Re: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: This day in Hindu History : Thread
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
नारायणरावो हतः #२४८Up↑
Event occured on 1773-08-30 (gregorian).
In an event that shook the marATha empire, the peshva nArayaNa rAv, brother of the great mAdhavarAv and vishvAs-rAv, was killed on the last day of gaNapati festival (Ananta Chaturdashi) in puNe.
According to popular legend, Raghunathrao had sent a message to Sumer Singh Gardi to fetch Narayanrao using the Marathi word dharaa (धरा) or ‘hold’ (actual phrase in Marathi - " नारायणरावांना धरा"/“Narayanrao-ana dhara”). This message was intercepted by his wife Anandibai who changed a single letter to make it read as maaraa (मारा) or ‘kill’ . The miscommunication led the Gardis to chase Narayanrao, who, upon hearing them coming, started running towards his uncles' residence screaming, “Kaka! Mala Vachva!!” (“Uncle! Save me!"). The Gardis followed Narayanrao to his uncle’s chamber and the menial Tulaji Pawar pulled him while Sumer Singh Gardi cut him down. At the scene, a total of 11 persons were killed. Historian Sardesai writes that these 11 victims included seven brahmins (including Narayanrao), two Maratha servants and two maids.
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The Chief Justice, Ram Shastri Prabhune was asked to conduct an investigation into the incident, and Raghunathrao, Anandibai and Sumer Singh Gardi were all prosecuted in absentia. Although Raghunathrao was acquitted, Anandibai was declared an offender and Sumer Singh Gardi the culprit. Sumer Singh Gardi died mysteriously in Patna, Bihar in 1775, and Anandibai performed Hindu rituals to absolve her sins. Kharag Singh and Tulaji Pawar were handed over by Hyder Ali back to the government and they were tortured to death.
As the result of the murder, senior ministers and generals of the Maratha confederacy formed a regency council , known as the “Baarbhai Council”, to conduct of the affairs of the state in the name of his soon to be born son, mAdhavarAv 2.
शान्ति-कालि-हत्या #२१
Up↑Event occured on 2000-08-27 (gregorian).
On 27 August 2000, shAnti kAlI was presiding at his ashram with a gathering of local devotees. At night (8:05 PM,), Christian NLFT militants, broke into the ashram and shot him for refusing to convert to Christianity along with his followers. In the same month, another Hindu leader of the Jamatya community, Jaulushmoni Jamatya, was also murdered. In the months following his death, eleven of his ashrams, schools, and orphanages around the state were closed down by the NLFT.
shAnti tripura aka shAnti kAlI was a popular tribal sAdhu working in tripura. He was a devotee of tripura-sundarI.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 6:30 AM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:आग्र-बन्धनात् पलायितः शिवराजः #३५५
Up↑Event occured on 1666-08-27 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
shrAvaNa k12. A few days earlier on 13th, rAmasiMha had refused to receive shivAjI, who had been ordered to be moved to rAjA viTThaldAs’s mansion.
Shivaji pulled off one of the greatest escapes in history from the jaws of death at Agra. In a story corroborated by multiple contemporary sources, shivAjI feigned illness after being put under house arrest. He started sending alms and food to holy men; and gifts to noblemen. In the initial days, guards search these outgoing baskets - later they became lax. One day Hiroji Farzand wore his master’s clothes and slept in bed, with only a hand with shivAjI’s wristlet being uncovered; a boy massaging his feet. shivAjI and his son escaped in the baskets. The following day, guards were fooled by seeing Hiroji. After a while hIrojI to switched to his own clothes and went away. Mogols discovered the escape the next day.
rAmasiMha (whom many tried to implicate along with jayasiMha) was in a soup - and dismissed from service. 4 brAhmaNas who were part of rAmasiMha’s inner guard circle were arrested and tortured till they made a false confession. Treasure left behind by shivAjI was confiscated as “harAm ka mAl” and sold off.
Later events:
12th September 1666: Shivaji arrives at Rajgad. There are rumours (likely circulated by shivAjI) that his son died on the way. (Rajasthani letter dated 19th November 1666, newsletter of the Mughal Court dated 4th November 1666). In fact, Shivaji had left his son behind at Mathura, supposedly with his ministers' brAhmaNa relatives. (Sabhasad and A.Q. Chronicles, Tarikh-i Dilkusha, etc.)
20th November 1666: Sambhaji arrives at Rajgad (Jedhe Chronology corrected.)
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 9:29 AM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:मस्स-रङ्घर-वधः #२८१
Up↑Event occured on 1740-08-22 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
To prevent the Sikhs accessing the holy shrine [Darbar Sahib], or the “Golden Temple”, at Amritsar a strong Mughal military officer, Massa Ranghar, was stationed. He started carousing with dancing girls and consuming meat and alcohol there. Mehtab Singh and Sukkha Singh set off from rAjasthAn, disguised themselves as revenue officials, entered Harmandir Sahib, cut off Ranghar’s head and escaped before the Mughal soldiers could realise what had happened.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:48 AM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:तिवारि-कमलेशो हतः #२
Up↑Event occured on 2019-08-19 (gregorian).
Farid-ud-din Shaikh and Ashfak Shaikh came dressed in saffron kurtas to give Kamalesh Tiwari a sweets box (hiding a knife and pistol there), slit his throat and shot him. According to the police, the pistol and sweets used in the murder were bought in Surat and the murder was planned in Dubai. Several conspirators were arrested.
Context: In Dec 2015, Arun Jaitley supported decriminalization of homosexuality. Azam Khan (a criminal politician who would be jailed and illegal property seized a few years later) called RSS members homosexuals. Tiwari retaliated saying that Muhammad was the first homosexual. Tiwari was arrested and jailed for a few months, even as lakhs of muslims went into frenzy.
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विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
शिवराजेन दसग्रहणरोधः #३४४Up↑
Event occured on 1677-09-05 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Shivaji declared to the Dutch: ‘In the days of the Moorish [Muslim] government it was allowed for you to buy male slaves and female slaves here [the Karnatak), and to transport the same, without anyone preventing that. But now you may not, as long as I am master of these lands, buy male or female slaves, nor transport them. And in case you were to do the same, and would want to bring [slaves] aboard, my men will oppose that and prevent it in all ways, and also not allow that they may be brought back in your house; this you must observe and comply with.’
गुज्जर-बिल्लू-वधः #१५Up↑
Event occured on 2006-09-05 (gregorian).
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
माधवरावो हत्यायत्नाद् रक्षितः #२५२Up↑
Event occured on 1769-09-07 (gregorian).
On this day, peshvA mAdhav rAv survived an assassination attempt.
Context: Madhavrao was returning from the Parvati temple at Pune with his comrades, when one of his generals Ramsingh suddenly attacked him with a sword. Madhavrao was warned just in the nick of time and he suffered a blow from the sword on his shoulder as he tried to dodge Ramsingh. Madhavrao believed that this was Raguhnathrao’s attempt to murder him, but he imprisoned General Ramsingh.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
गोवा-मन्दिर-निरोधः #४५२Up↑
Event occured on 1569-09-08 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Portuguese viceroy De Noroha ordered - ‘No Hindu Temples should be erected in any territories of my King & temples shouldn’t be repaired w/o my Permission.’
The report of activities of Franciscans state that 300 Hindu temples were destroyed by them in Bardez region (Goa).
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
विवेकानन्द-भाषणं चिकागोनगरे #१२८Up↑
Event occured on 1893-09-11 (gregorian).
On this day, Vivekananda gave a brief speech representing India and Hinduism. He was initially nervous, bowed to Saraswati (the Hindu goddess of learning) and began his speech with “Sisters and brothers of America!”. At these words, Vivekananda received a two-minute standing ovation from the crowd of seven thousand.
The New York Herald noted, “Vivekananda is undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Parliament of Religions. After hearing him we feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation”.
He spoke several more times “at receptions, the scientific section, and private homes”.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
राधाविनोदपालेन +उषापुत्ररक्षा #७३Up↑
Event occured on 1948-09-12 (gregorian).
On this day, Radha Binod Pal, a Judge from India at the Tokyo war crime trials, declared the defendants not guilty - dissenting from other judges from around the world. Thus, he earned heartfelt gratitude of Japanese people, expressed in various honors (roads named after him, statues at the shrine and court, the highest civilian honor of the country, ‘Kokko Kunsao’ from the Emperor Hirohito).
With is 1232 page note to the rest of the jurists he convinsingly argued that the Allies, (winners of WWII) also violated the principles of restraint and neutrality. In addition to ignoring Japan’s surrender hints, they killed two hundred thousand innocent people using nuclear bombardment. The judges were forced to drop many of the accused from Class-A to B.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
२००८ वर्षे देहल्यां विस्फोटाः #१३Up↑
Event occured on 2008-09-13 (gregorian).
On this day, 5 synchronised bomb blasts took place within a span of few minutes - around 30 died, and 100 injured. Carried out by Indian Mujahideen, an offshoot of Students Islamic Movement of India. In their arbi hindi email, they said: “This time with the Message of Death, dreadfully terrorising you for your sins. And thus our promise will be fulfilled. Inshallah…Do whatever you want.”
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This came after May 13 Jaipur bombings (63 killed), 25 July bengaLUru bombings and 26 July Ahmedabad bombings (56 killed).
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Several people (many engineers, scrap dealer, hotlier) were arrested. Abdul Qureshi (Quraysh = Islamic prophet’s tribe) aka Al Arabi, a SIMI activist with IT background was alleged to be closely involved. He was arrested after a gun fight in 2018.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
शेरसिंह-विद्रोहः #१७३Up↑
Event occured on 1848-09-14 (gregorian).
Khalsa General Sher Singh Attariwalla rebelled against the British on this day.
Cirmcumstance - Mulraj Chopra, the khatri divAn at multAn loyal to raNajIt singh and family, rebelled against the British. The British chief Currie sent a big detachment of the khalsa under Sher Singh Attariwalla to help the Bengal army in besieging Multan. However, Sher Singh rebelled as well on Sep 14!
Aftermath: However, Sher Singh moved away to fight separately - and join his father Chattar Singh. He was to inflict a famous shocker to the British at Chillianwala.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
भाग्यनगर-विमुक्तिः #७३Up↑
Event occured on 1948-09-17 (gregorian).
Operation Polo ends. The last Nizam and his armies from hell, the Razakars surrender to the Indian troops after 3 days of hostilities. Hyderabad is liberated and enters the Indian Union.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
वन-रक्षक-वैष्णव-हत्या #२९१Up↑
Event occured on 1730-09-22 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On roughly this day, several biShnoi-s died protecting khejri trees from the king’s men. The king came, apologized and turned the village into a sanctuary.
A royal party led by giridhar bhaNDArI, a minister of the maharajah of Marwar, arrived at Jalnadi village (later known as khejralI) with the intention of felling some Khejri trees that were sacred to the villagers. The trees were to be burned to produce lime for fort (some say palace) construction. A local woman called Amrita Devi protested against the tree-felling because such acts were prohibited by the vishnoi’s religion. The royal party said that they would only cease if she paid them a bribe, which she refused. She said that she would rather give away her life to save the trees. She and her three daughters (Asu, Ratni and Bhagu) were then killed by the party.
News of the deaths spread and summons to a meeting were sent to 84 Bishnoi villages. The meeting determined that one Bishnoi volunteer would sacrifice their life for every tree that was cut down. Older people began hugging the trees that were intended to be cut and many were killed. They said: ‘A chopped head is cheaper than a felled tree’ (“सिर साटै रूँख रहे - तो भी सस्तो जाँण”). Bhandari claimed that the Bishnois were sacrificing ageing people whom they no longer saw as useful to society. In response to this, young men, women and children began to follow the example of the old. 363 Bishnois (294 men & 69 women) died in the incident.
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The shocked tree-felling party left for Jodhpur with their mission unfulfilled. When the Maharaja Abhai Singh of Marwar heard about this, he was filled with remorse and came to the village to personally apologize to the people. He promised them that they would never again be asked to provide timber to the ruler, no khejri tree would ever be cut, and hunting would be banned near the Bishnoi villages. The proclamation, in a tAmra-patra, is displayed in a memorial.
Later, memorials were erected in memory of the martyrs - including a cenotaph, Khejarli Shahid Sthal, Jambheshwar sathari, aka amrita Devi vishnoismariti vatika. Every year fair is take place on bhAdrapada-shukla-dashamI. To remember their sacrifice, the government declared September 11 as National Forest Martyrs’ Day.
The Khejarli story inspired another environmental movement—the Chipko Andolan (1973) in the Tehri-Garhwal Himalaya. This, in turn, spawned the Jungle Bachao Andolan (1982) in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Appiko Chaluvali (1983) in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, and other similar protests. The ‘tree-hugging’ tactic of the Chipko Andolan and its messages gained popularity in many countries beyond India’s borders, leading to protests in Switzerland, Japan, Malaysia, The Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
माधव-रावान्तिमादेशः #२४९Up↑
Event occured on 1772-09-30 (gregorian).
On this day, shortly before his untimely death, one of the finest peshva-s, mAdhava rAv issued his final will with the following points.
- All my debts should be paid even by using, if necessary, my private purse in the possession of Guruji (Mahadaji Ballal) :
- The system of farming the revenues is found oppressive to the ryots: it should be modified after a careful enquiry.
- The two holy places Prayag and Benares should be released from Muslim control. This was the ardent desire of my sires and now is the time to carry it out.
- My mother’s desire to perform the pilgrimage of Benares should be fulfilled as soon as convenient.
- The obsequies of Bhau Saheb should be performed next February, whether aunt Parwatibai becomes sati or not.
- The annuities assigned to the worthy Brahmans of Benares should be regularly paid and continued in heredity.
- Dinners in connection with my funeral rites should be served to two lacs of Brahmans each with half an anna for dakshana.
- Dadasaheb should have five lacs of jagir assigned for his maintenance in order to keep him contented.
- The charities of the Shravan month should be continued as long as the administration brings in at least 5 lacs of revenue yearly.
The responsible officers swore in the presence of Ganapati that they would execute all these wishes.
प्रतापसिंहो देवैरदुर्गं जयति #४३९
Up↑Event occured on 1582-09-26 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On 16 September 1582 (said to be vijaya-dashamI), Maharana Pratap attacked the Mughal fortification of Dewair (under Shahbaz Khan and Sultan Khan) which was commanded by Mughal officer Sultan Khan. In the battle, Maharana Pratap’s son Amar Singh killed Sultan Khan and the Mughal army was forced to give up Dewair and retreat. The mahArANa is said to have chopped bahlol khAn and his horse into two. Mughal army surrendered to maharana pratap .
The retreating Mughal soldiers were pursued to Amet, which was also captured by Maharana Pratap. Soon after, Kumbhalmer (Kumbhalgarh), 36 garrisons (thanas) and 84 other posts were captured and the defenders killed. Maharana Pratap faced no resistance in Udaipur which had already been abandoned by the fleeing Mughal armies.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 9:22 AM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:अक्षरधाम-हत्या #१९
Up↑Event occured on 2002-09-24 (gregorian).
