History glossary
History glossary for UPSC: 2,813 terms A–Z from NCERT Class 6–12 and beyond, each explained in simple English, 830 in depth.
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- 4.2 kiloyear event (2200 BCE drought)
A
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Abbasid caliphate (Abbasids)
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan)
- Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (Rahim)
- Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi (Abd al-Razzaq)
- Abhang (Abhanga)
- Abhaya mudra
- Abhidhamma Divas (International Abhidhamma Divas)
- Abhidhamma Pitaka
- Abhijnanashakuntalam (Shakuntala)
- Abhinavagupta
- Abolition of sati (Bengal Sati Regulation 1829)
- Abolition of slavery in the British Empire 1833 (Slavery Abolition Act 1833)
- Abolition of untouchability (Article 17)
- Aborigines (Aboriginal Australians)
- Absolutism (Royal absolutism)
- Abul Fazl (Abu'l Fazl, Abul Fazl Allami)
- Abul Kalam Azad (Maulana Azad)
- A Bunch of Old Letters
- Abu Salabikh
- Abwab
- Achaemenid conquest of India (Persian invasion, Achaemenid conquest of the Indus, Persian conquest of north-west India)
- Achaemenid empire (Persian empire)
- Acheulian tradition (Acheulean, Madrasian)
- Act of Union 1707
- Adamgarh
- Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra
- Adichanallur
- Adil Shahi dynasty (Bijapur sultanate)
- Adi Shankaracharya (Shankara)
- Adivasi (Adibasi)
- Adnyapatra (Ajnapatra)
- Adoption of the Constitution 1949 (Constitution Day, Samvidhan Divas)
- Advaita Vedanta (Advaita)
- Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights and Minorities (Advisory Committee)
- Afanasy Nikitin (Athanasius Nikitin, Afanasii Nikitin)
- Afaqis and Dakhnis (Foreigners and Deccanis)
- Afonso de Albuquerque (Albuquerque)
- Age of reorganisation
- Agni
- Agnikula legend (Agnivanshi Rajputs)
- Agnimitra
- Agra Fort (Red Fort of Agra)
- Agrahara
- Ahar-Banas culture (Ahar culture)
- Ahilyabai Holkar
- Ahimsa (Non-violence, Non-injury)
- Ahmad Shah Abdali (Ahmad Shah Durrani)
- Ahmedabad mill strike (Ahmedabad mill strike 1918, Ahmedabad satyagraha)
- Ahom kingdom (Ahoms)
- Ahom revolt 1828 (Gomdhar Konwar revolt)
- Aihole (Ayyavole, Aryapura)
- Aihole inscription (Meguti inscription)
- Ain-i-Akbari (Ain)
- Airavatesvara temple, Darasuram
- Ajanta caves
- Ajanta paintings (Ajanta murals)
- Ajatashatru (Ajatasattu)
- Ajita Kesakambalin
- Ajivika
- Akali movement (Gurdwara reform movement)
- Akal Takht
- Akam and puram
- Akananuru
- Akbar (Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar)
- Akbarnama (Akbar Nama)
- Akbar's tomb, Sikandra
- Akkadian empire (Akkad)
- Akkadian language (Akkadian)
- Akka Mahadevi
- Alai Darwaza
- Alamgirpur
- Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah (Hasan Gangu)
- Alauddin Khalji (Ala-ud-din Khalji, Alauddin Khilji)
- Al-Biruni (Alberuni, Abu Raihan al-Biruni)
- Al-Biruni on the caste system
- Al-Biruni's barriers to understanding
- Alexander Cunningham
- Alexander of Macedon (Alexander the Great)
- Alexander's invasion of India (Alexander's invasion)
- Al-Hilal
- Ali brothers (Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali)
- Alladi Krishnaswamy Aiyar
- Allama Prabhu
- Allasani Peddana (Andhra Kavitapitamaha)
- All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
- All India States Peoples Conference (AISPC)
- All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
- All India Women's Conference (AIWC)
- Alluri Sitarama Raju
- Al-Masudi
- Al-Utbi (Tarikh-i-Yamini)
- Alvars (Azhwars)
- Amalaka
- Amalguzar (Amil, Amil-guzar)
- Amarakosha
- Amara-nayaka system (Amaram)
- Amaravati school of art
- Amaravati stupa (Amaravati)
- Amatya (Majumdar)
- American Civil War
- American frontier (Frontier)
- American Indian Wars
- Amin
- Amir Hasan Sijzi (Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi)
- Amir Khusrau (Tuti-i-Hind)
- Amlah
- Ammu Swaminathan
- Amoghavarsha I (Nripatunga)
- Amorites
- Amphora (Amphorae)
- Amri
- Amrita Bazar Patrika
- Amuktamalyada
- Ananda
- Anandamath
- Anatta (Anatman)
- Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958 (AMASR Act)
- Anda
- Andal (Kodhai)
- Andreas Vesalius (Vesalius)
- Anekantavada
- Angkor Wat
- Anglican Church (Church of England)
- Anglo-Afghan wars
- Anglo-Burmese wars
- Anglo-Maratha wars
- Anglo-Mysore wars
- Anglo-Nepalese war (Gorkha war, Treaty of Sugauli)
- Anglo-Sikh wars
- Anicca (Anitya)
- Aniconic representation of the Buddha (Symbols of the Buddha)
- Anjali mudra
- Ankiya Naat (Bhaona)
- Annamacharya (Tallapaka Annamacharya)
- Annexation of Awadh
- Annie Besant
- Annie Mascarene
- Antarala (Vestibule)
- Anthropological Survey of India
- Antiquities and Art Treasures Act 1972
- Antonio Monserrate (Monserrate)
- Antyaja
- Anubhava Mantapa
- Anuloma and pratiloma
- Aparigraha
- Apartheid
- Appar (Tirunavukkarasar)
- Aquatint
- Arab conquest of Sindh
- Arabesque
- Arab transmission of Greek learning
- Aramaic
- A. Ramaswamy Mudaliar
- Aranmula kannadi (Aranmula metal mirror)
- Aranyakas (Forest texts)
- Aravidu dynasty
- Archaeo-botany (Archaeobotany, Palaeobotany)
- Archaeogenetics (Ancient DNA studies)
- Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
- Archaeology
- Ardhanarishvara
- A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (Foguoji, Faxian's Foguoji, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms)
- Arikamedu
- Arjuna's Penance (Descent of the Ganga, Descent of the Ganga relief, Mahabalipuram rock relief)
- Armenians in India
- Arthashastra
- Article 356 (President's Rule)
- Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution (No war clause)
- Aruna Asaf Ali
- Aryabhata
- Aryabhatiya
- Aryan invasion theory
- Aryavarta
- Arzi
- Ashio mine pollution
- Ashmaka (Assaka)
- Ashoka (Devanampiya Piyadasi, Asoka)
- Ashokan edicts (Ashokan inscriptions, Asokan edicts, Rock edicts)
- Ashoka's dhamma (Asoka's dhamma, Dhamma, Ashokan dhamma)
- Ashoka's missions abroad (Dhamma missions)
- Ashoka's religious tolerance
- Ashoka's welfare measures
- Ashokavadana
- Ashrama system (Four ashramas)
- Ashtadhyayi (Panini's Ashtadhyayi)
- Ashtadiggajas
- Ashtamahasthanas (Eight great places of Buddhism)
- Ashtanga yoga (Eight limbs of yoga)
- Ashtapradhan (Council of eight ministers)
- Ashvaghosha (Asvaghosa)
- Ashvamedha (Horse sacrifice, Ashvamedha yajna)
- Asian financial crisis (IMF crisis)
- Asiatic mode of production
- Asiatic Society of Bengal (Asiatic Society)
- Assurbanipal
- Assyrian empire (Assyria)
- Astika and nastika (Orthodox and heterodox schools)
- Atala Masjid
- Atharvaveda (Atharva Veda)
- Atisha Dipankara (Atisa, Dipankara Srijnana)
- Atithi devo bhava
- Atman
- Attirampakkam
- Attlee's statement 1947
- August Declaration 1917 (Montagu Declaration)
- Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine)
- August Offer 1940
- Augustus (Octavian)
- Augustus Cleveland
- Aulikara dynasty (Aulikaras)
- Auqaf (Waqf)
- Aurangzeb (Alamgir)
- Austria-Hungary (Dual Monarchy, Ausgleich 1867)
- Autobiographies as sources
- Avalokiteshvara (Padmapani, Lokeshvara)
- Avanti
- Avantivarman
- Avatar
- Avesta (Zend Avesta)
- Avvaiyar
- Ayagar system (Ayagars)
- Ayurveda
- Azad Hind government 1943 (Provisional Government of Free India)
- Azamgarh Proclamation
- Azimullah Khan
B
- Baba Farid (Fariduddin Ganj-i Shakar)
- Baba Ramchandra
- Babur (Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur)
- Baburnama (Tuzuk-i-Baburi, Babur Nama)
- Babylon
- Babylonia
- Badami cave temples (Vatapi caves)
- Badshahi government
- Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
- Bagh caves
- Bagor
- Bahadur Shah Zafar (Bahadur Shah II)
- Bahai Faith (Bahaism)
- Bahauddin Zakariya
- Bahi khata
- Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha
- Bahlul Lodi
- Bahmani madrasa, Bidar (Mahmud Gawan madrasa)
- Bahmani Sultanate (Bahmani kingdom)
- Bairam Khan (Khan-i-Khanan)
- Bajirao I (Peshwa Bajirao)
- Bakhar
- Bakhshali manuscript
- Bakhtiyar Khilji (Ikhtiyar-ud-din Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji)
- Bakht Khan
- Balaji Bajirao (Nana Saheb Peshwa, Nanasaheb Peshwa)
- Balaji Vishwanath
- Balakrishna Sharma
- Balathal
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Lokmanya Tilak)
- Bali
- Balkan problem (Balkans)
- Balkan Wars 1912-1913
- Ballia and Tamluk parallel governments (Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar, Medinipur parallel government)
- Banabhatta (Bana)
- Banaras Hindu University speech (BHU speech of 1916)
- Banawali
- Banda Singh Bahadur (Banda Bahadur)
- Bande Mataram newspaper
- Bani Thani
- Banjar
- Banjaras
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee)
- Barabar caves
- Barakat (Baraka)
- Bardoli satyagraha 1928 (Bardoli satyagraha)
- Bargadar (Adhiyar)
- Bargi raids (Maratha raids in Bengal)
- Bargir and shiledar
- Barid (Barid-i-mamalik)
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Barygaza (Bharuch, Bhrigukachchha)
- Basavanna (Basaveshvara, Basava)
- Batai (Bhaoli)
- Battala
- Battle of Ain Jalut 1260
- Battle of Alaboi
- Battle of Bedara 1759 (Battle of Chinsurah)
- Battle of Buxar 1764
- Battle of Chandawar
- Battle of Chanderi
- Battle of Chandernagore 1757
- Battle of Chausa
- Battle of Chinhat
- Battle of Colachel
- Battle of Ghaghra
- Battle of Haldighati
- Battle of Kannauj (Battle of Bilgram)
- Battle of Kasahrada (Battle of Mount Abu)
- Battle of Khanwa
- Battle of Plassey (Battle of Palashi)
- Battle of Pratapgad
- Battle of Raichur
- Battle of Saraighat
- Battle of Swally 1612 (Battle of Suvali)
- Battle of Takkolam
- Battle of Talikota (Battle of Rakkasa-Tangadi, Battle of Rakshasi-Tangadi)
- Battle of Ten Kings (Dasarajna)
- Battle of the Hydaspes (Battle of the Jhelum)
- Battle of Wandiwash 1760 (Battle of Vandavasi)
- B.B. Lal
- BCE and CE (BC and AD, Before Common Era and Common Era)
- Begar
- Begum Aizaz Rasul
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain)
- Belan valley
- Bell capital (Persepolitan capital)
- Bell of arms
- Benami transaction (Benami)
- Benedictine order (Rule of St Benedict)
- Bene Israel
- Bengal Army
- Bengal famine 1943
- Bengal famine of 1770
- Bengal sultanate (Ilyas Shahi and Husain Shahi dynasties)
- Bengal Tenancy Act 1885
- Berlin Conference (Berlin Conference 1884-85)
- Be-shari'a and ba-shari'a (Be-shara and ba-shara)
- Bessemer process
- Bhabru edict (Calcutta-Bairat edict)
- Bhadrabahu
- Bhagat Singh
- Bhagavad Gita (Gita)
- Bhagavata Purana
- Bhaja caves
- Bhakti movement (Bhakti)
- Bharat (Bharatam, Bharatavarsha, Bharata-varsha, Bharatvarsha)
- Bharatas (Bharata jana)
- Bharat Mata
- Bharhut stupa (Bharhut)
- Bhartrihari
- Bhasa
- Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II)
- Bhaskara I
- Bhattiprolu stupa
- Bhikshu and bhikshuni (Bhikkhu and bhikkhuni, Bhikkhu, Bhikshu, Bhikkhuni, Bhikshuni)
- Bhils
- Bhil uprisings
- Bhimbetka rock shelters (Bhimbetka)
- Bhirrana
- Bhitargaon temple
- Bhitari pillar inscription
- Bhojeshwar temple (Bhojpur Shiva temple)
- Bhojshala
- Bhukti
- Bhumisparsha mudra (Earth-touching gesture)
- Bibi Ka Maqbara (Taj of the Deccan)
- Bijak (Kabir Bijak)
- Bijolia movement
- Bimbisara
- Bindusara (Amitraghata)
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Birbal (Mahesh Das)
- Birjis Qadr
- Birsa Munda movement (Ulgulan, Munda rebellion)
- Black and red ware (BRW)
- Black Death (Bubonic plague)
- Black Hole of Calcutta
- Blood and iron (Realpolitik)
- Blowing from guns
- B.N. Rau (Benegal Narsing Rau)
- Bodh Gaya (Bodhgaya)
- Bodhisattva (Bodhisatta)
- Bodhi tree
- Boer War (South African War)
- Boghazkoi inscription (Boghazkoy inscription)
- Bohras and Khojas (Dawoodi Bohras)
- Bombay cotton mills (First cotton mill in Bombay)
- Bombay Deccan
- Bombay Gazette
- Bombay given in dowry 1661 (Cession of Bombay)
- Bombay Samachar
- Bone-dust flour rumour
- Borgeet (Bargeet)
- Botany Bay penal colony
- Boustrophedon
- Boxer Rebellion (Boxer Uprising)
- B. Pocker Bahadur (Pocker Sahib)
- Brahmadeya
- Brahmagiri
- Brahmagupta
- Brahman
- Brahmana texts (Brahmanas)
- Brahmana varna (Brahmin)
- Brahmi numerals
- Brahmi script (Brahmi)
- B.R. Ambedkar (Babasaheb Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
- Bretton Woods Conference (United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference)
- Bretton Woods system
- Bride-price
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
- Brihadishvara temple (Brihadisvara temple, Rajarajeshvaram, Big Temple, Brihadeeswarar temple, Rajarajeshvara temple, Brihadeshvara temple, Thanjavur)
- Brihadratha
- British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger
- Bronze Age
- Buddhaghosa
- Buddha's teachings to laity (Sigalovada Sutta)
- Buddhist councils
- Buddhist critique of varna
- Buland Darwaza
- Buranji
- Burdwan auction of 1797 (Burdwan estate auction)
- Burzahom
- Byzantine empire (Eastern Roman Empire)
C
- Cabinet Mission 1946 (Cabinet Mission, Cabinet Mission Plan 1946)
- Calcutta Madrasa 1781
- Calcutta special session 1920
- Calendar advertising (Calendar art)
- California Gold Rush (Gold Rush)
- Caliphate (Khilafat)
- Calligraphed Constitution (Prem Behari Narain Raizada)
- Camp towns
- Canal colonies
- Canterbury Tales
- Carbonari
- Carnatic wars (First, Second and Third Carnatic Wars)
- Carnelian
- Carnelian beads
- Cartaz system (Cartaz)
- Cassandra Fedele
- Cast coins
- Caste
- Caste mobility in rural Mughal India
- Cathedral
- Catholic Church (Roman Catholic Church)
- Cemetery H culture
- Censorship of Press Act 1799
- Central Tibetan Administration (Tibetan government-in-exile)
- Chachar
- Chachnama (Fatehnama-i-Sind, Fathnama-i-Sind)
- Chahamanas (Chauhans)
- Chain of justice (Zanjir-i-adl)
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Chaitanya)
- Chaitya
- Chaitya and vihara
- Chakravartin (Chakravarti samrat)
- Chalcolithic age (Copper-Stone Age, Chalcolithic, Copper Age)
- Chalukyas of Badami (Chalukyas of Vatapi, Early Chalukyas, Badami Chalukyas)
- Chamber of Princes (Narendra Mandal)
- Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
- Champaran satyagraha
- Chandalas
- Chand Bibi
- Chandela dynasty (Chandellas, Jejakabhukti, Chandelas)
- Chandidas
- Chandimangala
- Chandogya Upanishad (Chhandogya Upanishad)
- Chandragupta I
- Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya)
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Chandrashekhar Azad
- Chanhudaro (Chanhu-daro)
- Chapatti movement (Distribution of chapattis)
- Chapbooks (Penny chapbooks)
- Charaka Samhita (Charaka)
- Charbagh (Chahar bagh)
- Charkha (Spinning wheel)
- Charkhanama
- Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
- Charles Ball
- Charles Metcalfe (Liberator of the Indian press)
- Charles Wilkins
- Charminar
- Charter Act 1793
- Charter Act 1813 (Charter Act of 1813)
- Charter Act 1833 (Saint Helena Act 1833)
- Charter Act 1853
- Charter Oath 1868
- Chartism (People's Charter 1838)
- Charvaka (Lokayata)
- Chaulukya dynasty (Solanki dynasty, Chalukyas of Gujarat)
- Chaurasee des
- Chauri Chaura incident
- Chauth and sardeshmukhi
