___________________________________ INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION IN INDIA ________________________________ Ancient Civilizations in India The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River in what is now Pakistan and north-western India. Among other names for this civilization is the Harappan Civilization, in reference to its first excavated city of Harappa. An alternative term for the culture is Saraswati-Sindhu Civilization, based on the fact thatmost of the Indus Valley sites have been found at the Halkra-Ghaggar River. R.B. Dayaram Sahni first discovered Harappa (on Ravi) in 1921. R.D. Banerjee discovered Mohenjodaro or ‘Mound of the Dead’ (on Indus) in 1922. Sir John Marshal played a crucial role in both these. Harappan Civilization forms part of the proto history of India and belongs to the Bronze Age. Mediterranean, Proto-Australoid, Mongoloids and Alpines formed the bulk of the population...
Also referred to as Anandas , Kandaraja’s. Ruled coastal Andhra . Capital - Kandarapura. Dynasty bore – Monkey. Tittles: Krishnaveni Adipatulu Trikuta Parvadathipatulu (Trikutaparvatam - kotappakonda). Feudatories of Ikshvakus, established independent rule in the area covered by present day South Guntur district, after the fall of Ikshvakus during the last quarter of 3rd century A.D. Source of informations about Ananda’s available from 3 inscriptions Chezerla Inscription Issued by Satsabhamalla . Give information about Kanda Raja . Mentions that Kanda raja grandfather of Satsabhamalla is the ruler of that region. Prithviyuvasat – tittle of Kanda raja. States thet Kandara defeated his enemies at the battleof Dhanyakataka and became the lord of Krishna (krishnaveni), Trikuta hill, Kandapura, and two Janapada’s. Goruntla Copper Plate Inscription Gives information about king Attivarma . ...
The lady who unfurled Indian flag on foreign land Madam Bhikaji Cama, the lady who hoisted the Indian Flag for the first time in a foreign country. It was in Stuttgart, Germany, and on August 18, 1907 that she staged this bold performance, saying that she was doing it so only to bring the poverty, starvation, oppression and slavery, as also India's thirst for freedom to the attention of the international assembly of socialists there. Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama was born Bhikai Sorab Patel on 24 September 1861 in Bombay (now Mumbai) into a large, well-off Parsi family. Her parents, Sorabji Framji Patel and Jaijibai Sorabji Patel, were well known in the city, where her father Sorabji—a lawyer by training and a merchant by profession—was an influential member of the Parsi community. On 3 August 1885, she married Rustom Cama, who was son of K. R. Cama. Her husband was a wealthy, pro-British lawyer who aspired to enter politics. It was not a happy marriage, and Bhikhaiji spent most...
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