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HISTORY OF INDIA - THE SUBCONTINENT

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In Asia the first significant movement | HISTORY OF MIGRATION

Indo-Europeans in Asia

In Asia the first significant movement of this kind is by the Hittites, who establish themselves in Anatolia.

Subsequently the Medes and the Persians become the dominant tribes on the...

In Asia the first significant movement | HISTORY OF ASIA

Indo-Europeans in Asia

In Asia the first significant movement of this kind is by the Hittites, who establish themselves in Anatolia.

Subsequently the Medes and the Persians become the dominant tribes on the...

A year after the Crimean War, | HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (from 1707)

British India

A year after the Crimean War, and at the same time as the second Opium War in China, an event occurs which transforms British involvement in India. This is the traumatic Indian Mutiny. It suggests that the East India Com...

Traders from India, increasingly adventurous as | HISTORY OF HINDUISM

Hinduism in southeast Asia

Traders from India, increasingly adventurous as seafarers from the 1st century AD, carry Hinduism through southeast Asia. On the mainland (Burma, Cambodia, the southern part of Vietnam) and in the islands (Sumatra, Java)...

The long-standing threat to India from | HISTORY OF INDIA - THE SUBCONTINENT

Muslims from Ghazni

The long-standing threat to India from Muslim invaders is renewed when an aggressive Turkish dynasty wins power in Ghazni, southwest of Kabul. On several occasions Subuktigin, the first of these Ghazni rulers, makes raid...

The long-standing threat to India from | HISTORY OF ISLAM

Muslims from Ghazni

The long-standing threat to India from Muslim invaders is renewed when an aggressive Turkish dynasty wins power in Ghazni, southwest of Kabul. On several occasions Subuktigin, the first of these Ghazni rulers, makes raid...

At the end of Akbar's reign | HISTORY OF INDIA - THE SUBCONTINENT

Akbar

At the end of Akbar's reign of nearly half a century, his empire is larger than any in India since the time of Asoka. Its outer limits are Kandahar in the west, Kashmir in the north, Bengal in the east and in the south a...

At the end of Akbar's reign | HISTORY OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE

Akbar

At the end of Akbar's reign of nearly half a century, his empire is larger than any in India since the time of Asoka. Its outer limits are Kandahar in the west, Kashmir in the north, Bengal in the east and in the south a...

The first half of our own | HISTORY OF ASIA

Turks and Mongols

The first half of our own millennium is dominated, in Asia, by the movement of Turks and Mongols. Almost every part of the continent (southern India and southeast Asia are the exceptions) is invaded or occupied in this p...

At the start of the Seven | HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Seven Years War

At the start of the Seven Years' War the balance between the empires of France and Britain looks much as it has been since the late 17th century. By the end of it, in 1763, the situation is transformed. The change is les...

At the start of the Seven | HISTORY OF FRANCE

Seven Years War

At the start of the Seven Years' War the balance between the empires of France and Britain looks much as it has been since the late 17th century. By the end of it, in 1763, the situation is transformed. The change is les...

At the start of the Seven | HISTORY OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE

Seven Years War

At the start of the Seven Years' War the balance between the empires of France and Britain looks much as it has been since the late 17th century. By the end of it, in 1763, the situation is transformed. The change is les...

The most formative event in Sri | HISTORY OF SRI LANKA

Theravada Buddhism

The most formative event in Sri Lanka's long history is the arrival of Buddhism in the 3rd century BC. This island is the furthest outpost and the most lasting achievement of the missionary efforts of the emperor Asoka....

Since most of Mahmud's expeditions have | HISTORY OF INDIA - THE SUBCONTINENT

Muslims from Ghazni

Since most of Mahmud's expeditions have been in the nature of raids, he and his heirs never extend their control beyond the Punjab - the territory closest to Afghanistan. But this foothold beyond the Khyber Pass gives ea...

Since most of Mahmud's expeditions have | HISTORY OF ISLAM

Muslims from Ghazni

Since most of Mahmud's expeditions have been in the nature of raids, he and his heirs never extend their control beyond the Punjab - the territory closest to Afghanistan. But this foothold beyond the Khyber Pass gives ea...

The large island off the southern | HISTORY OF SRI LANKA

Island of the Sinhalese

The large island off the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent is occupied by hunter-gatherers until the arrival, in the 6th century BC, of the Sinhalese - a tribal group of Indo-Europeans which has moved south through...

The first traceable roots of Hinduism | HISTORY OF HINDUISM

The gods of the Aryans

The spread of Buddhism

By the time of his death, at about the age of eighty, the Buddha's followers are established as communities of monks in northern India. Wandering through villages and towns with their begging bowls, eager to describe the...

The Jews are joined by other | HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (from 1707)

Multi-racial Britain

The Jews are joined by other minority religious groups when immigration begins from new areas of the British empire - from Africa and above all from the Indian subcontinent, introducing to Britain three important religio...

There are 1 million US soldiers | HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The human cost

There are 1 million US soldiers in Europe that autumn. One in fifteen of them die of flu (a total of 62,000). In Britain 150,000 people are killed by the disease within a few weeks. The figures can be duplicated anywhere...