The Invasion Of Nadir
A.D. 1738 TO A.D. 1742 The old cry once more! Over the wheat-fields of the Punjab, just as the seed was bursting into green, that cry-- "The Toorkh! The Toorkh!" Surely no land on the glo... The Invasion Of Timur
A.D. 1388 TO A.D. 1389 There is one cry of terror which from time immemorial has echoed out over the wide wheatfields of Northern India. Sometimes it has come when the first sword-points of the new-sprouted seed give a gr... The Marvellous Millennium
B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1 A millennium indeed! A thousand years of Time which (despite many purely historical events in its latter half, to which return will be made in the next chapter) must be treated, as a whole, as perhaps... The Outlying Provinces
B.C. 231 TO A.D. 45 A growing tide as it nears the springs claims more and more of the shore at each rise and fall. So it was with the tide which on Asoka's death set in around his throne. On the north-western frontie... The Rajput Resistance
A.D. 1176 TO A.D. 1206 More than a hundred years had passed since Mahmud of Ghuzni's strong grip had relaxed on India. During that time she had reverted, as she always will revert, to those ideals of life which suit her d... The Rise Of The Mahratta Power
A.D. 1707 TO A.D. 1738 The story of Siva-ji has already been told. His early decease, while it did not materially check the rising flood of Mahratta power, certainly left the invading West a freer hand along the shores of... The Sesu-naga And Other Kings
B.C. 620 TO B.C. 327 We stand now on the threshold of actual history. Before us lie two thousand five hundred years; and behind us? Who can say? From the far distance come the reverberating thunders of the Mahabharata, s... The Slave Kings
A.D. 1206 TO A.D. 1288 "The Empire of Delhi was founded by a slave." So runs the well-known jibe. And it is true; for although India, despite the combined resistance of the Rajputs, was overcome during the reign of Mah... The Tartar Dynasties
A.D. 1288 TO A.D. 1398 As can easily be imagined, India at the end of those ten Slave reigns (which between them lasted but eighty-two years) was a very different place to what India had been when Eibuk's iron hand first ... The Vedic Times
B.C. 2000 TO B.C. 1400 Before entering on its history it is necessary to grasp the size of the great continent with which we have to deal. Roughly speaking, India has fourteen and a half times the area of the British Isle... The Wanderings Of A King
A.D. 1542 TO A.D. 1556 When Humayon and his Queen Hamida-Banu-Begum left the infant Akbar to face fortune by himself, their own hopes for the future were low indeed. Look where they would, there seemed small chance of suc... The White Huns And Good King Harsha
A.D. 450 TO A.D. 648 The name Huns has quite a familiar sound. We think of Attila; we remember the 350 pounds weight of gold which Theodosius of Byzantium paid as an annual tribute to the victorious horde which swept int... Warren Hastings
A.D. 1773 TO A.D. 1784 It will be remembered that Warren Hastings was the only Member of Council who supported Clive in his decision that all servants of the Company engaging in private trade were bound to pay duty. Th...

Shahjahan Chaos Akbar The Great The House Of Sur The Anabasis The Ancient Age The Board Of Control Hyder-ali Et Alia

The Bactrian Camel And The Indian Bull The Wanderings Of A King The Great Moghuls Humayon The Invasion Of Timur The Great Mutiny The Invasion Of Nadir The Marvellous Millennium The Great Moghuls Babar The Adventurer