Monday, May 9, 2011

Devgiri:a journey into medieval India








Deep down in the history, 700 years back ' DEVGIRI' a semi mountainous place in central India became the capital of India and

by Ashok Gupta on Monday, 09 May 2011 at 15:56

To all those who are interested in callings of the ruins and dives deep down in history, this is a narration of 700 years back in medieval India events and narrations collected woven around a young Hindu princes DEVAL ho was married to the king designate prince KHIZR KHAN eldest son of Sultan Allauddin Khalji. An eye and effort to live in that time to know the people and their times. By the story of DEVGIRI the story and history of India is also told because first time after ancient times after Great King Ashoka someone tried to consolidated widely scattered and vivid and varied India by his personal ambition Allauddin tried to conquer whole of India, in his assumption he he thought of King of the world, but a girl called DEVAL Hindu princes of Gujrat kingdom of Anhilwara came into the whirlwind of autocratic unruly medieval times, her life, the subject of this novel reflects and through her eyes the story of indecisive times of India is told.

When we talk of ruins and old times standards and research and academics comes into the fray, but this writer has the foot the travel the wander and to live that time aloof from modern humbug, readers will enjoy freshness away from the bias and hypocrisy of the biased scholars who many want to twist the history as it looks unpleasant to them. Innocent and common people are driven into the whirlwind of times all the times.

This was the time 'religion' appeared on the scene, there was a calling for it, side by side a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam also took place. This time was juncture.

Many a Hindu kingdoms like'Warangal' 'Dwarsamudra' and Pandyan 'Madura' were also consolidated. In the attached album photographs of ruins of forts of DEVGIRI and ANHILWARA are also presented