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The Vedic Age

The Vedic Period or the Vedic Age refers to that time period when the Vedic Sanskrit texts were composed in India. The society that...

The Gupta Empire

Nalanda University – An ancient center of Learning

Nalanda University was an ancient higher-learning institution in Bihar, India. The site is located about 88 kilometres southeast of Patna and was a religious...

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Inventions That Changed the World

“Nothing is permanent except a change.” You might have come across this quotation more than once in your lifetime. Here is the list of...

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The Administrative System under Delhi Sultanate

It was none other than the Sultan who headed the administrative System during the Delhi Sultanate; and in discharging his duties was supported by...

Classical Dances of India: Mirror of Cultural India

Due to her various climate conditions, India in all spheres of its life is a land of diversities that have made her culture a...

Central Powers of World War 1

World War I was fought between two major alliances of countries: the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The Central Powers began as an alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary....

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Dayananda Saraswati

Dayanand Saraswati is well known as the founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition. He was a profound scholar of the...

East India Company (EIC)

East India Company (EIC), originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called...

Vikramasila University

Vikramasila University was one of the two most important centres of Buddhist learning in India during the Pala dynasty, along with Nālandā University.Vikramasila was established by King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in...

Annie Besant

Annie Besant was a prominent Theosophist, social reformer, political leader, women's rights activist, writer, and orator. She was of Irish origin and made India...

Indian National Movement

The East India Company had established its control over almost all parts of India by the middle of the 19th century. There were numerous...

Communism

Communism is a socio-economic system structured upon common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state; as well as a...

Cabinet Mission 1946

The British Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Government to Indian leadership, providing India with independence. Formulated at...

Biography of Mahatma Gandhi – A Journey from Mohandas to Mahatma

On the evening of 30th January, 1948, at his daily prayer meeting Gandhiji was shot dead by a young man from Pune named Nathuram...

Takshila University

The world's first University was established in Takshila or Taxila (now in Pakistan) in 700BC. Taxila is a town and an important archaeological site in Rawalpindi...

Phases of British Rule in India

The twin processes of drain and de-industrialization were carried out extensively through the various stages of British rule in India (colonial rule). In the beginning The...

The Radcliffe Line

The Radcliffe Line became the international border between India and Pakistan (which also included what is now Bangladesh) during the partition of India. The...

Colonialism

Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a set of unequal relationships between...