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[11] [12] Religions such as Sikhism and Din-e-Ilahi were born out of a fusion of Hindu and Muslim religious traditions as well. [13] In the 18th century the Islamic influence in India begin to decline following the decline of the Mughal Empire, resulting in former Mughal territory conquered rival powers such as the Maratha Confederacy.
Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; by 4500 BCE, settled life had spread, [2] and gradually evolved into the Indus Valley Civilisation, one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World, [3] [4] which flourished between 2500 BCE and 1900 BCE in present-day Pakistan and north-western India.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir divided into two separate union territories known as Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh by scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution of India. 11 December: The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian ...
The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan Migration with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
A past paper is an examination paper from a previous year or previous years, usually used either for exam practice or for tests such as University of Oxford, [1] [2] University of Cambridge [3] College Collections.
The Indigo revolt (or Nil bidroha; Bengali: নীল বিদ্রোহ) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters, that arose in Bengal in 1859, and continued for over a year.
Indigo dye – Indigo, a blue pigment and a dye, was used in India, which was also the earliest major centre for its production and processing. [2] The Indigofera tinctoria variety of Indigo was domesticated in India. [2] Indigo, used as a dye, made its way to the Greeks and the Romans via various trade routes, and was valued as a luxury ...
Historians such as Will Durant described Islamic invasions of India as "The bloodiest story in history. [136] Jadunath Sarkar contends that several Muslim invaders were waging a systematic jihad against Hindus in India to the effect that "Every device short of massacre in cold blood was resorted to in order to convert heathen subjects".