Which Hindu ruler defeated Mughals?

Hemu claimed royal status after defeating Akbar's Mughal forces on 7 October 1556 in the Battle of Delhi and assumed the title of Vikramaditya that had been adopted by many Indian kings in the past.
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Who fought against Mughals in India?

After the death of Aurangzeb, Marathas defeated the Mughals in Delhi and Bhopal, and extended their empire up to Peshawar by 1758.
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Who was the strongest Hindu ruler?

One of the greatest emperors of India, Ashoka expanded the Maurya dynasty and ruled over a kingdom that stretched from today's Afghanistan in the west to present-day Bangladesh in the east. The reign also covered the entire India, excluding the parts of today's Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
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Who defeated the last Hindu king?

Statement 1: Prithiviraj Chauhan was the last Hindu king of Delhi. Statement 2: He was defeated by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.
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Who was the last great Hindu king?

Harshavardhana, the last great Hindu King of Northern India ruled in the .
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Who saved India from Mughals?

Maratha Empire

The single most important power to emerge in the Mughal dynasty was the Maratha Confederacy (1674–1818). The Marathas are responsible, to a large extent for ending Mughal rule in India. The Maratha Empire ruled large parts of India following the decline of the Mughals.
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Who saved Hinduism in India?

The king who saved Hinduism - Sambhaji Maharaj Samadhi.
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Which king never lost any battle?

Narasimhavarman I is claimed to be one of the Indian kings who never lost on the battlefield to their enemies.
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Who was the weakest king in history?

  • Pope John XII (954–964)
  • King John (1199–1216)
  • King Richard II (1377–99)
  • Ivan IV 'the Terrible' (1547–84)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–67)
  • Emperor Rudolf II (1576–1612)
  • Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar (1828–61)
  • King Leopold II of Belgium (1865–1909)
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Who is the bravest king in history?

The Mughal historian Al-Badayuni called Sanga the bravest of all Rajputs along with Prithviraj Chauhan. Rana Sanga was the last independent Hindu king of Northern India to control a significant territory before the Mughal Era.
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Who is the bravest King of All time?

Alexander the Great

Inspiring bravery and loyalty in his troops, he adopted many foreign customs and traditions in order to rule his millions of subjects. Alexander was aged only 32 when he died of a fever in Babylon in June 323 BC.
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Did Islam come from Hinduism?

Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion, founded by Prophet Muhammad in the Middle East in the 7th century CE. Hinduism on the other hand is religious tradition that originated in the Indian subcontinent in the pre-classical era (1500–500 BCE) and does not have a specific founder.
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Who brought Islam to India?

Islam arrived in the inland of Indian subcontinent in the 7th century when the Arabs conquered Sindh and later arrived in Punjab and North India in the 12th century via the Ghaznavids and Ghurids conquest and has since become a part of India's religious and cultural heritage.
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Who brought Hinduism to the US?

One of the first major discussions of Hinduism in the United States was Swami Vivekananda's address to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. He spent two years in the United States, and lectured in several cities including Detroit, Boston, and New York.
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Who was the undefeated king of India?

Lalitaditya Muktapida was the ever-undefeated King of Kashmir of the Karkota dynasty. Chinese, Turkish and Tibetan legends referred to him as a great conqueror. Lalitaditya was the first Indian king who gave a befitting reply to the Arabs and one of the few Indian kings who was able to conquer Central Asia.
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Why did many Indians convert to Islam?

In many villages in southern India, Hindu untouchables have begun staging large-scale conversions to Islam to escape what their leaders say is oppression by higher castes.
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Who brought Christianity to India?

One of the twelve followers of Jesus, St Thomas travelled to India and brought Christianity to this land.
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What is the world's first religion?

Adherents hold that Hinduism—one of the principal faiths in the modern world, with about one billion followers—is the world's oldest religion, with complete scriptural texts dating back 3,000 years.
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What is world's oldest religion?

The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
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What was Pakistan's religion before Islam?

Before the arrival of Islam beginning in the 8th century, the region comprising Pakistan was home to a diverse plethora of faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.
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Who is the kindest king in India?

Widely believed to be one of the kindest, strongest rulers of India Emperor Ashoka has a fascinating life history.
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Who is the richest Indian king in history?

Well, the royalty and legacy of the richest man in the history of India date back to many decades, rather over a century. Looking back at our history, Mir Osman Ali Khan is the richest man in Indian history with an adjusted net worth because of inflation. He is the 7th Nizam and the last Nawab of the Hyderabad state.
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What was India's greatest empire?

The Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE) unified most of the Indian subcontinent into one state, and was the largest empire ever to exist on the Indian subcontinent. At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam.
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