Indian History
The Janata Party Experiment (1977-1980): India’s First Non-Congress Government
India’s first non-Congress government took office in March 1977 after the Emergency, as the Janata Party alliance swept the Lok...
Political Integration of Princely States during the Partition of India
Between 1947 and the early 1950s, more than 560 princely states were brought into the Indian Union through a calibrated...
Mature Harappan Phase Begins (2600 BCE)
Around 2600 BCE, the Early Harappan regional cultures of the northwestern subcontinent coalesced into a fully urban civilization stretching from...
Akbar the Great (1556-1605): Mughal Empire History
Akbar the Great (r. 1556–1605) transformed a war-torn polity into a remarkably cohesive, culturally efflorescent empire by coupling military consolidation...
Razia Sultan: The Turkic Empress Who Dared to Rule Delhi
Razia Sultan (r. 1236–1240) defied the patriarchal conventions of the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate to rule in her own right as...
The Chola Dynasty: Maritime Power and Temple Builders of South India
The Chola dynasty (c. 9th–13th centuries CE) forged one of premodern India’s most formidable maritime states, projecting influence from the...
The Gupta Golden Age: Prosperity in Ancient India
The Gupta period (c. 320–550 CE) is remembered as a classical high point of ancient India, when political consolidation, economic...
Ashoka the Great: From Warrior King to Buddhist Emperor
Ashoka Maurya (r. c. 268–232 BCE) transformed from a conqueror who won Kalinga with devastating loss of life to a...
The Indus Valley Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan Civilization) was a Bronze Age urban society flourishing c. 2600–1900 BCE, renowned for planned cities,...
Fatehpur Sikri(1571): The Ghost City of the Mughal Empire
Step into the "Ghost City" of the Mughal Empire. Built by Emperor Akbar to celebrate a miracle, Fatehpur Sikri was...
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