A.D. 1812 TO A.D. 1833 The Act of Parliament which inaugurates this period did not entirely extinguish the monopoly of the East India Company; that was reserved for the Act which m...
A.D. 1483 TO A.D. 1514 Born on St Valentine's Day, A.D. 1483, the boy-baby, who was hereafter to be called Zahir-ud-din Mahomed, and nicknamed Babar, must have been plentifully sup...
A.D. 1707 TO A.D. 1738 The story of Siva-ji has already been told. His early decease, while it did not materially check the rising flood of Mahratta power, certainly left the invad...
A.D. 1001 TO A.D. 1200 Part I For close on these two hundred years the northern plains of India were a battle-field. Winter after winter, as the sun's power declined, and the curio...
A.D. 1530 TO A.D. 1556 Humayon was practically the only son of his father. There can be no doubt that Babar regarded Mahum, the mother of the four children of whom he was so passio...
A.D. 1834 TO A.D. 1850 What was the cause which led England to refuse a continuance of its charter to the East India Company? It was the price of tea. Before this, all consideratio...
A.D. 1761 TO A.D. 1785 Clive and Warren Hastings need to be bracketed together in the history of India. They were the men who made our Empire, and they were both impeached for thei...
A.D. 1542 TO A.D. 1556 When Humayon and his Queen Hamida-Banu-Begum left the infant Akbar to face fortune by himself, their own hopes for the future were low indeed. Look where the...
A.D. 45 TO A.D. 225 The device of a camel and a bull on the reverse and obverse of a coin minted by Kadphises, the first Kushan king in India, is, Mr Vincent Smith remarks, a singu...
A.D. 1857 TO A.D. 1859 Heaven knows there were not wanting signs and portents in India before "'fifty-seven" which might have put statesmen on their guard--had they known of them....
A.D. 1388 TO A.D. 1389 There is one cry of terror which from time immemorial has echoed out over the wide wheatfields of Northern India. Sometimes it has come when the first sword-...
A.D. 1738 TO A.D. 1742 The old cry once more! Over the wheat-fields of the Punjab, just as the seed was bursting into green, that cry-- "The Toorkh! The Toorkh!" Surely no land on...
B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1 A millennium indeed! A thousand years of Time which (despite many purely historical events in its latter half, to which return will be made in the next chapter)...