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06 Jun 2025 10:23

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🅾️ Issue - ASI asked archaeologist K. Amarnath Ramakrishna to revise his report on Keeladi excavations that suggested an advanced Sangam-era urban civilisation.

🅾️What is Tamil Nadu's Response?- Seen as Centre undermining Dravidian antiquity; interpreted as civilisational suppression.

🅾️What is the Wider Implication?: Shows how historical interpretations are politically sensitive and can deepen regional identity politics.

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31 May 2025 10:08

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13 Apr 2025 12:16

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03 Apr 2025 08:05

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✅Shivaji Maharaaj

🅾️ Religious Tolerance = Strategic + Moral-Shivaji’s policy: Protection of all religious groups; awarded lands to temples and protected mosques.His contrast with Aurangzeb (who imposed jizya and temple destructions) is important: Shivaji banned forced conversions, respected religious texts.

🅾️Disciplined military code: No harming women or civilians during war. Justice system under Rajadharma: Even Brahmins and nobles weren’t above law.

🅾️He upheld People’s Sovereignty- Swarajya as Ethical Statehood-. It meant a just state for all where local leadership upheld dharma and people’s dignity.

🅾️Opposed misuse of religion as political weapon.Rejected blind orthodoxy; embraced Vedic pluralism + pragmatic statecraft. Shivaji’s inclusive vision stands out as a template for secular, Dharma-based leadership.



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18 Mar 2025 08:34

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✅kavaad Banchana and Phad

🌟Important

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07 Mar 2025 07:06

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✅Amir Khusrau- Imp points about him based on the above IE article

👉 Amir Khusrau = Syncretic Genius blending Persian, Turkic, and Indian cultural elements into music, poetry, and language.
👉 Key figure in Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb (composite Hindu-Muslim culture).
👉 Contributions across Music, Poetry, Language, Sufism, & Royal Court → Multidimensional Impact.

⚠️Did he create Qawwali?- NO- just popularised it !

🚫Was he anti-Hindu or anti-Muslim?- Neither! He praised Indian knowledge traditions and Hindu philosophy. Stated that Brahmans’ philosophy surpasses Rumi’s revelations.

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20 Feb 2025 12:42

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✅Excavations at Mayiladumparai (Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu) show iron usage began around 4,200 years ago (~3rd millennium BCE).

⚜️Traditional View: Iron came to India around 700 BCE, first used in Gangetic Plains (UP, Bihar, Jharkhand).
⚜️New Findings: Tamil Nadu may have used iron much earlier (around 3,345 BCE – 2,953 BCE).
⚜️Site of Discovery: Mayiladumparai, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu.
⚜️Evidence Found: Iron tools, slag, furnaces, and radiocarbon dating.
⚜️Historical Impact: Tamil Nadu might have directly entered the Iron Age, skipping the Copper Age due to lack of copper deposits.

🅾️Keeladi findings significance- Click here

🔶Also read about Thamirabarani civilisation

🔶Nayakas of Keladi- Click here

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22 Jan 2025 04:16

⚠️ 2024 has been an eventful year for VK IAS- A lot of students asked if we would launch a Current Affairs course- This year, VK IAS has decided to make it FREE - It will require only one thing from you.

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14 Dec 2024 04:45

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✅Durgadi Fort in Kalyan, Maharashtra

🅾️What?- Durgadi Fort was built during the 16th century when Kalyan was a prominent trading port under the Bijapur-based Adil Shahi Sultanate.

🅾️How did it become a Hindu site?- After the Marathas captured Kalyan in 1760, modifications were made to the fort. A temple dedicated to Goddess Durga was established. This marked the beginning of the Hindu religious association with the site. But the British took control of Kalyan in 1818. By the latter half of the 19th century, the Durga temple ceased to be a place of worship, and the idol of Goddess Durga was stolen in 1876.

🅾️Issue : Led to communal tensions.