On 24 September 2002 (4:45 pm), Murtaza Hafiz Yasin and Ashraf Ali Mohammad Farooq attacked the Swaminarayan Akshardham complex at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. They killed 30 people and injured more than 80. This was shortly after the Godhra burning of Hindu pilgrims and the subsequent riots. A priest recalled “a mother begging for the lives of her children-later identified as Priya and Bhailu Chauhan, aged three and four. The woman, Sumitra, had been running with her little boy and girl when she was felled by a bullet in the leg. The killer nodded to her pleas, then turned his gun towards the children and, to the horror of the mother, mowed them down.”
At 4:48 pm, three minutes after the attack began, Vishwavihari Swami, at the Akshardham Temple Complex, made an SOS call to Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s office and informed them about the attack. By 5:15 pm, Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi called the Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani in Delhi and asked for the National Security Guards (NSG). At 10:10 pm, two buses of NSG commandos and one bus filled with NSG equipment arrived at Akshardham. By approximately 11:30 pm, after reviewing multiple strategies, 35 Black Cat commandos positioned themselves throughout the Akshardham Temple Complex in an effort to find the terrorists. At approximately 6:45 am, the 14-hour-long ordeal ended with the Black Cat Commandos shooting the two terrorists hiding in the bushes. During this overnight search for the attackers, one state police officer and one commando lost their lives. Another commando, Surjan Singh Bhandari, was seriously injured and died in May 2004, after being in coma for two years.
Aftermath
Up↑The head of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha which manages the temple, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, successfully appealed to maintain peace. Gujarat police later arrested several people, who were sentenced in 2006, but were acquitted in the Supreme Court in 2014.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 7:13 AM विश्वासो वासुकेयः <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:### मरुराक्षसस्य सिद्दि-सौतस्य वधः #२८५
Event occured on 1736-04-30 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning. On 19 April 1736 (julian) Chimaji Appa with Manaji Angre killed Siddi Saut in a battle at Kamarle in the Konkan. The Siddi had been cursed by BrahmendraSwami in 1726- 'you will be utterly destroyed', for attacking his Parshuram temple at Chiplun. Siddi Saut paid the price ten years later.
### २००६-डोडा-हत्या #१५
Event occured on 2006-04-30 (gregorian). In the first attack 22 unarmed Hindu villagers, mostly shepherds or their families, were lined up and gunned down by terrorists (allegedly belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba [Army of the Pure]) in Thawa village in Kulhand area of Doda district. The victims included a 3-year-old girl.
The second attack in the neighbouring Lalon Galla village in Basantgarh area of Udhampur district, 35 Hindu shepherds were similarly slaughtered.On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 7:10:09 AM UTC+5:30 विश्वासो वासुकेयः wrote:With the view of:
- informing
- as well as inviting corrections and contributions to the pertinent public repository of events at the xatra-later repository ( https://github.com/jyotisham/adyatithi/tree/master/mahApuruSha/xatra-later ) of the jyotisham /adyatithi
I start this thread of significant events in Hindu History (as I get notified about them by a panchAnga bot on telegram). May the awesome one who played with thunder and bolts magnificently yesterday night and in whose asterism the moon now resides be pleased!
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विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
अवरङ्गज़ेब-मार्गे मन्दिरनाशाज्ञा #३४०Up↑
Event occured on 1681-10-01 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day, Jawahar Chand, the Darogha of Beldars (stone cutters), was ordered that all temples coming in the way (of the Awrangzeb) should be demolished. Date of the Akhbar :- Julus 25, 18 Ramzan.
Original: ब जवाहरचंद दारुगा बिलदारान फर्मुदंद के औंजा बुत-खाना हा दर राहे आयंद शुमार (मिस्मार) मी नमुदा बाशद.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
दुर्गादासो मृतः #३०३Up↑
Event occured on 1718-10-03 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day died one of the bravest latter day rAjaputras- durgAdAs rAthore - now under the service of Mewar. He had fought mogols for over 30 years, and saved jodhpur and its royals from annexation and conversion. Durgadas Rathore’s memorial at the banks of Kshipra river, Ujjain, serves to remind us of his dedicated struggle. A bard would pray: “eh mAtA pUt esA jin jesA durgA-dAs” (may every [rAjaput] mother have a son like durgAdAs.)
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
शिवराज-मुगल-सन्धि-नवीकरणम् #३५१Up↑
Event occured on 1670-10-13 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
After the escape from Agra, shivAjI’s envoys were released on April 3rd and sent back to shivAjI. shivAjI also wrote to awrangzeb and asked for “pardon”, restitution of deshmukhI rights to land surrendered in the purandara treaty, and restoration of sambhAjI’s jAgir and mansabdArI. All this was granted on this day, plus shivAjI was given the title “rAjA” in March 1668 (something awrangzeb had refused when recommended by jayasiMha 2 years earlier). War on Adil shAh continued till he too ceded solapur fort in July 68.
शिवराजो सूरत-नगरं लुण्ठति #३५१Up↑
Event occured on 1670-10-13 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
जसवन्त-सिंहो मृतः #३४३Up↑
Event occured on 1678-10-22 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
jasvant singh rAthoD of mArvAr died on this day in kAbUl. Excited awrangzeb is said to have exclaimed: “darwaza-e-kufr shikast! shikast!” - door that saved Kafirs, fall! Same year Jazia was imposed all over the empire. Awrangzeb then treid to annex mArvAr and convert its royal infant heir to Islam - only to be foiled by brave durgAdAs.
In a letter written in 1659, Awrangzeb speaks of Maharaja Jaswant Singh as “the infidel who has destroyed mosques and built idol-temples on their sites.” Maharaja Jaswant Singh was later suspected by the mogols of covertly aiding shivAjI in his daring raid on shaiste khAn in puNe.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
शिवराजो विजयपुरम् आक्रामति #३४८Up↑
Event occured on 1673-10-23 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
shivAjI set out on vijaya-dashamI on his coastal campaign, arrived in satArA, thence plundered bankApur.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
Event occured on 1947-10-26 (gregorian).
On this day, mahArAja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession and joined India.
#### Context
jihAdis from pAkistAn, with local support had invaded, overrun the small dogra army, conducted massaccres of non-Muslims, declared "Azad" Kashmir on 24 October. In 1947, Kashmir's population was "77% Muslim and 20% Hindu". Maharaja appealed to the Government of India for assistance, and the Governor-General Lord Mountbatten agreed on the condition that the ruler accede to India.
#### Aftermath
Indian soldiers entered Kashmir and drove the pAki jihAdis from all but a small section of the state.
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कृष्णदेवराय-मरणम् #४९२Up↑
Event occured on 1529-10-27 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day died shrI-kRShNadeva-rAya, who ruled vijayanagara at its peak.
An inscription in Honehalli near Tumkur records this. Saka 1451 Virodhi Kartika Shuddha Pournima, lunar eclipse.
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Event occured on 1947-10-27 (gregorian).
On this day, Brigadier Rajinder Singh, chief of kAshmIri Maharaja Hari Singh’s army, died delaying pAkistani invaders before Indian army arrived.
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On 22 October 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh gave his Chief of Army Staff, Brigadier Rajinder Singh, the order to defend the state until Indian troops arrived, that he should fight till death in doing so, “save the state till the last man and the last bullet”. Doubtful of Poonchie Muslim soldiers’ loyalty, he set off with a few men and outdated weapons, fighting against numerically superior and better armed invaders. Destroying bridges and placing defensive positions while slowly retreating, he successfully delayed the enemy. The Brigadier’s driver was killed so the Brigadier drove himself; however soon after he was also mortally wounded. The Brigadier ordered his men to continue ahead with the planned defensive strategy, and leave him where he was. Nothing more was heard of Brigadier Rajinder Singh. His men continued the fight until the next day, but nearly all were killed soon after.
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The delay the Brigadier and his men caused the raiders, a delay of nearly 4 days, was enough for diplomatic decisions to be taken and for the Indian Army to arrive. For his rearguard last-stand actions, Brigadier Rajinder Singh is remembered as the “Saviour of Kashmir”. Brigadier Rajinder’s native hometown of Bagoona has been renamed as Rajinderpura.
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Event occured on 1670-10-27 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day was fought the fierce battle of Vani-Dindori where Shivaji led the Marathas to a great victory against the Mughals. shivAjI was returning from the sack of sUrat and daud khAn was sent to cut him off. Date here is as per Jedhe shAkhAvalI.
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Event occured on 1947-10-31 (gregorian).
On this day, Gilgit was lost to betrayal by muslim-dominated Gilgit Scouts.
Brigadier Ghansara Singh was appointed the governor of the Gilgit region by the Maharaja in August of 1947. He was to defend the region with help of Gilgit Scouts, the armed militia which owed its allegiance to Maharaja. Most of the soldiers in this body were recruited from Hunza and Nagar principalities. Ghansara Singh also had under him soldiers of 6 J&K Infantry, with its Battalion headquarters at Bunji, 54 kilometers from Gilgit, on the road to Srinagar. The battalion had Sikhs and Muslims in equal proportion. Most of the Muslims in the battalion were from Poonch. Sensing trouble, Ghansara Singh called for help from Srinagar, but a Muslim officer who manned the telegraph office at Gilgit did not forward the messages!
On the night of 31 Oct- 01 Nov 1947 British Officers stationed in Gilgit, under the employment of Maharaja, and Muslim soldiers and officers of Gilgit Scouts treacherously captured Ghansara Singh. The 35 Sikhs of the 6 J&K Infantry at Janglot were attacked by Muslim soldiers of their own unit! Only 1 survived the massacre by jumping into the icy cold Indus river.
The other Sikh troops at Bunji got information of the massacre and tried to slip away, but most were ruthlessly hunted and killed by Gilgit Scouts and their own brothers-in-arms. The commander at Bunji, Lt Col Abdul Majid Khan, however, was a rare Muslim officer who remained loyal to Maharaja and was put under arrest. On 03 Nov 1947, Maj Brown of Gilgit Scouts hoisted the Pakistani Flag in the Scout Lines and declared for Pakistan.
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Event occured on 1947-11-07 (gregorian).
On this day, began the large scale massacre of over 30k Hindu and sikhs at rAjauri in jammu and kAshmIr state.
On 12 November 1947, there were coordinated killings of young Hindu and Sikh males ordered by Sakhi Diler and Colonel Rehmat Ullah Khan - 3k to 7k killed on that day. Later mass riots by muslim mobs started. Some fled to other places - like mIrpur (where another massacre was awaiting them). By the time Indian army recaptured Rajauri on 12 April 1948, most inhabitants were dead - though 1.5k refugees who’d fled to the hills returned.
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Event occured on 1762-11-12 (gregorian).
On this day, to keep marATha unity and strength in the face of an ambitious nizAm, mAdhav rAv surrendered to his stupidly greedy uncle raghunAth rAv. The contrast between the two - whether in terms of ethics, capability or longevity is huge.
Context: He decided to wage a war against his uncle Raghunathrao on November 7, 1762. However, Madhavrao didn’t wish to battle against his own uncle and thus, proposed for a treaty. Raghunathrao agreed to sign the treaty with Madhavrao and asked him to move back to a non-attacking position. Madhavrao did so. However, Raghunathrao deceived Madhavrao. When the Maratha camp under Madhavrao was relaxed and unsuspecting of a battle, they were caught unawared as Raghunathrao attacked treacherously. Thus, Madhavrao was defeated in the Battle of Alegaon and on November 12, 1762 surrendered himself to Raghunathrao near Alegaon. After the surrender, Raghunathrao decided to control all the major decisions under the assistance of Sakharam Bapu. He also decided to befriend Nizam, but this proved to be a wrong masterplan as the Nizam slowly started infiltrating the zones of Maratha Empire. As time slipped by, Madhavrao pointed out the gravity of the situation to his uncle. Eventually on March 7, 1763 the Peshwas, once again under Madhavrao’s leadership, decided to attack Aurangabad to crush Nizam.
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Event occured on 1772-11-18 (gregorian).
The young but bold and astute visionary, peshvA mAdhava rAv, died of tuberculosis at his favourite Ganesha Chintamani Temple, Theur. Aged 28. Before he died, he had succeeded in reuniting the confrederacy. Grant Duff - “And the plains of Panipat were not more fatal to the Maratha Empire than the early end of this excellent prince…”
Context: Madhavrao was infected with intestinal tuberculosis in May 1770. This disease is characterised by unbearable abdominal pain. Pain was such, that during his last days Madhavrao once asked for a dagger from his uncle to cut his belly so that he might escape from the terrible suffering! Madhavrao’s last days were unfortunately very painful.
He died on 18 November 1772 at 11 o’ clock in the morning, with the word ‘Gajanan’ on his lips. Thousands of citizens visited the site and paid their last respects. Madhavrao was cremated on the banks of the river which was about half a mile from the temple. A small memorial carved out of stone rests today at that place as a memorial. His wife Ramabai chose to commit sati with his body at the time of cremation, even though Brahmin widows were not required to follow the ritual.
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Event occured on 1675-11-21 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
tyAga-malla, aka guru tegh bahAdur, father of guru govind singh, was beheaded on this day by Jalal-ud-din Jallad on Awrangzeb’s orders under a banyan tree opposite the Sunheri Masjid near the Kotwali in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, were he’d been imprisoned.
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tyAgamalla had been arrested with some of his followers, including the mohyAl brAhmins Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das. They refused to convert to Islam. Bhai Mati Das was made to stand erect between two posts and a double headed saw was placed on his head and he was sawed from his head to his loins.
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His head was carried by Bhai Jaita to Anandpur, where the nine-year-old Guru Gobind Singh cremated it (The gurdwara at this spot is also called Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib). The body, before it could be quartered, was stolen under the cover of darkness by Lakhi Shah Vanjara, another disciple, who carried it in a cart of hay and cremated it by burning his hut. Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib, was built at Chandni Chowk at the site of the execution.
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शिवराजः सप्तकोटेश्वर-मन्दिरनिर्माणम् आरभते #३५४Up↑
Event occured on 1667-11-23 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On 13th November 1668 (in the same month as the raid on bArdesh, Goa), Shivaji commenced the construction of the temple of Shri Saptakoteshvara at Narwe.
Formerly the temple of Shri Saptakoteshvara, the family deity of the Kadamba dynasty that ruled over Goa in the 12th century, was in the village named Narwe (Naroa) in Divadi, a tiny coastal island. It was destroyed by the Muslims and the stone image of the deity was hidden by the devotees in the embankment of a field.
When Goa came under the sway of Vijayanagar, Madhava, a minister of that Empire, built a new magnificent temple at the same place and reestablished the deity. This, too, was destroyed in 1540 – this time by the Portuguese - along with many other temples. They built a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora Candelaria in its place.
Some remains of the ancient temple could still be noticed in the chapel. The image of the deity was smuggled out of Goa and a temple was built in another village within Adilshahi territory also named Narwe (Naroa) in the district of Dicholi, opposite the one in Divadi. This temple, it seems, was in a very dilapidated condition.
Shivaji was now building a new one at that site which he perhaps intended would serve as a beacon of hope for his Hindu brethren in Goa. This was all that he could do for them at the moment.
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Event occured on 1947-11-25 (gregorian).
On this day, began the large scale massacre of over 20k Hindu and sikhs at mIrpur in pAkistAn occupied kAshmIr.
