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Modern India History

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Vasco da Gama when landed at Calicut, sailing via the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, marked the beginning of the European era in Indian history. The Portuguese by the 16th Century had already established their colony in Goa.
In the next century, India was visited by a large number of European travellers - Italians, Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen. They were drawn to India for different reasons. Some were traders, others adventurers, and quite a few fired by the missionary zeal to find converts to Christianity. Eventually England, France, the Netherlands and Denmark, floated East India Companies.
During the late 16th and the 17th Centuries, these companies competed with each other fiercely. By the last quarter of the 18th Century the English had vanquished all others and established themselves as the dominant power in India. The British administered India for a period of about two centuries and brought about revolutionary changes in the social, political and the economic life of the country.
Once the British had consolidated their power, commercial exploitation of the natural resources and native labour became ruthless. By the middle of the 19th Century arrogant exploitation of the people had tried the patience of the Indians to the limit.
The six decades between the end of the “mutinous” war of 1857 - 59 and the conclusion of First World War saw both the peak of British imperial power in India and the birth of nationalist agitation against it. With increasing intrusion of aliens in their lives, a group of middle class Indians formed the Indian National Congress (1885) - a society of English educated affluent professionals - to seek reforms from the British.
The anticolonial struggle became truly a mass movement with the arrival of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) in 1915 who had suffered great humiliation in South Africa due to the policy of racial discrimination and later commited to rid his motherland of the ills of foreign rule.
Successive campaigns had the effect of driving the British out of India in 1947, but with independence came the independence of the country into Pakistan.

Medieval India History

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The Rajput period was an era of chivalry and feudalism. The Rajputs weakened each other by constant fighting. This allowed the foreigners (Turks) to embark on victorious campaigns using duplicity and deceit wherever military strength failed against Rajputs.
Mohammad Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan, the Tomar ruler of Delhi, at the battle of Tarain in 1192 and left the Indian territories in the charge of his deputy, Qutubudin (reign - 1206 - 1210), who had started life as a slave. Khiljis, Tughlaqs, Sayyids and Lodis followed and this period is known as the Sultanate. When the power of the Sultans declined, the outlying provinces once again became important and the process of Hindu Islamic synthesis continued almost without any interruption.
Babur (reign - 1526-30), the founder of the Mughal Empire in India, was the descendant of Timur as well as Changez Khan. Ousted by his cousins, he came to India and defeated Ibrahim, the last Lodi Sultan in 1526 at the First Battle of Panipat. There was a brief interruption to Mughal rule when Babur’s son Humayun (reign - 1530-40) was ousted from Delhi, by Sher Shah, an Afghan chieftain.
Sher Shah (reign - 1540-55), assumed power in the imperial capital for a short while. He is remembered as the builder of the Grand Trunk road that spanned the distance from Peshawar to Patna and also one who introduced major reforms in the revenue system, gratefully retained by the Mughals.
It was Babur’s grandson Akbar (reign - 1556-1605), who consolidated political power and extended his empire over practically the whole of north India and parts of the south. Jahangir (reign - 1605-27) who succeeded Akbar was a pleasure loving man of refined taste. Shah Jahan (1628-58) his son, ascended the throne next. Shah Jahan’s fame rests on the majestic buildings he has left behind - the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid. Aurangzeb (reign - 1658-1707) was the last Mughal ruler.
In western India, Shivaji (1637-80) had forged the Marathas into an efficient military machine and given them a sense of national identity. They adopted guerrilla tactics to maul the Mughals and put a severe drain on their economic resources.
The contenders for political supremacy in the 17th and 18th Centuries included besides the Marathas, the Sikhs in Punjab and Hyder Ali (reign - 1721 - 1782) in Mysore. Tipu Sultan (reign - 1782 - 1799) - Hyder Ali’s son and successor allied himself with the French against the British and strove to introduce the latest technical knowledge from Europe.

Ancient India History

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The Indus Valley were civilisations est entre c. 3000-1500 Chr, Tandis que les anciennes exigeant Kot Diji cultures, on the Indus-term, exists in the period from about 3300-2800 BC .. The city of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were the major achievements of the Indus Valley civilisation. Ces villes sont connus pour leurs impressive, organise regular et mise en page.

Then came the Arias, soutient hymns in this way impressive fête life and exubérante himself as Aryan aryas usually in si, anglicised “noble”. The 6 Century B.C. Period was from the Magadha Kingdom. Chandra Gupta Maurya ousted oppressive rulers of the Magadha to find his own dynasty, consisted of 322 to 298 c. Chr

The King Ashoka Maurya famous the Great reigned from 273 to 232 c. Chr over a large range of Kashmir and Peshawar in the north and south to Mysore north and east Orissa. I have, after the carnage witnessed in the field of battle Kalinga (269 BC) Dans l’Orissa, was devoted to Dharmma (righteousness).

In the following centuries, selon les Ashoka empire disintegrated, India suffered a series of invasion, fidèles et souvent under the spell of rulers étrangers - Indo Bactrians, the Sakas and others. After the next 400 years of instability in their kingdom Gupta.

Kalidas, the famous poet and playwright sanskrit, Auteur of Abhijnana Shankuntalam, Kumarsambhavam et Meghadutam assumes that the decorated Gupta court. Even the great mathematician astronomes Aryabhatta how and how Varahmihir lived en ces heures. Blend end wall paintings of the Ajanta Caves are also back at the time.

Chol, Panday et par décidé Pallav, on the southern part of India pendant medieval period of Indian history. Chola décidé par the territory of Deccan (now the districts and Tiruchirapally Thanjavur), tandis que les Pandya Kingdom aujourd’hui et environ Tirunelvelli Madurai.

Pallav of Kanchi rose to prominence in the 4th N. century AD and ruled unchallenged about four hundred years. The Nayanar and Alvar saint poets belong to this time. The gemlike shore temple in Mahabalipuram day this time. The meurent de Chola ont été Pallav pounced in the 9th Century political and again primacy de South India. The 15th Century saw the decline of Pandya.

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