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Spectrum Chart - 461 : Kings of India 1
1. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj -
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is the founder of Maratha dynasty and a
warrior king of the Maratha. In 1674, he was formally crowned as the
Chhatrapati (Monarch) of his realm at Raigad. Shivaji Maharaj
established a competent and progressive civil rule with the help of a
disciplined military and well-structured administrative
organisations. He innovated military tactics, pioneering the
guerrilla warfare methods.
2. Cheran Chenguttuvan - Cheran
Chenguttuvan was a famous early Chera king who lived during
Silappadhikram period.
3. Rani Laxmibai - Laxmibai, the Rani of
Jhansi, was born as Manikarnika was the queen of the Maratha ruled
Jhansi State. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian
Rebellion of 1857 and became for Indian nationalists a symbol of
resistance to the British Raj.
4. Prithviraj Chauhan - Prithviraj Chauhan
was a Rajput king of the Chauhan dynasty, who ruled the kingdoms of
Ajmer and Delhi in northern India during the latter half of the 12th
century. Prithviraj Chauhan was the last independent Hindu king,
before Hemu, to sit upon the throne of Delhi. Chauhan defeated
Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain in 1191.
Ghauri attacked for a second time the following year, whereupon
Chauhan was defeated, captured at the Second Battle of Tarain (1192)
and executed.
5. Ashoka the Great – Ashoka was an
Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the
Indian subcontinent from 268 BCE to 232 BCE. One of India's
greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from
the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the modern state of
Bangladesh in the east. In 260 BCE, he conquered Kalinga, which none
of his ancestors had done. He embraced Buddhism after witnessing the
mass deaths of the Kalinga War.
6. Chandragupta Maurya - Chandragupta
Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire and the first emperor to
unify most of Greater India into one state. He ruled from 324 BCE
until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favour of his son,
Bindusara, in 297 BCE. Chandragupta's India was characterised by an
efficient and highly organised bureaucratic structure with a large
civil service. Due to its unified structure, the empire developed a
strong economy, with internal and external trade thriving and
agriculture flourishing.
7. Maharana Pratap - Maharana Pratap, was
a ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day
state of Rajasthan.
8. Katta Bomman - Veerapandiya Kattabomman
was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi
in Tamil Nadu, India who waged a war against the British East India
Company. Kattabomman refused to accept the sovereignty of British
East India Company, and fought against them. He was captured by the
British and hanged in 1799 CE.
9. Raja Vikramaditya - Raja Vikramaditya
was a legendary emperor from ancient India. He is characterised as
the ideal king, known for his generosity, courage and patronage of
scholars. There are hundreds of legends about Vikramaditya, including
the ones in Baital Pachisi and Singhasan Battisi. Most of the legends
present him as a universal ruler with his capital at Ujjain.
10. Krishnadevaraya – Krishnadevaraya was
the greatest emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire who reigned from
1509–1530. He is the third ruler of the Tuluva Dynasty. Presiding
over the empire at its zenith, he is regarded as an icon by many
Indians. He was the most powerful of all the Hindu rulers of India at
his time. Krishnadevaraya was rated the most powerful and had the
most extensive empire in the subcontinent.
11. Raja Raja Cholan - Raja Raja Chola was
a renowned king who ruled over the Chola kingdom of southern India
between 985 and 1014 CE. During his reign, the Cholas expanded beyond
South India with their domains stretching from Sri Lanka in the south
to Kalinga in the north. Raja Raja built the Brihadeeswarar Temple in
Thanjavur, one of the largest Hindu temples.
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