Thinking how to spend a weekend, I suddenly opened Matsya Purana to look into what’s written over the Satavahanas. Well, I always heard of...

The retreat of the Marathas during the conquest of Punjab by Abdali before Panipat left the Sikhs to fend for themselves. They seem to...

Power Corrupts, is what they say. It so happened that when Churaman Jat raised his rebellion against the Mughals taking advantage of the Maratha...

Shankarji Narayan Gandekar is a classic example of Bad Times Create Good Men. His grandfather Mukundpant, the Deshmukh of Gandapur left the village in...

Maratha ‘Bargi’ raids were etched into the psyche of Bengal for their ruinous impact and they were recalled with horror. In fact, one of...