Historia Maxima - Snippets of History

Mohammad bin Tughlaq was a Mamluk sultan (king) of India during the Delhi Sultanate period. Most people don't know what an epic fail he was. Medieval Indian history is quite cool, filled heroes and losers - all of them fun to know about. Check it out in this history documentary.

The stories about Mahmud Shah Begarha talk more about his s*men, which was apparently poisonous, than about anything else he may have achieved in his lifetime in medieval India. But when history tells us something, maybe it's time to stop and think for ourselves. Especially medieval Indian history and especially so when we hear stories of a sultan who was poisonous.

The Kohinoor diamond is not the biggest diamond in the world. But it is certainly the most controversial. To whom does the Kohinoor belong -- India or Britain? Or someone else entirely? Let's look at the history and the journey of the Kohinoor diamond as it passed between the hands of one ruler to the next in blood-soaked battles and finally ended up leaving India and in the British Crown.

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