In the morning, jihAdi-s entered mIrpur city. Rioting began. Of the minority population, only about 2,500 Hindus or Sikhs escaped through the border to Jammu and Kashmir along with the State troops. The jihAdi-s killed every hindu and sikh - shooting, hacking, even slitting throats while chanting kAlima-s (eg. at the gurdwara at Ali Baig which had been turned into a prison camp). Around 5k women were raped and abducted - though many committed mass suicide to escape that fate.
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In March 1948, the ICRC rescued 1,600 of the survivors from Ali Baig. By 1951, only 790 non-Muslims remained in areas that came to comprise Azad Kashmir; down from a previous population of 114,000 which used to live there. Governments of sheikh abdullah and successors did not give them resident status.
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Event occured on 1001-12-03 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Army of Sultan Mahmud bin Sebuktigin (Mahmud of Ghazni) defeated the Hindu Shahi army of Jayapala, near Peshawar. Jayapala was defeated, bound and paraded, before being released for ransom (sent by his son AnandapAla). He later immolated himself in a funeral pyre. mahmUd’s secretary Al-Utbi in Tarikh Yamini: “The friends of God defeated their obstinate opponents, and quickly put them to a complete rout. Noon had not arrived when the Musulmans had wreaked their vengeance on the infidel enemies of God, killing 15,000 of them, spreading them like a carpet over the ground, and making them food for beasts and birds of prey.”
Context: Alp Tigin, a Turkik slave soldier of Khorasan had seized garjanapura (ghazna) and started a dynasty (962). After his son died, slave soldiers Bilge Tegin and Böri tigin succeeded. Finally, his slave Sebuk Tigin (who’d married his daughter) succeeded (977), and captured gAndhAra (kAndahar). He defeated JayapAla twice, and annexed further territory. His son mahmUd (a devout muslim who thought of himself as “the Shadow of the God on Earth”) succeeded him in 997. Following recognition by Abbasid caliphate in 999, he pledged a jihad and a raid on India every year.
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Event occured on 1683-12-04 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On 24 November 1683 at night, when the tide was low, Sambhaji’s full force attacked the unsuspecting fort and village on Santo Estêvão island. They captured the fort and plundered its village. A battalion of 200 men marched from mainland Goa in order to recapture the island. Seeing the size of the Maratha army, and the devastation caused by them, the battalion retreated to the capital City of Goa
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1971 tamē varṣē pākistānamarurāṣṭra-vimānaiḥ prahāraḥ #50Up↑
Event occured on 1971-12-05 (gregorian).
On the evening of 3 December, at about 17:40, the Islamic repulic of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (<50 planes) launched surprise strikes on 11 airfields in north-western India, including Agra, which was 480 kilometres (300 mi) from the border.
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Event occured on 1971-12-05 (gregorian).
120 Indian soldiers stubbornly hold back 2,000 pAkistAni muslim soldiers aided by 40 tanks all night till at dawn the IAF Hawker Hunters and Maruts picked off the remaining tanks.
Result - 200 soldiers of Islamic state of Pakistan killed, 36 tanks destroyed. 2 Indian soldiers and 5 camels at their service died.
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The main Indian anti-tank weapon at Longewala was a jeep-mounted recoilless rifle. It had been supposed to be withdrawn and re-assigned the day before the engagement; yet due to mysterious happenstance had been significantly delayed and unable to leave before the reports came in of the impending Pakistani armoured thrust. It was to prove vital in the ensuing defence. As were the Indian artillery-pieces nearby that had only just managed to be deployed scant hours before the commencement of the assault.
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Event occured on 1802-12-31 (gregorian).
In a selfish and short-sighted move, bAjI-rAv 2 signed the Treaty of Bassein and became a subordinate ally of the British after running away from yashvantrAv holkar's vectorious army. Earlier he had taken shiNDe's side in the shiNDe-holkar rivalry and had executed yashvantrAv's brother by elephant trampling. Soon, with successful execution of the "divide and conquer" strategy, the East India Company forces won against the shiNDe army in isolation; and then the holkar army.
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Event occured on 1934-01-12 (gregorian).
Masterda Surya Sen (along with colleague Tarakeswar Dastidar) was killed by British (after severe torture) on this day. He led a group of revolutionaries on 18 April 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury - sadly that had failed.
While hiding, Netra Sen informed the British of his hiding place, and the police came and captured him in February 1933. Before Netra Sen could be rewarded by the British, a revolutionary came into his house and beheaded him with da (a long knife). As Netra Sen’s wife was a big supporter of Surya Sen, she never disclosed the name of the revolutionary who killed Netra Sen.
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Event occured on 1684-01-12 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
When Sambhaji learnt of Muazzam’s arrival to Ramghat, he withdrew all his forces to Raigad on 2 January 1684.
Context: After having laying waste to the outer districts of Salcete and Bardez the Marathas and had started closing in to the Islands of Goa. The viceroy was concerned that if the things remain unchanged, Sambhaji would soon lay siege to the island of Goa. During this time, Muzzam was pillaging through the Maratha territory, as he made his approach towards Sambhaji.
Local corpse-cultists believe that the viceroy went to the body of St. Francis Xavier, in the Bom Jesus church in the City of Goa, and placed his scepter on the dead saint’s hand and prayed for his grace to avert the Maratha threat. This led to an annual Goan celebration by them.
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Event occured on 1934-01-12 (gregorian).
On this day, vAnchinathan Iyer, inspired by Subramaniam Aiyar and armed by Va Ve Su Iyer accomplice of nIlakaNTha brahmachAri of bhAratamAta-sangha with a gun sent by sAvarkar’s accompalice Madam Cama of Paris Indian Society, shot dead a mlecCha collector Robert Ashe (who had successfully harrassed VO Chidambaram Pillai’s Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company) before killing himself (after pushing away his peon Khadar bAdshAh). His letter:
- I dedicate my life as a small contribution to my motherland. I am alone responsible for this.
- The mlechas of England having captured our country, tread over the sanathana dharma of the Hindus and destroy them. Every Indian is trying to drive out the English and get swarajyam and restore sanathana dharma. Our Raman, Sivaji, Krishnan, Guru Govindan, Arjuna ruled our land protecting all dharmas, but in this land, they are making arrangements to crown George V, a mlecha, and one who eats the flesh of cows.
- Three thousand Madrasees have taken a vow to kill George V as soon as he lands in our country. In order to make others know our intention, I who am the least in the company, have done this deed this day. This is what everyone in Hindustan should consider it as his duty.
- I will kill Ashe, whose arrival here is to celebrate the crowning of cow-eater King George V in this glorious land which was once ruled by great samrats. This I do to make them understand the fate of those who cherish the thought of enslaving this sacred land.
- I, as the least of them, wish to warn George by killing Ashe.
- Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram
- sd/-, R. Vanchi Aiyar, Shencottah
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Event occured on 1779-01-12 (gregorian).
British East India Company’s troops (3.9k, with 600 Europeans), together with raghunAth rAv’s troops (few more thousands), forced to retreat from their attack by marATha-s under nAnA faDnavIs, were cut off at Vadgaon and forced to surrender. Excellent tactics (including scorched earth policy) were employed.
Unfortunately, nAnA faDnavIs, let the surrendered soldiers go. British Governor-General in Bengal, Warren Hastings, rejected the treaty; and marATha-s were again in trouble after the death of nAna.
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Event occured on 1849-01-13 (gregorian).
East India Company British troops clashed with rAjA sher-singh attari-valla in Chillianwala near river jhelum in panjAb.
Aftermath: The British were shocked and stopped. The loss of British prestige at Chillianwala was one of the factors which contributed to the Indian rebellion of 1857 some nine years later. Hindu poet Prakashanth Das wrote: “हाल ही में मैंने रंग-बिरंगे कपड़े पहने हजारों सैनिकों को क्षितिज में बिना म्यान के तलवारें लहराते हुए देखा। हनुमान का एक लाल झंडा उठा और झाँसी की सेना रो पड़ी और चिल्लाई “चिल्लनवाला याद करो।” This even influenced the Namdhari Revolt of 1871 and Ram Kuka many times talked about the Battle of Chillianwala.
It was said: ‘The Sikhs fought like devils, fierce and untamed… Such a mass of men I never set eyes on and a plucky as lions: they ran right on the bayonets and struck their assailants when they were transfixed.’ Major Amin said: ‘The Battle of Chillianwala fought on 13 January 1849 is, however, one odd exception and stands out as a battle in which the British failed to defeat their opponents despite having the advantages of weight of numbers (sic), ideal weather and terrain, superior logistics etc’. Gough was criticised for his handling of the battle, was relieved of command and superseded by General Charles James Napier.
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Event occured on 1705-01-13 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Entry from court akhbAr 1116-09-17 Ramaḍān. Aurangzeb halted at Pandharpur. That night Khwaja Mohammed Shah Mohtasib reported that there is a temple at Pandharpur and hindus from the army are crowding and worshipping idols there. The emperor ordered that the temple be demolished and butchers from the army should go to the temple site and slaughter cows. Muhammad Ishaq son of Tarbiyat khan bahadur should disperse the crowds. The emperors orders were duly carried out.
Original: दर शब ख्वाजा मुहम्मद शाह मुहतसीब ब-अर्ज रसानीद दर मौजे पंदरपूर बुतखाने अस्त. मरदूमे हुनुदान लष्करे माली हुजुम व बुतपरस्ती मी नूमायद. चुनांचे मुहम्मद खलील व खिदतमतराय दारुगा इ बेलदारान मुहम्मद आमीन रा ब-हुजूर तलबीदा फर्मुदंद के निज बुतखाना रा मिस्मार नूमायंद व कसायान इ लष्कर रा दर बुतखाने ब-रवद गावान हलाल बकुनानद . मुहम्मद इसहाक पिसर इ तरबियत खान बहादूर रफ्ते हुजुम दूर नुमायद चुनांचे ब-अमल आमद.
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गोलाकान्दैल-हत्या #५८Up↑
Event occured on 1964-01-14 (gregorian).
Poush Parbon (Makar Sankranti), 20k Bengali Hindus had come to Golakandail to attend a Fair. Mill workers armed and roused by a mill GM Karim killed 5k to 6k Hindus on that day. This was part of the infamous 1964 East Pakistan anti-Hindu genocide. (Source -Report submitted to the Indian Commission of Jurists by its committee of enquiry)
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Event occured on 1761-01-14 (gregorian).
Sad anniversary of 3rd battle of pAnIpat where ahmed shAh abdAli defeated the starving, outmaneouvred, civilian heavy Maratha forces under the 31 yr old sadAshivarAv bhAu with the bold 19 year old vishvAs rAv, with cataclysmic effects accross India (including the loss of star generals and rise of Hyder ali).
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Tactically - Durrani had both numeric as well as qualitative superiority over Marathas.
Strategically - Sadashivrao (unlike Malharrao Holkar or Raghunathrao) was totally ignorant of the political and military situation in North India. Ahmad Shah’s superiority in pitched battle could have been negated if the Marathas had conducted their traditional ganimi kava, or guerrilla warfare, as advised by Malharrao Holkar, in Punjab and in north India.
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In a series of strenuous tactical moves, Abdali and bhau tried to outmaneouvre and trap each other. Abdali succeeded upon crossing yamunA and trapping the marATha-s at pAnIpat. Facing a potential stalemate, Abdali decided to seek terms, which Bhau was willing to consider. However, Najib Khan delayed any chance of an agreement with an appeal on religious grounds and sowed doubt about whether the Marathas would honour any agreement.
Unable to continue without supplies, Bhau decided to break the siege. His plan was to pulverise the enemy formations with cannon fire and not to employ his cavalry until the Afghans were thoroughly softened up. With the Afghans broken, he would move camp in a defensive formation towards Delhi, where they were assured supplies.
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The Marathas left their camp before dawn and marched south towards the Afghan camp in a desperate attempt to break the siege. The two armies came face-to-face around 8:00 a.m. Bhau, with the Peshwa’s son and the royal guard (Huzurat), was in the centre.
Left wing: Gardis under Ibrahim Khan.
Holkar and Sindhia were on the extreme right.
The Maratha line was formed up some 12 km across, with the artillery in front, protected by infantry, pikemen, musketeers and bowmen.
The cavalry was instructed to wait behind the artillery and bayonet-wielding musketeers.
Behind this line was another ring of 30,000 young Maratha soldiers who were not battle-tested, and then the civilians.
Maratha troops broke their fast with sugared water.
Maratha left flank under Ibrahim Khan, who advanced his infantry in formation, attacked.
First Afghan attack by Najib Khan’s Rohillas was broken by Maratha bowmen and pikemen, along with a unit of the famed Gardi musketeers. The second and subsequent salvos were fired at point-blank range into the Afghan ranks. 8,000 Gardi musketeers killed about 12,000 Rohillas.
Bhau himself led the charge against the left-of-center Afghan forces, under the Afghan Vizier Shah Wali Khan. Afghan soldiers started to desert their positions in the confusion. Shah Wali appealed to Shuja ud Daulah in vain. But, incomplete success - many of the half-starved Maratha mounts were exhausted, no heavy armoured cavalry units for the Marathas to maintain these openings. Abdali deployed his Nascibchi musketeers to gun down the deserters who finally stopped and returned to the field.
The Marathas, under Scindia, attacked Najib. Najib successfully defended.
By noon it looked as though Bhau would clinch victory at center. Ahmad Shah had watched the fortunes of the battle from his tent, guarded by the still unbroken forces on his left. He sent his bodyguards to call up his 15,000 reserve troops from his camp and arranged them as a column in front of his cavalry of musketeers (Qizilbash) and 2,000 swivel-mounted shutarnaals or Ushtranaal—cannons. Maratha cavalry was unable to withstand them.
Abdali pressed further troops and intensified the attack. With their own men in the firing line, the Maratha artillery could not respond to the shathurnals and the cavalry charge. Some 7,000 Maratha cavalry and infantry were killed before the hand-to-hand fighting began at around 14:00 hrs. By 16:00 hrs, the tired Maratha infantry began to succumb to the onslaught of attacks from fresh Afghan reserves, protected by armoured leather jackets.
Sadashiv Rao Bhau who had not kept any reserves, seeing his forward lines dwindling, civilians behind and upon seeing Vishwasrao disappear in the midst of the fighting, felt he had no choice but to come down from his elephant and lead the battle. Taking advantage of this, the Afghan soldiers who had been captured by the Marathas earlier during the Siege of Kunjpura revolted. The prisoners unwrapped their green belts and wore them as turbans to impersonate the troops of the Durrani Empire and began attacking from within. Some Maratha troops in the vanguard panicked and retreated.
Bhausaheb had ordered Vitthal Vinchurkar (with 1500 cavalry) and Damaji Gaikwad (with 2500 cavalry) to protect the Gardis. However, after seeing the Gardis having no clearing for directing their cannon fire at the enemy troops, they lost their patience and decided to fight the Rohillas themselves. The Rohilla riflemen mowed them down. Gardis fell next.
Vishwasrao had already been killed by a shot to the head. Bhau and the Huzurati royal forces fought till the end.
At this stage, the Holkar and Scindia contingents, realising the battle was lost, merged their forces with one contingent breaking from the Maratha right flank and escaped from the opening in the Durrani lines southwards as Jankoji Rao Scindia lead the other contingent to reinforce the thinning lines of Marathas.
