosures. Travel-style storytelling, with the history and the sources.