Indian Politics
Demonetization in India (2016)
On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetization of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes, invalidating 86% of...
Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister (2014)
Narendra Modi became the 14th Prime Minister of India in May 2014 after his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
Kargil War (1999)
The Kargil War of 1999 stands as a defining moment in the modern military and political history of India and...
The Tashkent Agreement (1966): Peace Treaty or Political Betrayal?
Signed on 10 January 1966 under Soviet mediation, the Tashkent Declaration ended active hostilities of the 1965 India–Pakistan War and...
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...
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