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- The Maratha front lines remained largely intact, with some of their artillery units fighting until sunset. Choosing not to launch a night attack, many Maratha troops escaped that night. Bhau’s wife Parvatibai, who was assisting in the administration of the Maratha camp, escaped to Pune with her bodyguard, Janu Bhintada along with Nana Fadnavis under the protection of Malhar Rao Holkar’s contingent. Some 15,000 soldiers managed to reach Gwalior. Ibrahim Khan Gardi was tortured and executed by enraged Afghan soldiers.
- Jankoji Scindia was taken prisoner and executed at the instigation of Najib.
- Afghan cavalry and pikemen ran wild through the streets of Panipat, killing tens of thousands of Maratha soldiers and civilians. Afghan officers who had lost their kin in battle were permitted to carry out massacres of Marathas the next day also, in Panipat and the surrounding area. 40,000 Maratha prisoners were slaughtered in cold blood the day after the battle.
- Some 22,000 women and children were driven off as slaves.
- Marathas never fully recovered from the loss at Panipat, but they remained the predominant military power.
- The Jats under Suraj Mal benefited significantly from not participating in the Battle of Panipat. They provided considerable assistance to the Maratha soldiers and civilians who escaped the fighting.
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काश्मीर-पण्डित-निष्कासनम् #३२Up↑
Event occured on 1990-01-19 (gregorian).
This day marks paNDit exodus day. Merits reflection by people of all religions.
Ethnic cleansing of Kashmir’s Hindus began. Didn’t stop until 300k–600k were made chased, killed and their properties looted or destroyed by their “peaceful” neighbours & even friends. Many Kashmiri Hindu women were kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered (eg. by beating, cutting at saw mill), throughout the time of exodus.
It was preceded by slaughter of 300 Hindu men and women, nearly all of them Kashmiri Pandits since the brutal murder of Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, newspaper messages (eg Aftab Jan 4) threatening all Hindus to leave, posters threatening kAshmIris to follow Islamic rules, coloring shops green.
At midnight (beginning of 19th), a blackout took place in the Kashmir Valley where electricity was cut except in mosques. Throughout the day, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists use public address systems at mosques to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, firing guns, march up and down, terrorizing cowering Pandits who, by then, have locked themselves in their homes. Three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: ‘Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai’ (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar); ‘Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa’ (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah); ‘Asi gachchi Pakistan, baTao roas te baTanev san’ (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men).
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Event occured on 1733-01-20 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day (date merits verification), hakIkat rAi (Haqiqat Rai Bakhmal Puri) was beheaded by the then punjAbI muslim government of Zakariya Khan. Quasi Abdul Haq, who was responsible for the Fatwa, was also beheaded later on by Sardar Dal Singh and Saradar Mana Singh and shown around the city of Batala.
Background: One day, some of his Muslim classmates ridiculed Hindu goddess Devi Ma. He ultimately responded by ridiculing Fatima, daughter of Prophet Muhammad. The Muslim boys complained to the maulvis. Haqiqat Rai was arrested and sent to Amir Beg, the administrator of Sialkot. Amir said Haqiqat Rai had committed a sin and he can be pardoned only if he accepts Islam as punishment for blasphemy. Haqiqat Rai refused conversion to Islam. Haqiqat Rai’s parents tried to change his mind, but failed. He was then sent to Zakaria Khan, the Governor of Lahore. But Haqiqat Rai did not agree to convert even under further torture. Then he was killed.
Before execution, Hakikat Rai Puri was allowed to take a sacred bath, perform a Gau Daan and listen Gita from a Pandit. He is depicted with a shikhA and a tilak.
The day of his execution used to be marked by a ‘mela’ (fair) on Vasant Panchami day in Lahore, around his ‘samadhi’ (Baway di marrhi), before India’s partition.
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Event occured on 1752-01-21 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day, marATha soldiers and followers visiting Jaipur were massacred by rAjputs. From midday to midnight, about fifteen hundred men were killed outright, one thousand were wounded, only seventeen returned safely. Most of the wounded had broken their limbs in their attempt to jump from the rampart. Among those who were killed, many were higher officers of Jayappa’s army, about a hundred were Brahmans, many lady servants and there were even small children. This was a landmark event in marAtha-rAjput relations - earlier fraternity and cooperation were lost.
Context: Contrary to advice from peshva-s and the shiNDe minister Ramchandra Baba, malharrAv holkar had interfered in the Jaipur succession dispute, resulting in the suicide of the rightful ruler IshvarI singh and his family in desperation. This had sullied marATha reputation as being greedy and unprincipled. The other claimant, mAdhav singh (supported by marATha-s and some rAjputs) was installed on the throne on 29th December. Jayappa shiNDe arrived on Jan 6th. Maratha demand of one third or at least one fourth of Jaypur territory annoyed the new king and his ministers. He started plotting to destroy the marATha-s by cunning - inviting them for dinner and trying to poison food and water; calling them for talks and closing the gates - but they did not work out. The marAtha-s had come to admire the city and make purchases. But suddenly doors of the rampart were closed and massacre ensued.
Aftermath: Roads were closed to marATha-s, and their messengers were killed. mAdhavsingh pleaded innocence, requested peaceful settlement. marAtha-s had to acquiesce as they did not have sufficient strength to storm the fort. But he was hardly sincere - avoided payment while supplies to marATha-s were cut off.
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Event occured on 1739-01-21 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Marathas again attacked Kelwa. The Maratha attack was greatly resisted by Portuguese garrison. Marathas burnt a gun-powder depot in the fort, which caused a huge blast, claiming many Portuguese lives.
Context: Marathas found Kelwa fort difficult to conquer initially. Initially Chimaji Appa gave the command of this mission to conquer Kelve to Vitthal Vishwanath & Awaji Kawade. But the Marathas had to retreat due to strong Portuguese counter-attack. After that to conquer Kelwa, Peshwa Bajirao changed the command to Ramchandra Hari Patwardhan. He also had to retreat. This infuriated many Maratha Sardars, & even Peshwa Bajirao. Bajirao ordered Ramchandra to take strict action against the wrongdoers & deserters!
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Event occured on 1661-01-25 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
shivAjI with his 3000 men ambushes and defeats 30k Mughals led by kartalab khan and Rai Bagan (sAvitrIbAI, royal tigress). After an hour or two, kartalab khan surrendered and was ransomed off as adviced by sAvitrIbAI (who praised and knew shivAjI’s nature). Date is as per one accepted by Mehendale.
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Event occured on 1998-01-25 (gregorian).
In an attack (allegedly by Abdul Hamid Gada of Hizbul Mujahideen = ‘Party of Holy Fighters’), timed to coincide with the Shab-e-Qadar, the holiest night of Ramadan, 26 Kashmiri Hindus living in the village of Wandhama were slaughtered. The gunmen came to their house dressed like Indian Army soldiers, had tea with them, waiting for a radio message indicating that all Hindu families in the village had been covered, lined them up and shot them dead.
Politicians expressed “kaDhI nindA”.
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Event occured on 1928-01-30 (gregorian).
On this day, a bullet from shivarAm rAjaguru stopped Hassan Nizami’s anti-hindu activities (albeit killing an unintended person).
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Hassan Nizami (the famous sufi of Chishti order, of Nizamuddin Auliya’s known silsilã) was indulging in frenzied anti-hindu activity - including conversions in Central Provinces. Sita Ram Goel writes:
He published in 1920 a big book, Fãtami Dãwat-i-Islam, in which he advocated all means, fair and foul, by which Hindus were to be converted to Islam. He advised the mullahs to concentrate on Hindu “untouchables”, and convert them en masse so that Muslims could achieve parity of population with the Hindus. He disclosed in the introduction to his book that he had consulted many Muslim leaders including the Agha Khan regarding the soundness of his scheme, and that all of them had agreed with the caution that the scheme should be kept a closely guarded secret. Unfortunately for the Khwaja, the scheme came to the notice of Swami Shraddhananda who exposed it, fought it tooth and nail, and frustrated it completely by means of his Shuddhi Movement.
Even MK Gandhi had objected to his pamphlets (ref. his collected writings). But, Svami shraddhananda was killed by an Islamist.
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Ganesh Damodar aka Babarao Savarkar had recruited many boys, including rAjaguru to his cause. He had him enrolled in “Amravati Vyaayaam Prasaarak Mandal” which was a gym. This boy was strong by constitution and was an excellent marksman. Archery and shooting were this boy’s natural forte. He was summoned by Babarao and was given the task of “eliminating Hussain Nizami”.
Boy was happy at his first assignment. Since he was trained by likes of savarkar, he did all the necessary recce and info-gathering. Boy went to Delhi, studied routine of Nizam, set a trap and waited. Plan was to shoot nizam while his car passed thru a set point. The boy waited and he shot. Flawlessly! Unfortunately, that day it was Nizam’s father in law (Somali) who was sitting in usual place where nizam sat.
Codename of Rajguru in this operation was “M” - “M” for Maratha. Veer Savarkar had used same pseudonym to write his “Hindutva” year before.
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Hassan, although alive, got the message. Conversions stopped in CP.
Though consoled by his colleagues Shiv Verma and Chandrashekhara AzAd, it is reported that he always felt guilty at killing the wrong person.
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Event occured on 1948-01-30 (gregorian).
nAthUrAm goDse (assisted by Narayan Apte) killed MK gAndhi (who DID NOT say “He Ram”) in a stupid move which would set back Hindu interest by decades. Millions of Indians mourned Gandhi’s assassination; the Hindu Mahasabha was vilified and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was temporarily banned.
In Anti-brAhmin riots (mostly by so-called marATha-s taking advantage of the situation),innocent brAhmaNas were killed (on the first day alone, 15 in Bombay and 50 in Pune), thousands of offices and homes were also set on fire. Greatest violence took place in Satara, Kolhapur and Belgaum. The biggest violence took place in the seven Patwardhan (Chitpawan) princely states such as Sangli, where the remarkably advanced factories owned by Chitpawans were largely destroyed. Here, Jains and Lingayats joined the Marathas in the attacks. The events hastened the integration of Patwardhan states (by march 1948) into the Bombay province.
N Godse was later executed on 15 November 1949.
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Event occured on 1739-02-03 (gregorian).
Marathas captured Tarapur fort. Congratulations poured on Chimaji Appa! Khandoji Mankar and other Maratha commanders and unit of artillery fired shots to celebrate the victory! After the fall of Tarapur on 3 Feb 1739 Chimaji Appa immediately sent force of 4000 infantry & 5000 cavalry to capture Asheri under Haripant.
Marathas employed 30 cannons against the fort and made heavy bombardment on the fort resulting in damages to the fortification. But, Portuguese continued their defence. The Marathas, seeing no sign of Portuguese surrender, decided to mine the fort. Baji Bhivrao, Ramchandra Hari, Baloji Chandrao, Malharrao Holkar, Ranoji Shinde, Yashwantrao Pawar were the prominent Maratha Sardars in this action. Finally the mines exploded resulting in destruction of fort & bastion, allowing Marathas to enter the Fort!
Baji Bhivrao Retrekar, a leading Maratha commander of Peshwa Bajirao I led the attack from the front, when a bullet struck in his mouth & he was killed. Baji Bhivrao Retrekar was considered ‘own brother’ by Peshwa Bajirao in a letter. The Portuguese Captain of Tarapore Luiz Veleso Machado also died while fighting. There were many Portuguese women in the fort who were made captive but Chimaji gave them very decent treatment, according to a Portuguese chronicler.
Context: Asheri Fort, another strategically important fort, is in Palghar district (Maharashtra). Asheri was sieged by Maratha Commander Pantaji Moreshwar. But Portuguese held onto the fort because they were gaining enough supplies from Tarapur outpost. Unless Tarapur was captured, Asheri was difficult to capture.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1920-02-04 (gregorian).
The Chauri Chaura incident took place on 4 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Province (modern Uttar Pradesh) in British India, when a large group of protesters participating in the Non-cooperation movement, clashed with police who opened fire. In retaliation the demonstrators attacked and set fire to a police station, killing all of its occupants. The incident led to the death of three civilians and 22 policemen.
On Feb 2, agitators led by a retired Army soldier named Bhagwan Ahir, protested against high food prices and liquor sale in the marketplace. They had been arrested.
MK Gandhi, who was strictly against violence, halted the non-co-operation movement on the national level on 12 February 1922, as a direct result of this incident. 19 arrested demonstrators were sentenced to death and 110 to imprisonment for life by the British authorities.
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कूपयुद्धे वृद्धा शिष्यहत्या #२६०Up↑
Event occured on 1762-02-05 (gregorian).
In an incident known as vaDDa-gallughAra, 40k durrAni paThAn soldiers (from dawn to early afternoon) killed 10k to 20k sikhs (retreating from Kup Rahira, 12 km north of Malerkotia). Sikhs (5k-10k fighters escorting 40k others, including women, children and elderly) could not resort to their usual hit and run tactics. jassa Singh ahluvAlia and charat singh Sukkarchakkia (grandfather of raNajIt singh) had ordered the men to encircle their retreating non-combatants and protect them as they retreated. Abdali was able to break the protective ring and carry out a massacre of about 20k civilians.
Background: After the victory over marAThas at pAnIpat, the afghans were harrassed by sikhs. At a general assembly (Sarbatt Khalsa) of the Dal at Amritsar convened on the occasion of Divali, 27 October 1761, it was resolved to punish the agents, informers and collaborators of the Afghans, beginning with Aqil Das of Jandiala, head of the Niranjania sect. Aqil Das despatched messengers to Ahmad Shah Durrani. Earlier, Durrani had returned to Amritsar and blew up the Harimandir Sahib. As a deliberate act of sacrilege, the pool around it was filled with cow carcasses.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1947-02-08 (gregorian).
Ramasimhan, his brother Dayasimhan, Dayasimhan’s wife Kamala (daughter of Mangalath Manaykal Narayanan Nambudiri), their cook Raju Iyer and other members of the family were butchered by Islamist Jihadists in Malaparamba, Malappuram district on this day for converting to Hinduism from Islam, just two weeks before the independence, on this day at 2AM. The jihadis completely demolished the Narasimha Temple, looted the house, threw the idol into the pond, fulled the temple well with debris of the compound wall.
The massacre of Ramasimham’s family was said to be sponsored by his Muslim father-in-law who couldn’t bear their conversion to Hinduism.
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The muslim clerics had held a secret meeting, declared Ramasimhan an apostate and decided to inflict the death sentence on him, according to the Sharia. The then IS, Izzatul Islam, which was formed to help the new converts, was assigned the killing job.Seven people from Pookottur,formed the death squad - Paramban Mammad, Kunyatkalathil Moideen Kutty, Puliyan Muhammad, Muttayilkaran Aymutty, Nanath Kunjalavi, Kalathinkal Kunhamu and Illikkappadi Ayamu. They met at the estate of Abubakar Haji, prayed and began their journey with a gun and 20 bullets.
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Ramasimhan’s father Moidu Saheb, was trained in rubber cultivation. Moidu Saheb occupied 600 acres of Narasimha Moorti Temple land in Malaparamba, Malappuram. He started cultivating rubber in the Temple land, managed to get the land on lease and even constructed a bungalow in front of the Temple. Moidu and his sons Unnyen and Alippu, took out granite slabs and other beautiful ornate structures from the Temple and used them for his bungalow. The local Hindus, though horrified at the loot of the Temple could not muster any protest as they had suffered more than 10,000 deaths, thousands of rapes and plunder at the hands of the Moplahs in the anti-Hindu riots under the garb of Khilafat Movement.
