Guptan Empire in Ancient India
Guptan Empire: Coin of Samudragupta Chandragupta builds an empire In 319 AD, King Chandragupta I managed to conquer all of northern India. He built northern India into a great empire again. [...]
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Delhi Sultanate in India
Muhammed Ghor, who started the Delhi Sultanate The Mamluks conquer northern India Around 1100 AD, with the Ghaznavids out of the picture, the Mamluks (who had already conquered Iran and what is now Pakistan) succeeded in [...]
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Vedic expansion – history of India
Ganges river - wider and slower than the Indus Vedic people become more Indian After the Vedic people moved into the Ganges valley about 800 BC, they were further from West Asia and Central Asia and [...]
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Alexander the Great in India
Alexander the Great Did Alexander the Great really conquer India? In 326 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian part of northern India. Alexander was a Macedonian king. So he was an Indo-European, like the Persians. [...]
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Indian food history – Early India
Indian food: rice, chapatis, sauces, lentils What did people eat in ancient India? The earliest Indians, the Harappans, probably ate mainly wheat and rice, millet and sorghum, chickpeas and lentils. Often they ate fish, if they lived near the coast [...]
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After the Mughals – history of India
Nader Shah The decline of the Mughal empire in the early 1700s resulted in India splitting up into a lot of smaller countries. In the north, Afghanistan tried to set itself up as an [...]
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The end of the Mughal Empire in India
Taj Mahal, the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal When the Mughal emperor Jahangir died in 1627, his third son, Shah Jahan, became the new emperor. He immediately imprisoned his stepmother Nur Jahan so he could [...]
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The Mughal Empire – History of India
Mughal Empire - Babur, first Mughal ruler Timur's descendants: the Mughal Empire Timur's empire collapsed when he died in 1405 AD. Then the Mongols lost control of India for a while. Local Muslim leaders formed small [...]
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Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Modern India: Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous Nehru hat Who ruled India and Pakistan after independence? India became independent in 1946. Jawaharlal Nehru, the son of a powerful Congress leader, was [...]
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Maratha Empire – history of India
Maharani Tarabai, ruler of the Maratha Empire ca. 1700 AD Queens Soyarabai and Tarabai Shivaji Bhonsle died, probably of dysentery, at 52, in 1680 AD. His sons Sambhaji and Rajaram ruled the [...]
