The Map is the EU map with fewer villages and starting points. They eventually free the incumbent Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah who can insurrect more citizens and troops against the Company and the resistance thus completely seizes the city.Each Parish has an AI (Rat, Snake, Pig, Wolf) as a "steward" and is controlled by that AI until the players oust them. The resistance sneak into the city and spark an uprising against the British India Company by sabotaging weapon caches to cause stampedes of elephants tethered nearby and by freeing imprisoned rebel Sepoys and other Indian troops. Raid in Delhi - The city of Delhi becomes the battle arena in this scenario.The Battle of Panipat - While the scenario does not include the city of Delhi, it is based on the battle which took place between the Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate in the eponymous village of Panipat for control of the city, which is situated right nearby.Death and fire mingled in a putrid stench that enveloped Delhi for weeks." Nonetheless, as the scenario outro describes, the Timurids "reduced the jewel of Northern India to a charnel house. Sultan of Hindustan - The main enemies are Shah Tughlug's army and Delhi Garrison of the Delhi Sultanate, whereas the city of Delhi itself is passive and portrays the civilians.Prithviraj must elope with his paramour Princess Sanyogita, who is also his rival Jayachandra's daughter, from Kannauj and reach Lal Kot's safety. Hand of a Princess - The fort of Lal Kot, which is located in Delhi, is hailed as the local stronghold of Prithviraj, and so is the only instance of being portrayed by any civilization other than Hindustanis, here being Gurjaras.New Delhi was officially declared as the capital of the Union of India after the country gained independence on 15 August 1947.ĭelhi appears or is a major plot point in the following scenarios and is mentioned in cutscenes of others: The name "New Delhi" was given in 1927, and the new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931. On 12 December 1911, it was made the capital of British-held territories in India. The city came under the direct control of the British Government in 1858, after the rebellion of 1857. In 1803, the forces of British East India Company defeated the Maratha forces in the Battle of Delhi. The Mughal dynasty ruled Delhi for more than three centuries well into the early-modern period. In 1526, Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, invaded India and defeated the last Lodi Sultan, Ibrahim Lodi, in the First Battle of Panipat and founded the Mughal Empire. Nearly a century later, Delhi was captured and sacked by Timur ( Tamerlane) in 1398, who massacred a hundred thousand captive civilians. Under the second Khalji ruler, Sultan Ala-ud-din Khalji, the Delhi sultanate extended its control south of the Narmada River in the Deccan, and defeated the Mongols of the Chagatai Khanate at various battles including the Battle of Kili in 1299 and in the siege of Delhi in 1303. The Mamluk Sultanate (Delhi) was overthrown in 1290 by Jalal-ud-din Firuz Khalji (1290–1320). Delhi was a major centre of Sufism during this period. They built several forts and townships that are part of the seven cities of Delhi. He began construction of the Qutb Minar (Tower of Qutb), and Quwwat-al-Islam (Might of Islam) mosque in Delhi, the earliest extant mosque in India.įor the next three hundred years, Delhi was ruled by a succession of Turkic and Afghan dynasties. Like many of history's conquerors, the Delhi sultans deemed it infinitely more prudent to perpetuate the existing systems in their new empire than to attempt to tear them down and impose their own. Upon Ghori's death, his Mamluk General Qutb-ud-din Aibak assumed control of Ghori's Indian possessions, and laid the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mamluk dynasty of India, which essentially consisted of a Muslim warrior-elite ruling over a culturally and socially majority Indian population. Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated in 1192 by Muhammad Ghori in the second of the Battles of Tarain. The earliest architectural relics of Delhi date back to the Mauryan period in 1966, an inscription of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka (273–235 BC) was discovered near Srinivaspuri in southern Delhi. 400 BC to 200 AD but describing an earlier time) which situates a city on a knoll on the banks of the river Yamuna. the earliest, Indraprastha, is part of a literary description in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata (composed c. ![]() Traditionally seven cities have been associated with the region of Delhi.
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