Unnyen soon fell very sick and all medical treatment proved very futile. The astrologer asked him to rebuild the Narasimha Moorti Temple, which was in ruins and desecrated by his own father. Unnyen rebuilt the Temple and started worshipping Narasimha Bhagwan. He miraculously recovered from his illness. Unnyen, his brother Alippu and the whole family became Bhaktas of Mahavishnu.
The whole family, Unnyen, his brother Alippu, Alippu’s wife and Unnyen’s sons Moidu and Moidootty underwent a Gharwapasi ceremony conducted by the Arya Samaj under Buddha Singh and embraced Hinduism in 1946. The incident was splashed in dailies and published in Fort St George Gazette. They also renamed themselves as Ramasimhan, Dayasimhan, Kamala, Fateh Singh and Swaravar Singh respectively (the names of Guru Gobind Singh’s two valiant sons).
They also became strict vegetarians, led a very pious religious life as Hindus. Ramasimhan became a peace loving person. He returned his guns and licensed revolvers to the government which he was using earlier for hunting.He told the government that he no more need the guns, since now he believed in non violence. Uneen dressed up like a brahmin and converted the mosque in front of his home,into his visitor’s room for hindu saints and priests who frequemntly visited his home and performed pujas. He stopped gifts to mosques and began contributing to temples.
Kunjahammed, Uneen’s younger brother decided to reconvert into Islam, in 1946. He held a meeting of prominent muslims and clerics, to persuade Uneen to revert back.About 30 attended. Ramasimhan,who had thorougly studied hinduism by then,debated successfully with the muslim clerics. The clerics announced that Ramasimhan was possessed by a Kafir Jin and he need to consume 14 oranges,which were ritually blessed. Ramasimhan refused. When a Maulavi criticised the re-conversion as a great mistakes on the part of Ramasimhan, he retorted: “I have not committed any mistake. It was my grandmother who, on being captured by Muslims, committed the fault of converting to Islam. I am re-converting to Hinduism to rectify for the fault and atone for the sin of my grandmother.”
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Their dismembered bodies remained untouched for two days till the Police came. The local Hindus did not dare to claim the bodies to cremate them according to Hindu rituals. They were buried in some corner near old Travellers Bungalow in Malaparamba. Only one Hindu, the RSS pracharak from Nagpur, Sankara Sasthri, was present.
The weapons used for the murder were retrieved from the Kulathur Muthalakkot pond in which they were dumped. Four of the murderers were sentenced to death by the District and Sessions Court at Palghat. The Muslim fundamentalists rallied behind the marauders and raised a huge sum of money for their legal assistance on appeal in the High Court of Madras. The evidence was destroyed and prosecution witnesses were threatened and coerced into silence. Justice Lionel Clifford Horwill ( ICS) acquitted them saying - “if the police were unable to obtain more evidence it was because the Moplah community largely succeeded in maintaining secrecy”.
The young children Fateh Singh and Swaravar Singh escaped death as they were studying in Birla School, Delhi. But, confidants were compelled to hand over the guardianship of his sons to his father-in-law Unni Kammu who forcibly reconverted them to Islam later.
The demolished Narasimhan Temple was re-built in late 1990s due to valiant efforts of the trust, aided by late RSS Pracharaks CP Janardhanan and late RSS Pracharak and former BMS President, R Venugopalan. The temple and the 60 cents around it have been handed over to the hindus, after a prolonged legal battle.
In 2021, film director Ali Akbar drew inspiration (and name) from rAmasiMhan when he renounced Islam in protest to Islamist celebrations on social media following the news of the death of General Bipin Rawat.
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नमस्ते |रामसिंहस्य हत्या अस्मिन् दिने न, परन्तु August 2 दिनाङ्के आसीत् |
When Independence was announced, , Malappuram was in curfew , because just a fortnight back Ramaimha was assasinated.Bhavadiiyah,Vasuvaj
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Event occured on 0412-02-09 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Roman Polytheist Platonist sage Proclus was born on this day
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Event occured on 1528-02-09 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Shortly after the defeat at khanvA, Sangra, grandson of kumbha, died on 30 January 1528 in Kalpi, evidently poisoned by his own chiefs who held his further plans against Babur to be suicidal.
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Event occured on 1771-02-09 (gregorian).
Mahadji Scindia’s sardar Balarao Govind entered the Red fort & took possession from Zabeta Khan’s men, regaining control of Delhi after Panipat 1761.
After 1719, 1737, 1753-57, 1758-1761, the Marathas returned to Delhi and surrounded the city with their cannons on 8 February 1771. Mahadji Scindia, Ramchandra Ganesh, Visaji Krishna were the chiefs who were in the Maratha army. ‘In the morning the Marathas having planted guns on all 4 sides, began to fire on the fort of Delhi…the ASAD BURJ was demolished. At noon negotiations began with Scindia’s diwan..at sunset the little gate of the fort was opened’.- Delhi Chronicle, 1771.
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Marathas obtained sanction from the puppet Mughal Badshah himself to pursue and purge the Rohilla Pashtun cream threatening North India. Marathas then began their rampage against Rohilla Pashtuns, cutting down all who were responsible for Panipat. Marathas led by Maharaja Mahadji Shinde drove out Rohillas & slaughtered them. Najib’s tomb was bombarded & his bones were scattered all around.
Najib’s 10 year old grandson Qadir was discovered at Ghausgarh after his father Zabita fled and he was taken by Mughal Nazir Mansur. Gulām Qadir underwent a very gruesome fate. Ghulam Qadir was placed in Qudsia Bagh by Nazir Mansur & then castrated by Shah Alam II who turned Qadir into a catamite & abused him for years! Thus Najib’s grandson literally became a bedmate of the Maratha puppet Shah Alam II!
Years later Ghulam Qadir invaded Delhi in order to get money to use against Marathas and looted over 25 Crores Rupees. He then avenged himself on his pederast Shah Alam II by conducting atrocities on the Mughal family. Marathas then pursued Qadir & tortured him slowly to death.
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Event occured on 1681-02-10 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Barely 15 days after being crowned in a grand ceremony at Raigad fort, Maratha army commanded by Sambhaji and Hambirrao Mohite attacked and plundered the city for three days. The Marathas got a huge loot (around 2 crore Rs) and returned to Raigad by evading Mughal forces.
Sambhaji had got the news that Bahadurkhan Kokaltash, the Subedar of Burhanpur was going to Aurangabad for his nephew’s wedding with a girl Qutb Shah family. Bahadurkhan took a force 3,000 with him for the wedding. Hence Burhanpur was left with an army of 5,000 under Kakar Khan (in charge of collecting jizya tax). Sambhaji and his generals decided to further bifurcate the force at Burhanpur by feigning a move to attack Surat, forcing the Mughals at Burhanpur to send reinforcement to Surat, which had been sacked by Shivaji twice before.
Hambirrao Mohite reached the forests near Burhanpur with a 15,000 strong cavalry force. Kakar Khan gathered civilian forces and decided to attack Hambirrao at midnight. As he came out of the city gates, Sambhaji himself attacked from the old trenches with a cavalry force of 4,000. Sambhaji’s force routed the ill-prepared Mughal garrison. Sambhaji then left 200-300 soldiers at the main city gate and left for Bahadurpura, the richest suburb of the city. Sambhaji started to loot the houses of the richest merchants which were shown to him by his spies. Hambirrao’s force soon joined Sambhaji and the combined Maratha force started looting the city. Hambirrao then sealed the city’s entrances to ensure that the word of the attack doesn’t spread out. Marathas looted the city consecutively for three days.
Bahadurkhan hurried from Aurangabad with a large army and tried to recover the loot, but he was foiled by sambhAjI’s tactics. Meanwhile, Suryaji Jakhde took advantage of this to briefly attack Aurangabad with a force of 7,000 via Paithan; and bahAdurkhAn had to return anyway. Some of Awrangzeb’s elite Ahadi horsemen (stationed in every mogol city) tried to assassinate sambhAjI when he was visiting Saptashringi temple at vani on his way back - but failed.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
गजपतिनैकशिला-दुर्ग-ग्रहणम् #५६२Up↑
Event occured on 1460-02-11 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Eldest son of Gajpati Kapileshvara - vIra-hamvIra-mahApatra and his nephew vIrabhadra-raghudeva-mahApatra (after likely taking on Khwaja-i-Jahan or Mahmud Gawan), captured the varangal fort. The Bahmani generals fled - and the governor and other soldiers were spared their lives.
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Bahmanis had captured this fort from the Nayakas in 14th century. After rescuing the beseiged vellamA chief lingA-reDDi DevarakonDa and routing Bahmani Sultan’s forces there, Hambira and Raghudeva proceeded to Warangal.
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The characters of the inscription are Telugu. But the language is Oriya which is, however, considerably influenced by Sanskrit. There are many errors in the language and orthography of the record. The date, quoted in lines 2-5, is Saturday (Briha-vāsara), Mrigaśira-nakshatra, Magha-śu. 10, in the year Pramathin which is mentioned as corresponding to the Kali year 4861 current (i.e. Kali 4560 expired). Saturday, Magha-su. 10, Mrigasiru-nakshatra, in Kali 4561 current, corresponds regularly to the 2nd February, 1460 A.D.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
तानाजी-वीर-गतिः #३५२Up↑
Event occured on 1670-02-14 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
tANAji mAlsure (aged over 70!) captured konDAna-durga, scaling the wall at night (using a trained monitor lizard called yashvantI according to legend) and sacrificed his life fighting Aurangzeb’s servant udaya-bhAna-rAthoD. Overwhelmed attackers managed to capture the fort after they let further reinforcements in.
shivAjI exclaimed: “gaD Ala pan sinh gela” (The fort has been captured but we lost the lion). Fort was renamed simhagad in his honor.
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Event occured on 1735-02-14 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
bAjI rAv was honoured by maharANA of mevAr, who also agreed to pay tribute to the marATha state.
bAjI rAv was offered a great reception at Udaipur, the Champabag palace having been appointed for his accommodation. The was the next day honoured by the Maha Rana in a grand open Darbar, where two gold-embroidered seats were arranged for the guest and the host. When Bajirao approached the seat which the Rana pointed to him. He politely declined to accept the position of equality with the Rana of Mewar, and occupied a seat just below. They had a long and free conversation together. Dresses and presents were offered and entertainments took place for five days from 3 to 7 February. Bajirao inspected the various sights and monuments of th State and then left for Nath-Dwara. The Rana agreed to pay a lac and a half annually as Chauth.
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Event occured on 1739-02-14 (gregorian).
After the capture of Tarapur, the provisions to Portuguese were cut off, & the Portuguese force at Asheri surrendered without a fight. Asheri Fort was finally under Maratha Control.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
भारतीय-नौ-सैनिक-विद्रोहः #७६Up↑
Event occured on 1946-02-17 (gregorian).
sailors of Royal Indian Navy revolted against British rule in Bombay Declared themselves as Indian National Navy
मूलादि-हत्या #७२Up↑
Event occured on 1950-02-17 (gregorian).
On this day a big massacre of Hindus by Islamist mobs began in the mUlAdi river port in East Pakistan. On the morning of 17th, terrified Hindus and Christians began to rush towards the Muladi police station. The O.C. however refused to provide any shelter. The orgy of loot, murder, rape and arson continued till the evening, when they departed with the loot and the abducted women. The streets, ghats and the river were full of corpses. In the betelnut orchard of one Hindu, more 300 dead bodies were found.
On the morning of 18th, Saturday, many Hindus and Christians returned to their looted, destroyed and gutted houses. In the evening, they once again assembled at the police station. This time they were allowed inside in lieu of their cash and jewellery. In the meantime, the Ansars went all around Muladi announcing in loudspeakers asking the Hindus to assemble at the Muladi police station. After the Hindus and Christians had gathered hundreds of non-Muslim men were massacred within the precincts of the police station. The O.C. himself stripped the Hindu women of their vermillion and conch shell bangles and forced them to recite the kalma. Later he distributed the women among the gang leaders.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1883-02-17 (gregorian).
On this day died the selfless patriot Vasudev Balwant Phadke, who single handedly tried to resist the might of British Empire. Phadke was transported to jail at Aden, but escaped from the prison by taking the door off from its hinges on 13 February 1883. He was soon recaptured and then went on a hunger strike, dying on 17 February 1883.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1847-02-22 (gregorian).
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy or majjari Narasimha Reddy, son of a pALEyagAra, was executed in Koilkuntla in front of a crowd of over 2000 people.
He and his commander-in-chief Vadde Obanna were at the heart of the rebellion against British in 1847, where 5,000 peasants rose up against the British East India Company in Kurnool district, Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh. They were protesting against the changes introduced by the British to the traditional agrarian system in the first half of the nineteenth century. British kept his head on the fort wall in public view until 1877.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
यदुगिरिसरे त्र्यम्बकरावो हैदरं जयति #२५१Up↑
Event occured on 1771-03-07 (gregorian).
Moti tAlab / tonnur kere- Melukote battlefield where Trimbak rao Pethe, uncle to Sadashiv rao, inflicted a major defeat on Hyder Ali & Tipu on 7 March 1771. Srirangapatna placed under a siege for 6 weeks. Hyder eventually paid a 50 lakh indemnity & signed a treaty.
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Event occured on 2006-03-07 (gregorian).
The blasts occurred nearly simultaneously shortly after 18:00 IST. The first blast took place at 18:20 at the crowded Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple near the Banaras Hindu University. Hundreds of pilgrims were in temple as it was a Tuesday. One other blast followed at the Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station. 28 people were reportedly killed and 101 injured.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
Fixed it, thank you!
This is generally dated to 8th march. Can you pls check on this?
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पाल्खेड्-युद्धम् #२९४Up↑
Event occured on 1728-03-10 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
bAjIrAv, rANOjI shiNDe and mahlarrAv holkar defeated the Nizam Asaf Jah I. The peshvA (rather than give open battle) moved swiftly and looted nizam’s ahmednagar area even as the nizAm was looting his lands. nizAm chased but could not keep up, while bAjI was always a step ahead thanks to his great spy network. Threatening ahmednagar, he drew the nizAm to a tight spot at pAlkheD with no supplies or access to water, cut off from artillery.
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Event occured on 1795-03-11 (gregorian).
marATha-s routed nizAm’s forces. After several skirmishes Nizams infantry under Raymond launched an attack on the Marathas but Scindia forces under Jivabadada Kerkar defeated them and launched a counter attack which proved to be decisive. The rest of the Hyderabad army fled to the fort of Kharda. The Nizam started negotiations and they were concluded in April 1795. Nizam ceded territory and paid an indemnity of Rupees 3 crores to Marathas.
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Event occured on 1572-03-11 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Mewar nobles support Maharana Pratap for the throne & force Jagmal (9th son of udayasiMha who died a couple of days ago) to step down. Jagmal departs to serve Mughals.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
लवण-सङ्घर्षः #९२Up↑
Event occured on 1930-03-12 (gregorian).
