Nashik has several names. According to Hindu tradition, it was called “Padmanagar” in the Satya Yuga, “Trikantak” in the Treta Yuga, “Janasthana” in the Dvapara Yuga, and lastly “, Navashikh”…
Vasai-Virar is a city (municipal corporation) in western Maharashtra state, western India. It was earlier known as Bassein or Vasai. North of Mumbai, it is located on the Arabian Sea…
When Ranoji Scindia founded his capital at Ujjain in 1731, the city temporarily served as the seat of the Scindia state of the Maratha confederacy during the 18th century. Around…
In 1989, the Jammu and Kashmir Insurgency centred on Srinagar. With periodic unannounced protests and strikes, the region is still a highly politicized hub of separatist activity (“bandhs” in local…
According to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the ancient port of Tyndis, situated on the northern side of Muziris, was close to Kozhikode. Its precise location is up for…
Known initially as Chaupala, Moradabad was a bastion of the Katehria Rajputs who had constructed a mud-brick fort with a view of the Ganges. Except for a few monuments honouring…
Sisupalgarh, the ancient capital of the former province of Kalinga, is located close to Bhubaneswar. The Kalinga War (about 262-261 BCE), in which the Mauryan monarch Ashoka invaded and captured…
Bhiwandi was a tiny town populated by Muslims from Konkan and residents of Maharashtra around the turn of the twentieth century. During the period, agriculture, fishing, and handicrafts were the…
According to the epic Mahabharata, Draupadi was born in the Bareilly region (Panchala), and King Krishna also referred to her as a “Panchali” (a person from the kingdom of Panchla)…
The prakrut variant of Amravati’s (in Andhra Pradesh) original name, “Udumbravati,” is “Umbravati,” and “Amravati” has been known by this name for many centuries. Amravati is the incorrect pronunciation of…
Kemerovo, a fusion of several ancient Russian communities, is their successor. On a route leading from Tomsk to the Kuznetsk stronghold, a waypoint known as Verkhotomsky ostrog was built in…
In 1585, the Cossack ataman Yermak Timofeyevich transferred the Tyumen region, which had previously been a part of the Siberian Khanate, to the Russian Tsardom. Sibir/Qashliq and Tyumen/Chimgi-Tura (the Siberian…
