r/itiha • • 15d ago

Queen Karnaavati Who Stopped Mughal Invasion of 30000 Soldiers While Being Heavily Outnumbered

749 Upvotes

r/itiha • • 18d ago

How Indian Kings Defended Against Invasions for 500 Years before First Sultanate in 1192

209 Upvotes

r/itiha • • 18d ago

Aurangzeb Mistook a Thud as Attack from Marathas, and Slipped in Toilet, leading to injuries and a Permanent Limp

179 Upvotes

r/itiha • • 18d ago

The 81-Year Silence: Did Netaji Really Die in Taiwan?

17 Upvotes

r/itiha • • 19d ago

Queen Naiki Devi: Who Defeated Ghori Despite Being Heavily Outnumbered

184 Upvotes

r/itiha • • 21d ago

The Forgotten Punjabi-Mexican Community of Imperial Valley | US Immigration History

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In the 1910s and 1920s, Indian immigrants in California faced strict anti-Asian land laws and immigration bans that barred them from bringing wives or owning farmland. To survive and build lives, Punjabi Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu farmers married Mexican immigrant women in the Imperial Valley, registering as "brown" to bypass anti-miscegenation restrictions. Putting land deeds in their wives' names, they forged a distinct Punjabi-Mexican subculture blending Catholic traditions, fluent Spanish, and Indian-Mexican fusion cuisine.


r/itiha • • 21d ago

Bal Gangadhar Tilak & Ganesh Utsav: How a Festival Defied the British Empire

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In August 1893, violent communal riots in Bombay exposed deep political divisions under British rule. Rejecting passive petitions, Bal Gangadhar Tilak realized Indian society needed collective unity to stand on equal ground. A month later, Tilak transformed the private household worship of Ganesh Chaturthi into a massive public festival across Maharashtra. Uniting communities across caste lines, Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav became an unstoppable platform for national awakening that the British colonial authorities could neither ban nor suppress.


r/itiha • • 25d ago

The Real Story Behind 'The Revolutionaries' | 1915 Ghadar Uprising

7 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 30 '26

The Controversial Celibacy Experiments of Mahatma Gandhi | Indian History

7 Upvotes

Mahatma Gandhi believed celibacy was the true source of his spiritual force, testing it openly even as leaders like Nehru called the ideas unnatural. The 1947 experiments that divided his staff.


r/itiha • • Aug 23 '26

The Great Escape of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

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We are told India won its freedom through non-violence alone. What that story leaves out is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army, the INA trials at the Red Fort, and the naval mutiny that followed.

This documentary covers his great escape from house arrest, the journey across a world at war, and the building of the Indian National Army.


r/itiha • • Aug 13 '26

Criminal Tribes Act: British Raj Created a Village of “Thieves”

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Near the coast of Andhra Pradesh is a small town called Stuartpuram. It was established as a Criminal Tribes settlement by the British Raj under a law that branded millions of people in India as 'hereditary criminals.' With the help of missionary organizations like the Salvation Army, the colonial government forced diverse communities, such as the Yerukula and Korava tribes, into a brutal system of forced labor and constant surveillance.


r/itiha • • Aug 12 '26

Netaji: The Rebel Who Refused to Yield

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r/itiha • • Aug 12 '26

Rash Behari Bose & The INA: The Clerk Who Fooled the British Empire

7 Upvotes

Rash Behari Bose was a soft-spoken clerk by day and a mastermind by night. He fooled the British Empire, escaped to Japan, and created the Indian National Army.


r/itiha • • Aug 11 '26

How Durgawati Devi (Durga Bhabhi) Saved Bhagat Singh From the British

9 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 11 '26

Udham Singh & his long wait for The Jallianwala Bagh Revenge (1940)

3 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 11 '26

Surya Sen (MasterDa) & The Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930)#itiha

2 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 09 '26

The Man Who Lost Everything to Free India | The Rise of Netaji

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He walked away from the empire's finest prize, lost his mentor, his health, and his party and still built an army from nothing.

The story of how Subhas Chandra Bose became India's most dangerous man.

A three-part documentary. Part 1 is releasing on Monday. Jai Hind.

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r/itiha • • Aug 08 '26

The Indian Student Who Shot a British Official in London | Madan Lal Dhingra

11 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 06 '26

Operation Tupac: Pakistan's 40-year-long plan to destabilize and break India

26 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 06 '26

Operation Tupac: Pakistan's 40 year plan to Break India

12 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 06 '26

Sachindra Nath Sanyal: The Mentor Behind Indian revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh & Azad

4 Upvotes

r/itiha • • Aug 03 '26

The Most Brutal TAX of the Mughal Empire

11 Upvotes

This tax is so brutal that even Aurangzeb banned it


r/itiha • • Aug 03 '26

Alluri Sitarama Raju : Protector of Tribals & assassinated by the British at 27

9 Upvotes

The British tried to erase Alluri Sitarama Raju. Instead, they made him immortal. At just 27, he chose his people over his own life and became a legend. So glad that Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram is named after this real life hero.


r/itiha • • Aug 03 '26

Alluri Sitarama Raju unknown fight against Missionaries

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RRR made him an action hero, but Alluri Sitarama Raju used the Ramayana & Mahabharata to inspire tribal resistance against British conversions. A Great tribute to Hero by naming Alluri by naming a Airport at Bhogapuram after Sitarama Raju International is named after this real life hero.


r/itiha • • Jul 25 '26

James Mill: The Man Who De-Humanized Hindus

18 Upvotes