INDIA: What are the "Seven Cities" of Delhi?

[@trl768]

Delhi has been through a lot from the ancient Vedic Mahabharata times to Mauryan Empire to Indo-Greek Invasions to Kushan Empire to Gupta Empire to Rajputs to Ghurid Empire to Delhi Sultanate to Timur Occupation to Mughals to Marathas to Sikhs to Afghanis to British Empire to Independence to Partition Settlements to Being the Modern Metropolitan it is today.

[@user-oq2rk7ep8f]

You pushed the random guy pretty hard 😂😂

[@sunilbose4661]

Thanks for the great video bro. I'm a history buff and read many books on Indian history. But your videos are the best, most accessible resources of them all.

[@sukritganguly6251]

Very interesting video - refreshed a knowledge long lost. Well done Kesler.

[@PranjalVermapranjalverma]

Love the way you connect geography with history.

[@arunprabu6570]

You are awesome man...with respect from Chennai, India...

[@Amuzic]

You are awesome!! The way you dig deep and cover everything requires a lot of research and studying. Hats off!!

[@abdeenn3]

You know so much about India, more than most of Indians themselves. Thank you!

[@takshashila2995]

I have literaly subscribed to just two channels on KZbin,one of them is yours.

[@rajashekharns1607]

Great information. Awaiting Ajantha and ellora episode by you

[@pratapsingham7010]

Very good...Short and apt History course and doing it on On-location is apt and adds authenticity..

[@abradolflincler726]

10:45 is an obvious plant.

[@mnharjotsingh]

Thanks again for another great video! I'm appreciative of the small pictures your are able to help paint in our heads about histories we hardly ever get to hear about here in the West. 👍

[@AlphaOne82]

Good work sir ! Much appreciate your effort... regards

[@gitanjalikarki4249]

nice to enlighten us prof...thx u.......making history come alive......grt effort......n hope u dont mind u look like my fav character in asterix....warmest regards from vadodara gujrat.......the city of banyan trees.....lots of history here too...hope u will cover this city n state too...!!!!

[@S_R_90x]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE your informative Videos.

[@elliottasbury4667]

Very cool rundown of the 7/11/12 cities. Thanks for the history lesson!

[@jdewaal5434]

awesome video! So interesting and informative. Such an unknown evolution of one of the great cities of the East.

[@marimuthumuthu1007]

Good information. Congratulations.

[@karamsingh1523]

Great video but would have loved to also hear about the Domination of the Mughal capital, Delhi, for nine months in 1783 by Sikh troops under Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and Baghel Singh. So little time but so much history!

[@TheNomadicProfessor]

Karam Singh: nor did I mention the Afghan invasions of the Sikhs' great enemy, Ahmad Shah Abdali. It's always tough deciding what stays in and what gets left out!

[@prabh-amrit]

@@TheNomadicProfessor it is amazing how much you know ... makes me learn more ... you wouldve been a scholar in those empires 😅

[@KAhmed]

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[@truetool]

The Marathas held Delhi under siege for a couple of years as well.

[@choudharynasar5524]

Not a dehli but real name is dillie.which is sub cost of gujjers not rajput . The word rajput was invented 1200 hundreds ad .

[@worldfacts944]

Great , from where u remember all those knowledge

[@rish_e4665]

Sorry to correct you. I am a delhite. What you show as Zafar khan's tomb is rather md. Bin tughluqs tomb. Zafar khans tomb is located elsewhere.

[@kuldeepkashyap5043]

Dear sir i am intrested in indian and world history,i want to join you.

[@masterphotog4131]

WOW! What an amazing education! Thank you!

[@MayurPanghaal]

And we were somehow told to believe that it was just a communal battle between hindus and muslims...and all for a reason.

[@MayurPanghaal]

@GK GURU you obviously didn't watch this episode 😂

[@anmolrulezzz]

Great stuff! Am I the only one wondering what happened after you met your fan at Purana Qila? :D

[@viveksingh-dp7hv]

thanks a lot for uploading this informative video .

[@allahkakafirbanda1939]

Syeds created city called khizrabad. Can add that also. Between 1911 and 1930, north delhi was the capital city. Presently delhi assembly is there.

[@thekuan7002]

thank you for this very entertaining and informative video

[@fitlit]

The strange thing is whoever invaded India became indian.

[@jumbalaka]

Except the British

[@fitlit]

Jagadeesh Haribabu There are plenty of british people who stayed back and were citizens of India.

[@ashuraikvar7320]

Jagadeesh Haribabu can add to that list.Except Afghans under Gauri ,Gazni and ahmadshah abdali, Iranians under Nadir shah,central Asians under Timur lung,and of course the British. In the nutshell Few who came with above mentioned exceptions stayed back.most left.That include the British too. It is not the result rather the question of intentions British including all those other exceptions had no intention of settling here.It was just a colony for British to be drained of its wealth for making their homeland more prosperous. For others it was land of too much wealth to be looted.