⚠️What did the court say?- The court affirmed the Maharashtra government's ownership of the fort, allowing the state to make decisions regarding its use.

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21 Nov 2024 15:23

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✅St. Francis Xavier- jesuit saint of Goa


⚠️Also Read other news related to Goan History

⚜️1. Post Independent History- Goa liberation

⚜️2. Goa’s Konsachem Festival and St. Bartholomew’s Feast- Click here

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20 Oct 2024 09:20

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✅Classical language status- 5 New classical languages.

🅾️ A language is considered classical if it has a recorded history of at least 1500–2000 years, has a rich heritage passed down through generations, and its literary tradition is distinct and not borrowed from another speech community.In 2005, the criteria were adjusted to lower the historical threshold to 1500 years and added a requirement that there must be a discontinuity between the classical form and its modern derivatives.

🅾️New Changes in 2024:The "literary tradition" clause was removed, allowing modern languages to apply. A new emphasis was placed on "knowledge texts," including prose, poetry, and inscriptions.

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13 Sep 2024 05:05

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✅Great Stupa of Sanchi:

🅾️One of the oldest stone structures in India: Commissioned by Emperor Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE.  

🅾️Contains sacred relics of the Buddha: Built over the relics to honor and shelter them.  

🅾️Construction overseen by Ashoka's wife Devi: She was from Vidisha, a nearby trading town.  

🅾️Patronage from Vidisha's mercantile community: Supported the development of the Sanchi complex.

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26 Jul 2024 06:05

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🅾️Also read -Gs1- Central Vista project

✅Gs-4 : Ethics- Values

➡️What is the vision, we should hold for India?- What are the values we need to embrace?-PM Modi's 'Panch Pran'- Click here ( One of them is getting rid of colonial mentality)

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23 Jun 2024 10:16

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✅Nalanda University- History-On June 19, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University near the ancient ruins in Rajgir, Bihar.

🔰Prelims details :

⚜️1. Founded in the 5th century CE during the Gupta dynasty- Patron=Kumaragupta I.

⚜️2. Nalanda faced its decline and eventual destruction in the 12th century. In 1193 CE, the university was sacked and destroyed by the army of Bakhtiyar Khilji, a Turkish Muslim conqueror. The invasion led to the devastation of the campus, destruction of its libraries, and dispersal of its scholars and monks.

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21 May 2024 13:05

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✅Chalcolithic Age- Different cultures

🅾️What to focus on?- Jorwe Culture,Malwa Culture,Kayatha culture, OCP and
PGW Cultures

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31 May 2025 10:43

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04 May 2025 13:26

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03 Apr 2025 08:14

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✅Shivaji Maharaaj

What is the instrument in the image?= Wagh Nakh (Tiger Claws)

⚠️Significance vis-a-vis Shivaji’s legacy:

⚜️Used by Shivaji in the assassination of Afzal Khan (1659).

🅾️Symbol of:

⚜️1. Guerilla strategy
⚜️2. Deception as defence against tyranny
⚜️3. Maratha valor under existential pressure
⚜️4. Represents Shivaji’s principle: Dharma-yuddha with tactical intelligence rather than brute confrontation.

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20 Mar 2025 08:40

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✅ Patharughat Peasant Resistance of 1894

🅾️What?- On 28 January 1894, more than a hundred peasants fell to the bullets of the British army in Darrang. The unarmed peasants were peacefully protesting against the increase in land revenue levied by the British when the military opened fire.

🅾️Source?- Doli-Puran - a historical ballad in Assamese. Composed by Narrottam Das

🅾️Every year, 28 January, is observed by the villagers of this area as ‘Krishak Diwas’ to pay their respects to the Patharughat peasants. In 2001, a Martyrs’ Column (Swahid Stambh) was built at the site in honour of the martyred peasants. It has been more than a century and the gallantry of the Patharughat martyrs continues to inspire the people of Assam

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10 Mar 2025 07:55

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✅Tarabai Shinde (1850)

🅾️Who? – Marathi feminist and social activist-Married young, husband moved into her family (matrilocal arrangement). Voluntarily childless marriage—highly unusual and progressive for her era.

