History Passion

  Anangpur About 10 years back I was searching for a site in Faridabad to set up a school. While doing so I chanced to come upon a village called Anangpur . It is on the outskirts of Delhi in Faridabad. Having known that King Anangpal Tomar had a hand in setting up and reviving Delhi in the 8th Century AD, I realized this village named after him could be the original site of the resettlement of Delhi/ Indraprastha in the 8th century. The area including the nearby Suraj Kund shows the presence of Tomar Kings.  There is an old dam in a dilapidated state nearby which was built by Anangpal. ( attaching some pics obtained from the net of it).  This site should be preserved as a World Heritage site by Indian Government as it is the seed place for Delhi as we know it now. Anangpal Tomar II is said to have uprooted an iron pillar ( Killi ) and then tried to unsuccessfully replant it but it remained loose ( Dhilli ) and one version says the name Dhillika/ Dhilli/ Dilli is what gave Delhi its

I am an MBA and an Engineer by qualification.  But I have always been fascinated by history. I have a huge collection of books on history. The history of Delhi has always fascinated me as it is my city of birth and one I grew up in. So I decided to write a book on Delhi called "Battles for Delhi... Dilli kareeb ast".  The book contains a history of Delhi from 1192 AD to 1857 AD. It covers 13 crucial battles that decided the fate of India over almost 700 years starting with the Battles of Tarain fought between Prithviraj Chauhan and Mohammed Ghori to the 1857 War of Independence India fought against the British. The book has eighteen chapters and analyses why inner fighting and lack of unity at critical times cot India dearly. You can buy the book at: Battles for Delhi

  Kashmiri Gate was the site of a bloody battle in the 1857 Indian War of Independence. The Indians captured Delhi from the British in May 1857 and Delhi was the stronghold of the War for Independence. The British besieged the city and finally managed to capture it in September 1857. It was a bloody battle lasting almost a week where it took the British savage hand to hand fighting with Indians to move a distance of slightly over a kilometer to the Red Fort. The site from where they broke into Delhi was this Kashmiri Gate