Category: History

  • Muzaffarnagar & Sadaat-e-Bara

    Muzaffarnagar city and district in Saharanpur Division is known for a number of reasons. Thana Bhawan once a part of Muzaffarnagar and now lying in Shamli district is the ancestral village of the Urdu humorist Shaukat Thanvi. Amir Alam former M.P. and Uttar Pradesh minister, chairman of Bharat groups of colleges is one of the…

  • American Empire

    American Empire is the successor of the British Empire, different in exploiting mechanism, but worse than British Empire in reference to devastations it wrecks upon the poor and developing countries, piling the weapons of mass destructions and bloodbath, trapping other nations in the trap of debt by the so-called international financial institutions, deceiving in the…

  • Jahangirabad of Shefta

    Jahangirabad of Shefta indicates to two entities,  Jahangirabad a town in the District of Bulandshahr and Shefta, nom de plume of Mustafa Khan Shefta,  a Nawab, who is an integral part of the city and the regions around it. Jahangirabad is named after the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir. He had stayed here for a couple of…

  • Mohan of Hasrat Mohani

    Mohan is a Qasba of Awadh region and Nagar Panchayat in Unnao District of the State Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the birthplace of Maulana Hasrat Mohani, a poet, freedom fighter, prose writer, patriotic and a remarkable human being. Mohan is also famous for Unani doctors and other personalities of various walks of life.…

  • Sarkar-e-Bansa

    Sarkar-e-Bansa Abdul Razzaq Banswi alias Syed Sahab, was born in 1630s. He was a born Wali (Mystic, Friend of GOD) during the reign of the emperor Shahjahan. His ancestors, during the reign of Babar, migrated from Badakshan Valley to Delhi via Multan. He followed the Spiritual Chain of Qadriyah in his lifetime. But he also…

  • RAMJO NARNAULI

    Ramjo Narnauli, a beautiful courtesan from the historical city of Narnaul in Haryana, now is widely regarded as the muse of Shefta, a pen name for Urdu and Hasrati, name the plume for the Persian literary cannon adopted by Nawab of Jahangirabad, Mustafa Khan. Ramjo, a poet writing with takhallus Nazakat, has been described by…

  • Masjid-e-Shamsi

    Masjid-e-Shamsi of Budaun is that very splendid mosque built on the order of Ruknuddin son of Shamsuddin Iltutmish. Its construction was completed in 630 AD. The plate of the royal era still exists on the main gate. Nawab Qutbuddin Faruqi renovated it in 1013 AD. Kishwar Khan, second son of Nawab Qutbuddin gave attention to…

  • FORT OF BUDAUN

    Fort of Budaun was a marvelous fort in ancient time, whose architecture was a fine specimen of Indian Engineering of the bygone era. Historians are not unanimous when the fort was erected. Some of them say that the founder of this castle was Raja Buddha and others are of the opinion that the year of…

  • ASI Survey Report on Gyanvapi Mosque

    Gyanvapi Mosque was built by Aurangzeb, which has been center of disputes between Muslims and Hindus. Now, the efforts are on to replace the same with a Hindu temple.

  • Nabigha and Numan

    Nabigha Dhubyani, one of the six pre-Islamic poets, whose is still relevant.