A chronology of key events:
India has been home to several ancient civilisations and empires, some dating back to more than 2,000 BC.
Culture and religions have flourished over the millennia, and foreign influence has ebbed and flowed.
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Congress returns
2004 May - Surprise victory for Congress Party in general elections.
Manmohan Singh is sworn in as prime minister.
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Democratic strains
1975 - Indira Gandhi declares state of emergency after being found guilty of electoral malpractice.
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How did ancient India develop?
Ancient India during the rise of the Shungas from the North, Satavahanas from the Deccan, and Pandyas and Cholas from the southern tip of India .
The Great Chaitya in the Karla Caves.
The shrines were developed over the period from 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.
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Independence
1947 - End of British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Hundreds of thousands die in communal bloodshed.
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Mumbai attacks
2008 November - Nearly 200 people are killed in a series of co-ordinated attacks by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba jihadist group on the main tourist and business area of India's financial capital Mumbai.
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Nuclear deal
2006 March - US and India sign a nuclear agreement during a visit by US President George W Bush.
The US gives India access to civilian nuclear technology while India agrees to greater scrutiny for its nuclear programme.
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Population reaches a billion
2000 May - India marks the birth of its billionth citizen.
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Regional tensions
1962 - India loses brief border war with China.
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Rise of the BJP
1996 - Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party.
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What is a timeline of Indian history?
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states.
To read about the background to these events, see History of India.
See also the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and Years in India .
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Who created the map of India?
…Dalhousie Castle), British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the map of modern India, through his conquests and annexations of independent provinces, and of the centralized Indian state.
So radical were Dalhousie’s changes and so widespread the resentment they caused that his… .
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Who ruled India in 1857?
From the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, large regions of India were gradually annexed by the East India Company, acting as a sovereign power on behalf of the British government.
Dissatisfaction with company rule in India led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
India was afterwards ruled directly by the British Crown, in the British Raj.
Contemporary Indian Art was an exhibition held from September 18 – October 31, 1982 at The Royal Academy of Arts in London.
The exhibition featured two sections, I.
The Gesture, and Motif, which was on view from September 18 – October 5, 1982, and II.
Stories, Situations, which was on view from October 9 – 31, 1982.
The exhibition was co-curated by Akbar Padamsee, Richard Bartholomew, and Geeta Kapur.
Native or inhabitant of the West Indies
A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies.
For more than 100 years the words West Indian specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it also to describe the descendants of European colonists who stayed in the West Indies.
Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the British West Indies.
