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Ancient India
- Mehrgahr – Stone Age India
- Harappans – Bronze Age India
- Yamnaya – Indo-Europeans come to India
- Alexander the Great in India
- Mauryan Empire and Chandragupta I – steel
- Small Kingdoms: India after the Mauryans
- Guptan Empire – chess, zero, and steel
- Chola and Rajput Kings
- Delhi Sultanate
- Pandyas and the Vijayanagara Empire
- Mongols and Timur – invasions of India
- Mughal Empire – Babur, Akbar, and Hamida Banu
- Decline of the Mughal Empire – the Taj Mahal
- Deccan kingdoms – Chand Bibi and Aurangzeb
- Maratha Empire – Tarabai and the Peshwas
- British India – colonization and imperialism
- Gandhi and Independence
- Partition – Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Indian Government
Indian Economy
- India and early trade
- Coins and money in ancient India
- Indian sailing and trade
- Cotton – History of Cotton in Asia
- Pearls and pearl-diving
- Mughals and Colonization
- Indian economy recovers after independence
Daily Life in India
- Indian Clothing – Saris, Dhotis, Salwar Kameez
- Indian food history – spices and sugar in ancient India
- History of Sugar – Where does sugar come from?
- Cinnamon- a tree bark from India
- Black Pepper – traded to Rome and China from India
- Chicken – Meat, eggs, and fighting roosters
- Lentils come to India from West Asia and become dal
- Chickpeas also come to India from West Asia
- Wheat – flatbread – naan
- Millet comes to India from East Africa
- Indian Environment – the monsoon and the Retreating Monsoon
- Indian Animals – monkeys, elephants, water buffalo, cows
- History of Dogs – herding sheep, catching rats, eating garbage
- Indian Plants – sugar cane, coriander, bananas, plantain, mangoes, millet
- Indian Games – Parcheesi, chess, Chutes and Ladders
- Caste system in India – Brahmins to untouchables
- Slavery – debt-bondage and child slavery; Islamic and African slavery
- Friendship in India: the Mahabharata and the Central Asian comitatus
Indian Architecture
- Mehrgahr: Stone Age houses in northern India
- Harappan – Bronze Age Indian cities – Mohenjo Daro
- Vedic – wooden houses and zoned cities
- Mauryan – Buddhist stupas and rock-cut temples
- Guptan – the first free-standing stone temples in India
- Ellora – Hindu rock-cut temples
- Medieval India – Northern and Southern temple styles
- Delhi Sultanate – Islamic mosques in northern India
- Mosques – what is a mosque? Mosque history
Indian Art
Indian Philosophy
- Dharma – a Hindu concept of duty and order
- Karma – a Hindu idea that what you do affects your fate
- Blind Men and the Elephant – an Indian parable (a story)
Indian Literature
- Rig Veda – one of the oldest pieces of writing from India
- Ramayana – the story of Rama and Hanuman
- Mahabharata: the story of the five Pandava brothers
- Karna and Duryodhana – a story inside the Mahabharata
- Cinderella in India – another story from the Mahabharata
- Puss in Boots (coming soon)
- Jataka Stories – Buddhist stories about karma and reincarnation
- Crab and Crane – A Jataka story about greed and trust
- Monkey and Crocodile – A Jataka story where being smart beats being strong
- Vessantara Jataka: A Buddhist gives up everything for the gods
- Lalla Arifa – a Sufi poet and medieval Indian woman
Indian Science
- Mathematics in ancient India: Numbers and the invention of zero
- Early Indian Medicine: Sushruta, humors, and inoculation against smallpox
- Crucible Steel: Sri Lanka and early steel production
- Arya Bhata: an early medieval Indian mathematician: trigonometry
Indian Religion
- Hinduism: the earliest religion in India
- Diwali festival: a Hindu festival of lights
- Brahma
- Vishnu
- Shiva
- Krishna
- Lakshmi
- Indra
- Ganesh
- Ganesh curses the Moon
- Varuna
- Bhagavad Gita
- Jainism
- Sikhs
- Islam
- Religion under the Mughal Empire
- Indian religion and Partition
Buddhism
India Projects
- Cotton Project
- Yogurt Project
- Caste project
- Sugar Cane Project
- India and the Greeks
- Ramayana Play
- Clay Seals
- Sundial Project
- Hinduism vocabulary project
- Hinduism Rangoli Project