by Spectrum | Mar 15, 2021 | History and Cultural Heritage
Patharughat is a small village in the Darrang district of Assam, north-east of Guwahati is often called as ‘Patharighat’ or ‘Potharughat’. In January 1894, the British Army in Patharughat, massacred more than a hundred unarmed farmers for...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 14, 2020 | History and Cultural Heritage
The Hindu published a serialised review of a book Who We Are and How We Got Here (2018) by David Reich, a scholar of genetics and Professor at the School of Medicine at Harvard University. It consists a range of facts and ideas and has serious implications for the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2020 | History and Cultural Heritage
Keezhadi or Keeladi is a place in Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu. During an excavation by archaeological residues were found the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Keeladi in 2013-14, in the excavation site located 12 km southeast of Madurai in Tamil Nadu. The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2020 | History and Cultural Heritage
Baolis or step wells played an important part in the medieval period (between the 6th century and the 18th century) in many cities of India for ensuring water supply to the population. Badashapur baoli, in Badshahpur in Gurugram, Haryana is one such baoli, which was...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2020 | History and Cultural Heritage
In September 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer, sailed from Spain to find a western passage to the Indies. The Portuguese king did not support him and so he took the support from King Charles I of Spain. He planned his expedition to reach the Moluccas...
by Spectrum | Sep 4, 2019 | History and Cultural Heritage
A research conducted on a chunk of rock containing massive teeth has brought some interesting findings to light. Kept in a museum in Nairobi, Kenya, the teeth evoked interest in 2010 because of their huge size. According to the research by Nancy Stevens, an...
