By the second millennium B.C. several regional cultures sprang up in different parts of the Indian subcontinent. These were non-urban, non-Harappan and were characterized by the use…

The Chalcolithic cultures flourished during the third millennium and second millennium B.C. Some of these cultures were contemporary with the Harappan culture and other were decidedly later…

The end of the Neolithic period saw very different kind of developments in different areas. While in the Indus and Saraswati valleys there emerged, though slowly, a…

Veda means “knowledge”. The Vedas are neither any individual religious work nor a collection of definite number of books compiled at a particular time. The Vedic literature…

Bhasa is one of the oldest known classical playwrights in the history of Sanskrit literature and may well be known as the father of Sanskrit drama. A…

On January 25, 1931, Gandhi and all other members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) arrested for Salt Law disobedience, were released unconditionally. The CWC authorised Gandhi…

The conflict of 1962 between India and China, centred primarily on the disputed Aksai Chin region along those countries’ borders. The partition of India (1947), left a…

The war between India and Pakistan in December 1971 was a milestone in that it saw the liberation of East Pakistan resulting in the birth of a…

QUES . How was the controversial McMahon Line responsible for the Indo-China War of 1962? UPSC IES/ISS EXAM 2014 General Studies. 200 Words. 5 Marks McMahon Line,…