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name some historical events of India

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India history and timeline

India’s history is epic, going back to the first traces of human culture and punctuated by invasions, the birth of religions and the rise and fall of great civilisations.

There is evidence, from the earliest times, of great movements of peoples across South Asia, sometimes replacing existing populations, sometimes integrating with them. They came from West and Central Asia in massive sweeps through the lofty passes in the northwest, bringing with them the rudiments of the Hindu faith, later to be developed on Indian soil into a subtle and highly complex religion. Other religions, such as Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism, have developed and been absorbed into India’s proverbial sponge.

Of all the Europeans who came to trade in India, it was the British who ruled, making the Subcontinent the “jewel in the crown” of their empire. Successive campaigns finally led to Indian independence in 1947. Today, with a burgeoning economy competing on the world stage, India’s democracy is a triumph in a land of multiple ethnic, religious and secessionist interests.

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Hampi's atmospheric ruins

Mughal splendor in Delhi

Kolkata, the Raj capital

 

Hampi's atmospheric ruins

It was among the huge boulder-strewn landscape of the Deccan plateau that a pair of brothers, Harihara and Bukka, escaped the clutches of the tyrannical Delhi Tuqhluq sultans sometime in the first half of the 14th century and carved out for themselves an independent kingdom, Hampi. Within 150 years, the rule of the dynasty they founded extended from coast to coast and to the tip of India.  

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Mughal splendour in Delhi

From the Mauryans in the 3rd century BC and the Sultanates of the medieval era to the Mughals and, finally, the British, each of Delhi’s conquerors has left their own impressive remains, and these stand today in often surreal juxtaposition to the modern urban sprawl. The Red Fort and Humayun’s Tomb are among the fine examples of Mughal architecture in Delhi.  

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Kolkata, the Raj capital

From its beginnings as a small east-coast trading settlement, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) became a city of palaces in the heyday of the Raj. Its history dates back to 1686, when the East India Company selected the site for its new headquarters. Among the sights on offer, the white-marble Victoria Memorial epitomises perhaps better than any other building in India the pride and pomposity of the British Raj at its zenith.  

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India history timeline

Early history

2500–1600BC

Harappan (Indus Valley) Civilisation.

1500BC onwards

Central Asian Aryans migrate to the Indian subcontinent.

563BC

Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.

c.325BC

Chandragupta Maurya founds the Mauryan empire.

c.260BC

King Ashoka converts to Buddhism.

c.AD320

Gupta empire is established.

c.1200

Muslim armies conquer northern India; decline of Buddhism.

The Delhi Sultanate

1206

Qutb-ud-Din becomes sultan of Delhi. His dynasty is overthrown in 1296 by Feroz Shah, a Turk, who builds Delhi’s second city east of Lal Kot.  

1451

Buhlbal Lodi, an Afghan noble, captures the throne and founds the Lodhi dynasty.  

14th–16th century

Islam is established throughout the North. The South remains independent under the Hindu Vijayanagar dynasty.

1498

Vasco da Gama reaches India.

The Mughal Dynasty: 1526–1857

1526

Babur overthrows Delhi sultanate, establishes Mughal empire.

1642

East India Company opens trading station at Madras (Chennai).

1756

Nawab of Bengal attacks Calcutta; reprisals by Robert Clive consolidate British Empire in India.

The British Raj: 1858–1947

1857

Indian Mutiny; India comes under direct British rule.

1885

First meeting of Indian National Congress.

1911

King George V announces that the capital will be transferred to Delhi.

1920–22

Mahatma Gandhi leads Non-Cooperation campaign.

Independence (1947–Present)

1947

Independence; partition of subcontinent into India and Pakistan.

1948

Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

1965

Pakistan invades Kashmir.

1971

Creation of Bangladesh, with Indian support.

1975–77

Indira Gandhi imposes state of emergency.

1984

Indira Gandhi is assassinated following attacks on Golden Temple.

1991

Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.

1999

War with Pakistan-backed forces around Kargil in Indian Kashmir.

2003

Kashmir cease-fire begins a thawing of relations with Pakistan.

2004

Manmohan Singh elected prime minister; tsunami hits east coast.

2006

In Mumbai, 207 rail commuters die in terrorist bomb blasts.

2008

Gunmen attack the main tourist and business area of Mumbai; 172 dead.

2009

Singh’s governing coalition wins election.

2010

Environment Ministry withdraws permission for Vedanta Mining to extract bauxite from the hills of Odisha in a landmark ruling and a major victory for the local Adivasi population.

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