When Europe’s War Came to India: The First Carnatic War (1746-1748)
The First Carnatic War (1746-48) was more than a distant echo of European conflict; it…
Battles & Military History
Colonial Tamil Nadu
Battles & Military History
Historical Mysteries
The Sovereign and the Assassin: The Betrayal and Murder of Nizam Nasir Jung
In December 1750, the Nizam of Hyderabad was shot dead from a howdah near Gingee…
Battles & Military History
Medieval Kingdoms
The Battle of Kandalur Salai: How Rajaraja Destroyed Chera Ships
Before the great flames of war engulfed Lanka, Rajaraja Chola first had to break the…
Battles & Military History
Medieval Kingdoms
The Battle of Nettur: When Kulasekhara Pandya Hired Sinhalese Mercenaries
In 1175, the Pandyan king Kulasekhara Pandya struck an unlikely deal with the Sinhalese king…
Medieval Kingdoms
Kulottunga Chola’s 1077 CE Embassy to Song China: The Pearl Trade Files
In 1077 CE, Kulottunga Chola I dispatched 72 merchants to the court of Emperor Shenzong…
Battles & Military History
Colonial Tamil Nadu
The Madras Native Infantry Mutiny 1780: Vellore’s Forgotten Prequel 26 Years Earlier
Twenty-six years before the famous 1806 Vellore Mutiny, two battalions of the Madras Native Infantry…
Inscriptions, Coins & Epigraphy
The Nagapattinam Buddhist Viharas: What Rajaraja’s Leiden Plates Really Say
The Anaimangalam Copper Plates—returned to India in 2026 after 300 years in the Netherlands—record Rajaraja…
Forts, Temples & Architecture
Sankagiri Fort: The Fourteen-Walled Citadel That Guarded Kongu Nadu
Fourteen concentric walls rise 707 metres above Kongu Nadu—a fort designed to exhaust any attacker.…