Orissa historical and oldest city of India

Orissa historical and oldest city of India

Short brief history of Orissa city of India

             Orissa is an Indian state on the subcontinent's east coast, by the Bay of Bengal. It is surrounded by the  Indian states of West Bengal.

         The earliest settlers of Odisha were primitive hill tribes. Although prehistoric communities cannot be identified, it is well known that Odisha had been inhabited by tribes like Saora or Sabar from the Mahabharata days. Saora in the hills, and the Sahara and Sabar of the plains continue to be an important tribe distributed almost all over Odisha. Most of the tribal people have been influenced by Hindus and have adopted Hindu manners, customs and rituals. Bonda Parajas of Koraput district are the best example of these tribes. Several pre-historic sites have been excavated in Odisha since the arrival of Britishers. Kaliakata of Angul, Kuchai and Kuliana of Mayurbhanj, Vikramkhol near Jharsuguda, Gudahandi and Yogimath of Kalahandi, Ushakothi of Sambalpur, Similikhol near Bargarh.

        The British occupied the Northern Circars comprising the southern coast of Odisha as a result of the Carnatic Wars in the early 1760s and incorporated them into the Madras Presidency gradually. In 1803, the British under theBritish East India Company annexed the Maratha province of Odisha after the Second Angola-Maratha War.

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Assam city of India

Short brief history of Assam city of India

                  Assam is a state of India in the North Eastern Region.

              The Koch kingdom in western Assam and present North Bengal was at its zenith in the early reign of Naranarayana (c. 1540–1587 AD). It split into two in c. 1581 AD, the western part as a Mughal vassal and the eastern as an Ahom satellite state. Since c. 13th AD, the nerve centre of Ahom polity was upper Assam; the kingdom was gradually extended till Karatva River in the c. 17th–18th AD.

              Though the Mughal made seventeen attempts to invade they were not successful. The most successful invader Mir Jumla, a governor of Aurangzeb, briefly occupied Garhgaon (c. 1662–63 AD), the then capital, but found it difficult to control people making guerrilla attacks on his forces, forcing them to leave.

              In 1947, Assam including the present Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya became a state of the Union of India (princely states, Manipur and Tripura became Group C provinces) and a district of Assam, Sylhet, chose to join east Pakistan.

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Chandigarh oldest and historical city of India

 Chandigarh oldest and historical city of India

Short brief history of  Chandigarh city of India

          Chandigarh is a city in Northern India that serves as the capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana.

         After the Partition of India in 1947, the former British province of Punjab was also split between East Punjab in India and West Punjab in Pakistan. The Indian Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the partition. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is derived from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, near the city.

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Haryana historical city of India

Haryana historical city of India

Short brief history of Haryana city of India

               Haryana is a state in north India.

             In the 7th century AD King Harshavardhana established his capital at Thanesar near Kurukshetra. . After his death, the kingdom of his clansmen continued to rule over a vast region for quite a while from Harsha's adopted capital of Kannauj. The region remained strategically important for the rulers of North India even though Thanesar was no more central than Kannauj. Parthvi Raj Chohan established forts at Tarori and Hansi in the 12th century. Muhammad Gori conquered this area in the Second Battle of Train.

           Haryana state was formed on 1 November 1966. The Indian government set up the Shah Commission under the chairmanship of Justice JC Shah on 23 April 1966 to divide the existing Punjab and determine the boundaries of new state Haryana giving consideration to the language spoken by the people. The commission gave its report on 31 May 1966. According to this report the then districts of Hisar Mahendragarh Gurgaon, Rohtak  and Karnal were to be a part of the new state of Haryana.

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