@Aindradeva https://t.co/AtbscrI6VX
I have read this book and also author's separate article specially on this coin. This theory was proposed by Bhandarkar long before Maheshwari, he did so to show foreign origin of Chauhan. Imo, it isn't convincing enough.
There were a few incidences of fierce opposition to foreign rule by local rajputs of Haryana such as Mohan Singh Madhad, whose heroic tale of resistance against army of Babur is still sung across haryanvi villages even today.
@OliveGreens09 Absolute sultanate and mughal control, hardly any resistance whatsoever till the end of mughals. Even after that though Punjab was governed by self rule, Haryana was mostly ruled by Sikhs, local nawabs, Marathas and foreigner mercenary such as George Thomas and later British.
@OliveGreens09 In short, history of haryana after Tomar and Chauhan is long and dark foreign rule that went almost about 750 years without any hope of resistance.
@OliveGreens09 Absolute sultanate and mughal control, hardly any resistance whatsoever till the end of mughals. Even after that though Punjab was governed by self rule, Haryana was mostly ruled by Sikhs, local nawabs, Marathas and foreigner mercenary such as George Thomas and later British.
@gorakhvacha Both channels were goated, RS channel's debate and panel discussions were really class apart from what other news channels were doing. I didn't like food related content on epic though.
@gorakhvacha@Deviputra21 In general baat keh raha hu, haa amish to kuch bhi likhta hai, iski first book ki popularity k chakkar me mene padh li thi, har har mahadev ka jo origin bataya usme book fekne ka mann ho gaya, kuch bhi pela hai uss book me
William Jones was a Supreme Court Judge
James Prinsep was an Assay Master in a mint.
Alexander Cunningham was an Army Engineer.
Discovery of India's past is largely credited to non professionals who got into the field of history because of personal interest.
@PrasunNagar Most important port of ancient india, got silted up and cambay replaced it in early mediaeval time. Cambay got silted up and was replaced by Surat around early modern period. Surat in turn got replaced by Bombay finally.