- Chedi dynasty (Mahameghavahana dynasty)
- Chennakeshava temple (Belur temple, Chennakeshava temple, Belur)
- Cheraman Juma Masjid (Cheraman Juma Mosque)
- Chera Perumals (Cheras of Mahodayapuram)
- Cheras (Keralaputras)
- Cherokee
- Chhatrapati Shivaji (Shivaji Maharaj, Shivaji Bhonsle)
- Chhatrasal
- Chhatri (Chhatra)
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Chidambaram temple (Nataraja temple)
- Chiefdom (Chief)
- Chief Seattle
- Chinese civilisation (Ancient China)
- Chinese imperial examination system (Chinese imperial examination, Civil service examination)
- Chintz
- Chirand
- Chishti silsila (Chishtiya)
- Chittagong armoury raid 1930
- Chola bronzes
- Chola dynasty (Imperial Cholas, Later Cholas, Chola empire)
- Chola naval expedition to Shrivijaya
- Chola patronage of bhakti
- Cholas (Early Cholas)
- Cholistan
- Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act 1908 (CNT Act)
- Christian humanism (Northern humanism)
- Christianisation of the Roman Empire
- Christopher Columbus (Columbus)
- Chuar uprisings
- Chudamani Vihara (Nagapattinam vihara)
- Chunar sandstone
- Citadel
- Civic nationalism
- Civil disobedience movement
- Civilisation
- Civilising mission
- Classical age
- Classification of lands under Akbar
- Clemency of Canning (The Clemency of Canning)
- Clement Attlee
- Clergy (First order)
- Cochin Jews (Malabari Jews, Paradesi Jews)
- Code of Hammurabi
- Colin Campbell (Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde)
- Colin Mackenzie
- Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG)
- Collector (District Collector)
- Colonial famines
- Colonialism
- Colonial railways
- Columbian exchange
- Comintern (Third International)
- Commencement of the Constitution (Republic Day)
- Commercialisation of agriculture
- Committees of the Constituent Assembly
- Commodore Perry (Matthew Perry)
- Communal Award 1932
- Communist Party of China (CCP, Chinese Communist Party)
- Communist Party of India (CPI)
- Composition of the Mahabharata
- Comrade
- Concert of Europe (Congress system)
- Confucianism
- Congo Free State
- Congress ministries 1937-39
- Congress of Berlin 1878
- Congress resolution on rights of minorities
- Congress Socialist Party (CSP, Congress Socialists)
- Conservatism
- Constantine (Constantine I)
- Constantinople (Byzantium)
- Constituent Assembly as legislature (Dominion Parliament)
- Constituent Assembly Debates (CAD)
- Constituent assembly demand
- Constituent Assembly of India
- Constitution Act 1982
- Constitution of India
- Constructive programme
- Coolie begar
- Copernican revolution (Heliocentric theory)
- Copper Hoard culture (Copper hoards)
- Copper plate inscriptions (Copperplate charters, Copper plate grants)
- Corn Laws
- Cornwallis Code 1793
- Coronation of Shivaji (Shivrajyabhishek)
- Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum (CII)
- Cotton boom (Cotton boom of the 1860s, American Civil War and Indian cotton, Cotton famine)
- Cotton excise duty 1896
- Cotton Supply Association
- Council of Trent
- Count Cavour (Camillo di Cavour)
- Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation)
- Covenanted civil service (Covenanted services)
- C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji)
- C.R. Das (Chittaranjan Das, Deshbandhu)
- C.R. formula 1944 (Rajaji formula)
- Crimean War
- Criminal Tribes Act
- Cripps Mission 1942 (Cripps Mission)
- Crisis of the fourteenth century
- Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
- Cross-Strait relations
- Crown ownership of land (Absence of private property in land)
- Crusades
- Cultural and educational rights (Articles 29-30)
- Cultural assimilation of invaders
- Cultural Revolution (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution)
- Cuneiform
- Cutcherry (Kachahri)
- Cyclopean wall of Rajgir
- Cylinder seal
D
- Dadabhai Naoroji (Grand Old Man of India)
- Dadu Dayal
- Dagh and chehra (Dagh, Huliya)
- Dahsala system (Ain-i-Dahsala)
- Daimabad
- Daimabad bronzes
- Daimyo
- Dakhani (Dakhni, Deccani Urdu, Deccani)
- Dakshayani Velayudhan
- Dakshina digvijaya (Southern conquest of Shivaji)
- Dakshinapatha
- Dalai Lama (14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso)
- Damdupat
- Damin-i-Koh
- Damodarpur copper plates
- Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro (Dancing Girl)
- Dandin
- Danish East India Company
- Dante Alighieri (Dante)
- Dantidurga
- Daojali Hading
- Dara Shikoh (Dara Shukoh)
- Dargah (Tomb-shrine)
- Dark Ages
- Dasa-karmakara (Dasas and karmakaras)
- Dasam Granth
- Dashavatara (Ten incarnations of Vishnu)
- Dashavatara temple of Deogarh (Deogarh temple, Dashavatara temple, Deogarh)
- Dastak
- Daswanth and Basawan
- Daulatabad (Devagiri)
- David Ricardo
- Dawa (Foot-post)
- Daya Ram Sahni
- Day of Deliverance 1939
- D.C. Sircar
- Debt bond
- Debt bondage in the Roman Empire
- Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act 1879 (Deccan Agriculturists' Relief Act)
- Deccan famine of 1832-34
- Deccani painting
- Deccan riots (Deccan riots of 1875, Deccan peasant uprising)
- Deccan Riots Commission
- Deccan sultanates (Five Deccan sultanates)
- Decline of gold coin finds
- Decline of the Guptas
- Decline of the Harappan civilisation
- Decline of the Mauryan empire
- Deed of hire
- Defence of India Act (Defence of India Rules)
- Deimachus
- Deindustrialisation
- Delhi Sultanate
- Delhi Urdu Akhbar
- Demetrius (Demetrius I)
- Dendrochronology (Tree-ring dating)
- Deng Xiaoping
- Deoband Seminary (Darul Uloom Deoband)
- Deorkothar stupas
- Depressed Classes
- Desai-Liaqat pact
- Deshmukh (Deshpande)
- Devadana
- Devanampiya (Devanampriya)
- Devapala
- Devaputra
- Deva Raya II
- D.G. Tendulkar
- Dhamek stupa (Dhamekh stupa)
- Dhamma mahamatta (Officers of dhamma, Dhamma mahamatra)
- Dhana Nanda
- Dharasana satyagraha 1930
- Dharma
- Dharmachakra (Wheel of dharma)
- Dharmachakra mudra
- Dharmapala
- Dharmashastras
- Dharmasutras
- Dhauli
- Dhauli elephant
- Dhokra (Dokra)
- Dholavira (Dholavira World Heritage Site, Dholavira UNESCO)
- Dholavira reservoirs
- Dhrupad
- Dhyana mudra (Samadhi mudra)
- Diamond Sutra
- Diamond Triangle of Odisha (Ratnagiri, Lalitgiri, Udayagiri)
- Didarganj Yakshi (Chauri bearer, Yakshi with fly whisk)
- Didwana
- Dietrich Brandis
- Digambara
- Dignaga (Dinnaga)
- Digvijaysinhji Jadeja (Good Maharaja, Jam Sahib of Nawanagar)
- Diku
- Dilmun
- Dilwara temples (Delvada temples)
- Dinara (Gupta gold coins)
- Din-i-Ilahi (Tauhid-i-Ilahi)
- Diocletian
- Dionysius
- Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa (Mahavamsa, Dipavamsa)
- Direct Action Day 1946 (Great Calcutta Killings, Direct Action Day)
- Discovery of the Harappan civilisation
- Discriminating protection (Fiscal Commission 1921-22)
- Divide and rule
- Divine kingship
- Division of labour
- Divyavadana
- Diwan (Wazir, Dewan, Diwan-i-Kul)
- Diwan-i-Amir-i-Kohi (Agriculture department)
- Diwan-i-Arz (Ariz-i-Mamalik)
- Diwan-i-Bandagan
- Diwan-i-Khairat
- Diwani of Bengal (Diwani rights)
- Diwan-i-Riyasat
- Diwan-i-Wizarat
- Dnyaneshwar (Jnaneshwar, Sant Dnyaneshwar, Jnanadeva)
- Doctrine of Lapse
- Dolmen
- Domestication of animals
- Domingo Paes (Paes)
- Dominion status
- Donation of Constantine
- Donations to stupas
- Donyi-Polo
- Double dome
- Downward filtration theory
- Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly (Drafting Committee)
- Drain of wealth (Drain theory)
- Draupadi's marriage
- Draupadi's question (Game of dice)
- Dravida style (Southern temple style, Dravidian temple architecture)
- Dreamtime (The Dreaming)
