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Timeline of India
A warlike seminomadic people called the Aryans were moving into northern India from Central Asia. Aryans spread their culture through northern India. Dranidians were slowly pushed south. Many kingdoms rose in the Gangetic Plain Siddharta Gautama taught the concepts of Buddhaism.

1500 B.C.

The Mauryan Empire developed in India.

300 B.C.

The Gupta Empire developed in India.

A.D. 400

Accounts describe wll-established Christian Churches along the west coast.

A.D. 500

Muslim armies began attacking northwestern India.

A.D. 1000

A muslim kingdmo was founded at Delhi.

Early 1200s

Timur, a conqueror from the interior of Asia, invaded India and sacked Delhi.
1398

Europeans arrived in India to trade, expand their empire and spread the Christianity. 1. Portuguese 2. Dutch 3. French 4. British Late 1490s Britain and France became rivals in India for cotton

1520s

A descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan nicknamed Babur -The Tiger- invaded India. He took most of northern India and founded Moughal Empire.

After an unstable period.

Babus's grandson Akbar reunited the Mughal Empire and expanded it into Central India Shah Jahan's built Taj Mahal

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The British defeated the French. 1700s

1707

Aurangzeb died and left a weakened empire. Europeans took the opportunity to expand their influence.

Kolkata, capital of British India 1773-1912

mid 1800s

Britain controlles about half of the subcontinent. the East India Company controlled India for the British government.

1857

A rebellion broke out among the sepoys. Sepoys killed the officers and their families. Britain crushed the revolt

1858

The munity convinced the British government to end the East Indian Company's role and to rule India directly. India became a British colony

Educated middle-class Indians organized the Indian National Congress 1885

1900s

Demand for independence increased led by a young lawyer named Mohandas Ghandi "The Mahatma"

1943

The need to grow more food was highlited when a disastrous famine struck eastern India. An estimated og 4 million people starved to death.

1945

After the end of World War II, the British government granted India its independence.

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1947

To avoid Civil War, the British government divided the colony into two parts(Partition of India): India and Pakistan.

Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist 1948

1950s

Chinese forces entered Ladakh, region in Kashmir. This led to border clashes between India and China.

1967-1978

Green Revolution: government officials knew they had to increase the country's agriculture.

1972

After several clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops, a line of control separated the two areas of Kashmir.

Some Sikh extremists began to call for an independent country for their own called Khalistan, or "Land of the Pure". Early 1980s They began a campaign of terrorists against India's government and people.

Concern around the world since this year: 10,000 civilians death. 1989

Today

India is the world's most populous democracy It includes 28 states India's government is based on British models Have a parliament with a Prime Minister Dalits are educated and have good jobs Violence against Dalits China controls the northeastern part of Ladakh, but India does not recognize that.