MK Gandhi led a group of 80 people on a 24-day (12 March 1930 to 5 April 1930) march against the British monopoly on production of salt. This non-violent protest came to be known as the Dandi March or Salt March. The Dandi March and the ensuing Dharasana Satyagraha drew worldwide attention to the Indian independence movement through extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. Mass civil disobedience spread throughout India as millions broke the salt laws by making salt or buying illegal salt. The satyagraha against the salt tax continued for almost a year, ending with MK Gandhi’s release from jail.
Although over 60k Indians were jailed as a result of the Salt Satyagraha, the British did not make immediate major concessions.
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Event occured on 1993-03-12 (gregorian).
Mumbai, 13:30–15:40, Friday (between Ramadan Jumma prayers): 12 bombs exploded, 260 people dead, 700 + Injured. The RDX used came from Islamic Republic of Pakistan by sea, and was landed in Shekhadi and Porbandar by bribing customs officials. Indian muslim gangsters (connected with Dawood Ibrahim) were given arms, ammunition and explosives training in that Islamic Republic as well.
In 2006, 100 of 129 accused were found to be guilty and were convicted (including Yakub, Isa, Yusuf and Rubina Memon, who were punished). All of these death sentences were commuted to life sentences (except Yakub) by Supreme Court in 2013. Many convicted escaped custody, including a mastermind, Tiger Memon. The mastermind don, Dawood Ibrahim (from a Konkani muslim family), found refuge in Pakistan - where his daughter married notorious pAki cricketer Javed Miandad’s son.
On 10 July 2006, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar, admitted that he had “deliberately misled” people following the 1993 Mumbai bombings by adding the name of a “13th” Muslim-dominated locality for “communal peace”. He also admitted to lying about evidence recovered and misleading people into believing that it pointed to the Tamil Tigers as possible suspects.
Infuriated at the bombings, Ibrahim’s right-hand man, Chotta Rajan, split from the organisation and took most of the leadership-level Hindu aides with him, including Sadhu, Jaspal Singh and Mohan Kotiyan. The ensuing war continued even 25 years later, involving 100s of deaths. 10+ accused (including Salim Kurla, Majeed Khan, Shakil Ahmed, Mohammed Jindran, Hanif Kadawala, Akbar Abu Sama Khan and Mohammed Latif) were assassinated by Rajan’s hitmen. Chhota Rajan is believed to have assisted Indian intelligence agencies as well (while being targetted by pAkistan’s ISI).
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
फ़ड्नवीस्-नाना-मृत्युः #२२२Up↑
Event occured on 1800-03-13 (gregorian).
nAnA Fadnavis, who loyally and effectively kept the marATha confrederacy together during the time of fratricide, died.
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Event occured on 1940-03-13 (gregorian).
Udham Singh shot and killed Michael O’Dwyer, Governor of the Punjab in 1919, for ordering the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (in which his brother and sister died).
Singh was immediately arrested and held in Brixton prison. There he staged a thirty-six day hunger strike, which resulted in him being forcibly fed through a tube; then tried and executed. He said: “I did not take the revolver to kill but just to protest. … I have seen people starving in India under British Imperialism. I done it, the pistol went off three or four times. I am not sorry for protesting. "
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
शिवराजः कुतुब्शाहम् मिलति #३४५Up↑
Event occured on 1677-03-14 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On his karnataka campaign, shivAjI, with deft dimplomacy aided by Qutb shAh’s ministers madanna and akkanna enters bhAganagara and meets Qutb Shah. A dutch chronicler says: ‘Both then sat down at seats prepared for them and entered into conversation. While they were thus talking, the palace was surrounded by 6,000 (Maratha) cavalry, who approached so silently, that the buzzing of a fly could have been heard. I do not speak from hearsay, for I was an eyewitness.’ Thence he proceeded on his campaign, aided by Qutb Shahis. Another brAhmaNa named madanna pantalu was deputed by madanna to accompany shivAjI.
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Event occured on 1823-03-14 (gregorian).
On this day, raNajIt singh and his generals (including hari singh) defeated afghAn jihAdi-s and captured peshAvar valley. Azem Khan, after initial attacks, retreated and stayed on the other side of kAbul river - abandoning his ghAzi-s.
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Angered by his defeats, Azem Khan recaptured Peshawar in 1822, he made a call for jihad against the Sikhs; destroyed the Attck bridge and trapped Sikh garrisons west of the sindhu. Ranjit Singh had already reinforced his forces in Nowshera. Ranjit Singh personally came down and crossed the sindhu under fierce attacks.
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The tribesman of Khattaks and Yousafzais suffered enormous casualties due to the Sikh artillery. Swiftly securing Nowshera, Ranjit Singh’s forces captured Peshawar and reached Jamrud itself.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1706-03-15 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Battle of Ratanpur (near Rajpipla,Gujarat): Marathas crushed Mughals in this battle, inspiring rebellion of Ajit Singh again. Durgadas Rathore left Mughals too (again)!
Context: a letter was sent to the governor of Baroda that he should join the force that was being sent to Surat. These officers advanced as far as the Baba Piara (Bawapir) ford on the Narbada, where they remained encamped for a month and a half in inactivity and quarrels, merely sending out spies to ascertain where the Maratha army was located. At last, stern reproofs from Abdul Hamid Khan compelled them to cross the Narmada and to march forward until they reached the village of Ratanpur on the other side, where they pitched their camps at some distance from each other. Here their scattered armies were surprised by the great Maratha host and their raw levies were routed in two separate engagements. Many of Mughal troops the were drowned in the Narmada in their flight, while those who escaped managed with difficulty to make their way to Broach. Safdar Khan Babi was wounded and taken prisoner while Nazar Ali Khan burned his tents and was forced to flee for his life.
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Event occured on 1735-03-15 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
bAjI rAv met jayasiMha of jayapura, extracted tribute and alliance.
At Nath-Dwara Bajirao and his wife Kashibai offered their joint devotion to the celebrated deity, and proceeding further he and Sawai Jaysinh had their first personal meeting on 4th March at Bambhola near Kishangad. They arrived both riding on their elephants and as soon as they sighted each other, they dismounted, embraced and sat down on the same musnad in an open Darbar. Their visit lasted for several days up to 8th March when they discussed the peace terms and arrangements for the visit to the Emperor regarding which a communication was expected from Delhi. Jaysinh offered to pay 5 lacs Chauth annually for Jaipur and promised to obtain from the Emperor written grants for the provinces of Malwa and Gujarat.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
देहली-पादरक्ष-विक्रेत्त्रुपद्रवः #२९३Up↑
Event occured on 1729-03-19 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day, Shubhkaran, a Hindu jeweller close to powerful Mughal courtiers triggered a bloody riot. His mansion was razed and replaced by a mosque.
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- Shubhkaran’s palki was going past a street of Punjabi Muslim shoe sellers.
- In the first half of month Shaban, they were celebrating with fireworks and lamps. One of these hit shubhkaran’s clothes. One of his remonstrating guards was disarmed by the shoemaker crowd.
- The guards were later sent to punish them. In a scuffle that followed, they killed old Haji Hafiz.
- Following day lower-class Muhammadans joined forces with the shoe-sellers, took the body to shubhkaran’s mansion and sought vengence against the kafir and his supporters in the name of Islam (deen) and qaum. Shubhkaran had wisely sought refuge in an Afghan noble’s (Sher Khan, friend of Roshan-ud-daula) mansion.
- At afternoon namaaz - by now led by some Arab, Abyssinian and Turk off-duty mercenaries, they flooded Jama Masjid - and beat up the qazi and his son.
- Muhammad Shah sent his wazir and Roshan-ud-daula. The wazir went to the mosque - but his appeasement only enraged the mob further. Roshan-ud-daula and Sher Khan entered - the crowd started throwing hidden stones and shoes. Their Afghan guards started attacking. The foreign muslim gang retaliated with pistols and fusils. They were quickly joined by low class muslims from Mughalpara. Regular mughal soldiers who’d accompanied the wazir joined against the Afghans!
- The afghans retreated with their leaders - fled to the mansion of another Afghan noble.
- The rioters were finally persuaded to cool down. The Wazir emerged with a quasi-“savior”.
- Shubhkaran, the infidel, was shown his place. The Muslim shoe-sellers were allowed to demolish his mansion, bury old Haji that night on its wrecked site. After a few weeks, a mosque was built on that location.
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Muhammad Shah was a feckless “emperor”. He’d lost vast territory to the marATha-s and had bowed to Nadir shah. He was manipulated by various courtiers. He could not even manage Delhi properly.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
मोहितशर्मा-वीरगतिः #१३Up↑
Event occured on 2009-03-22 (gregorian).
Major Mohit Sharma, SM (who’d earlier, in the guise of angry young Kashmiri Iftikaar Bhatt had infiltrated Hizbul Mujahideen, dramatically killed jihAdi commanders Abu Sabjar and Abu Torara and escaped), was leading Bravo Assault Team in operations in Kupwara District of North Kashmir. … terrorists fired from three directions indiscriminately. In the heavy exchange of fire, four commandos were wounded immediately. With complete disregard to his safety, he crawled and recovered two soldiers to safety. Unmindful of the overwhelming fire, he threw grenades and killed two terrorists but was shot in the chest. In the brief respite that followed, he kept directing his commandos, in spite of serious injuries. Sensing further danger to his comrades, he charged in a daring close quarter combat killing two more terrorists. His last words to his 2nd in command was, “Make sure not one escapes the net.”
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
नन्दिमार्गहत्या #१९Up↑
Event occured on 2003-03-23 (gregorian).
In 1990, 300,000 to 600,000 Kashmiri Hindus left Kashmir after being selectively targeted by the Islamic militants. The armed jihAdis came dressed in counterfeit military uniforms at around midnight, lined up 11 men, 11 women, and two small boys (belonging to kAshmIri paNDit community) and shot them. The victims ranged from a 65-year-old man to a 2-year-old boy. The killers allegedly disfigured the bodies of the victims, looted their houses and took away the ornaments from bodies of the dead women. The terror stricken few remaining Hindus decided to leave the area. Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (“Army of the Pure”) militants suspected to be responsible for this massacre were gunned down by Mumbai police on 29 March.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
होल्कर-मल्हर-जन्म #३२९Up↑
Event occured on 1693-03-26 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day was born the great general Malhar Rao Holkar, who served under peshva-s ranging from bAjI rAv to mAdhav rAv.
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Event occured on 1527-03-26 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
The mogol king bAbUr defeated rAjaputras under rANA sangrAmasiMha of mevAr. Sanga’s army greatly outnumbered Babur’s forces. bAbur prepared excellent defence with chained carts and muskets. In the midst, Silhadi of Raisen desterted rANa’s side and joined bAbur. Rana was shot by a bullet and fell unconscious, causing great confusion in the Rajput army. The replacement was a poor commander. The Mogols won due to superior tactics and weapons. Rana Sanga managed to evade capture and escape to Chittor, where he was poisoned to death by 30 January 1528.
Background: Rajput ruler of Mewar, Rana Sanga, sent an ambassador to Babur at Kabul, offering to join in Babur’s attack on the Sultan. Sanga offered to attack Agra, while Babur would attack the Lodhis at Delhi. But he changed his mind after realizing that bAbur, unlike taimUr, intended to stay in India. Rana Sanga had built a formidable military alliance against Babur. He was joined by virtually all the leading Rajput kings from Rajasthan. Some Lodi afghAns also joined.
Babur denounced the Afghans who joined the alliance against him as kafirs and murtads (apostates from Islam). Babur proceeded to renounce future consumption of wine, broke his drinking cups, poured out all the stores of liquor on the ground and promulgated a pledge of total abstinence. bAbur wrote: “It was a really good plan, and it had a favourable propagandistic effect on friend and foe.”
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Shannavati Shraddham Day.
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Event occured on 1672-03-26 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Though their revolt seems to have been sparked off by a temporal incident, Aurangzeb’s persecution of the Hindus was certainly the underlying cause which turned it into a religious uprising. The soldier hit the cultivator with a stick which broke his head, whereupon a body of Satnamis beat the assailant to death. When the news reached the local government administrator, he sent a party of footmen to arrest those men. By then a large number of Satnamis had gathered at the scene. They attacked the footmen, put them to flight and seized their arms. The number of rebels was increasing by the hour. The faujdar of Narnol sent a large body of horsemen and foot soldiers to punish the rebels. But they too were routed by the Satnamis. The movement now spread like wild fire and the number of rebels rose to some five thousand. The Satnamis defeated the faujdar of Narnol, captured the town, demolished a number of mosques and tombs and established their own administration. A belief spread among them that they were immortal and that if one of them was slain, seventy others would spring up in his place! At last, on 16th March 1672, Aurangzeb sent a force of 10,000 horsemen, supported by artillery, under command of Rad-andaz Khan to crush the revolt.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
खिल्जि-बख्तीयार-सैन्य-नाशः #८१६Up↑
Event occured on 1206-03-31 (gregorian).
On this day, forces of the Assamese khen dynasty kAmarUpa king vishvasundara-deva aka pRthu utterly destroyed the army of the evil marauder Ikhtiyárud dín Muhammad Bakhtíyár Khiljí.
Kanaibadasibana or Kānāi Baraśi Bowā Rock Inscription of North Guwahati proclaims:
“śāke turaga-yugmeśe
madhu-māsa-trayodaśe
kāmarupaṁ samāgatya
turuṣkāḥ kṣayamāyayuḥ”
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Having utterly destroyed the world reknowned universities of nAlanda and vikramashIla (where the libraries are said to have burnt for days) besides massacring all Śramaṇas and Brāhmaṇas during his 1200 invasion, having razed navadvIpa in his 1203/04 invasion of sena-ruled vanga, bakhtIyAr was seized by the ambition of seizing Tibet (likely attracted by plunder, trade routes and horses - a valuable military resource).
Led on by a Mech convert named Ali, he with about 10k horses proceeded to cross a bridge in kAmarUpa. The kAmarUpa king sent him a message warning him about it being the wrong season (winter snow?) for attack and suggested that he wait till new year so the he would join in. But bakhtIyAr hurried on, leaving behind a few troops. After 15 days, he reached Tibet. There he began looting. Angry Tibetans inflicted heavy losses on bakhtIyAr. Further he feared arrival of a massive army. So he began retreating.
The inhabitants of the valleys and passes had all removed far away from the road, and for a space of fifteen days, not a sir of food nor a blade of grass or fodder was to be found, and they were compelled to kill and eat their horses.
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By the time he got back to the bridge, he found it destroyed and the guard gone. He holed up in a temple. The kAmarUpa king pRthu ordered his troops to block their way out. Still, Bakhtíyár and forces escaped to the river bank, pursued by the kAmarUpa troops. They tried to ford the river in desperation. Almost everyone died. Out of 10k when they set out, about 100 made it accross.
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Bakhtiyar fell into depression. Like his Delhi sultAn, he was soon murdered with a knife. kAmarUpa king pRthu continued to rule till 1228, when he died fighting Iltutmish’s son Nasiruddin.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1737-04-08 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
A Maratha force commanded by Shankaraji Phadke, Anjurkar, Bajirao Belose, Rayajirao Surve & 400 soldiers caught the Portuguese by surprise and forced them to abandon the fort. The victory was commemorated by a plaque installed on the northern wall of the fort and is still visible today. The Marathas then rebuilt the fort, constructing three bastions Bahirav, Bhavani, and Bava.