- Dual government of Bengal (Dual system)
- Duarte Barbosa
- Du-aspa sih-aspa
- Dukkha
- Dum Dum khalasi rumour
- Dupleix (Joseph Francois Dupleix)
- Durga at Mahabalipuram (Mahishasuramardini panel)
- Durgadas Rathore
- Durga temple of Aihole
- Dutch East India Company (VOC)
- Dwarkanath Tagore
- Dyarchy (Diarchy)
E
- Early Harappan phase (Pre-Harappan phase)
- Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi (Eastern Chalukyas)
- Eastern Gangas (Eastern Ganga dynasty)
- Eastern Question
- East India Company (English East India Company, EIC)
- Ecological imperialism (Biological conquest of the Americas)
- Economic History of India
- Edakkal caves
- Edict of Milan 313
- Edict of Nantes 1598
- Edo (Tokyo)
- Edwin Montagu
- Egyptian civilisation (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian civilisation)
- Egyptian hieroglyphs (Hieroglyphic script)
- Eightfold Path (Ashtangika marga)
- Eight forms of marriage
- Ekalavya
- Eka movement (Unity movement)
- Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti
- Ekasarana dharma (Neo-Vaishnavism of Assam)
- Eknath
- Elephanta caves (Gharapuri caves)
- Eleven demands of Gandhi 1930 (Eleven points)
- Elliot marbles (Amaravati marbles)
- Ellora caves
- Emperor system
- Enclosure movement (Enclosure Acts, Enclosures)
- Endogamy
- Enfield rifle
- English Parliament (Parliament)
- English Reformation (Act of Supremacy 1534)
- Enlightenment (Age of Reason, Age of Enlightenment)
- Enmerkar
- Epic of Gilgamesh (Gilgamesh Epic)
- Epigraphy (Epigraphist)
- Equites (Equestrian order)
- Eran boar
- Eran inscription of Bhanugupta (Eran sati inscription)
- Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus)
- Ernest Renan (Ernst Renan, Renan)
- Escape from Agra
- Estates-General
- Ethnic nationalism (Religious nationalism)
- Ettuthokai (Eight Anthologies)
- European views of Indian art
- Exogamy
- Expedition of the Thousand (Redshirts)
- Export-oriented industrialisation
- Extremists (Militant nationalists)
F
- Factory Acts
- Faience
- Faizi
- Fall of Constantinople (Fall of Constantinople 1453)
- Famine Code (Indian Famine Codes)
- Famine Commissions (Strachey Commission, Famine Commission of 1880)
- Faraizi movement
- Farman (Firman)
- Fatawa-i-Alamgiri
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Faujdar
- Fawa'id al-Fu'ad (Fawaid-ul-Fuad)
- Faxian (Fa-Hien, Fa Hsien, Fa Xian)
- Federal Court of India (Federal Court)
- Felice Beato
- Ferdinand Magellan (Magellan-Elcano voyage)
- Fernao Nuniz (Nuniz)
- Fertile Crescent
- Feudalism
- FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)
- Fictitious sale
- Fief
- Fifth Report (Fifth Report on East India Company affairs)
- Filippo Brunelleschi (Brunelleschi)
- Firangi
- Firangi raj
- Firdausi (Ferdowsi)
- Firdausi order (Firdausiyya)
- Fire altars (Fire altars of Kalibangan)
- First Battle of Panipat
- First Battle of Tarain
- First Buddhist council
- First Jain council
- First Law Commission
- First Nations
- First railway line 1853 (Bombay-Thane railway)
- First Sino-Japanese War (Treaty of Shimonoseki 1895, Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95)
- First Urbanisation
- First World War (World War I)
- Firuz Shah Kotla (Firozabad)
- Firuz Shah Tughlaq
- Fiscal federalism
- Five great epics of Tamil (Aimperunkappiyam)
- Five pillars of Islam
- Five vows of Jainism (Pancha mahavrata)
- Fixed exchange rate
- Flag Committee
- Floating exchange rate (Flexible exchange rate)
- Florence
- Flow of silver into India (Bullion inflow, Inflow of precious metals into India)
- Flying shuttle (Fly shuttle)
- Folk and tribal traditions
- Fortifications of Vijayanagara
- Fortnightly Reports (Home Department fortnightly reports)
- Fort William College
- Forward Bloc (All India Forward Bloc)
- Fossil
- Four Modernisations
- Four Noble Truths (Arya satya)
- Fourth Buddhist council
- Francis Buchanan (Buchanan-Hamilton)
- Francois Bernier (Bernier)
- Francois Sisten
- Franco-Prussian War
- Frankfurt Parliament (Frankfurt Assembly)
- Franks
- French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes Orientales)
- French Revolution
- Friars
- Fukoku kyohei (Rich country, strong army)
- Fukuzawa Yukichi
- Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi
- Futuh-us-Salatin
G
- Gabarbands
- Gahadavala dynasty (Gahadavalas)
- Gahapati
- Gajalakshmi
- Gajapati kingdom (Gajapatis, Gajapati dynasty)
- Galileo Galilei (Galileo)
- Gana-sangha (Gana, Early republic, Ganasangha)
- Gandatindu Jataka
- Gandhara
- Gandhara school of art (Gandhara art, Gandhara school)
- Gandhi as Mahatma
- Gandhi in South Africa
- Gandhi-Irwin Pact (Delhi Pact)
- Gandhi-Jinnah talks
- Gandhi's dhoti and loincloth
- Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture
- Ganga and Yamuna door guardians (River goddesses)
- Gangaikondacholapuram
- Ganika
- Gantidar
- Ganweriwala
- Garbhagriha (Sanctum sanctorum)
- Gargi (Gargi Vachaknavi)
- Garhwali soldiers at Peshawar 1930 (Peshawar incident)
- Garuda
- Gathasaptashati (Gaha Sattasai)
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Gautama Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha, Siddhartha, Shakyamuni)
- Gautami Balashri
- Gautamiputra Satakarni (Gotami-puta Siri-Satakani)
- Gavishti
- Gayatri mantra (Savitri mantra)
- G.D. Birla (Ghanshyam Das Birla)
- G. Durgabai (Durgabai Deshmukh)
- Gendered access to property
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- General Service Enlistment Act 1856
- Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khan, Temujin)
- George Chinnery
- George Stephenson
- Germania
- Germanic tribes (Barbarian tribes)
- Gesu Daraz (Bande Nawaz, Bandanawaz)
- Ghatika
- Ghazan Khan
- Ghaznavid empire (Ghaznavids, Ghaznavid dynasty)
- Ghiyasuddin Balban (Balban)
- Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (Ghazi Malik)
- Ghurids (Ghorid dynasty)
- Gift exchange versus commodity
- Gilund
- Ginan
- Gingee Fort (Senji)
- Giotto
- Giovanni Careri (Gemelli Careri)
- Girnar rock edict
- Gita Govinda (Gitagovindam)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (Garibaldi)
- Giuseppe Mazzini (Mazzini)
- Globalisation
- Goa Inquisition
- Goddess worship (Shakti cult)
- Golconda Fort
- Golden Horde (Jochids)
- Gold standard
- Gol Gumbaz
- Gomastha
- Gommateshwara statue (Bahubali statue, Bahubali statue of Shravanabelagola)
- Gond kingdoms (Garha-Katanga)
- Gondophares (Gondophernes)
- Gonoo
- Gopala
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Gopuram
- Gotra
- Government of India Act 1858 (Act for the Better Government of India, Crown rule in India)
- Government of India Act 1919 (Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, Montford reforms)
- Government of India Act 1935
- Govind Ballabh Pant (G.B. Pant)
- Grand Anicut (Kallanai)
- Grand Trunk Road (Sadak-e-Azam)
- Greased cartridges (Enfield rifle cartridges)
- Great and little traditions
- Great Australian Silence
- Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro (Great Bath)
- Great Departure (Four sights, Mahabhinishkramana)
- Great Depression (Depression of the 1930s)
- Great Depression in India
- Great Exhibition 1851 (Crystal Palace)
- Great Famine of 1876-78
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR)
- Great Leap Forward
- Great Living Chola Temples
- Great Trial of 1922 (Gandhi's sedition trial)
- Great Wall of China
- Greek War of Independence
- Gregorian calendar
- Grimm brothers (Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)
- Group of 77 (G-77)
- Guaranteed interest system (Railway guarantee system)
- Gudem Hills rebellion (Rampa rebellion 1922-24)
- Guerrilla warfare
- Gufkral
- Guild
- Gujarat sultanate
- Gulamgiri
- Guntupalli caves
- Guomindang (Kuomintang, GMD, National People's Party)
- Gupta administration (Gupta administrative units, Bhukti, vishaya and vithi)
- Gupta art
- Gupta empire (Gupta dynasty, Guptas)
- Gupta era
- Gupta guild officials (Nagarashreshthi, Prathamakulika)
- Gupta temple at Sanchi (Temple 17, Sanchi temple 17)
- Gurjara-Pratiharas (Pratiharas)
- Guru Amar Das
- Guru Angad
- Guru Arjan (Guru Arjan Dev)
- Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib
- Guru Gobind Singh
- Guru Granth Sahib (Adi Granth, Adi Granth Sahib)
- Guru Hargobind
- Guru Har Rai and Guru Har Krishan
- Gurukula
- Guru Nanak (Baba Guru Nanak)
- Guru Ram Das
- Guru Tegh Bahadur
- Guruvayur satyagraha 1931-32
- Gutenberg press (Movable type printing press, Gutenberg printing press, Movable type printing)
- Gwangju Democratisation Movement (Gwangju Uprising)
- Gymnosophists (Naked philosophers)
H
- Habsburg Empire (Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Empire)
- Hadis (Hadith)
- Hagiography
- Haileybury College (East India College)
- Hampi (Vijayanagara city, Bisnaga)
- Hamzanama (Dastan-i-Amir Hamza)
- Handaxe (Acheulian handaxe, Hand axe)
- Hansa Mehta
- Hanseatic League (Hansa)
- Hanwant Singh (Raja of Kalakankar)
- Haoladar
- Harappa
- Harappan agriculture
- Harappan bead-making
- Harappan bricks (Standardised brick ratio)
- Harappan bronze
- Harappan burials
- Harappan civilisation (Indus Valley Civilisation, Indus civilisation, Sindhu-Sarasvati civilisation, Indus-Sarasvati civilisation)
- Harappan cotton
- Harappan domestic architecture
- Harappan drainage system
- Harappan irrigation
- Harappan political authority
- Harappan religion
- Harappan script (Indus script, Sindhu lipi)
- Harappan seals
- Harappan subsistence (Harappan diet)
- Harappan town planning (Grid pattern)
- Harappan trade (Harappan long-distance trade, Indus-Mesopotamia trade)
- Harappan-Vedic relationship debate
- Harappan weights (Harappan weights and measures)
- Haridasa movement (Dasa Sahitya)
- Harihara and Bukka
- Harijan
- Harijan Sevak Sangh
- Haripura session 1938
- Harisena
- Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple, Darbar Sahib)
- Harmika
- Harshacharita
- Harshavardhana (Harsha)
- Haryanka dynasty
- Hasil
- Hastinapura
- Hathigumpha inscription
- Hathnora (Narmada Man)
- Hauz Khas (Hauz-i-Alai)
- Hazara Rama temple (Ramachandra temple)
- H.C. Mookerjee (Harendra Coomar Mookerjee, H.C. Mookherjee)
- Headless statue of Kanishka (Mathura sculpture of Kanishka, Headless Kanishka statue)
- Heavy plough (Iron-tipped plough, Mouldboard plough)
- Heliodorus pillar (Garuda pillar of Besnagar)
- Hellenistic period (Hellenisation)
- Hemachandra (Hemachandracharya)
- Hemadri (Hemadpant)
- Hemu (Hemchandra Vikramaditya)
- Henry Ford (Ford)
- Henry Hardinge (Lord Hardinge)
- Henry Havelock
- Henry Lawrence
- Hero stones (Natukal, Virakal, Virakkal)
- Heterodox traditions
- H.H. Cole
- Hicky's Bengal Gazette (Bengal Gazette, Calcutta General Advertiser)
- Hijra (Hijri era)
- Hildegard of Bingen (Abbess Hildegard)
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan
- Hinayana (Lesser vehicle)
- Hindavi (Hindawi)
- Hind Swaraj
- Hindu-Arabic numerals (Arabic numerals)
- Hindu Code Bill
- Hindu College 1817 (Presidency College)
- Hindu Mahasabha (Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha)
- Hindu-Muslim unity in 1857
- Hindu Patriot
- Hindush (Hidush)
- Hindu Shahis (Hindu Shahiya dynasty)
- Hindustan
- Hindustani
- Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)
- Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA, Hindustan Socialist Republican Army)
- Hindu Suratrana
- Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act (Widow Remarriage Act 1856)
- Hippalus (Monsoon winds)
- Hiragana and katakana (Kana)
- Hire Benakal
- Hiriya canal
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Atomic bombings)
- Historic City of Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad World Heritage City)
- Historiography of the Mongols
- Hitopadesha
- Hoard
- Holy Alliance 1815
- Holy Roman Empire
- Home charges
- Homo erectus
- Homo habilis (Handy man)
- Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals)
- Homo sapiens (Modern humans)
- Horse trade
- Hoysalas (Hoysala dynasty)
- Hoysaleshwara temple, Halebidu
- Hugh Rose (Sir Hugh Rose)
- Hujwiri (Data Ganj Bakhsh, Ali bin Usman Hujwiri)
- Hulegu (Hulagu)
- Humanism (Renaissance humanism)
- Humayun
- Humayun-nama
- Humayun's tomb
- Hunas (White Huns, Hephthalites, Hun)
- Hundi
- Hundred Days' Reform 1898
- Hundred Years' War
- Hunsgi valley (Hunsgi-Baichbal valley)
- Hunter Committee (Disorders Inquiry Committee)
- Hunter-gatherers
- Huvishka
I
- Ibadat Khana (House of Worship)
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Juzayy
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Ibrahim Adil Shah II (Jagadguru)
- Ibrahim Rauza
- Iconoclasm
- Ikshvakus of Andhra (Andhra Ikshvakus)
- Ilahi gaz (Gaz-i-Ilahi)
- Ilango Adigal
- Il-Khanate (Il-Khanid state)
- Illustrated London News
- Iltutmish (Shamsuddin Iltutmish)
- Impeachment of Warren Hastings
- Imperial Forest Department 1864 (Forest Department)
- Imperialism
- Imperial Rescript on Education
- Imperial titles (Samraj, Adhiraja, Rajadhiraja, Maharajadhiraja)
- Import substitution industrialisation (ISI)
- Inamgaon
- INA trials 1945 (Red Fort trials)
- Indentured labour (Indenture system, Girmitiya)
- Independence Day of 1930 (Purna Swaraj Day)
- Independent Labour Party 1936
- Index of Prohibited Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum)
- Indian Civil Services Act 1861
- Indian Councils Act 1861
- Indian Councils Act 1909 (Morley-Minto Reforms)
- Indian Forest Act 1878
- Indian High Courts Act 1861
- Indian Independence Act 1947
- Indian Independence League
- Indian Museum, Calcutta (Indian Museum)
- Indian National Army (INA, Azad Hind Fauj)
- Indian National Congress (Congress)
- Indian Ocean trade
- Indian Opinion
- Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC)
- Indian Press Act 1910
- Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act 1931
- Indian Removal Act 1830
- Indian Reorganisation Act
- Indian reservations (Reservations)
- Indian secularism (Principled distance)
- India's share of world GDP (Maddison estimates)
- India, that is Bharat (Bharat arthat India)
- Indica of Arrian (Indike)
- Indigo Commission 1860
- Indigo revolt (Neel Bidroho)
- Indika
- Individual satyagraha 1940-41 (Individual civil disobedience, Individual satyagraha)
- Indo-Greek coins
- Indo-Greeks (Bactrian Greeks)
- Indoi (Indike)
- Indo-Islamic architecture (Indo-Saracenic (medieval))
- Indo-Persian travel writing
- Indo-Roman trade
- Indra
- Indulgences
- Industrial Revolution (Industrialisation)
- Inland Emigration Act 1859
- In Memoriam painting
- Inscription
- In situ preservation (In situ)
- Integration of cults
- Interim Government 1946 (Interim Government of 1946, Interim Government)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Iqta system (Iqta)
- Irish potato famine (Great Famine of Ireland)
- Iron Pillar of Delhi (Mehrauli Iron Pillar)
- Iron technology (Iron metallurgy)
- Irwin Declaration 1929 (Deepavali Declaration)
- Isaac Newton (Newton)
- Isampur
- Ishtahar
- Italian city-states
- Itihasa
- Itimad-ud-Daulah's tomb (Baby Taj)
- Izaradari system (Farming system, Quinquennial settlement)
J
