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This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India.
Chronology of Tamil history; Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (January–May 2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (June–December 2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (2021)
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
Early Indian history does not have an equivalent of chronicles (like the ones established in the West by Herodotus in the 5th century BC or Kojiki / Nihongi in Japan): "with the single exception of Rajatarangini (History of Kashmir), there is no historical text in Sanskrit dealing with the whole or even parts of India" (R. C. Majumdar). [3]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Part of a series on the. History of India; Timeline: Prehistoric. Madrasian culture ; Soanian, c ...
Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala. [3] August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France. [4] [5] September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra. [6] [7] [8]
31 March – Letika Saran, former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India. 1 April – Venki Ramakrishnan, biologist. 25 April – Brij Narayan, sarod player. 30 May – Ambareesh, actor and politician. (died 2018) 20 June – Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
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 .