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Alvin J. Johnson's map of Hindostan or British India, 1864 Hindūstān ( pronunciation ⓘ ) was a historical region , polity , and a name for India , historically used simultaneously for northern Indian subcontinent and the entire subcontinent, used in the modern day to refer to the Republic of India by some but not officially. [ 1 ]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org هندستان; Usage on bn.wikipedia.org মুঘল সাম্রাজ্য
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008) proposes that the Bronze Age [[Indus Valley Civilization]] (c. 2500–1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period (1st ...
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
[10] The common names of the dvīpas, having their varṣas (9 for Jambu-dvīpa, 7 for the other dvīpas) with a mountain and a river in each varṣa, is given in several Purāṇas. [11] There is a distinct set of names provides, however, in other Purāṇas. [12] The most detailed geography is that described in the Vāyu Purāṇa. [13]
Hindoostan and Farther India in a 1864 map by Samuel Augustus Mitchell The concept of the Three Indias was in common circulation in pre-industrial Europe. Greater India was the southern part of South Asia , Lesser India was the northern part of South Asia , and Middle India was the region near the Middle East . [ 12 ]
A map of India showing the territorial possessions of the British and Portuguese and Independent States.Samuel Rawson Gardiner D.C.L., L.L.D., School Atlas of English History (London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1914) 54
10 July: Vellore Mutiny, the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company. 1807: 10 February: Hari Singh Nalwa, commander of the Sikh Khalsa Army of the Sikh Empire defeats the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Kasur, the first in a series of battles. 1809: 25 April