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Jadi Rana
- Jagannatha cult (Jagannath)
- Jagannath temple (Jagannath temple, Puri, Shri Jagannath temple)
- Jagati
- Jagirdari crisis (Agrarian crisis of the Mughal empire)
- Jagirdari system (Jagir)
- Jagjivan Ram
- Jahanara (Jahanara Begum)
- Jahangir (Nuruddin Muhammad Salim)
- Jain Agamas (Agamas, Angas)
- Jainism
- Jaipal Singh (Jaipal Singh Munda)
- Jaipur City (Pink City)
- Jajmani system
- Jalaluddin Khalji (Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji)
- Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Amritsar massacre)
- Jama (Jumma)
- Jama Masjid, Delhi (Masjid-i-Jahan Numa)
- Jambudvipa
- James Augustus Hicky (Hickey)
- James Cook (Captain Cook)
- James Fergusson
- James Outram
- James Prinsep
- Jamnalal Bajaj
- Jamsetji Tata (J.N. Tata, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata)
- Jana
- Janapada
- Jangal and kharbandi
- Jangal Mahals (Jungle Mahals)
- Jangli
- Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
- Japanese aggressive nationalism
- Japanese annexation of Korea
- Japanese post-war economic miracle
- Jatakas (Jataka tales)
- Jati
- Jati panchayat (Caste panchayat)
- Jat rebellion (Jat revolts)
- Jauhar
- Jawaharlal Nehru (Pandit Nehru)
- Jayadeva
- Jayaprakash Narayan (JP, Lok Nayak)
- Jazirat-ul-Arab
- J.B. Kripalani (Acharya Kripalani)
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Tavernier)
- Jhukar culture
- Jikji
- Jinnah's Fourteen Points
- Jins-i kamil (Perfect crops)
- Jizya (Jaziya, Jiziya)
- J. Nagappa
- Jobber (Sardar, Mistri)
- Jogimara cave
- Johannes Kepler (Kepler)
- Johann Gottfried Herder (Herder)
- Johann Gutenberg (Gutenberg)
- John Calvin (Jean Calvin)
- John Marshall
- Jorwe culture
- Joseon dynasty (Chosun dynasty)
- Jotedar
- Julius Caesar
- July Revolution (July Revolution of 1830)
- Junagadh rock inscription (Girnar inscription, Girnar inscription of Rudradaman)
- Junapani
- June Democracy Movement
- Justice Party (South Indian Liberal Federation)
- Justinian
- Juwaini (Ata-Malik Juvaini)
- Jwalapuram
- Jyotiba Phule (Jyotirao Phule, Mahatma Phule)
K
- Kabir (Kabirdas)
- Kabirpanth
- Kadambari
- Kailasanatha temple, Kanchipuram (Kailasanatha temple of Kanchipuram)
- Kailasa temple, Ellora (Kailasa temple of Ellora, Cave 16, Kailasanatha temple, Ellora, Kailasa temple, Kailashanatha temple, Ellora Cave 16, Kailashnatha temple at Ellora)
- Kakatiya Kala Thoranam (Warangal gateway)
- Kakatiyas (Kakatiya dynasty)
- Kakori train action 1925 (Kakori conspiracy)
- Kalabhras (Kalabhra interregnum)
- Kalaram temple entry movement
- Kalasha
- Kalhana
- Kalibangan
- Kalidasa
- Kalinga edicts (Separate Kalinga edicts)
- Kalinga style of architecture (Odisha temple style)
- Kalinga war
- Kali Yuga era (Kali era)
- Kalpa sutras (Shrauta, Grihya and Dharma sutras, Kalpasutra)
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
- Kamalapuram tank
- Kamarupa (Pragjyotisha)
- Kamasutra
- Kamban (Kambar)
- Kanaganahalli (Sannati)
- Kanaka Dasa
- Kanaklata Barua
- Kanchipuram (Kanchi)
- Kandahar bilingual inscription (Asokan inscriptions in Aramaic and Greek)
- Kandariya Mahadeva temple
- Kang Youwei
- Kanheri caves
- Kanhoji Angre
- Kanishka (Kanishka I)
- Kanishka casket (Shah-ji-ki-Dheri casket)
- Kanishka's coins
- Kanjivaram sari (Kanchipuram silk)
- Kankut
- Kanmer
- Kannagi
- Kannauj (Kanyakubja)
- Kanpur massacres 1857 (Satichaura Ghat, Bibighar, Kanpur massacre, Satichaura Ghat massacre, Cawnpore massacre, Bibighar massacre)
- Kanva dynasty (Kanvas)
- Kanyadana
- Kapilar
- Kapilavastu
- Karachi session 1931
- Karaikkal Ammaiyar
- Karakorum
- Karikala (Karikala Chola)
- Karkhana (Imperial karkhanas)
- Karkota dynasty (Karkotas)
- Karla caves (Karla chaitya, Karle caves)
- Karma
- Karori
- Kartarpur Corridor
- Kashf ul-Mahjub (Unveiling of the Veiled)
- Kashi Vishwanath temple
- Kashmir Shaivism (Trika Shaivism)
- Katha Upanishad
- Kauravas
- Kaushambi
- Kautilya (Chanakya, Vishnugupta)
- Kautilya's welfare principle
- Kavirajamarga
- Kavitrayam (Nannaya, Tikkana and Errana)
- Kayatha culture
- Keeladi excavations (Keezhadi)
- Kesari and Mahratta (Kesari)
- Kesariya stupa
- Keshava temple, Somanathapura
- Kevala jnana (Kaivalya)
- Keynesian economics (John Maynard Keynes)
- Khadi (Khaddar)
- Khajuraho group of monuments (Khajuraho temples)
- Khalifa (Khalifah)
- Khalisa (Crown land)
- Khalsa (Khalsa Panth)
- Khams (Khums)
- Khan Bahadur Khan
- Khandoba
- Khanqah (Hospice)
- Kharaj
- Kharavela
- Kharif and rabi
- Kharosthi
- Khayal (Khyal)
- Khazain-ul-Futuh (Tarikh-i-Alai)
- Kheda satyagraha
- Khel system
- Khet-batai
- Khetri copper region (Khetri)
- Khilafat movement
- Khilji dynasty (Khalji dynasty)
- Khojahs (Khoja)
- Khond uprisings (Kandha revolt)
- Khudai Khidmatgar (Red Shirts, Servants of God)
- Khud-kashta
- Khwarazm
- Kirtimukha (Face of glory)
- Kist
- Kitab-ul-Hind (Tahqiq ma li-l-Hind)
- Kittur Chennamma (Rani Chennamma)
- K.J. Khanderkar
- K.M. Munshi (Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi)
- Knight
- Koch kingdom (Koch kings)
- Kodumanal
- Koldihwa
- Kol uprising (Kol rebellion)
- Konark Sun temple (Black Pagoda)
- Konkan petroglyphs (Ratnagiri geoglyphs)
- Korean democratisation
- Korean War
- Korkai
- Kosala (Koshala)
- Kot Diji
- Kotwal
- Koya rebellion
- Krishak Praja Party
- Krishnadeva Raya (Krishnadevaraya)
- K. Santhanam
- Kshatriya
- Kublai Khan (Qubilai Khan)
- Kudavolai (Kudavolai system, Ballot pot)
- Kudirai chettis
- Kujula Kadphises (Kadphises I)
- Kuka movement (Namdhari movement)
- Kula
- Kulottunga I
- Kulturkampf
- Kulyavapa and dronavapa
- Kumaradevi
- Kumaragupta I (Mahendraditya)
- Kumaramatya
- Kumbhalgarh Fort
- Kumbh Mela
- Kunal
- Kunjali Marakkars (Marakkar)
- Kunwar Singh (Babu Kunwar Singh)
- Kurnool caves (Billa Surgam caves)
- Kuru
- Kushana gold coins (Kushana coins)
- Kushanas (Kushana dynasty, Kushans)
- Kushinagar (Kusinara, Kusinagara)
- Kutagarashala
- Kutiyattam (Koodiyattam)
L
- Lachit Borphukan
- Ladkhan temple
- Lahore conspiracy case (Saunders murder 1928)
- Lahore Resolution 1940 (Pakistan Resolution, Lahore Resolution)
- Lahore session of 1929 (Lahore Congress, Lahore Congress 1929, Lahore session)
- Lahuradewa
- Laissez-faire
- Lakhudiyar
- Lakshmana temple of Sirpur
- Lala Lajpat Rai (Punjab Kesari)
- Lal Bal Pal
- Lal Ded (Lalleshwari, Lalla)
- Lalitaditya Muktapida
- Lalitavistara
- Lancashire
- Land grant debate (Indian feudalism debate)
- Land grants (Land grant system)
- Land grant terms (Bhaga, bhoga, kara)
- Langar
- Lang batai
- Langhnaj
- Language Committee
- Lapis lazuli
- Larger Leiden plates (Leiden copper plates)
- Late antiquity
- Late Harappan phase (De-urbanisation, Successor cultures)
- Lathyal
- Latina shikhara (Rekha-prasada)
- Lauriya Nandangarh pillar
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lepakshi temple (Veerabhadra temple, Lepakshi)
- Liang Qichao
- Liaquat Ali Khan
- Liberalism
- Library of Assurbanipal (Nineveh library)
- Licchavis
- Licensing Act 1857
- Licensing Regulations 1823 (Adam's Regulation)
- Lilavati
- Limitation Law of 1859 (Limitation Act 1859)
- Limitations of inscriptional evidence
- Linear perspective (Perspective)
- Linga
- Lingaraja temple
- Lingayat movement (Virashaivism, Lingayatism, Virashaivas, Lingayats)
- Linguistic Pradesh Congress Committees
- Lion capital of Sarnath (Sarnath lion capital, Lion capital of Ashoka)
- Literary sources
- Lithography (Lithographic press)
- Little republic (Village republic)
- Lodi dynasty (Lodhi dynasty)
- Lodi Garden
