In the year 1960, the Bombay State was divided into Gujarat and Maharashtra, with Ahmedabad serving the capital of the former (later shifted to Gandhinagar in …
The demand of Pakistan had started brimming in the 1930s-40s era, a time when the world was about to hit The Great Depression and World War 2. This was also th…
The earliest reference to Chhattisgarh can be pointed to the kingdoms of Dasarna and Mekala, touching Pulinda in the west and kingdoms of Magadha, Munda and Ka…
The British colonisation on the Indian subcontinent stretched to territories that were unlikely ever part of the Indian diaspora or had anything common in term…
The grey area between the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire on the Indian subcontinent is where a lot of skirmishes, rise and downfall of empires, vanishin…
Just before the onset of the Mughal arrivals and European skirmishes off the eastern coast of India, there existed an empire covering today's Odisha, Andhr…
The medieval history of India is dense to a point where it's impossible not to miss many intermediary kingdoms and dynasties. We are talking about the time…
The chronology of the Puranic Indian subcontinent varies with historians. Hence, keeping it aside, this post shall discuss the various regions, countries and c…
The ancient era describes this region as Avanti, bordering the Vindhya mountains which were one of the routes Lord Rama took on his way to Lanka. Going back to…
Home to several conglomerations of kingdoms and the origin of the earliest non-Abrahamic empires on the Indian subcontinent, the Magadhan Empire was a contiguo…
Just before the diversification of Islamic empires in northern India, the stronghold of south India was in the hands of the mighty Chola Empire. If there is on…
A collection of my hand-sketched maps