CH 1 TRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS

He crossed Kyber pass in December 1747 with 40000 troops to invade india. India was being ruled by Shah Alam- I at that time. Was this answer helpful?

People & authority not believed that Shivaji could come so far. But it was confirmed when Shivaji’s force arrived at Gandevi. Now people frightened & panicked as Surat was looted 4 times in past history. In 1664 Mughal administrator of Surat was Inayatkhan who was coward, corrupt & dishonest.

Background. As Shaista Khan, the Mughal governor, was in Deccan for more than three years fighting the Marathas, the financial condition of the Maratha Kingdom was dire.

Answer. Answer: The coronation ceremony was therefore conducted on 6 June 1674, in Fort Raigad amidst great pomp and splendour. The English envoy, Henry Oxinden, who witnessed the ceremony wrote,

chauth, in 17th- and 18th-century India, a levy of one-fourth of the revenue demand (or actual collection) of a district from which the Marathas claimed rights of passage or overlordship. The name was derived from the Sanskrit word meaning “a fourth.” Related Topics: India taxation 

It was an annual tax nominally levied at 25% on revenue or produce, hence the name. It was levied on the lands which were under nominal Mughal rule. The sardeshmukhi was an additional 10% levy on top of the chauth. It is a tribute paid to the king.

The khandaThe khanda (Punjabi: ਖੰਡਾ, khaṇḍā) is the symbol of the Sikh faith which attained its current form around the 1930s during the Ghadar Movement.

Amrit is made from sugar water stirred with a sword. It is blessed and sprinkled on the hair and eyes. Amrit can be taken by men, women or children – like Taran and Joven. It is taken in the presence of five Khalsa Sikhs, and the holy scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib.

Over the years, Sikhs for Justice has written public letters to the prime minister of Pakistan and the presidents of Russia and China, seeking their support against India and for the creation of an independent state of Khalistan in India’s Punjab state.

Jagjit Singh grew up in Tanda in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, about 180 km from Chandigarh. He was a dentist. Chohan was first elected to the Punjab Assembly from the Tanda as a candidate of the Republican Party of India in 1967.