When Shah Jahan, then known as Khurram, rebelled against his father King Jahangir and won, the spoils of his victory included a retinue of 500 elephants. While an impressive number, it paled in comparison to what his grandfather, Akbar the Great, commanded. According to Jahangir's biography, Tuzuk-i Jahangiri, the third Mughal emperor Akbar had 35,000 elephants.
The day remains etched, in broad brush strokes, in Bangladesh’s history. Jan 20, 1969 was a defining moment in Bangladesh’s history, for on that day the nation took a resolute step toward shaping a new destiny for itself. Asaduzzaman, a student of the Department of History of Dhaka University, president of the DU unit and. Read more »