⚠️Active member of Satyashodhak Samaj (founded by Jyotirao Phule)-Worked closely with social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule- Click here to read about their legacy.

🅾️Famous work: Stri Purush Tulna (1882) – Critique of patriarchy and societal double standards- condemned the newspaper( Vaibhav- published from Pune) articles on women for shaming a widow who had aborted her illegitimate child, and was convicted for the same. After repeated appeals, her death penalty was changed into a sentence of ‘transportation for life’ (banishment or exile). Tarabhai was moved by this incident.

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04 Mar 2025 05:58

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✅Dholavira- For prelims focus on the facts but for mains- the socio economic conditions taught by the study of these sites becomes very important


🔰What are those Important points? : Click here

⚜️Also known locally as Kotada timba, the site contains ruins of an ancient Indus Valley Civilization/Harappan city. Dholavira’s location is on the Tropic of Cancer.

⚜️ It is one of the five largest Harappan sites and most prominent archaeological sites in India belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization.It is also considered as having been the grandest of cities of its time.

⚜️It is located on Khadir bet island in the Kachchh Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in the Great Rann of Kachchh.

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11 Feb 2025 05:20

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09 Jan 2025 06:43

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✅Gs-1 : Indian History- Art and culture- IVC script controversy

🅾️Why is Deciphering the Indus Script Important?What Makes the Indus Script Difficult to Decipher?

⚜️Absence of a bilingual inscription, like the Rosetta Stone.
⚜️Lack of clarity on whether it represents a full-fledged language or proto-writing.
⚜️The possibility that the script lacks phonetic components (sounds linked to symbols).

🔰Studies found that 90% of Indus symbols are also present in Tamil Nadu artifacts, suggesting a continuity or cultural exchange.


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13 Dec 2024 05:17

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✅Subramania Bharati

🅾️Who?- Subramania Bharati was a renowned Tamil poet and freedom fighter, often called the father of modern Tamil literature.

🅾️Role in the Freedom Struggle- He was part of a group in the Indian National Congress that supported armed resistance against British rule.e started his career as a journalist with the newspaper Swadesamitran in 1882.

🅾️Famous works include Kannan Pattu, Panchali Sapatham, and Kuyil Pattu.

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06 Nov 2024 04:00

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✅Thyagaraya- Lord Rama Devotee


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26 Sep 2024 06:24

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✅Important literary works

🅾️Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda- The article discusses Jayadeva, a renowned Sanskrit poet, and his famous work Gita Govinda, which is considered a masterpiece of Sanskrit literature.

🅾️ Jayadeva's Gita Govinda is known for its lyrical beauty, devotional themes, and deep connection with Vaishnavism-played a crucial role in the Odissi dance and music tradition, as it introduced a new style of performance


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27 Jul 2024 06:49

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✅Ahom charaideo Maidams- World heritage sites

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27 Jun 2024 14:03

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✅Gs-1 : Post independent History- Emergency - events that happened- impact


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12 Jun 2024 12:01

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✅Temples of Lord Ram

🅾️Kalaram Temple, Maharashtra- Maharashtra's Nashik

🅾️Veerabhadra Temple, Andhra Pradesh-Lepakshi, renowned for its connection to the epic tale of Ramayana, is believed to be the site where Jatayu, the giant eagle

🅾️Guruvayur Temple and Thriprayar Shree Ramaswami Temple, Kerala- also note that - Lord Krishna temple in Guruvayur, nestled in the heart of Thrissur district.

🅾️Ranganathaswamy Temple, Tamil Nadu

🅾️PM Modi visited the Sri Kothandaramaswamy temple, which is on the way towards Dhanushkodi and Arichal Munai.

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03 May 2024 10:00

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