The epics were only the beginning.

From the Satya Yuga to this morning, on a single map. The told time of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata runs beside the dated record of seals, edicts, treaties and elections. Each chapter changes the paper and the light, and a voice tells the story as the map moves.

Evidence: dated by archaeology and documentsTradition: the told time of the Itihasa and Puranas

04 · Gupta and the classical ageAbdulsayed

Index

Every chapter and every pin

Plain-text editions for offline reading and machine use: llms.txt, llms-full.txt, sitemap.

01Itihasa and Purana

Tradition track · .md

Treta Yuga (Ramayana)Ayodhya, city of Rama .md
Dvapara Yuga (Harivamsa, Mahabharata)Dwarka, Krishna's western city .md
End of the Dvapara Yuga (Mahabharata)Kurukshetra, field of the Mahabharata war .md

02Indus and Veda

c. 2600 to 400 BCE · .md

2600 BCE – 1900 BCEDholavira and its reservoirs .md
2500 BCE – 1900 BCEMohenjo-daro, the planned city .md
2400 BCE – 1900 BCELothal and the dock debate .md
1900 BCE – 1300 BCEHarappa and the end of the cities .md
1500 BCE – 1200 BCEThe Rigveda and the land of seven rivers .md
1200 BCE – 600 BCEPainted Grey Ware villages of the doab .md
600 BCE – 400 BCERajagriha and the sixteen great realms .md
530 BCE – 440 BCEThe Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath .md

03The Mauryan Empire

c. 321 to 185 BCE · .md

326 BCE – 316 BCETaxila, crossroads of the north-west .md
321 BCEChandragupta takes Magadha .md
305 BCE – 303 BCETreaty with Seleucus .md
268 BCE – 232 BCEThe Great Stupa at Sanchi .md
261 BCEThe Kalinga war .md
258 BCE – 242 BCEThe edicts of Ashoka .md
185 BCEPushyamitra ends the dynasty .md

04Gupta and the classical age

c. 180 BCE to 750 CE · .md

100 BCE – 250 CESangam poetry and the Tamil kings .md
106 CE – 130 CEGautamiputra Satakarni and the Nashik caves .md
127 CE – 150 CEKanishka and the first Buddha images .md
319 CE – 320 CEChandragupta I and the Gupta era .md
350 CE – 375 CESamudragupta's Allahabad pillar .md
415 CE – 455 CENalanda mahavihara .md
460 CE – 480 CEThe painted caves of Ajanta .md
499 CEAryabhata writes the Aryabhatiya .md
606 CE – 647 CEHarsha's Kannauj .md
630 CE – 728 CEPallava Mamallapuram .md

05Cholas to the Sultanate

c. 750 to 1500 CE · .md

950 CE – 1050The temples of Khajuraho .md
1003 – 1010Rajaraja's temple at Thanjavur .md
1022 – 1035Rajendra's Gangaikonda Cholapuram .md
1026Mahmud of Ghazni at Somnath .md
1191 – 1192The battles of Tarain .md
1199 – 1220The Qutb Minar and the Delhi Sultanate .md
1303Alauddin Khalji takes Chittor .md
1327 – 1335The move to Daulatabad .md
1336 – 1346Vijayanagara is founded .md
1347The Bahmani sultanate .md
1398 – 1399Timur sacks Delhi .md

06The Mughals and their rivals

1526 to 1760 CE · .md

1526First Battle of Panipat .md
1571 – 1585Akbar's city at Fatehpur Sikri .md
1613The English factory at Surat .md
1632 – 1653Shah Jahan builds the Taj Mahal .md
1674Shivaji crowned at Raigad .md
1687Aurangzeb takes Golconda .md
1699Guru Gobind Singh founds the Khalsa .md
1757Battle of Plassey .md

07Company rule

1757 to 1858 · .md

1764 – 1765Battle of Buxar .md
1773 – 1774The Regulating Act and Warren Hastings .md
1793The Permanent Settlement .md
1799Fall of Srirangapatna .md
1802The Great Trigonometrical Survey begins .md
1806The Vellore mutiny .md
1817 – 1818The end of the Peshwa .md
1829 – 1835Sati abolished, English adopted .md
1843Conquest of Sindh .md
1848 – 1856Lapse and annexation .md
1849Annexation of the Punjab .md
1853 – 1856The first train, and the telegraph .md
1857Mangal Pandey at Barrackpore .md
1857 – 1858Meerut to Delhi .md
1857Kanpur, 1857 .md
1857 – 1858Lucknow and Begum Hazrat Mahal .md
1857 – 1858Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur .md
1858 – 1859Rani Lakshmibai and Tatya Tope .md

08Crown and the freedom struggle

1858 to 1947 · .md

1858The Crown takes over .md
1876 – 1878The Great Famine of 1876 to 1878 .md
1879 – 1899Phadke's rising and the Chapekar brothers .md
1883 – 1885The Ilbert Bill and the first Congress .md
1899 – 1900Birsa Munda's ulgulan .md
1905 – 1911The partition of Bengal and Swadeshi .md
1906 – 1909The Muslim League and separate electorates .md
1908Khudiram Bose and Tilak's trial .md
1911 – 1921Savarkar and the Cellular Jail .md
1911 – 1931The Delhi Durbar and a new capital .md
1914 – 1915The Komagata Maru and the Ghadar rising .md
1916 – 1917Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact .md
1917 – 1918Champaran and Kheda .md
1919The Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh .md
1920 – 1922Non-cooperation, Khilafat and Chauri Chaura .md
1922 – 1924Alluri Sitarama Raju and the Rampa rising .md
1924 – 1925The Vaikom satyagraha .md
1925 – 1927The Kakori train action .md
1927The Mahad satyagraha .md
1928The Bardoli satyagraha .md
1928 – 1931Simon go back, and Bhagat Singh .md
1930 – 1931The Salt March .md
1930 – 1934The Chittagong armoury raid .md
1932The Round Tables and the Poona Pact .md
1935 – 1940The Government of India Act 1935 .md
1942 – 1944Quit India .md
1943 – 1944The Bengal famine .md
1943 – 1945Subhas Bose and the Indian National Army .md
1945 – 1946Simla and the Cabinet Mission .md
1945 – 1946The INA trials and the naval mutiny .md
1946Direct Action Day .md
1947Mountbatten's 3 June plan .md

09The Republic and its states

1947 to today · .md

1947Independence .md
1947 – 1948Partition and the Radcliffe Line .md
1950The Constitution comes into force .md
1951 – 1952The first general election .md
1956States Reorganisation Act .md
1960Bombay State becomes Maharashtra and Gujarat .md
1962The war with China .md
1966 – 1972The Green Revolution begins .md
1971The 1971 war and Bangladesh .md
1974 – 1998Nuclear tests at Pokhran .md
1975 – 1977The Emergency .md
1984The Bhopal gas disaster .md
1991Economic liberalisation .md
1992 – 2024Ayodhya, 1992 to 2024 .md
1999The Kargil war .md
2010 – 2018Aadhaar and the digital state .md
2014Telangana becomes the 29th state .md
2019Jammu and Kashmir reorganised; Ladakh a union territory .md
2020Clash in the Galwan valley .md
2023Chandrayaan-3 lands near the lunar south pole .md
2024The 2024 general election .md
2025Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor .md
2026 – 2027Census 2027 begins .md

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