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A comprehensive overview of the major historical events and periods in India and its predecessor states, from pre-historic times to the present day. Learn about the Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic period, the Mauryan Empire, the Mughal Empire, and more.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and a mentor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a moderate leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society, who campaigned for Indian self-rule and social reforms.
A comprehensive overview of the history of India from prehistoric times to the present, covering various periods, cultures, religions, and empires. Learn about the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Vedic period, the Mauryan Empire, the Mughal Empire, the British Raj, and the independence movement.
Learn about the methods, sources, and interpretations used by scholars to write history of India. Explore the different schools of historiography, such as Cambridge, Nationalist, Marxist, and subaltern, and their debates on topics like British imperialism and Raj insecurity.
Learn about the history and stages of the struggle to end British colonial rule in India, from the early rebellions to the partition and the republic. Find out the key leaders, events, and ideologies that shaped the Indian independence movement.
A comprehensive overview of the history, culture, and geography of the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the end of the Gupta Empire. Learn about the major periods, polities, religions, arts, sciences, and inventions of ancient India.
A comprehensive list of books and other works written in ancient India, covering various genres, languages, collections and dates. Includes Vedas, Puranas, Itihasas, Pāli Canon, Dharmaśāstra, Sangam literature and more.
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858 , affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent .