Northern India at the time of the Buddha (C400 BC)
Alexander the Great’s invasion, 327–6 BC
Peninsular trading stations in the first century AD
Western India C150 AD (with Shatavahana cave-sites)
Harsha’s probable empire C640 AD
Chalukyas and Pallavas in the seventh century
India and south-east Asia in the seventh to twelfth centuries
The Arab conquest of Sind in the eighth century
The Kanauj triangle: Rashtrakutas, Palas and Gurjara-Pratiharas
The land of the Shahis C1000 AD
The Ghaznavid empire under Mahmud of Ghazni C1030
The Chola kingdom C1030 and the expeditions of Rajendra I
Avanti/Malwa: the incarnations of a proto-state
Chahamana defeat and Muhammad of Ghor’s conquests 1192–1200
The peninsular incursions of Ala-ud-din and Malik Kafur, 1296–1312
The stillborn states: India in the fifteenth century
The campaigns of Babur, Humayun and Sher Shah
The Bahmanid kingdom and its successor sultanates
Expansion of the Mughal empire, 1530–1707
The Deccan and the south in the reign of Aurangzeb
Successor states of the Mughal empire
European trading stations C1740
The peninsula in the eighteenth century (the Anglo – French and Anglo – Mysore Wars)
The British in Bengal, 1756–65
British India in 1792, after the Third Mysore War;
British India in 1804, after Wellesley’s acquisitions
The Anglo-Maratha Wars 1775–1818
British India in 1820, after the Maratha Wars
British India in 1856, after Dalhousie’s annexations
The north-west in the nineteenth century: British expansion into Panjab, Sind and Afghanistan
Northern India during the Great Rebellion 1857–8
The partition of the Panjab, 1947
The peaks and troughs of dominion
The Mauryas: probable succession 321–181 BC
The imperial Guptas: probable succession
The Chalukyas and the Pallavas: the rival successions
The rise and fall of the Cholas of Tanjore
Avanti/Malwa: the incarnations of a proto-state
The Delhi sultanates. 1: The ‘Slave’ Dynasty, 1206–90
The Delhi sultanates. 2: The Khalji Dynasty, 1290–1320
Muslim conquest to Mughal empire: the dynasties of the Delhi sultanate
The Delhi sultanates. 3: The Tughluq dynasty, 1320–1413
Intermarriage of Great Mughals with the family of Itimad-ud-Daula
The Sikh Gurus: the chosen successors of Guru Nanak
The royal house of Shivaji (Bhonsle Chatrapatis)
Succession of the Peshwas of Pune