Month: March 2025

The Early Vedic Period (c. 1500–1000 BCE) describes the Rigvedic world of cattle‑keeping clans in the Sapta‑Sindhu, organized around chiefs, ...

Introduction The Vedic Period spans roughly 1500–600 BCE, evolving from the semi‑nomadic, pastoral world of the Rigvedic (Early Vedic) clans ...

The Indus or Harappan Civilization’s urban order began fragmenting after c. 1900 BCE, with large cities such as Harappa, Mohenjo‑daro, ...

Introduction Sunayani Devi (1875–1962) stands out as one of the earliest modern Indian women painters, a self‑taught artist from the ...

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, is widely regarded as the "Father of Indian Cinema." A pioneer ...

Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) was a towering figure in Tamil literature, widely revered as a Mahakavi ('Great Poet') and a fervent ...

Nil Darpan (1860) is a seminal Bengali social drama that exposed the coercion, debt-bondage, and violence inflicted by European indigo ...

Introduction Painted in 1905 during the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore’s Bharat Mata is one of the earliest and most influential ...

Signed on 10 January 1966 under Soviet mediation, the Tashkent Declaration ended active hostilities of the 1965 India–Pakistan War and ...

India’s first non-Congress government took office in March 1977 after the Emergency, as the Janata Party alliance swept the Lok ...