The concluding part of this series reveals the connection between the young Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma's encounter with the Poralavoor Adithiri and how it contributed to his victory over Tipu Sultan.
This episode narrates the unending intrigues of the Nizam Mir Osman Ali against merging Hyderabad into the Indian Union and how he gives unlimited power to Kasim Razvi.
Kasim Razvi's speech dated March 31, 1948 in Hyderabad was an open call to the Muslim community to launch a Jihad against the new Union Government of India.
In the final leg of his pilgrimage to the sacred Tirumala hills in 1872, V.N. Narasimha Iyengar recounts rare anecdotes about the glory of Srinivasa. His eyewitness descriptions of the whole thing is eye-opening to say the least.
V.N. Narasimha Iyengar departs from Tirupati to Tirumala on 16 December 1872. He gives intricate details of the whole journey, which in itself is a valuable firsthand source of history.
V.N. Narasimha Iyengar proceeds to Tirupati after departing from Arakkonam. The description of his journey and the portrait of the sacred temple town of Tirupati in 1872 is illuminating to say the least.
V.N. Narasimha Iyengar, a Deputy Commissioner in the Mysore Princely State went on a pilgrimage from Bangalore to Benares in 1872 by train. He meticulously recorded almost every detail of this journey. It is a firsthand portrait of the socio-economic conditions of a large part of India of that era.
Pietro Della Valle, the 16th Century Italian musicologist and traveller, gives us a vivid and endearing picture of how small boys learnt arithmetic in Gerusoppa, now in Uttara Kannada district.
