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Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

Folks who don't know history just tweet whatever they want.On Feb 1935, Bose attacked the Nazis as he was angry as Indians were described as Sub-Humans in Mein Kampf. The

Dr. Banana García-Bastidas (PhD)

Ferchucky

#CarlLinnaeus assigned the scientific name Musa sapientum for dessert #bananas & Musa paradisiaca for plantains. However, he did not know that the two species he described were in fact hybrids

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: WHEN GREECE RULED INDIA]1/89Some time in the 7th century AD, Sanskrit writer Bāṇabhaṭṭa did a biography on his patron, emperor Harshavardhana. It was titled Harṣacarīta and is said to

Samanway Banerjee

qriosam

Wrote something on @imVkohli on Facebook last year after the India-Pakistan match. Trying to reproduce the same on Twitter. Meanwhile, a very happy birthday to one of the finest of

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/38Qadian is a sleepy and unassuming little town some 40 miles from Amritsar. Its story goes back to 1530 when Mirza Hadi Baig, a religious scholar fresh from Samarkand, Uzbekistan,

Jason Lyall

jaylyall_red5

I read a ton of terrific work by historians on political violence this year (thanks, COVID19). Here's a thread of 13 of the best 2020 books, in no particular order,

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD: UJJAIN — HYPE VS. FACTS]1/82Timekeeping is a 3,500-year-old tradition that goes back to Ancient Egypt and Babylon where they used giant stone obelisks for the purpose. We call them

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: THE ANOINTED ONE]1/23Once upon a time, more than 5,000 years ago, there lived a people in the Pontic steppe by the Ural, that spoke but didn't write. We

Meer Shahid

SShahid_1

Somebody was saying a few days ago that his family migrated from Kashmir before partition in 1878 and there are still restrictions on couple of things the ladies of his

Siddharth's Echelon

SiddharthKG7

So today is 260th anniversary of Third Battle of Panipat and this is a thread to commemorate it. -StartingIt all started with the death of Aurangzeb & end of Mughal-Maratha

Dr Kiran Kumar Karlapu

scarysouthpaw

There is much to Indian history than Akbar, Ashoka and Allauddin Khilji. Scores of Indian rulers have writ our history in the blood drawn from their swords. Most of them

The Global Qur’an

GloQur

South Asian Muslims have been translating the Qur’an into Urdu for over two centuries. The first complete Urdu translations emerged at the end of the 18th and the beginning of

अंचित्य The United nation president

The_Pinake

List of largest empires in India history1.King vikramadityaKing Vikramaditya made Ujjain his capital, in present-day Madhya Pradesh. He almost ruled whole Asia . Vikramaditya empire controlled many parts of Modern

The Rambling Optimist

theramopt

India's CRAZY Untold History.@authoramish in conversation with @BeerBicepsGuy !My takeaways from their podcast.The idea behind writing this thread is to make sure that we can access that knowledge without watching

Bea

HerNameIs_Bea

I knew that a massacre took place during 1947. But when I started to read up on the subject, it shocked me to see just how unaware we are about

ब्राह्मणों का इतिहास👁️👁️

BRAHMIN_0052

MOHIYAL_BRAHMIN_KINGRAJA_PORUSKing_Porus_History1)King Porus was a famous Indian king, his real name was #Purushotama. He belonged to PURU tribe mentioned in #RIG_VEDA, the Ancient books of India. 2) Porus ruled the Punjab

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