[@jass1794]

They are called anglo indians

[@Manish_Kumar_Singh]

nope, Muslims are not Indians

[@arvindreddy1623]

Thanks for all the information it was great

[@allahkakafirbanda1939]

New delhi was created on the land of the village called inderpatta. It is available on british drawings of the city. Indraprastha very much existed here.

[@AmitSharma-ek1py]

Did you study in Syracuse University??

[@KAhmed]

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[@kumikokitagawa7993]

He was a phd in Syracuse University:) I am his student now

[@reetakamath6418]

Madras Calcutta and Bombay we're names given by British as they couldn't pronounce their actual names where Mumbai is named from Mumbai Devi the presiding deity of Mumbai Kolkata also named from Kali so they just reverted to their original names to end mental slavery after the brutal colonial inhuman demons exited forcefully after cheating manipulating looting orchestrating famines with scorched Earth policy crashed the GDP and left 90% population in poverty after building railways for transporting millions of Indian wealth

[@shubhamdubey7349]

U deserve more subscribers prof

[@cliffordprakash3722]

Hell of a presentation

[@milliriba]

Umm. It's Mohammad BIN Tughluq. IBN might be spelling mistake 😁

[@MayurPanghaal]

next time i go to delhi i will see these sites. thanks.

[@Striker-277]

Fantastic.. thank you

[@muhammedsahal8406]

2:14 there is no evidence connecting king Dhillu with Mauryan empire, though they were coterminous 13:50 "(Subuktgin) turned his attention to the Hindu Shahis. The latter ruled the territory from Lamghan to the river Chenab and from the hills of southem Kashmir to the frontier kingdom of Multan. Their capital was Waihind or Hund. In 986-7 their king, Jayapala, in retaliation for an earlier incursion by Subuktigin into his territory, marched upon Ghazni, but was defeated by Subukti- gin. Jayapala made peace, promising to pay a huge indemnity, but later he repudiated his word. Then, joined by a number of other Hindu rajas, he again marched on Ghazni, but was once more badly defeated between Lamghan and Peshawar"(p.12,The Wonder that was India Part II, SAA Rizvi) ......"Mahmud is, however, more famous for his Indian conquests, which commenced in September 1000, when he captured some forts near Lamghan. His earlier invasions of the territory of the Hindu Shahis and their supporters, as well as that of the lsma'ilis of Multan, were designed to clear·a way into the rich Gangetic plains. In 1001 he fought a fierce battle against Jayapala near Peshawar and defeated him. Returning to the Panjab, Jayapala died and was succeeded by his son, Anandapala' (p.13Ibid). Infact, there was a Tomara king in the name of Jayapala, based in Delhi who was contemporary to these developments. In truth, he has nothing do with those incursion. It's during the Ghurid period Delhi becomes the centre of attraction, after the demise of Pritviraj Chahaman

[@napoleonbonapartelempereur9502]

Great Documentary...

[@chrisredfield8520]

The professor you look like Rukn Aldin Baibers with your mustache. Are you from the Turkic Kipchak tribe.

[@AST4EVER]

Yeah It was Tomar Dynasty 02:43 ....

[@nityathedoremon7128]

Before siri, mehrauli by mamluk..... Anyways it was hlpful

[@stechbucket4782]

Very informative channel. Although the first video I watched is about central Asian Mughals and I thought you were telling about your own country, I mean it seemed you are central Asian.

[@jeetdas6048]

good job

[@brijmohanbhati317]

Earlier Tomars were Gurjars and not Rajputs and till date they are called Tanwars , half of them Gurjars and the other half Rajputs who are essentially the same people but Gurjars being an older clan of Kshatriyas .

[@jauzihalwa]

Delhi comes from the word Dehleez, not Dhillu. Even in many older Urdu texts, the city is called "Dehli", which was later corrupted to "Dilli". (Also, the English spelling comes from this archaic pronunciation.)

[@ayandas874]

Both are common theories.

[@Vivek-yh1ns]

never knew thanks

[@SojomRegi]

History ❤️

[@the_number_one]

I get sensory overload in Italy as well

[@prakashman1]

thanks

[@perumandlashivakrishna1838]

it's true

[@k.s.sblahblah5002]

nice

[@shahzaman3823]

Have you done Research on AFGHAN / PUKHTUN /BATTAN Tribe.

