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Hindu teachings prescribe war as the final option, to be employed only after all peaceful methods are exhausted. [1] Participation in righteous war, or dharmayuddha, was said to be honourable and was a principal duty of the Kshatriya or the warrior varna, and victory in such wars was regarded as a matter of honour. [2]
Part of a series on the History of India Timeline Prehistoric Madrasian culture Soanian, c. 500,000 BCE Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 1000 BCE Bhirrana 7570 – 6200 BCE Jhusi 7106 BCE Lahuradewa 7000 BCE Mehrgarh 7000 – 2600 BCE South Indian Neolithic 3000 – 1000 BCE Ancient Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 – c. 1700 BCE Post Indus Valley Period (Cemetery H Culture), c. 1700 – c. 1500 ...
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the ...
Hindu Kabul: unknown Hindus recapture Kabul [1] [2] 680 Hindu Kabul: Ratbil, Yazid ibn Ziyad Hindu raiding parties harass Muslims [1] 683 Hindu Junzah Hindus defeated the Muslims at Junzah, killing the governor and nobles. [2] 685 Hindu The king of Zabul was killed and his army defeated in 635, but his son continued the struggle. [2] 692 Muslim ...
The revolt started, among the Indian sepoys of British East India Company, when the British introduced new rifle cartridges, rumoured to be greased with pig and cow fat—an abhorrent concept to Muslim and Hindu soldiers, respectively, for religious reasons. 150,000 Indians and 6,000 Britons were killed during the 1857 rebellion. [40] [41]
By 870, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth had built the Saffarid Empire and quickly expanded onto Ghazni, defeating the Zunbils. [3] His victory led to the first battle of Kabul, where he defeated Samanta, the Hindu Shahi king, and took him as a prisoner of war, as recorded in Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ.
In the beginning, Sanjaya gives a description of the various continents of the Earth, the other planets, and focuses on the Indian subcontinent, then gives an elaborate list of kingdoms, tribes, provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, mountains, and forests of the ancient Indian subcontinent (Bharata Varsha). He also explains the military ...
List of wars involving India is a list of known wars, conflicts, missions and operations involving major kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the modern day Republic of India. The title may also refer to: Battles and operations of the Azad Hind Army; List of wars involving Gujarat; List of wars involving Karnataka