This famous, ambitious statement was made by Peshwa Bajirao I. He said this to Chhatrapati Shahu I around 1720, advocating for a policy of aggressive expansion into North India. The “old, drying tree” referred to the weak and crumbling Later ...
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Bajirao II was the final holder of the office of the Peshwa. After his defeat in the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818), the British East India Company abolished the position of Peshwa entirely. He was stripped of his territories, removed from ...
The European traveler Peter Mundy, an English merchant and writer, came to India during the reign of Shah Jahan (1628–1658). He provided valuable first-hand accounts of the Mughal court and the devastating Deccan famine of 1630–1632. Hawkins and Roe visited ...
Abul Fazl, Akbar’s chief intellectual architect and court historian, called him ‘Zill-e-Ilahi’ (Shadow of God) and ‘Farr-e-Izdi’ (Light emanating from God). These titles were central to Abul Fazl’s formulation of the theory of divine light (Farr-i-Izidi), which argued that the ...
The Battle of Chausa (1539) was the decisive battle after which Sher Khan assumed the title ‘Sher Shah Alam ul Adil’ (King Lion, Just King of the World). This victory was catastrophic for Humayun, establishing Sher Khan as a serious ...