[@ScottJB]

Boy out here gettin RECOGNIZED 10:37

[@asifali7257]

Dear Nomadic professor..your videos are full information and surprises (information that we aren't aware of).. wonderful job I am eagerly waiting for your video on Bassein A Portuguese fort.. Vasai pincode 401201 ,Maharashtra,India

[@sleeper7271]

Dude that intro is TOO LOUD. IT IS HURTING YOUR CHANNELL

[@cambowildanimals6588]

So beautiful

[@337akshay]

Nice video... but that random guy who came in the middle was soooo staged😅😅😅

[@raghvendrasingh9984]

Proud to be a Chauhan btw never seen such an explanation before regarding delhi. Past month i had also visited delhi and most importantly its architecture is exceptional.

[@ruturajjadeja5609]

generally good videos.... but this was one cheap advertising tactic...." Dude, I am following you"!! 😂😂😂 fewer random indians would recognise this guy, than he would like people to believe !!!

[@jacobscrackers98]

Probably. How come he knew his name though? He must watch his videos even if he's not following him.

[@kunalbadade7815]

1:51 It is not renaming Cities it is restoring original name Mumbai was original name Colonial Britisher called It Bombay So why should we continue Legacy of cruel Foregin colonial powers same for chennai and kolkata but delhi is original name ofcourse

[@DavidGS66]

I wonder what motivated the sepoys to fight for the British. Not much material on the web other than the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, which is so misleading because the sepoys built British India; they never destroyed it.

[@dafeels3085]

there was no national sentiment of being "Indian" and the British offered employment for their services.

[@hammadthegreat]

its sad how these monuments are not being restored and left abandoned which can generate loads of revenue and image for dehli and india. i think the psyche of indian rulers there hindu vs muslim bias is plaguing indian monuments.

[@sunswadesh]

Most of these monuments are in fact in great condition and are protected. The archaeological society doesn't recommend rebuilding these monuments as then they are no more heritage structures. The red fort is incredibly well preserved and the national flag is hoisted from there during the independence day.

[@pviveknair]

hammad shakil. India is littered with historically important sites and monuments. If all of it is restored and left as is, nothing new can be built.

[@snskumar6966]

Always victims poor

[@S_R_90x]

It's the same way that Pakistan has similar mental psyche which obstructs them from fully acknowledging the Hindu past of many places within Pakistan. We all have to deal with it somehow.

[@deepblue3682]

Mohammad Tausif ,Multan sun temple,katas raj temple...to name a few..

[@joemontana8290]

11 herbs and spices of Delhi.

[@orobleh77]

It is sad that MODI government and Hindu nationalists are trying to dismiss or eradicate this rich history of India and the contribution of Moghuls to Indian history.

[@ShivanshThakur-sh8ub]

Womp womp, their contribution is only looting and seeing indians as inferior...

[@truetool]

Delhi is derived from the Hindustani word 'dehleez', i.e. the entry point or the threshold. In the old days, after crossing the five rivers of the Punjab, travellers/invaders would find some respite in Delhi and recommence their conquest/travels from that area. That is why in the old British records, you would see Delhi spelt not as D-E-L-H-I but as D-E-H-L-I.

[@tkbagga]

Dehliz is Persian word or shall I call it Farsi

[@allahkakafirbanda1939]

Delhi is previously refefrred as dhillika, which has nothing to do with dehleez.

[@vipulzz6723]

Please make videos on mughals about their whole life in india

[@One10Miles]

Great Stuff Brother. Please try to make contact with me!

[@bayonetofindia2034]

U should have added how British destroyed old Delhi and red fort ..

[@boejiden1524]

ANCIENT NAME OF DELHI INDRAPRASTHA

[@akashsangwan4297]

U know more than 99.5 % indians

[@swastikaryanakagansgsta]

Dhillu,Dilli,Delhi

[@farajaraf]

I just don't understand why some Indians don't except all of Indian history. Sure some people were outsiders but so we're the British and no one denies their impact as important to Indian history. Sucks that Indian Subcontinent split up, removed major parts of it's integral society.

[@tyrannosaurus3774]

Oye! Oye! Oyeee..!

[@firstone7857]

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT INDRAPRAST NEVER EXISTED. BEFORE ANY KIND OF ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

[@AbhijitZimare1]

Because it is fiction

[@ayandas874]

You need to prove a positive. So the burden of proof lies on the claimant.

[@pacifront83]

7-11 cities. 😂

[@Suhaibiq]

Amazong

[@AST4EVER]

No one has ever conquered Delhi, since the beginning of Kalyug, no one has....

[@charlesbronson21]

lol.. did you even listen to the video?

[@sadenb]

Who the hell are you to call our tradition as myth ? Dr. BB Lal , the former director of ASI has found paitned greyware pottery dating back to 1200 to 900 BC in Delhi within the Purana Quilla

[@ajidantonio2872]

Thanks for ur information... But I am sorry to tell u it is one of horrible City I visited in my life

[@julianassange5013]

"Impressive Delhi Ruins" bet you never have been to the forts of Maharashtra.

[@firstone7857]

NOT EVERY THING IS MYTH.