// Curated archive
History
A curated record of the past — corrected only on request.
The Delhi Sultanate: Five Dynasties Over Delhi
Between the early thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth century, Delhi was ruled by five successive Turkic and Afghan dynasties — the Mamluk, Khalji, Tughlaq, Sayyid and Lodi…
The First Battle of Panipat, 1526
On 21 April 1526, the armies of Babur and the Lodi sultan Ibrahim met on the field at Panipat, about ninety kilometres north of Delhi. Babur…
Aurangzeb’s Long Deccan Wars
In 1681 the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb moved south with his court and his army, and spent the last twenty-six years of his reign in the Deccan.…
The Revolt of 1857
The uprising began at Meerut on 10 May 1857, when sepoys of the East India Company’s Bengal army mutinied, marched to Delhi and proclaimed the aged…
Partition and Independence, 1947
British India was partitioned at the end of colonial rule. On 15 August 1947 India became independent, and on 14 August the new state of Pakistan…