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Former monarchies of India
- Mughal EmpireThe Mughal Empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east.
- Delhi SultanateThe Delhi Sultanate ruled large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries, from 1206 to 1526. Its story begins not with a king on a…
- Sultanate of GolcondaThe Sultanate of Golconda rose from the ruins of a collapsed empire in 1518, founded by a man born in Hamadan, Iran, who had traveled thousands of miles to…
- Maurya EmpireThe Maurya Empire rose from the plains of Magadha around 320 BCE, and within a generation it had become the largest political entity the Indian subcontinent…
- Kushan EmpireThe Kushan Empire sat, for a time, at the absolute center of the ancient world. Historian Alain Daniélou put it plainly: "for a time, the Kushana Empire was…
- Maratha EmpireThe Maratha Empire was, at its peak, a realm spanning roughly a third of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from Punjab in the north to Hyderabad in the…
- Durrani EmpireThe Durrani Empire was born from nine days of deliberation in the summer of 1747, when Afghan tribal leaders gathered near Kandahar to choose a new king.
- British RajThe British Raj came into being on the 28th of June 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed direct authority over a territory stretching from the Himalayan…
- Pandya dynastyThe Pandya dynasty held power continuously from roughly 400 BCE to 1618 CE, making it one of the longest-ruling dynasties in recorded history.
- Kingdom of MysoreThe Kingdom of Mysore endured for over five centuries, from around 1399 to 1950, outlasting empires, resisting colonial conquest longer than almost any rival…