Context: In 1737 the then Peshwa Baji Rao I sent his brother, Chimaji Appa, to take the Bassein Fort from the Portuguese. After winning the Battle of Vasai, his general, Shankarji Pant, persuaded Chimaji to launch an assault on Fort Arnala, for its strategic importance to the Maratha navy in assaulting Portuguese interests. Their first assault, coordinated with a Maratha naval force commanded by Manaji Agre, was routed by a superior Portuguese naval force.
बाजी-रावो देहलीम् प्राप्नोत् #२८५Up↑
Event occured on 1737-04-08 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
One brother bAji rAv makes a dash to mogol Delhi, outmanoeuvring 2 armies; same day his younger bro chimAji appa readies to mount an attack on the Firangis. The Badshah at Delhi slept secure in the thought that the large armies of Sadat, Bangash & Khan Dauran to his south would protect him. From Gwalior area, Bajirao rode 200 km in just 4 days avoiding all those armies & gatecrashed Delhi. Then, he defeated a well trained Mughal Army led by Amir Khan Bahadur.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
अवरङ्गज़ेबो जज़ियादण्डम् आदिशति #३४३Up↑
Event occured on 1679-04-12 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day, Awrangzeb reimposed the discriminatory Jazia tax on Hindus.
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As all the arms of the religious Emperor (Aurangzeb) were directed to the spreading of the law of Islam and the overthrow of the practices of the infidels he issued orders to the high diwani officers that from 1st Rabi ul awwal, in obedience to the Quranic injuction ‘till they pay commutation money (jazia) with the hand in humility’ and in agreement with the canonical traditions, jazia should be collected from the infidels of the capital and the provinces.
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व चूं हमगी हिम्मते हक़ तवियत ए खिदेव ए दीनपरवर ए शरीअत-गुस्तर मसरुफ ए तर्वीज़ ए शराई ए इस्लाम व तख़रीब ए मरासिम ए काफ़र व झिलाम अस्त ब-दिवानियान ए इजाम हुक्म ए क़ज़ाइमज़ा शरफ़ सुदूर याफ़्त अज़ घुर्रत ए माह मजकूर मुताबिक़ ए फ़रमान ए वाजिब अलाजआन ए “हत्ता युतु अल-जिज़याता अन यादिन व हम साघिरूना व मुवाफ़िक़ ए रिवायत ए शरिया अज़ ज़िम्मियान ए हुजूर व सुबाजात जिज़िया बगिरन्द”
Persian text in Maasir-i-Alamgiri, pg.174
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1919-04-13 (gregorian).
On this day, British Brigadier-General R. E. H. Dyer surrounded Jallianwala Bagh with his soldiers, blocked the exit, and fired at a crowd of unarmed crowd of baisAkhi celebrators plus pro-independence protestors. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted (10 minutes, 1,650 rounds). At least 1000 people were killed and over 1,200 other people were injured of whom 192 were seriously injured. 120 bodies were recovered from a well in the grounds.
Dyer is reported to have, from time to time, “checked his fire and directed it upon places where the crowd was thickest”. Some of the soldiers initially shot into the air, at which Dyer shouted: “Fire low. What have you been brought here for?”.
The following day, Dyer issued the following notice:
You people know well that I am a Sepoy and soldier. Do you want war or peace? If you wish for a war, the Government is prepared for it, and if you want peace, then obey my orders and open all your shops; else I will shoot. For me the battlefield of France or Amritsar is the same. I am a military man and I will go straight. … I have served in the military for over 30 years. I understand the Indian Sepoy and Sikh people very well. You will have to obey my orders and observe peace. Otherwise the shops will be opened by force and rifles. You will have to report to me of the Badmash [criminals]. I will shoot them. Obey my orders and open shops. Speak up if you want war? You have committed a bad act in killing the English. The revenge will be taken upon you and upon your children.
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Michael O’Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab from 1913 to 1919, endorsed Dyer and called the massacre a “correct” action. O’Dwyer was assassinated in London in 1940 by Udham Singh.
Responses polarized both the British and Indian peoples. The army was retrained and developed less violent tactics for crowd control. Britain never formally apologised for the massacre but expressed “regret” in 2019.
Dyer was allowed to resign and settle in Britain. Huge funds were raised, including contributions by civil servants and Army officers and presented to the butcher; while families of the victims received Rs 500 (then equal to £37.10s.0d; equivalent to £1,497 in 2019) each after long delay. Dyer suffered a series of strokes during the last years of his life and he became increasingly isolated due to the paralysis and speechlessness inflicted by his strokes.
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शिवराजो मृतः #३४२Up↑
Event occured on 1680-04-13 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Saturday. Chatrapati died at Raigad.
Contemporary muslim chroniclers like Muhammad Saqi Khan and Khafi Khan declared that he will go to hell. Even Cosme da Guarda, his admirer, declared that as a pagan he will go to hell.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
So Shivajis death anniversary is caitra purnima? I thought he died on caturdashi. As it is generally believed that he died on the day before hanuman jayanti. And that even Samartha Ramadas toned down celebrations on the next day
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शैस्ते-खानाङ्गुलीकर्तनम् #३५९Up↑
Event occured on 1663-04-15 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
It was ramzAn. Shayista Khan was occupying shivAjI’s palace lAl mahal in puNyanagarI. shivAjI arrived at night and infiltrated at night (tales say - pretending to be a marriage party, others say - pretending to be part of the mogol army). shivAjI and co entered via kitchen, killed the cooks. Maid servants alerted shaiste khAn (who supposedly hid in the bed chamber). In the following scuffle, as he was hiding to escape, shaiste lost his fingers (to shivAjI’s sword, they say). His eldest son, son in law, 40-50 men were killed. Few women were wounded. shivAjI’s side: 6 killed, 40 wounded. Then shivAjI escaped quickly, crossed the river, and escaped back - aided by cavalry detachments placed on the way.
Mogols suspected that this attack was done in connievance of the mogol rAjaputra general jasvant singh rAthoD, who was nearby with a 10k strong force. He did not order a chase as Marathas retreated. Shaista taunted Maharaja next morning- since you did not show up at night, I thought you had died fighting!
Shaiste (who was incidentally fluent in sanskrit) went back; was dismissed by awrangzeb from deccan and reappointed to bengal (not being allowed to show his face). This daredevil attack raised shivAjI’s prestige all over India. Jats also would disgrace Shaista Khan a few years later again when during his tenure as Agra’s governor, they loot the mausoleum of emperor’s parents- Taj Mahal!
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वासायि-युद्धे प्रथमो जयः #२८५Up↑
Event occured on 1737-04-16 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On the nightfall, a Maratha contingent attacked Portuguese bastion called St Jeronimo. With the proficient use of gun fire & artillery, finally the Marathas won St Jeronimo bastion. Chimaji Appa named St Jeronimo Bastion as ‘Fatteh Buruj’ (Bastion of Victory) as it was the first Bastion won by Marathas during this whole campaign.
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This was part of a war that ended the Portuguese “Generalship of the North”. The resulting treaty ensured that Gentoos (Hindus) inhabiting Goa etc. could again freely practice their religion. The English (having failed to aid Portuguese) hastily sent envoys to draw up friendship treaties with marATha-s. This victory came at a heavy cost (22k soldiers dead) and after a determined campaign of 2 years.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1998-04-17 (gregorian).
26 Hindus in the villages of Prankote and Dakikote were butchered (“no bullets fired”) by kAshmIri muslim terrorists belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen (‘Party of Holy Fighters’). The massacre forced migration of nearly 1,000 people to Reasi, Pouni Thanpal, Chasana and other towns of the district.
In April 2008, the alleged mastermind Abdul Haque alias Jahangir, was shot dead.
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Event occured on 1685-04-17 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On this day Awrangzeb instituted rewards for Hindus who become Muslims.
Akhbar of Aurangzeb’s court dated 12 Jamadilawwal 1096 Hijri Julus 28. CE. 7 April 1685
The Emperor ordered the Jumdatulmulk that an order be written to the officers of various provinces, that those hindus who embrace Islam should be given money from the local treasury. Four rupees per man and 2 rupees per woman who converts. Those who embrace Islam as per their own wish should not be paid anything.
Original: ब जुमदत उल मुल्क फर्मुदन्द हसबूलहूकूम ब फौजदारान व दिवानीयाने मुमालिक महरुसे बे निविसद के आन चे मर्दूमे हिंदू दर इन जा मुसलमान मी शवन्द सर ई मर्द चहार रुपयाह व औरत दो रुपयाह अझ खजाने आन जा बतरिक इनाम मुक्रर अस्त. चुनांचे आन्हा ब राये दीन ए इस्लाम खुद मुसलमान मी शवन्द अझ आयन्दा मुबलघ हाई मकूफ नुमायन्द
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Event occured on 1688-04-17 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Rajaram Jat died in a battle near Bijal at the hands of a Mughal musketeer.
Earlier that year, Rajaram made his 2nd attempt at the tomb of Akbar in Agra. The Jats took away the precious stones of the building, took away carpets, gold & silver vessels, lamps, etc. & damaged the building. Akbar’s bones were dragged out & thrown in the fire and burnt!
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
अव्रङ्गज़ेबो हिन्दुकशालानाशम् आदिशत् #३५३Up↑
Event occured on 1669-04-18 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Shortly after the death of Mirza Raja Jai Singh of Amber, on this day, Awrangzeb issued issued a general order, for the demolition of temples and established schools of the Hindus throughout the empire and banning public worship. Soon after this the great Temple of Keshava Rai was destroyed (Jan.-Feb. 1670) and in its place a lofty mosque was erected. The idols, the author of Maasir-i-Alamgiri informs, were carried to Agra and buried under the steps of the mosque built by Begum Sahiba in order to be continually trodden upon, and the name of Mathura was changed to Islamabad.
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The Lord Cherisher of the Faith learnt that in the provinces of Tatta, Multan and especially at Benares, the Brahman misbelievers used to teach their false books in their established schools, and that admirers and students both Hindu and Muslim used to come from great distances to these misguided men in order to acquire this vile learning. His Majesty, eager to establish Islam, issued orders to the governors of all the provinces to demolish the schools and temples of the infidels and with the utmost urgency put down the teaching and the public practice of the religion of these misbelievers.
Order issued on 8th April 1669 (Date converted to CE for convenience, Hijri Date 17 zilqad 1079 Hijri)
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ब-अर्ज ए ख़ुदावंद ए दीन परवर रसीद कि दर सूबा ए थत्ता व मुल्तान ख़ुसूस बनारस ब्राहमनान ए बतालत निशान दर मदारिस ए मुक़र्रर ब-तदरीस ए किताब ए बताला इष्तिघाल दारंद व रघिबान व तालिबान अज़ हुनुद व मुसलमान मसाफताये बैदा तय नमुदा. जिहत ए तहसील ए उलुम ए शूम नज्द ए आन जमआते गुमराह मी आयंद. अहकामे इस्लाम निज़ाम ब-नाज़िमाने कुल सुबाजात सादर शुद कि मदारिस. व मुआबिद ए बैदीनान दस्तख्वाश ए इन्हिदाम साज़न्द व ब-ताकीद ए अकयाद तौर ए दर्स व तदरीस व रस्म ए शुयु ए मज़हब ए कुफ़र आययनान बरअन्दाज़न्द.
शिवराजेन हम्बीररावं सेनाधिपं चकार #३४८Up↑
Event occured on 1674-04-18 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Chhatrapati Shivaji inspected his army at Chiplun. A new commander-in-chief had been identified. His name was Hansaji Mohite. But that day Shivaji titled him Sarnobat (Chief of Army) Hambirrao & history will remember him by that name: Hambirrao father of Tara Bai
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Event occured on 1848-04-18 (gregorian).
Mulraj Chopra, the khatri divAn at multAn loyal to raNajIt singh and family, rebelled against the British on this day.
The revolt was started by a soldier from mUlarAja’s family attacking and wounding two British officers who’d come to take over.
The poet Hakim Chand recites: Then the mother of Mulraj spoke to him reminding him of the Sikh Gurus and martyrs: ‘I will kill myself leaving a curse on your head. Either lead your men to death or get out of my sight; (and) I shall undertake the Khalsa army and go to the battle …’. She tied a bracelet on his wrist and sent him to the battle. Next morning, the mob hacked the two British officers to death. Mulraj presented Vans Agnew’s head to Vitesh Sharma and told him to take it back to Currie at Lahore.
Aftermath: The British chief Currie sent a big detachment of the khalsa under Sher Singh Attariwalla to help the Bengal army in beseiging Multan. However, Sher Singh rebelled as well on Sep 14! However, Sher Singh moved away to fight separately. Mulraj was however defeated by 22nd January. This freed up more artillery for the Birish to use during the decisive Battle of Gujarat.
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Event occured on 1859-04-18 (gregorian).
Ramachandra Panduranga Yawalkar, Aka Tantia Tope, general of the last peshvA nAnA saheb, victor of many battles, killed by the British after being surrendered to them by mAn singh.
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Event occured on 0485-04-18 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
The yavana polytheist sage died in Athens on this date in 485 CE. Proclus died aged 73, and was buried near Mount Lycabettus in a tomb. It is reported that he was writing 700 lines each day.
He had a great devotion to the goddess Athena, who he believed guided him at key moments in his life. Marinus reports that when Christians removed the statue of the goddess from the Parthenon, a beautiful woman appeared to Proclus in a dream and announced that the “Athenian Lady” wished to stay at his home.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
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Event occured on 1244-04-23 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Small commando units (one of them 100 infantry and 50 cavalry) of Odisha’s Eastern Ganga Dynasty king Gajapati Narasimhadeva-I, pounced on a big Mamluk force under Tughril Khan (fooled into complacency by a faux retreat) near Katasin/Contai fort (near South Bengal). The Gajapati’s army then chased them all the way out of South Bengal (all the way beyond lakhnor fort, 70 miles away).
Context: Narasimhadeva had laid a siege on Lakhanuti(Bengal) for the first time in Nov 1243. This shocked the Mamluk Governor Tughril Tughan Khan, who had to gather his forces and gave the clarion of Islamic jihAd against the Gajapati. The Ganga army hd to retreat till Katasin(Contai) of South West Bengal. The Mamluk army was overjoyed as they had apparently forced the Eastern Ganga army to withdraw, and camped near the Katasin fort. They weren’t aware that it was a fake retreat. The Mamluks weren’t alert and were infact quite excited on seeing the war elephants left behind for free.
बालाजी-विश्वनाथो मृतः #३०२Up↑
Event occured on 1720-04-23 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
great peshva bAlAjI vishvanAth died.
कुमारसिंहो जगदीशपुरं जयति #१६४Up↑
Event occured on 1858-04-23 (gregorian).
Kunwar Singh, aged 80 and one-handed (having cut off and offered his wounded hand to gangA devI in an earlier battle a few days earlier), utterly routed Captain le Grand’s forces (with 2 howitzers) with his little army of about two thousand men - dispirited and badly armed. Le Grand used his guns and an infantry charge into the jungle to no avail. On 22 and 23 April, being injured he fought bravely against the British Army and with the help of his army drove away the British Army, brought down the Union Jack from Jagdispur Fort and hoisted his flag.
