A survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Islam comes to India
How Islam spread in India: Merchants, Saints and Rulers
Indian sultans
The Dehli Sultanate were five successive Muslim dynasties that ruled India between 1451 to 1526 from their capital in Dehli: Mamluk, Khaliji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, and Lodi.
The Early Mughal Empire
The founding fathers of the Mughal Empire: Babur and his son Humayun.
The Reign of Emperor Akbar
The corrupt emperor Akbar and control of the Empire with liberal values
Later Mughal Emperors
Emperors between liberalism and Islam: Jahangir and Shah Jahan
Mughals and the Marathas
The pious emperor Aurangzeb and control of the Empire through Islamic values
Competing European Empires
The Europeans traders act as power brokers between regional princes in a fracturing decentralised empire.
The British East India Company
The English East India Company formally takes power and rules via a puppet emperor.
The Issues and Events of 1857
Uprising and the abolition of the East India Company
The British Raj and Early Nationalism
Direct rule of India under the British Empire and the native resistance.
Nationalist Abedkar, Bose and Jinnah
Different ideas for an Indian nation: Minority and the right to govern.
The partition of 1947
Irreconcilable differences and the formation of new nations.
West and East Pakistan
A strained relationship between two regions of one Muslim nation.
The New Pakistan
East Pakistan becomes Pakistan.
Independent Bangladesh
West Pakistan becomes Bangladesh.