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The Wars of the Empire (1400-present day Parbhani)

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Kemerovo:
The Conquest of Thaska (1776-1791)

In 1776  Maharajadhiraja Kailash II faced problems as a smallpox epidemic hit the Empire. With Thaska being the Kingdom from which the pox entered Parbhani the  Maharajadhiraja informed the Priesthood to spread stories of it being sent by Thaska to weaken the Empire. Kailash II was eager to be known as a great military leader and soon people began to believe that revenge against Thaska was necessary. He launched an invasion in the winter of 1776 and his armies moved swiftly to capture several key towns. One issue however was that Thaska is made up of several narrow valley's which Thaska was able to fortify meaning the war turned into one of attrition. With superior resources and manpower Kailash was able to slowly force his way into Thaska before dying in 1788. Initially his son Nilam V agreed an end of hositilities with Thaska however in 1789 their King began manouvering to reclaim the Kingdom and so Nilam V sent a huge force to finish them off. At the battle of Silanwad the Thaskan King was slain in battle and that afternoon having heard news of the approaching Parbhanian Army his Queen committed suicide and their children ran into exile. One of those who went into exile was Princess Jasvinder who ran away to Khudana.  Nilam V had heard great tales of her beauty and instructed the Kingdom of Khudana to hand her over to him or he would invade. Princess Jasvinder willingly submitted herself to marrying Nilam V in order to save Khudana from the prospect of war.

Kemerovo:
The Khudana War (1814-1822)
In 1814 the Kingdom of Khudana saw the death of King Rishi with no heirs there began conflict between several of his cousins over who should inherit the throne. Taking advantage of this chaos Maharajadhiraja Harshad I launched his own invasion of Khudana territory and initially seemed content to only take roughly 1/4 of the Kingdom. As the various cousins began to surrender to each other and their civil war calmed down more attention was turned to the Parbhani invasion. Harshad I attempted to negotiate a peace with the various factions however was unsuccessful and following a failed assassination attempt on him he determined his only course of action was to invade the rest of Khudana and so in 1820 the full scale invasion began.

In 1822 Harshad had defeated all those who claimed the throne. In the past Prabhani's Maharajadhiraja who had conquered a nation in battle claimed their territory by marrying a widowed Queen thereby giving, at least on the surface, the Maharajadhiraja the right to be King of that territory and thus add it to the Empire. In this case though that was not possible and so Harshad simply proclaimed that Khudana no longer existed and that it had always been Parbhani territory.

Kemerovo:
The Bhankala Massacre War (1856)
Bhankala stands as the smallest holding within the Empire and is nothing more than an old city with surrounding agriculture. Bhankala though did feature several shrines to the God Varchas and as such on certain days large numbers of pilgrims from the Empire would travel there. In 1856 however a fight broke out in the city between some pilgrims and the locals which saw the King of Bhankala step in and execute 10 Parbhanians. The next day caravans of Pilgrims were further attacked seeing around 400 people murdered in the course of the next few days. Hearing of this an aging  Maharajadhiraja Amrit IV sent his son Prince Amrit to seek revenge. It took the Prince just three weeks to subdue the city and execute the King and his family with the exception of the King's youngest wife. As Prince Amrit and the Bhankalan Queen Anviah journeyed back to Parbhani for her to marry the Maharajadhiraja it is told that the two royals fell in love and that when the Queen Anviah, who had now married the Maharajadhiraja, gave birth nine months later the child was infact Prince Amrit's. It was this child, Lalit who in 1861 would become Maharajadhiraja when Amrit IV died. Until Lalit turned 12 years of age in 1868 his suspected father ruled as Regent. On the day Lalit took the throne Prince Amrit and Queen Anviah both disappeared and where never seen again. Some suspect that they ran away together while some believe that Lalit had them murdered.

