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NEW DELHI: India is getting set to acquire the massive ShinMaywa US-2i amphibious aircraft from Japan as part of their expanding bilateral strategic partnership, with both nations wary of China’s assertive behaviour in the Asia-Pacific region. The defence acquisitions council (DAC), chaired by Manohar Parrikar, on Saturday will take up […]
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi is set to take over as Congress president in April, sources have said amid a controversy swirling around his “leave of absence” during a key session of Parliament. Mr Gandhi, 44, will replace his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has helmed the party since 1998. The stage is […]
Slamming BJP for its “politics of India Shining,” Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reached out to the poor and rural youths in Bundelkhand, hard-selling the UPA’s flagship schemes of food security, land acquisition and job guarantee programme MNREGA. The Congress vice-president stressed on the unity of his party in the faction-ridden […]
After Indian independence in 1947, the princely states of Bundelkhand Agency were combined with those of the former Bagelkhand Agency to form the province of Vindhya Pradesh, which became an Indian state in 1950. On 1 November 1956, Vindhya Pradesh was merged into Madhya Pradesh. Notorious dacoits like Pooran Sing alias Puja babba and Moorath […]
The Marathas ceded parts of Bundelkhand, which were later called later British Bundelkhand, to the British in the 1802 Treaty of Bassein. After 1802, many of the local rulers were granted sanads (leases) by the British, which entitled them to the lands they controlled at the death of Ali Bahadur, in return for the rulers signing a written […]
The Chandela Rajput clan ruled Bundelkhand from the 10th to the 16th centuries. In the early 10th century they were feudatories of the Pratiharas of Kannauj, and ruled from the fortress-city of Kalinjar. A dynastic struggle among the Pratiharas from 912 to 914 allowed the Chandelas and other feudatories to assert their independence. The Chandelas captured the […]
This fine temple of the Gupta period, dedicated to Lord Vishnu, is the earliest known Panchayatan temple in north India. The figures of the Ganga and the Yamuna adorn the carved doorway leading to the sanctum sanctorum. The carved panels along the side walls depict scenes from Vaishnava mythology.
Deogarh is situated on the right bank of the Betwa river, at the western end of the Lalitpur range of hills. It is of great antiquarian, epigraphical and archaeological importance. It remained in glory during the reign of the Guptas, the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Gondas, the Muslim rulers of Delhi, the […]