Indian and world history for UPSC – ancient, medieval and modern India series with timelines, themes and revision cards.
The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 survived three wars and every crisis short of war - until the 2025 abeyance after Pahalgam. River allocations, the dispute ladder from the Permanent Indus Commission to the Court of Arbitration, and what abeyance legally means: the exam card.
One princely state chose Pakistan while its people were Hindu-majority - and its 1948 plebiscite prefigured Kashmir in reverse. From the Nawab's flight and Operation Polo to the December 2025 Supreme Court privy-purse verdict, the integration story examiners probe.
Partition 1947 produced the largest migration in recorded history - now Guinness-certified - yet every exam number is contested. This card fixes the ranges examiners accept, the legal timeline from the 3 June Plan to the Abducted Persons Act, and the memory politics of Remembrance Day.
Ask any exam-setter for the most reliable ancient-India question bank and Buddhist sites top the list.
Every few years an inscription into the UNESCO World Heritage List lands in the UPSC syllabus and almost immediately into prelims and mai...
The nineteenth century hit India with three forces at once — colonial rule, western education and Christian missionary critique.
Between the eighth and seventeenth centuries, Indian religion changed shape twice over.
Ask a classroom to name ancient India’s golden age and the Gupta centuries roll off the tongue.
Two things make the Mauryan empire compulsory exam material: it was the first pan-Indian empire, and it left behind the most detailed adm...
In 1965, India and Pakistan engaged in a war that served as a testament to the steadfast courage and sacrifice of Indian warriors.
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