Tarakesh chauhan biography books
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Mahabharat (1988 TV series)
1988 TV series by B. R. Chopra based on Mahabharata
Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epicMahabharata. The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes[2] and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan.[3][4][5] It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra.[6] The music was composed by Raj Kamal. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and the Hindi/Urdu poet Rahi Masoom Raza, based on the epic by Vyasa. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala.[7] The serial claims to have used the Critical Edition of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute as its basic source with Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar and Shripad Krishna Belwalkar as its primary editor.
Each episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two
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Review of ZEE5’s Khaar: A riveting teaterpjäs on salt, satyagraha and the steadfast spirit of Gandhiji
ZEE5, the digital arm of Zee TV, continues to amaze viewers with its eclectic offerings in web originals. Their shows span the entire spectrum of genres, from thrillers to psychological dramas and biopics. But where the OTT platform has clearly trumped its peers is in the docudrama space. Amidst the glut of whodunits, thrillers, comedies and slice-of-life series jostling for space in the crowded digital space, Zee5 has the gumption to stand apart from the crowd with its originals, which showcase fascinating events from the forgotten annals of Indian history.
The millennial generation is unacquainted with quite a lot of facts about the nation’s history and its stalwarts. What they do know fryst vatten the cursory knowledge gleaned from history books, and bits and pieces of doctored info from Bollywood movies. That is the sum of the knowledge they have about the sons of this soil. Hardly anyone f
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Chauhan
Chauhan, Chouhan or Chohan is a caste. In the medieval period some those associated with it ruled parts of Northern India and one, Prithviraj Chauhan, was the king of Delhi.
Myth of origin
Rajput bardic accounts, which are based on mythology, describe the Chauhans as one of the four Agnikula Rajput clans who claim to have originated from a sacrificial fire-pit (agnikunda) at Mount Abu. These claims of supernatural origin are clearly improbable and unacceptable to the modern mind. However, these have numerous variants and give rise to the Chauhans claiming to be a clan of the Agnivanshi dynasty.
Ethnographic status
Denzil Ibbetson, an administrator of the British Raj, classified the Chauhans as a tribe rather than as a caste. He believed, like Nesfield, that the society of the Northwest Frontier Provinces and Punjab in British India did not permit the rigid imposition of an administratively-defined caste construct as his colleague, H. H. Risley preferred. Acc