Events
Battles, councils, migrations and turning points.
95 entries
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- The agni-parīkṣāThe agni-parīkṣā is the passage in the Rāmāyaṇa in which Rāma, after winning the war, repudia…
- Ahom-Mughal warsA series of intermittent 17th-century conflicts between the Ahom kingdom of Assam and the Mug…
- Anglo-Maratha WarsThe Anglo-Maratha Wars were three conflicts fought between the British East India Company and…
- Anglo-Mysore WarsThe Anglo-Mysore Wars were four conflicts fought between 1767 and 1799 between the Kingdom of…
- Anglo-Sikh WarsThe Anglo-Sikh Wars were two conflicts between the East India Company and the Sikh Empire, fo…
- Arab rule in SindhArab rule in Sindh refers to the Umayyad and later Abbasid governance of the lower Indus vall…
- The aśvamedha and the singing of the poemAt Rāma's horse sacrifice in the Rāmāyaṇa's last book, two boys raised at Vālmīki's hermitage…
- August OfferThe August Offer was a set of constitutional proposals issued by Viceroy Lord Linlithgow on 8…
- Aurangzeb and the MarathasThe Mughal-Maratha wars were a 27-year series of campaigns (1681–1707) fought by Emperor Aura…
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- Bangladesh Liberation WarThe Bangladesh Liberation War was the 1971 conflict in which East Pakistan, led by the Awami…
- The banishment of SītāThe banishment of Sītā in the Rāmāyaṇa's seventh book is Rāma's decision, on hearing that his…
- Battle of ArorThe Battle of Aror, fought around 712 CE near the Sindhi capital of Aror between the Umayyad…
- Battle of BuxarThe Battle of Buxar, fought in 1764 on the Ganges in present-day Bihar, was a decisive victor…
- Battle of PlasseyThe Battle of Plassey, fought on 23 June 1757 at the village of Palashi in Bengal, was the de…
- Battle of SamugarhThe Battle of Samugarh, fought on 29 May 1658 near Agra, was the decisive engagement of the M…
- Battles of PanipatThe three Battles of Panipat, fought in 1526, 1556, and 1761 on the same plain north of Delhi…
- Beginnings of Islamic rule in IndiaThis entry covers the establishment of Islamic political rule on the Indian subcontinent, fro…
- Bengal famine of 1943A famine in the Bengal province of British India in 1943 that caused large-scale death from s…
- Bharata and the sandalsBharata's taking of Rāma's sandals in the Rāmāyaṇa, after failing to bring his brother home f…
- The breaking of Śiva's bowThe breaking of Śiva's bow at Mithilā is the episode in the Rāmāyaṇa by which Rāma wins Sītā,…
- Buddhist councilsThe Buddhist councils were assemblies of the monastic community held to recite and settle the…
- The building of the bridgeThe building of the causeway to Laṅkā in the Rāmāyaṇa follows Rāma's three-day appeal to the…
- The burning of LaṅkāThe burning of Laṅkā in the Rāmāyaṇa is Hanumān's exit from the city — allowing himself to be…
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- Cabinet Mission planThe Cabinet Mission plan was a proposal put forward in May 1946 by a three-member British cab…
- Carnatic WarsA series of three conflicts fought between 1746 and 1763 in which the British and French East…
- Chalukya-Pallava rivalryThe Chalukya-Pallava rivalry was a roughly two-century contest for dominance in the Deccan an…
- Champaran SatyagrahaA 1917 civil resistance campaign led by Mohandas Gandhi among indigo cultivators in Champaran…
- Chandragupta Maurya and JainismJain tradition holds that Chandragupta Maurya abdicated, became a mendicant under Bhadrabahu,…
- Chauri Chaura incidentThe Chauri Chaura incident was a clash on 4 February 1922 in which a crowd associated with th…
- Civil Disobedience MovementThe Civil Disobedience Movement was a mass campaign of organized, non-violent law-breaking le…
- Communal AwardThe Communal Award was a decision announced by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in Aug…
- Cripps MissionThe Cripps Mission was a March 1942 British initiative, led by Sir Stafford Cripps, offering…
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- The death of DaśarathaDaśaratha dies of grief in the Rāmāyaṇa on the sixth night after Rāma's departure, understand…
- Decline of the Indus citiesThe Indus cities were progressively abandoned in the early second millennium BCE, in a proces…
- Destruction of NalandaThe sack of Nalanda Mahavihara in Bihar, conventionally dated to 1193 CE and attributed to th…
- Direct Action DayDirect Action Day was a general strike and demonstration called by the All-India Muslim Leagu…
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- Elections before Indian independenceElections before Indian independence were a series of increasingly broad but communally struc…
- Elections in IndiaElections in India are the process by which India, since its first general election in 1952,…
- The exile of RāmaThe exile of Rāma is the departure of the prince, his wife and his brother from Ayodhyā for f…
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- Gandhi-Irwin PactA March 1931 agreement between Mohandas Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin that suspended the Civi…
- Ghadar movementThe Ghadar movement was a revolutionary organization of Indian emigrants on the Pacific coast…
