Indian History

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel served as the first Home Minister of independent India and played a central role in integrating the princely states into the Indian Union.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was regarded by Mahatma Gandhi as his political guru. Gandhi greatly valued Gokhale’s moderation, public service and constitutional approach.

The Great Bath was discovered at Mohenjo-daro. It is a large brick-lined water tank located within the citadel complex and is one of the most famous structures of the Indus Civilization.

Rakhal Das Banerji identified the archaeological site of Mohenjo-daro in 1922. The discovery was a major step in recognizing the extent of the Indus Civilization.

Megasthenes’ Indica is an important source for Mauryan India and contains observations on the administration and society of Pataliputra. Megasthenes was an ambassador of Seleucus I to the court of Chandragupta Maurya.

Dadabhai Naoroji is popularly known as the “Grand Old Man of India”. He was also the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons, in 1892.

Birbal was the Hindu courtier associated with acceptance of Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi. Akbar introduced the syncretic religious order in 1582.

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The first synchronous census of India was conducted in 1881; however, the first census attempt was made in 1872 during the reign of Lord Mayo.

Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan traveller from North Africa. He visited India in the 14th century during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and wrote about his experiences in the Rihla.

Muhammad bin Tughlaq ordered the transfer of the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad (Devagiri) in the 1320s. The policy caused severe administrative and popular hardship.

Amir Khusrau was a celebrated poet and musician associated particularly with the court of Alauddin Khalji. He lived during the Delhi Sultanate and is known for Persian and Hindavi literary contributions.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote The Story of My Experiments with Truth, his autobiography, originally published serially in the 1920s. It describes his experiments with truth, ethics and public life.

The first Chinese traveller known to have visited India was Fa-Hien (Faxian), during the reign of Chandragupta II in the 5th century CE. His account provides information on Gupta-era society and Buddhism.

Champaran marked Gandhi’s first major satyagraha in India, in 1917, against the indigo plantation system. The movement became a landmark in India’s freedom struggle.

The Doctrine of Lapse was systematically applied by Lord Dalhousie as Governor-General. States without a natural male heir could be annexed by the East India Company.