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Mujpur
Mujpur, also spelled Munjpur is a village in Sankheshwar Taluka of Patan district in Gujarat, India. Place of interest There is a mosque with a Persian writings in the name of Zafar Khan (1391-1411), son of Wajih-ul-mulk, the founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat Sultanate. In 1816 it suffered a heavy loss, the great plague having carried off about one-half of its people. In 1820 Munjpur had insignificant fortifications. Notable people * Chimanlal Trivedi, Gujarati writer References {{coord missing, Gujarat Villages in Patan district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chimanlal Trivedi
Chimanlal Shivshankar Trivedi (2 June 1929 – 30 January 2015) was a Gujarati critic and editor from Gujarat, India. Life Chimanlal Trivedi was born on 2 June 1929 at Mujpur village (now in Patan district, Gujarat, India). He completed BA in 1950, MA in 1952 and PhD in 1961. He taught Gujarati at various colleges since 1951 including St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad. He died on 30 January 2015. Works ''Pingal Darshan'' (1953) is an introductory work on metres. ''Urmikavya'' (1966) is a work on lyrical poetry, its form, development and types. His Ph.D. thesis ''Kavi Nakar - Ek Adhyayan'' (1966) is a study of medieval Gujarati poet Nakar and his published and unpublished works. The followups to this work are included in ''Nakar'' (1979) of ''Gujarati Granthkar'' series as well as in ''Gujarati Sahityano Itihas - Volume 2''. ''Chosathnu Granthasth Vagmay'' (1972) is criticism of works of various genres. ''Bhavlok'' (1976) and ''Bhavmudra'' (1983) discuss poetry and works of well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south, Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language, Gujarati, is the state's official language. The state encompasses 23 sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation (more than any other state). The most important sites are Lothal (the world's first dry dock), Dholavira (the fifth largest site), and Gola Dhoro (where 5 uncommon seals were found). Lothal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzaffar Shah I
Muzaffar Shah I, born Zafar Khan, was the founder of the Muzaffarid dynasty who reigned over the Gujarat Sultanate from 1391 to 1403 and later again from 1404 to 1411. Originally from Punjab, he was appointed as the governor of Gujarat by Tughluq of Delhi sultanate and declared independence of Gujarat Sultanate while there was chaos in Delhi following Timur's invasion. He was disposed by his ambitious son Tatar Khan but he regained shortly the throne when he died. Muzaffar Shah I was a Tank. Ancestors Zafar Khan's father was Wajīh-al-Mulk, a noble in the court of the Sultan of Delhi, Firuz Shah Tughlaq. Wajīh-al-Mulk was born Sāhāran, and was a member of the Tānk clan, who ruled a village near Thanesar. The dynasty was founded by Sultan Zafar Khan Muzaffar, who is either identified as a Khatri from Southern Punjab by some scholars on the basis of primary sources such as the ''Mirati Sikandari'' that list his genealogy and call him a Tank Khatri or as a Tanka Rajput by ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzaffarids (Gujarat)
The Muzaffarid dynasty, sometimes referred as Ahmedabad dynasty, were Sultans of Gujarat in western India from 1391 to 1583. The founder of the dynasty was Zafar Khan (later Muzaffar Shah I) who was governor of Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate. Zafar Khan's father Sadharan, has been variously described as a Tank Rajput or a Khatri convert from Hinduism to Islam from southern Punjab. He adopted the name Wajih-ul-Mulk. Originally from southern Punjab, his Hindu forebearers claimed descend from Rāmachandra, who the Hindus worshipped as God. Such genealogies were fabricated to glorify royalty and were generally not accepted. When the Sultanate was weakened by the sacking of Delhi by Timur in 1398, and Zafar Khan took the opportunity to establish himself as sultan of an independent Gujarat. His son, Ahmed Shah I established the capital at Ahmedabad. The dynasty ruled for almost 200 years, until the conquest of Gujarat by the Mughal Empire in 1572. The sultanate reached its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarat Sultanate
The Gujarat Sultanate (or the Sultanate of Guzerat), was a Medieval Indian kingdom established in the early 15th century in Western India, primarily in the present-day state of Gujarat, India. The dynasty was founded by Sultan Zafar Khan Muzaffar, whose ancestors were Tāṅks from southern Punjab. He rose to the nobility after marriage of his sister with Firuz Shah Tughlaq, the Delhi Sultan, and would become the Governor ( Naib) of Gujarat under the Delhi Sultanate. Zafar Khan defeated Farhat-ul-Mulk near Anhilwada Patan and made the city his capital. Following Timur's invasion of the Delhi Sultanate, the city was devastated and weakened considerably, so he declared himself independent from Delhi in 1407, and formally established the Sultanate of Guzerat. The next sultan, his grandson Ahmad Shah I moved the capital to Ahmedabad in 1411. His successor Muhammad Shah II subdued most Rajput chieftains. The prosperity of the sultanate reached its zenith during the rule of Mahmud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
