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16th century Portuguese navigational chart of the region. The cartographic tradition of India influenced the map making tradition of Tibet, where maps of Indian origin have been discovered. [3] Islamic cartography was also influenced by the Indian tradition as a result of extensive contact. [4]
As the Mughal Empire disintegrated in the early 18th century, and then as the Maratha Empire became weakened after the third battle of Panipat, many relatively weak and unstable Indian states which emerged were increasingly open to manipulation by the Europeans, through dependent Indian rulers. In the later 18th century, Great Britain and ...
The seventeenth century marked the emergence of France as the center of the map trade in Europe, with much of the production and distribution of maps taking place in the capital Paris. [ 124 ] : 33–45 In conjunction with the support of scientific development, the royal court encouraged the work of arts and artisans.
18th-century political formation in India. The Mughals suffered several blows due to invasions from Marathas, Rajputs, Jats and Afghans. In 1737, the Maratha general Bajirao of the Maratha Empire invaded and plundered Delhi. Under the general Amir Khan Umrao Al Udat, the Mughal Emperor sent 8,000 troops to drive away the 5,000 Maratha cavalry ...
18th-century Indian literature (2 C, 2 P) M. 18th century in the Mughal Empire (13 C, 2 P) P. 18th-century Indian people (6 C, 90 P) 18th century in Portuguese India ...
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.
The 19th-century diplomat Sir Justin Sheil commented about the British East India Company copying the French Indian Army in raising an army of Indians: It is to the military genius of the French that we are indebted for the formation of the Indian army.
An 1808 map of South India showing the princely state of Mysore and the neighboring region of Coorg.. The political history of Mysore and Coorg (1800–1947) is the political history of the contiguous historical regions of Mysore state and Coorg province located on the Deccan Plateau in west-central peninsular India, beginning with the acceptance of British suzerainty in 1800 to the ...