- The golden deer and the abductionThe golden deer is the disguise in the Rāmāyaṇa by which the rākṣasa Mārīca drew Rāma away fr…
- Gorkha rule in Himachal and UttarakhandGorkha rule in Himachal and Uttarakhand refers to the roughly two-decade period, from 1790 to…
- Government of India Act 1858The Government of India Act 1858 was a British parliamentary statute that transferred rule of…
- Government of India Act 1935The Government of India Act 1935 was a British statute that granted provincial autonomy to Br…
- Great Famine of 1876-78A severe famine that struck large parts of British India between 1876 and 1878, following dro…
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- Ilbert Bill controversyA political controversy of 1883–84 sparked by a proposed law that would have allowed Indian j…
- Indian general election, 1951-52The Indian general election of 1951-52 was the first election held under India's new constitu…
- Indian Independence Act 1947The Indian Independence Act 1947 was the Act of the British Parliament that partitioned Briti…
- Indian independence movementThe Indian independence movement was the sustained political, social, and armed struggle agai…
- Individual SatyagrahaIndividual Satyagraha was a deliberately limited civil disobedience campaign launched by Moha…
- Islamic rule in KashmirIslamic rule in Kashmir denotes the political and religious transformation of the Kashmir Val…
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- The Jain schismThe Jain schism is the division of the tradition into the Digambara and Svetambara orders, a…
- Jallianwala Bagh massacreThe 13 April 1919 killing of unarmed civilians by troops under Brigadier-General Reginald Dye…
- Janapadas after the KurusThe Janapadas were the polities of Iron Age North India that succeeded the Vedic-era Kuru kin…
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- Kaikeyī's two boonsKaikeyī's two boons are the demand in the Rāmāyaṇa that sets the whole story in motion — that…
- Kalinga WarThe Kalinga War (c.
- Kannauj TriangleThe Kannauj Triangle, also called the Tripartite Struggle, was a roughly 150-year contest fro…
- Kheda SatyagrahaThe Kheda Satyagraha was a 1918 no-tax campaign in Gujarat led by Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabh…
- Khilafat movementThe Khilafat movement was a pan-Islamic political campaign by Indian Muslims between 1919 and…
- The killing of VālīRāma's killing of the vānara king Vālī from behind cover, during a wrestling match with his b…
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- Montagu-Chelmsford reformsThe Montagu-Chelmsford reforms were a set of constitutional changes to British Indian governa…
- Morley-Minto reformsThe Morley-Minto reforms, enacted as the Indian Councils Act of 1909, enlarged Indian represe…
- Mountbatten PlanThe Mountbatten Plan, announced on 3 June 1947 by Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, set out the part…
- Mughal-Maratha warsThe Mughal-Maratha wars were a prolonged series of conflicts between the Mughal Empire and th…
- The mutilation of ŚūrpaṇakhāThe mutilation of Śūrpaṇakhā at Pañcavaṭī in the Rāmāyaṇa — her nose and ears cut off by Lakṣ…
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- Partition of Bengal (1905)The 1905 division of the Bengal Presidency by Viceroy Lord Curzon into two provinces along br…
- Partition of IndiaThe Partition of India in 1947 divided British India into the independent dominions of India…
- Poona PactThe Poona Pact was a September 1932 agreement between Mohandas K.
- Purna SwarajPurna Swaraj ("complete self-rule") was the declaration of full political independence as the…
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- Radcliffe LineThe Radcliffe Line is the boundary drawn in 1947 by British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe to partiti…
- Rāma's departureRāma's departure at the end of the Rāmāyaṇa is his walk into the river Sarayū, with the popul…
- Revolt of 1857A large-scale uprising against East India Company rule that began among sepoys of the Bengal…
- Round Table ConferencesA series of three conferences held in London between 1930 and 1932 in which representatives o…
- Rowlatt ActA 1919 law passed by the Imperial Legislative Council that extended emergency wartime powers…
- Royal Indian Navy mutinyA five-day uprising by Indian ratings of the Royal Indian Navy in February 1946, beginning in…
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- Salt MarchThe Salt March was a 24-day protest walk led by Mohandas Gandhi in March–April 1930 from Saba…
- The sañjīvanī and the mountainThe sañjīvanī episode in the Rāmāyaṇa is Hanumān's flight to a mountain in the north for four…
- Siege of Chittorgarh (1303)The Siege of Chittorgarh of 1303 was Alauddin Khilji's successful campaign against the Guhila…
- Siege of Chittorgarh (1567-68)The siege of Chittorgarh (October 1567 to February 1568) was the Mughal emperor Akbar's rough…
- Simon CommissionThe Simon Commission was a British parliamentary body appointed in 1927 to review the working…
- Surat Split (1907)The Surat Split was the December 1907 breakup of the Indian National Congress into rival Mode…
- Swadeshi movementThe Swadeshi movement was a campaign to boycott British goods and promote Indian-made product…