On 26 April 1858 he died in his village. The mantle of the old chief now fell on his brother Amar Singh II who, despite heavy odds, continued the struggle and for a considerable time, running a parallel government in the district of Shahabad. In October 1859, Amar Singh II joined the rebel leaders in the Nepal Terai.
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Event occured on 1971-04-23 (gregorian).
Over 3k Bengali and Rajbanshi Hindu males trying to run away to India were stopped and killed by Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army in collaboration with razAkar-s (volunteers) including members of Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim League.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
Event occured on 1834-04-24 (gregorian).
chikka-vIra-rAjendra (allegedly tyrranical) was deposed and exiled by the British; his kingdom was annexed into British India. He lived 14 years in exile; one of his daughters married jung bahAdur rANa, while another, gauramma (then aged 11 years), adopted to be taken care by Queen Victoria was converted to Christianity and married to some old colnel.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
मरुराक्षसस्य सिद्दि-सौतस्य वधः #२८६Up↑
Event occured on 1736-04-30 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
On 19 April 1736 (julian) Chimaji Appa with Manaji Angre killed Siddi Saut in a battle at Kamarle in the Konkan. The Siddi had been cursed by BrahmendraSwami in 1726- ‘you will be utterly destroyed’, for attacking his Parshuram temple at Chiplun. Siddi Saut paid the price ten years later.
जमरूद-युद्धे हरिसिंहो मृतः #१८५Up↑
Event occured on 1837-04-30 (gregorian).
On this day, Hari Singh Nalwa died defending the Jamrud garrisson against a superior afghAn force. Nalwa supposedly ordered his dead body to be hung outside the fort before he died, discouraging the Afghans from attacking, believing Nalwa was still alive. The Sikh garrison continued fighting until Sikh reinforcements arrived from Lahore and pushed the Afghans out.
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Towards the end of 1836, Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa attacked and captured the small, but very strategic, fortified Khyberi village of Jamrud, situated on the south-side of a range of mountains at the mouth of the Khyber Pass. In 1837, major portions of the Sikh Army was recalled to Lahore for the wedding of Kanwar Nau Nihal Singh, the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (supposed show of force to the British). Emir of Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan, accompanied by five of his sons, rushed with his army to drive the Sikhs out of Peshawar.
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Event occured on 2006-04-30 (gregorian).
In the first attack 22 unarmed Hindu villagers, mostly shepherds or their families, were lined up and gunned down by terrorists (allegedly belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba [Army of the Pure]) in Thawa village in Kulhand area of Doda district. The victims included a 3-year-old girl.
The second attack in the neighbouring Lalon Galla village in Basantgarh area of Udhampur district, 35 Hindu shepherds were similarly slaughtered.
विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)
### होल्करैः पेशावर-ग्रहणम् #२६४ Event occured on 1758-05-08 (gregorian). Tukoji Rao Holkar defeats the afghAn Durrani Empire at the Battle of Peshawar. He was left there by raghunAth rAv and malharrAv holkar. Marathas remained in Punjab until Nov 1759.
नारायणरावो हतः #२४८
Up↑Event occured on 1773-08-30 (gregorian).
In an event that shook the marATha empire, the peshva nArayaNa rAv, brother of the great mAdhavarAv and vishvAs-rAv, was killed on the last day of gaNapati festival (Ananta Chaturdashi) in puNe.
According to popular legend, Raghunathrao had sent a message to Sumer Singh Gardi to fetch Narayanrao using the Marathi word dharaa (धरा) or ‘hold’ (actual phrase in Marathi - " नारायणरावांना धरा"/“Narayanrao-ana dhara”). This message was intercepted by his wife Anandibai who changed a single letter to make it read as maaraa (मारा) or ‘kill’ . The miscommunication led the Gardis to chase Narayanrao, who, upon hearing them coming, started running towards his uncles' residence screaming, “Kaka! Mala Vachva!!” (“Uncle! Save me!"). The Gardis followed Narayanrao to his uncle’s chamber and the menial Tulaji Pawar pulled him while Sumer Singh Gardi cut him down. At the scene, a total of 11 persons were killed. Historian Sardesai writes that these 11 victims included seven brahmins (including Narayanrao), two Maratha servants and two maids.
Aftermath
Up↑The Chief Justice, Ram Shastri Prabhune was asked to conduct an investigation into the incident, and Raghunathrao, Anandibai and Sumer Singh Gardi were all prosecuted in absentia. Although Raghunathrao was acquitted, Anandibai was declared an offender and Sumer Singh Gardi the culprit. Sumer Singh Gardi died mysteriously in Patna, Bihar in 1775, and Anandibai performed Hindu rituals to absolve her sins. Kharag Singh and Tulaji Pawar were handed over by Hyder Ali back to the government and they were tortured to death.
As the result of the murder, senior ministers and generals of the Maratha confederacy formed a regency council , known as the “Baarbhai Council”, to conduct of the affairs of the state in the name of his soon to be born son, mAdhavarAv 2.
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Up↑Event occured on 2000-08-27 (gregorian).
On 27 August 2000, shAnti kAlI was presiding at his ashram with a gathering of local devotees. At night (8:05 PM,), Christian NLFT militants, broke into the ashram and shot him for refusing to convert to Christianity along with his followers. In the same month, another Hindu leader of the Jamatya community, Jaulushmoni Jamatya, was also murdered. In the months following his death, eleven of his ashrams, schools, and orphanages around the state were closed down by the NLFT.
shAnti tripura aka shAnti kAlI was a popular tribal sAdhu working in tripura. He was a devotee of tripura-sundarI.
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Up↑Event occured on 1666-08-27 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
shrAvaNa k12. A few days earlier on 13th, rAmasiMha had refused to receive shivAjI, who had been ordered to be moved to rAjA viTThaldAs’s mansion.
Shivaji pulled off one of the greatest escapes in history from the jaws of death at Agra. In a story corroborated by multiple contemporary sources, shivAjI feigned illness after being put under house arrest. He started sending alms and food to holy men; and gifts to noblemen. In the initial days, guards search these outgoing baskets - later they became lax. One day Hiroji Farzand wore his master’s clothes and slept in bed, with only a hand with shivAjI’s wristlet being uncovered; a boy massaging his feet. shivAjI and his son escaped in the baskets. The following day, guards were fooled by seeing Hiroji. After a while hIrojI to switched to his own clothes and went away. Mogols discovered the escape the next day.
rAmasiMha (whom many tried to implicate along with jayasiMha) was in a soup - and dismissed from service. 4 brAhmaNas who were part of rAmasiMha’s inner guard circle were arrested and tortured till they made a false confession. Treasure left behind by shivAjI was confiscated as “harAm ka mAl” and sold off.
Later events:
12th September 1666: Shivaji arrives at Rajgad. There are rumours (likely circulated by shivAjI) that his son died on the way. (Rajasthani letter dated 19th November 1666, newsletter of the Mughal Court dated 4th November 1666). In fact, Shivaji had left his son behind at Mathura, supposedly with his ministers' brAhmaNa relatives. (Sabhasad and A.Q. Chronicles, Tarikh-i Dilkusha, etc.)
20th November 1666: Sambhaji arrives at Rajgad (Jedhe Chronology corrected.)
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Up↑Event occured on 1740-08-22 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
To prevent the Sikhs accessing the holy shrine [Darbar Sahib], or the “Golden Temple”, at Amritsar a strong Mughal military officer, Massa Ranghar, was stationed. He started carousing with dancing girls and consuming meat and alcohol there. Mehtab Singh and Sukkha Singh set off from rAjasthAn, disguised themselves as revenue officials, entered Harmandir Sahib, cut off Ranghar’s head and escaped before the Mughal soldiers could realise what had happened.
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Up↑Event occured on 2019-08-19 (gregorian).
Farid-ud-din Shaikh and Ashfak Shaikh came dressed in saffron kurtas to give Kamalesh Tiwari a sweets box (hiding a knife and pistol there), slit his throat and shot him. According to the police, the pistol and sweets used in the murder were bought in Surat and the murder was planned in Dubai. Several conspirators were arrested.
Context: In Dec 2015, Arun Jaitley supported decriminalization of homosexuality. Azam Khan (a criminal politician who would be jailed and illegal property seized a few years later) called RSS members homosexuals. Tiwari retaliated saying that Muhammad was the first homosexual. Tiwari was arrested and jailed for a few months, even as lakhs of muslims went into frenzy.
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२००८ वर्षे जयपुरे विस्फोटाः #१४Up↑
Event occured on 2008-05-13 (gregorian).
On this day, 9 synchronised bomb blasts took place within a span of few minutes - around 80 died, and 216 injured. Carried out by Indian Mujahideen, an offshoot of Students Islamic Movement of India. In their email sent before the blasts from guru_alhi...@yahoo.co.uk, they said they sought to “demolish the faith (Hinduism)” of the “infidels of India”.
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This was followed by Delhi bombings, 25 July bengaLUru bombings and 26 July Ahmedabad bombings (56 killed).
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On Dec 20, 2019, 4 convicts were stentenced to death.
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वासायि-युद्ध-समाप्तिः #२८३Up↑
Event occured on 1739-05-16 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Chimaji Appa ground down the Portuguese, systematically mined, blasted and won vasAi/ bessein (long suffering Christian inquisition barbarisms).
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This ended the Portuguese “Generalship of the North”. The resulting treaty ensured that Gentoos (Hindus) inhabiting Goa etc. could again freely practice their religion. The English (having failed to aid Portuguese) hastily sent envoys to draw up friendship treaties with marATha-s. This victory came at a heavy cost (22k soldiers dead) and after a determined campaign of 2 years.
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“On the 3rd, the tower of San Sebastian was demolished by a Maratha mine. Eight hundred Portuguese soldiers had been killed and their powerful bastions of San Sebastian and Remedios lay demolished. The white flag was hoisted on the fort and on the 5th of May 1739, the garrison surrendered. Ten days later, they were allowed to march out of Vasai into boats which would take them to Goa. On the 23rd of May 1739, the Portuguese flag which had flown atop Vasai or Bacaim as the Portuguese called it, was pulled down and the zari parka unfurled in it’s place. A bell from the church on the fort was taken and re installed as a temple bell at Bhimashankar! Other bells were sent to other temples.” - AG’s book.
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बन्दा-शिष्याः छप्परछिर्यां जयन्ति #३१२Up↑
Event occured on 1710-05-23 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Banda Bahadur, the vaiShNava disciple of Guru Gobind, crushed a mogol army. The Mughals were armed with artillery, well equipped cavalry and large infantry whereas the Sikhs had cavalry and infantry but no artillery. In the battle, his Sikhs gave a crushing blow to the Mughal empire. Wazir Khan (Sirhind) was killed in the battle and Sikhs established their first Raj in Punjab.
The bandai khAlsa was heavily hinduised (eg. vegetarianism, red dress).
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शिवराजो रामसिंहेन रक्षितः #३५६Up↑
Event occured on 1666-05-24 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
Those like begam jahAn-ara, javar khAn and jaswant singh kept egging awrangzeb after shivAjI had angrily left awrangzeb’s darbaar. Awrangzeb ordered siddi fulAd to take shivAjI to Rad-andaz Khan’s mansion. rAmasiMha, son of jayasiMha, heard of it. He at once rushed to Muhammad Amin Khan’s house and interceded with him saying: “The Emperor is thinking of killing Shivaji. But he has come here under a solemn assurance of safe conduct (kaul). So it is proper that the Emperor should first kill me, summon my son and kill him and only then kill Shivaji.” So Muhammad Amin Khan went to the Emperor and reported Ram Singh’s words. Whereupon the Emperor said: “Tell Ram Singh to stand surety for Shivaji. If Shivaji escapes or does any mischief Ram Singh will be responsible. Let Ram Singh give a security bond in writing.” When Muhammad Amin Khan returned and narrated this to Ram Singh, he agreed to give a security bond.
He returned to his camp and briefed Shivaji in the night of 14th May 1666. Shivaji came to Ram Singh the following morning, performed worship (puja) of Shiva there and gave his solemn assurance. Then Ram Singh wrote the security bond and gave it to Muhammad Amin Khan that afternoon in the antechamber ghuslkhana). When the Khan reported this to the Emperor he took the bond and ordered: “Tell Ram Singh to take Shivaji to Kabul. Find an auspicious day to begin the journey.” Luckily, shivAjI visited and bribed Javar khAn to get pardoned for his “offences” and get that order cancelled.
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Event occured on 1657-05-24 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
बाजीरावेण षट्षष्टि-द्वीप-ग्रहणम् #२८५Up↑
Event occured on 1737-05-24 (gregorian).
On Saturday at 11 p.m. the Mahrattas captured a water-tower in Thana creek and entered Salçette. On April 6 and 7, the Mahratta troops practically occupied the whole island.
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Event occured on 1999-05-24 (gregorian).
On this day died the master wrestler Vijay Pal Yadav (1901–1999) aka Guru Hanuman in a car crash. Guru Hanuman was fit and actively coaching, consuming large amounts of ghee and milk, even in his late 90s. He died on 24 May 1999, at the age of 98, not of old age or any ailments, but in a car crash! He was on his way to Haridwar to bathe in the holy Ganga.
He founded an akhada to train wrestlers in 1925 with the help of K. K. Birla. Guru Hanuman coached or mentored the brightest Indian wrestlers for decades. His students got Arjuna Awards, won medals at Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, and represented India at the Olympics. After K. D. Jadhav’s bronze in 1952, India did not have a wrestling medal in Olympics for 56 years. Then came Sushil Kumar, a ‘praśiṣya’ (grand-disciple) of Guru Hanuman. Sushil Kumar was coached by Satpal Singh, a disciple of Guru Hanuman. Sushil Kumar won a bronze in 2008 and silver in 2012. Yogeshwar Dutt (bronze in 2012) also trained under Satpal Singh. So did Ravi Kumar Dahiya (silver in 2020).
Sources: nityAnanda mishra’s tweets.
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Event occured on 1886-05-25 (gregorian).
Rash bihArI bose born. He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny, and later the Indian National Army (after escaping to Japan in 1915 when the mutiny failed). Rash Behari Bose handed over Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose.
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Event occured on 1665-06-21 (gregorian). Julian date was converted to Gregorian in this reckoning.
After 5 years of war, as seige of purandar drew on, shivAjI met with jayasimha after obtaining personal assurance for his safety. Formally declaring his surrender into imperial service, he haggled till midnight. He strategically surrendered 23 forts out of 35 forst demanded (Purandar, Rudramal, Kondana, Karnala, Lohagad, Isagad, Tung, Tikona, Rohida fort, Nardurga, Mahuli, Bhandardurga, Palaskhol, Rupgad, Bakhtgad, Morabkhan, Manikgad (Raigad), Saroopgad, Sagargad, Marakgad, Ankola, Songad, and Mangad). He agreed to send his son to mughals as a mansabdAr. Much of these were part of the nizAmshAhI konkan ceded to Awrangzeb by Adil shAh but captured by shivAjI.
jayasiMha did not treacherously seize or kill shivAjI - to get continued complaiance from marAThas (as per his letter to awrangzeb). Awrangzeb confirmed the treaty in a farmAn dated 5th Sep. With this, shivAjI’s secret alliance with AdilshAhi-s was broken - and shivAjI started capturing the part of Adil shAhI territory reserved for him under the treaty.