Bihar historical city of India

Bihar historical city of India

Short brief history of  Bihar city ofIndia

           Bihar is a state in Northern India.. It is the 12th largest state of India.Bihar have a different regions  like Magadha, Mithila, Anga, Vaishali are mentioned in different religious texts and epics of ancient India.Administrative   power  of ancient Bihar was around the region of South-West Bihar called Magadha, which remained the centre of power, learning, and culture in India for 1000 years.

          Bihar is an important place of culture and education during the next 1000 years. 

           Sher Shah Suri is a popular as great Pathan of Bihar of North India. He was the first person who defeated the Mughals and army of Humayun, and Delhi as his capital. The Mughals had to leave India during his rule. Sher Shah is considered as one of the most progressive emperors during the Mughal era. He made several economic changes, infrastructural improvement, highways (the famous Grand Trunk road), establishment of the Rupiya  and modern post offices, policing, community and free kitchens. The administrative reforms and social engineering ventures influenced the Mughal mindset of ruling in India under Akbar.

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West Bengal State of India

West Bengal State of India

Short brief history of West Bengal State of India

               West Bengal  is a state in the eastern region of India.

             The region was a part of the Vanga Kingdom, one of ancient kingdoms of Epic India. The kingdom of Magadha was  in 7th century BC, consisting of the Bihar and Bengal regions. It was one of the four main kingdoms of India at the time of Mahavira and the Budha, and consisted of several janapadas.  Several Vedic realms were present in Bengal region, including Vanga, Rarh, Pundra and Suhma.
        Periard of Maurya dynasty  rule , the Magadha Empire extended over nearly all of South Asia, including Afghanistan and parts of Persia under Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BC.

        Muslim raiders reinforced the process of conversion by building mosques, madrassas and Sufi Khanqah. ,Bakhtiar Khilji is a military commander from the Delhi Sultanate  in 1202 and 1206.  Bihar and Bengal as far east as Rangpur, Bogra and the Brahmaputra River Although he failed to bring Bengal under his control, the expedition managed to defeat Lakshman Sen and his two sons moved to a place then called Vikramapur where their diminished dominion lasted until the late 13th century.

      When India gained independence in 1947, Bengal was partitioned along religious lines. The western part went to India  while the eastern part joined Pakistan as a province called East Bengal  (later renamed East Pakistan, giving rise to independent Bangladesh in 1971).

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Tamil Nadu State of India

Tamil Nadu State of India

Short brief history of Tamil Nadu State of India

          Tamil Nadu  is a state of India. Tamil sources known as Sangam Literature Numismatic, archaeological.  Sangam period lasted for about six centuries, from 300 BC to AD 300.

 During the Kalabhras' rule Buddhism flourished in the land of the Tamils. The didactic work Naaladiyar was composed during their reign. It consists of moral sayings in the venpa meter, 400 in number in 40 chapters, each by one Buddhist ascetic, according to tradition.

           During the ninth century, the Chola dynasty was once again revived by Vijayalaya Chola, who established Thanjavur as Chola's new capital by conquering central Tamil Nadu from the local clans of Mutharayar and the Pandya king Varagunavarman TT Aditya I and his son Parantaka I expanded the kingdom to the northern parts of Tamil Nadu by defeating the last Pallava king, 

          India became independent in 1947, Madras Presidency became Madras State, comprising present day Tamil Nadu, coastal Andhra Pradesh up to Ganjam district in Orissa, South Canara district Karnataka, and parts of Kerala. The state was subsequently split up along linguistic lines. In 1969, Madras State was renamed Tamil Nadu, meaning "Tamil country".

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Andhrapradesh oldest city of India

Andhrapradesh  oldest city of India

Short brief history of Andhra Pradesh State of India

           Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India. 

       The first historical records appear in the Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya, when what is now the Nizamabad and Adilabad districts of the Telangana region constituted parts of the Assaka Mahajanapada (700–300 BCE). An Andhra tribe was mentioned in the Sanskrit epics such as Aitareya Brahmana (800 BCE) and Mahabharata (400 BCE).  The roots of the Telugu language have been seen on inscriptions found near the Guntur district and from others dating to the rule of Renati Cholas in the 5th century CE.

          Megasthenes a Greek traveller and geographer who visited the Court of Chandragupta Maurya (322–297 BCE), mentioned that the region had three fortified towns and an army of 100,000 infantry, 200 cavalry, and 1,000 elephants. Buddhist books reveal that Andhras established their huts or tents near the Gogavari River at that time.

        When India become Independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. The Nizam wanted to retain the independence of the Princely Hyderabad State from India, but the people of the region launched a movement to join the Indian Union. The state of Hyderabad was forcibly joined to the Republic of India with Operation Polo in 1948.

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