Kemerovo:
The Great Mavi Kalan War (1922-1941)
In 1922 the Kingdoms of Mavi and Kalan signed a treaty agreeing that they would stand together against Parbhani should it ever pose a threat. In August of that year it was discovered that the King of Mavi, Pran II, had been behind an attempt to assassinate the Parbhani Royal Family. The Maharajadhiraja at the time was Amrit VI and he sent a demand to Kalan to break off their alliance. This demand tipped Mavi off that the plot had been discovered and that an attack was probably soon to be launched and so with their military already on standby to take advantage of chaos the Maharajadhiraja's death would cause they invaded the Empire followed closely by Kalan and the two nations made great inroads claiming the territory of Bhankala and part of Khudana. In 1925 Dewala and Topri also entered the war against the Empire which then saw the Empire fall back losing the whole of Khudana. With his military on the back foot Maharajadhiraja Amrit VI negotiated a ceasefire which would see Bhankala and half of Khudana handed over to the enemy in return for an end of hostilities. Kalan, Dewala and Topri accepted this arrangement however Mavi did not and so the war reduced to a simple Mavi V's Parbhani conflict which saw Mavi pushed steadily back into their own territory.

In 1929 Prabhani had reclaimed all territory lost to Mavi and it seemed that the war was likely to end however in that year the King of Kalan married his daughter to the Prince of Mavi and six weeks later King Pran II of Mavi died to be succeeded by King Ramji I. The new Mavi King was able to persuade his father-in-law to rejoin the conflict and so break the ceasefire. By now Parbhani was on the front foot and utilising its larger military soon began to reclaim even more lost territory. Fearing that they too would be targetted Dewala and Topri also joined the conflict again however by utilizing a tactic of holding three nations in a stalemate and combating one other the Empire finally retook the whole of Bhankala and Khudana in 1938.

In 1938 Maharajadhiraja Amrit VI died and was succeeded by Pankaj II who immediatley offered a ceasefire which was accepted and held until 1940. In that same year the King's of Dewala and Topri signed a peace agreement with Pankaj II ending their involvement in the war. It took Pankaj II a further 12 months to defeat Mavi and Kalan and bring them under his control. The Royal Family of Mavi fled to Dewala while Pankaj had the royals of Kalan imprisoned and put on trial for breaking oaths. Pankaj sentenced all 12 adult members of the family to death, the males by firing squad the females by garrote. The child members of the Royal family were given to farmers in Parbhani with the exception of 10 year old Princess Swarna who was forced to marry Pankaj II on her 16th birthday.

Kemerovo:
The War of Dewala (1962-1964)
As part of the agreement to end the war with Dewala in 1940 it was agreed that a strip of land in Dewala would become the property of Parbhani for the next 100 years. On April 3rd 1962 the nation of Dewala saw a revolution which ousted their monarchy before executing them a week later. Initially Maharajadhiraja Venkat II did not interfere despite requests from Royalists in Dewala and the advice of his own council. On the 7th of May 1962 however a militia force of Dewalan's intent on reclaiming the territory handed over in the peace-treaty of 1940 occupied a series of police stations across the region. Venkat II issued an ultimatum for the forces to leave within 48 hours and release their hostages however the dead line arrived and the militia executed 17 Police-Officers. On the 11th of May 1962 the Imperial Armed Forces crossed into the region en-mass and retook the territory. During this operation however armed forces from Dewala opened fire upon the Imperial military. Some historians believe this was done because the soldiers had sympathies with the militia while others think the Republican government of Dewala believed an invasion was underway. Following the death of 22 Imperial soldiers during this operation, with 12 coming from actions taken by the Dewala Republican military Venkat demanded compensation in the form of a further strip of land, an extension of ownership on the current territory held from Dewala and a significant amount of reparations. The Republicans counter-offered with a 50 year extension however Venkat refused this. As a result of the break down between the two nations Venkat ordered a full invasion and on the 6th May 1964 accepted the surrender of the Republican military. His first action was to reinstate the former King's cousin, Princess Lina as the new Queen of Dewala and on the 8th of May 1964 the now Queen Lina married Venkat thus adding Dewala to the Empire.

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