History and Historiography - The Dharma Dispatch (Page 17)

The Humane Principles of Statecraft that Powered a Hindu Kingdom: Amatya Ramachandra Pant’s Profound Guidebook

In this episode of Amatya Ramachandra Pant's Ajnapatra, we observe the incredibly humane principles that guided the great Hindu Kingdom of Chhatrapati Shivaji and his descendants. This must be made prescribed reading especially to our bureaucrats today.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 22 Dec 2021

The Humane Principles of Statecraft that Powered a Hindu Kingdom: Amatya Ramachandra Pant’s Profound Guidebook

Jaitra Simha Rawal: The Forgotten Hindu Hero who Singlehandedly Saved South India for Half a Century

Jaitra Simha Rawal was the fierce Hindu Hero who singlehandedly stopped the Delhi Sultanate's southward expansion and saved the Deccan and south India for about half a century.

By Sandeep Balakrishna

/ 20 Dec 2021

Jaitra Simha Rawal: The Forgotten Hindu Hero who Singlehandedly Saved South India for Half a Century

How Shivaji Created a Hindu Kingdom from the Scratch: Ramachandra Pant's Vivid Description

In the second episode of the Ajnapatra, Ramachandra Pant gives us a highly inspirational and first hand narrative of how Shivaji created a Hindu Empire from the scratch

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 15 Dec 2021

How Shivaji Created a Hindu Kingdom from the Scratch: Ramachandra Pant's Vivid Description

What the Majestic Ajnapatra of Amatya Ramachandra Pant Teaches us about 18th Century Hindu Polity: An Introduction

Amatya Ramachandra Pant, Shivaji's Finance Minister authored an extraordinary Ajnapatra or Royal Edict giving guidance to Sambhaji II. It is also the primary source giving us superb, first hand details of the India of that period.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 10 Dec 2021

What the Majestic Ajnapatra of Amatya Ramachandra Pant Teaches us about 18th Century Hindu Polity: An Introduction

"Gandhi is a Babe!" - Why Every Hindu Should Read Sankaran Nair's Verdict on Mohandas Gandhi

Excerpts from Sri C. Sankaran Nair's searing assessment of Mohandas Gandhi's disastrous role in the Indian freedom struggle

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 9 Dec 2021

"Gandhi is a Babe!" - Why Every Hindu Should Read Sankaran Nair's Verdict on Mohandas Gandhi

The Training, Qualifications, Character and Powers of Ministers in Ancient India: A Study in Harmony

An essay providing a glimpse of the harmonious relationship that existed between the ruler and the council of ministers in ancient India all the way up to the end of the Classical Era. The values that it instilled continued to endure in the Hindu ruling class. Its most recent exponent was Sir M. Vis

By Sandeep Balakrishna

/ 17 Nov 2021

The Training, Qualifications, Character and Powers of Ministers in Ancient India: A Study in Harmony

A Letter to Cornwallis by a Goswamini from Surat: A Study in Colonized Psyche

An obscure letter dated March 1791, addressed to Cornwallis written by a Goswamini belonging to the Vallabhacharya sect reveals several historical insights. Among others, it is a first hand evidence of Aurangzeb's appalling persecution of Vallabhacharya's followers, who had to migrate from Gokul to

By Sandeep Balakrishna

/ 18 Oct 2021

A Letter to Cornwallis by a Goswamini from Surat: A Study in Colonized Psyche

The Famous Mughalai Cuisine in Jahangir's Regime was a Feast of Exploitation: Concluding Episode

In the final episode of this series, we get an eyewitness account of the kind of houses Jahangir's nobles built, the typical menu of the food they ate and the pathetic condition of their concubines.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 11 Oct 2021

The Famous Mughalai Cuisine in Jahangir's Regime was a Feast of Exploitation: Concluding Episode

Jahangir's Kingdom was the Dwelling-place of Bitter Woe

A vivid and heart-rending description of the wretched life of the common people in Jahangir's kingdom. Extortion, unpaid, labour, and rampant exploitation were the characteristic traits of his regime.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 6 Oct 2021

Jahangir's Kingdom was the Dwelling-place of Bitter Woe

In Jahangir's Regime, Avarice Dominated Manly Honour: Corrupt Kazis, Debauched Governors

In this episode covering Jahangir's appalling regime, Pelsaert gives vivid details of the shocking manner in which ordinary citizens were pushed to starvation, and how the entire administration was filled with corrupt Kazis and pleasure-loving governors.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 4 Oct 2021

In Jahangir's Regime, Avarice Dominated Manly Honour: Corrupt Kazis, Debauched Governors

Wine, Opium, Hunting, Debauchery and Nur Jahan: A Glimpse of Jahangir’s Administration

In this episode of the series on Jahangir's regime, we notice Pelsaert's description of the appalling lifestyle and addictions of Jahangir, exploding several myths.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 1 Oct 2021

Wine, Opium, Hunting, Debauchery and Nur Jahan: A Glimpse of Jahangir’s Administration

No Hindu Could Venture into the Streets during Muharram in Jahangir's Agra!

Pelsaert paints a vivid and graphic description of how the chief Muslim festivals, Id and Muharram were celebrated in Agra.

By Team Dharma Dispatch

/ 29 Sep 2021

No Hindu Could Venture into the Streets during Muharram in Jahangir's Agra!