Chandragupta Maurya, known to the Greeks as Sandrakottos, had a huge impact on Indian history when he founded the Maurya Dynasty which existed from the 4th century to the 2nd century BCE and set up the first Indian empire. With the help of his mentor and then minister Chanakya or Kautilya (c. 4th century BCE), ... Read more

In this article, we will see 20 most frequently asked questions about Indian National Congress. The Indian national congress or INC, is the first modern nationalistic party of India that played a key role in the independence of the country. INC was the central point of all the activities which was planned and performed against ... Read more

In this article, we will discuss about all the events and timelines that led to World War I and II. The causes of what was in the wider scale, two full World Wars in the twentieth century, lie in their origins within the alliances of the  European central powers and their relationships, and who the ... Read more

The British Empire was one of the longest standing and biggest Empires of the modern world and was part of the power structure amongst the Major Powers in Europe, leading into the 19th Century. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and to some extent Germany, the Netherlands and even Belgium, had colonial possessions and protectorates, in Africa, ... Read more

Sukhdev Thapar was an Indian revolutionary who was a key member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) during the Indian independence movement. He was born on May 15, 1907 in Ludhiana, Punjab, in a Punjabi family and completed his education at National College in Lahore. He was a bright student, excelled in studies and ... Read more

The Germanic states of what is commonly referred to as Germany today were not unified as one state after the Napoleonic wars. The vast areas west of the Danube were mostly individual states with their own government and proud autonomy, in the north and south of central Europe. The status had been the same during ... Read more

Shaheed Udham Singh, born on December 26th, 1899, was a prominent political activist and freedom fighter during the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule. He is best known for his assassination of Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in British India, in 1940 as a revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ... Read more

Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, also known as Sambhaji Bhosale, was the eldest son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire in western India. He was born in 1657 in Purandar fort to Shivaji and his first wife Saibai. Unfortunately, Saibai passed away when Sambhaji was only two years old and he was then ... Read more

Britain and France became allies after 1815, the same conditions were not the strictly the case for the un-unified states of Germany, Austria and Italy, who had diplomatic ties between smaller principalities and states, and were not all ceded to major powers in Europe. The peace of mid 1815 had ended 65 years of conflict ... Read more

The end of the Napoleonic Wars had of course the victor’s diplomatic reactions and the accountabilities of the vanquished. Napoleon, having surrendered literally unconditionally, was jailed on St. Helena Island where there was no hope of another escape and a revival of his dictatorship. A group or Alliance of the major powers would meet to ... Read more