Description
The book reveals the heard of cultural and spiritual heritage of Haryana: the history of its existence to prehistoric times and its role in the subsequent stages of the visual civilization, Indus valley civilization and the vedic civilization of the Aryans that flourished around Haryana sacred river Saraswati Haryana is protected as the place pf Mahabharata, Purans and Smritis etc. worth reacting.
Chapter
2. A Flashback to Haryana’s Past
3. Further on Haryana’s History : Its Saga of Rebellion and Resistance : the 1857 Struggle for Independence First Started Here : Haryana’s Rich Spiritual and Cultural Heritage
4. Getting into My Stride
5. In the Holy Land of Kuru
6. Governor or Jack of All Trades?
7. Governor As Patron of Ngo’s: on Panipat, Rohtak, Pehowa and Other Places
8. Visits to Simla, Ambala and Baba Ka Ladhana: Sher Shah, A Haryanvi? The Battles of Panipat: Himu, the Emperor of Delhi and Hero of Panipat
9. Teej, the Joyous Festival of Home-coming: Bhiwani’s Links With Harappan Civilisation: Hissar, the Town of Emperor Feroze Shah Tughlak: the Emperor’s Romance With A Peasant Girl: Sher Shah Suri Born At Hissar? 1857 Uprising: Heroic Roles of Hissar and Hansi: Agroha: the Original Home of the Aggarwals
10. Sirsa Where Prithviraj was Captured by Mohd. Ghori: Akbar at Kurukshetra During A Solar Eclipse: I Swim Across Sannihit Tank on A Solar Eclipse: Jyotisar Where Krishna Revealed the Gita: the Ancient Temples of Bhadrakali and Katyayani
11. Thanesar, the Place of Lord Shiva, Harsha-vardhana and Sufi Saints, Sheikh Chilli and Qutb Jalaluddin
12. Rewari and Rao Tula Ram: Haryana’s World Class Cricketers: Annual Governors’ Conference in Delhi: Prime Minister Helps Flood-afected Haryana, Punjab: Ch. Devi Lal’s Pre-election Political Moves: Gurgaon, the Village of the Guru: The Revolutioaries of Mewat
13. Kunti, Karna and Karnal: Karva Chauth, Dhan Teras and Diwali: Sonepat or Swarnprasth of Mahabharata: SOS Village, Faridabad: Surdas, Blind Poet of Sihi
14. Haryana’s Torch-bearers of Vedanta: Gaudapada, Teacher of Adi Shankaracharya’s Teacher: Totapuri, Baba of Ladhana, Guru of Sri Ramakrishna
15. I Take to Golf: 1857 Uprising: Raja Nahar Singh’s Double Game: the Surajkund Crafts Mela: Plight of Bonded Labourers: Relics of Indus Valley Civilisation Unearthed in Haryana: Vedic Civilisation Pre-Harappan? Aryan Invasion of India A Myth? Aryan Roots of the Persians: Vedic Mathematics: Excavations at Rakhigarhi and Other Harappan Sites in Haryana: Indus Valley or Saraswati Valley Civilisation? Was Lord Rama Born at Banwali in Haryana?
16. Seminar on the Gita: A Preceptor Blesses his Pupil: Cricket Match between Punjab and Haryana: 40th Anniversary of our Independence: Hindu Scriptures and Qoran–Similarity of their Spiritual Concepts: Yamunanagar, Sugh, Kalesar, Bilaspur, Kapal Mochan: Tajewala and Firoz Shah’s West Yamuna Canal: Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai: Generals as Vice-chancellors of Universities: Teej Again: Kaithal and the Pandavas: Kalayat and Sage Kapil
17. In Gujarat, the Land of Pilgrimages
18. A New Political Dispensation
19. Haryana on the Road to All-round Progress
A Governor's Tryst With Haryana
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