History

Most battles are decided on the field. The battle of Plassey was decided weeks before any soldier raised a weapon — in a series of secret meetings, bribed promises, and a betrayal that the…

Most people, when they think about how the British ended up ruling India, jump straight to Robert Clive and the Battle of Plassey. Fair enough, that one gets taught in every history class.…

The Third Battle of Panipat was a significant historical event that took place on January 14, 1761, between the Maratha Confederacy and the invading army of the Durrani Empire. The battle…

If you ask most people how the British ended up ruling India, they will point to the Battle of Plassey in 1757. That battle gets all the attention, but it was really the battle of…

Most people who studied Indian history in school remember Tipu Sultan and his long fight against the British, but far fewer people know about his father Hyder Ali and the war that set the…

Ask most people about the East India Company and they picture a slow, steady takeover of India. Sign a treaty here, plant a garrison there. The Second Anglo-Mysore War doesn't fit that…

If you have studied Indian history, you have probably come across Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore." Few rulers of the eighteenth century gave the East India Company as much trouble as he…

Few moments in Indian history are remembered as sharply as the fall of Seringapatam. In the spring of 1799, a ruler who had spent his whole reign standing up to the British East India…

The Dasarajna or the Battle of the Ten Kings is a prominent recorded occasion implied in different psalms of the Rig Veda

Nanda Empire - The conquest of the Nanda Empire is a war in Indian history where very little is known, when it comes to the fundamental reason