Bharat Rakshak

Haroon Siddiqui, the former Editor of that newspaper (Toronto Star) is a known anti-Hindu personality, that may have something to do with the "editing". Not sure if current editors have similar views or not.

Fascinating info, much appreciated. I have a particular softspot for the Mongols, one of the most fascinating civilizations from a military perspective. They really set the Muslim world back, there is very little pre-Mongol Islamic architecture in Central Asia and Iran. It seems those the Mongols co...

Hi Airavat, I'll describe some recollections from my numerous academic readings on this topic which will be relevant to your questions. 1) The Cholas used several types of large sailing ships such as the Colandia which was capable of carrying several bull elephants or a compliment of several hundred...

I don't understand why some of you don't consider the Chola empire to be 'large'. Although they didn't control 60% of india (they dominated southern and eastern india, including parts of bihar/sikkim), and campaigned as far northwest as UP, as far north as the Himalayas (where they stamped the chola...