- Lomas Rishi cave
- Long March
- Lord Canning (Clemency Canning, Charles Canning)
- Lord Cornwallis (Charles Cornwallis)
- Lord Dalhousie
- Lord Hastings (Marquess of Hastings, Lord Moira)
- Lord Irwin
- Lord Linlithgow
- Lord Lytton
- Lord Minto I (Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto)
- Lord Mountbatten
- Lord Wavell
- Lord Wellesley (Richard Wellesley)
- Lord Willingdon
- Lorenzo Valla
- Lost-wax casting (Cire perdue, Lost-wax technique)
- Lothal
- Lothal dockyard
- Lothal maritime heritage complex (National Maritime Heritage Complex)
- Lotus Mahal
- Lotus Temple (Bahai House of Worship)
- Louis Fischer
- Louisiana Purchase (Louisiana Purchase 1803)
- Lower Town
- Lucknow session of 1916 (Lucknow Congress 1916)
- Luddites (Luddism)
- Lumbini
M
- Mabo case (Mabo judgement)
- Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education (Macaulay's Minute)
- Madad-i-maash (Suyurghal)
- Madhavadeva (Madhavdev)
- Madhavrao I (Peshwa Madhavrao)
- Madhvacharya (Madhva)
- Madhyamaka (Shunyavada)
- Madurai
- Magadha
- Magan
- Magna Carta 1215 (Great Charter)
- Mahabharata
- Mahabodhi Temple (Mahabodhi Temple Complex)
- Mahadaha and Damdama
- Mahadev Desai
- Mahadji Shinde (Mahadji Scindia)
- Mahad satyagraha 1927 (Chavdar Tale satyagraha)
- Mahagara
- Mahajan
- Mahajanapada (Sixteen mahajanapadas)
- Mahal (Revenue estate)
- Mahalwari system
- Mahanavami dibba (House of Victory)
- Mahanavami festival (Navaratri, Dussehra)
- Mahapadma Nanda
- Mahapajapati Gotami
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh
- Maharana Pratap
- Mahasammata (The great elect)
- Mahashweta Devi
- Mahasthan inscription
- Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhiji, Bapu, Father of the Nation)
- Mahavira (Vardhamana)
- Mahaviracharya (Mahavira the mathematician)
- Mahayana (Great Vehicle)
- Mahendravarman I (Vichitrachitta)
- Maheshamurti of Elephanta (Trimurti of Elephanta)
- Maheshwari saree (Maheshwar weaving)
- Mahinda and Sanghamitta (Mahendra and Sanghamitra)
- Mahmud Gawan
- Mahmud of Ghazni (Mahmud Ghaznavi, Sultan Mahmud)
- Mahmud Wali Balkhi
- Ma Huan
- Mahzar (Infallibility decree)
- Maitreya (Future Buddha)
- Majjhima Nikaya
- Major Rock Edicts (Fourteen Major Rock Edicts)
- Makara Sankranti
- Makkhali Gosala (Gosala)
- Maktab Khana (Translation bureau, House of translation)
- Maktubat
- Malavikagnimitram
- Malfuzat
- Malguzar
- Malik Ambar
- Malik Kafur (Hazar Dinari)
- Malik Muhammad Jayasi (Jaisi)
- Malla
- Malwa culture
- Malwa sultanate
- Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram, Group of monuments at Mahabalipuram, Mahabalipuram World Heritage Site, Mamallapuram monuments)
- Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty, Ilbari dynasty)
- Managing agency (Managing agency system)
- Manasollasa (Abhilashitartha Chintamani)
- Manchester Cotton Company
- Manchurian Incident 1931 (Manchukuo)
- Manda
- Mandagapattu inscription
- Mandal (Village headman)
- Mandalam (Mandala)
- Mandalam, valanadu and nadu (Chola administrative divisions)
- Mandala theory (Rajamandala)
- Mandapa
- Mandasor silk weavers' inscription (Mandsaur inscription, Mandasor inscription)
- Mandu monuments (Jahaz Mahal, Hoshang Shah's tomb)
- Mangal Pandey
- Manifest Destiny
- Manikkavachakar
- Manimekalai
- Manorial estate (Manor, Manorialism)
- Mansabdari system (Mansabdari)
- Mansab ranks of zat and sawar (Zat and sawar)
- Man Singh Tomar (Raja Man Singh of Gwalior)
- Mantriparishad (Council of ministers)
- Manusmriti (Manu Smriti, Manava Dharmashastra, Laws of Manu)
- Manzil-abadi
- Mao Zedong
- Mappila (Moplah, Mappila Muslims)
- Maratha administration
- Maratha Military Landscapes (Maratha Military Landscapes of India)
- Maratha navy
- Marathas
- Marc Bloch
- Marco Polo
- Mari
- Marianne
- Market reforms of Alauddin Khalji (Price control of Alauddin)
- Marshall Plan (European Recovery Programme)
- Martand Sun temple (Martand temple)
- Marthanda Varma
- Martial law of 1857
- Martin Luther (Luther)
- Masand system (Masands)
- Maski edict (Maski Minor Rock Edict)
- Masnavi (Mathnawi)
- Mass production
- Matanga Jataka
- Matangini Hazra (Gandhi buri)
- Mathura school of art (Buddha images of Mathura, Mathura school)
- Matriliny (Matrilineal descent)
- Matrimonial alliance
- Matsyanyaya (Law of the fishes)
- Mature Harappan phase (Urban Harappan phase)
- Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah (Danka Shah)
- Maulvi Liaqat Ali
- Mauryan empire (Maurya dynasty, Mauryas)
- Mauryan military administration
- Mauryan polish
- Mauryan political centres
- Max Muller (Friedrich Max Muller)
- May Fourth Movement
- Medieval agricultural technology
- Medieval era (Middle Ages)
- Medieval peasant revolts (Peasants' Revolt)
- Medieval towns
- Medieval warm period
- Meerut conspiracy case
- Meerut mutiny
- Megaliths (Megalithic burials)
- Megasthenes
- Meghaduta (Cloud messenger, Meghadutam)
- Mehrgarh
- Meiji Constitution
- Meiji economic modernisation
- Meiji education system
- Meiji restoration
- Meluhha
- Menander (Milinda)
- Menhir
- Menocchio
- Mesolithic age (Middle Stone Age)
- Mesopotamian civilisation (Mesopotamia, Land between the rivers)
- Mesopotamian temple
- Mesopotamian time reckoning
- Metta and karuna (Metta, Karuna)
- Metternich (Klemens von Metternich, Duke Metternich)
- Mewar
- Mian Mir
- Michael O'Dwyer
- Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
- Microliths (Microlithic tools)
- Middle Palaeolithic
- Middle path (Majjhima patipada)
- Mihira Bhoja (Bhoja I, Adivaraha)
- Mihirakula
- Mihrab
- Milindapanha (Questions of King Milinda)
- Milkiyat
- Millets (Shree Anna)
- Minamata disease
- Mirabai (Meera)
- Miras (Watan)
- Mirat-ul-Akhbar
- Mir Bakhshi
- Miri-piri
- Mir Jafar
- Mir Jumla's invasion of Assam
- Mir Qasim (Mir Kasim)
- Mir Saman (Khan-i-Saman)
- Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad
- Mitakshara and Dayabhaga (Mitakshara, Dayabhaga)
- Mithuna
- Mlechchha (Mleccha)
- Moderates
- Modhera Sun temple
- Modi script
- Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro)
- Moidams (Charaideo Moidams)
- Monarchy in the mahajanapadas
- Monasticism (Monastery, Abbey)
- Monetisation of the rural economy (Cash nexus)
- Money economy (Commutation)
- Mongol invasions of India (Mongol invasions of the Delhi Sultanate)
- Mongol military organisation (Mongol decimal system)
- Mongol religious pluralism
- Mongols
- Mongol warfare
- Montesquieu
- Mooknayak
- Moplah rebellion 1921 (Malabar rebellion, Mappila uprising)
- Mortimer Wheeler (R.E.M. Wheeler)
- Mother goddess
- Mother goddess figurines
- Motilal Nehru
- Mountbatten Plan (3 June Plan)
- Mrichchhakatika (Little clay cart)
- Mudrarakshasa
- Mudras (Hand gestures)
- Muga silk
- Mughal hunt (Shikar)
- Mughal land revenue system
- Mughal miniature painting (Mughal painting, Mughal miniature)
- Mughal war of succession 1657-58 (Battle of Samugarh)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Jinnah, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quaid-i-Azam)
- Muhammad bin Qasim (Muhammad Qasim)
- Muhammad bin Tughlaq (Muhammad Tughlaq)
- Muhammad Ghori (Muhammad of Ghor, Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam)
- Muhammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal)
- Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
- Muhtasib
- Muinuddin Chishti (Khwaja Muinuddin, Gharib Nawaz)
- Mulk-abadi
- Multiculturalism in Australia
- Multilateral settlement system
- Multinational corporation (MNC, Transnational corporation)
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Munsiff
- Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh
- Muqaddam
- Muqti (Iqtadar)
- Muraqqa (Mughal albums)
- Murid
- Murugan (Seyon)
- Muslim League (All India Muslim League)
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Kemal Ataturk)
- Musunuri Nayakas
- Muthulakshmi Reddy
- Mutiny
- Muziris (Muchiri, Pattanam, Pattanam excavations, Muziris heritage)
- Muziris papyrus
- Mysorean rockets
- Mythical massacre at Mohenjo-daro
N
- Nabonidus
- Nachiketa
- Nachna Parvati temple
- Nadir Shah's invasion (Battle of Karnal)
- Nadu
- Nagabhata I
- Nagaram
- Nagara style (Northern temple style)
- Nagarjuna
- Nagarjunakonda
- Nagarjuni caves
- Nagarsheth (Nagar sheth)
- Nagpur session 1920
- Nahapana
- Nalanda (Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda Mahavihara World Heritage Site, Nalanda UNESCO)
- Nalayira Divya Prabandham (Nalayira Divyaprabandham, Tamil Veda, Four Thousand Sacred Compositions)
- Namdev (Sant Namdev)
- Namghar (Naam ghar)
- Nammalvar
- Nam-simaran (Naam simran)
- Nanaghat inscription (Naneghat inscription)
- Nana Phadnavis (Nana Fadnavis)
- Nana Sahib (Nana Saheb, Dhondu Pant)
- Nanda dynasty
- Nanjing Massacre 1937 (Rape of Nanking)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon)
- Napoleonic Code (Civil Code of 1804)
- Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
- Naqdi
- Naqshbandi order (Naqshbandiyya, Naqshbandiya)
- Narada Smriti
- Narasimhavarman I (Mamalla)
- Narrative and didactic sections
- Narsinh Mehta
- Nasadiya Sukta (Hymn of creation)
- Nasaq
- Nashik cave inscription
- Nashik prashasti (Nashik inscription, Nasik inscription of Gautami Balashri, Nasik prashasti)
- Nasik caves (Pandavleni)
- Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dehli (Chiragh-i Delhi)
- Natal Indian Congress
- Nataraja (Shiva Nataraja)
- Naths, Jogis and Siddhas (Nath panth)
- Nathuram Godse
- National anthem and national song adoption (Jana Gana Mana)
- National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (NCRWC, Venkatachaliah Commission)
- National Emblem of India
- National Flag of India (Tiranga, National flag adoption 1947)
- National Herald
- Nationalist imagery of 1857
- National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA)
- National Monuments Authority (NMA)
- National Sorry Day
- Nation-state
- Native Americans (American Indians, Amerindians)
- Native Opinion
- Nattukottai Chettiars (Chettiars)
- Natyashastra
- Navaratnas of Akbar (Nine jewels)
- Navaratnas of Vikramaditya (Nine gems)
- Navdatoli
- Nayaka kingdoms (Madurai, Thanjavur and Gingee Nayakas)
- Nayakas (Nayaka system)
- Nayanars (Nayanmars)
- Nedunjeliyan (Talaiyalanganattu Nedunjeliyan)
- Nehru-Patel strands in Congress
- Nehru Report 1928
- Neolithic age (New Stone Age)
- Neolithic revolution (Beginning of agriculture, Agricultural revolution, Domestication of plants and animals)
- New Deal
- New International Economic Order (NIEO)
- New monarchs (New monarchy)
- Newspapers (Incitement to Offences) Act 1908
- New World crops
- N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar (Gopalaswami Ayyangar)
- N.G. Ranga
- Nibbana (Nirvana)
- Niccolao Manucci (Manucci)
- Niccolo Machiavelli (Machiavelli, The Prince)
- Nicolo de Conti (Niccolo de Conti)
- Nigama
- Nil Darpan (The Indigo Mirror)
- Nimbarka (Nimbarkacharya)
- Ninety-Five Theses
- Nirguna bhakti
- Nirukta of Yaska (Nirukta)
- Nishada
- Niyoga
- Nizam Shahi dynasty (Ahmadnagar sultanate)
- Nizamuddin Auliya (Shaikh Nizamuddin)
- Noakhali peace mission (Noakhali)
- Nobility (Second order)
- Noble savage
- No-changers
- Nomadic empire
- Non-Brahman movement
- Non-cooperation movement (Non-Cooperation Khilafat movement)
- Non-Kshatriya kings
- Norman Conquest
- Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW)
- Nuh Sipihr
- Numismatics
- Nund Rishi (Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani)
- Nur Jahan (Mehr-un-Nisa)
- Nursery of the Bengal Army
- Nyayadhish
- Nyaya school (Nyaya)
O
- Objectives Resolution
- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP culture)
- Odantapuri (Uddandapura)
- Official language debate (Munshi-Ayyangar formula)
- Official sources and their limits
- Open Door Policy
- Opium trade with China
- Opium Wars (First Opium War)
- Oracle bones
- Oral tradition
- Oriental despotism
- Orientalist-Anglicist controversy (Orientalists and Anglicists)
- Orientalists (Indologists)
- Origin of the term Hindu (Al-Hind, Hindu as a Persian term, Hind, Hidu)
- Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey)
- Otto von Bismarck (Bismarck)
- Oudh Kisan Sabha (Awadh Kisan Sabha)
- Out of Africa dispersal (Out of Africa theory)
- Overcoming Modernity
P
- Pabna revolt 1873 (Pabna agrarian leagues)
- Paddy transplantation (Transplantation)
- Padmavat
- Padshahnama (Badshahnama)
- Pagal Panthi movement
- Paharia
- Paharia pacification policy
- Pahi-kashta
- Paika rebellion 1817 (Paika Bidroha)
- Paik system (Paiks)
- Painted Grey Ware (PGW)
- Paiyampalli
- Paiza (Gerege)
- Pakistan
- Pakudha Kaccayana
- Pala dynasty (Palas)
- Palaeography (Paleography)
- Palaeolithic age (Old Stone Age, Paleolithic age)
- Pala school of art (Eastern Indian school of sculpture)
- Pali
- Pali classical language
- Pallava dynasty (Pallavas)
- Pallavaram
- Pampadevi (Pampa)
- Panchanga (Panchang)
- Pancha Rathas (Five rathas)
- Panchashila of Buddhism (Five precepts)
- Panchatantra
- Panchayatana style
- Panch Mahal
- Pandavas
- Pandita Ramabai
- Panditrao
- Pandya pearls
- Pandyas (Pandya dynasty)
- Panini
- Panj Pyare and Five Ks (Five beloved ones)
- Pan-Slavism
- Papacy (Pope)
- Papyrus
- Paramaras (Paramara dynasty)
- Parantaka I
- Parauti
- Pargana
- Paris Commune 1871
- Park Chung-hee
- Parkham Yaksha
- Parshvanatha (Parshva)
- Parsis
- Partition of India
- Partition of Poland
- Parts of a stupa
- Pashupati seal (Proto-Shiva seal)
- Pastoralists in Mesopotamia
- Pataliputra (Patna)
- Patanjali
- Patan Patola (Patola)
- Pathinenkilkanakku (Eighteen minor works)
- Pativedaka
- Patra Mantri (Burhagohain, Borgohain)
- Patriliny (Patrilineal descent)
- Patta and qabuliyat (Patta, Qabuliyat, Pottah)
- Pattadakal (Pattadakal group of monuments, Pattadakal temples)
- Pattini cult (Kannagi worship)
- Pattuppattu (Ten Idylls)
- Patwari
- Pax Mongolica (Mongol peace)
- Peace of Augsburg 1555
- Peace of Westphalia 1648 (Westphalian sovereignty)
- Peacock Throne (Takht-i-Taus)
- Peasant indebtedness
- Peel Commission 1859
- Pelsaert (Francisco Pelsaert)
- People of India project
- People's communes
- People's Republic of China (PRC)
- Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Periplus, Periplus Maris Erythraei)
- Periya Puranam (Tiruttondar Puranam)
- Periyar (E.V. Ramasamy, E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker)
- Permanent Settlement (Permanent Settlement of Bengal, Zamindari settlement)
- Persian wheel (Saqiya, Araghatta)
- Peshkash
- Peshwa
- Peshwa Baji Rao II (Baji Rao II)
- Pethick-Lawrence (Lord Pethick-Lawrence)
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarch)
- Phamsana
- Phoenix Settlement
- Picturesque
- Pietra dura (Parchin kari)
- Piklihal
- Pillar Edicts (Seven Pillar Edicts)
- Pindari war (Pindaris)
- Piprahwa relics (Piprahwa gems)
- Pitt's India Act 1784 (East India Company Act 1784)
- Piyadassi (Priyadarshi)
- Plassey centenary prophecy
- Plebiscite
- Pliny's Natural History
- Pliny the Elder
- Plough agriculture (Iron ploughshare)
- Ploughed field at Kalibangan
- Polaj
- Policy of paramountcy (Paramountcy)
- Poligar wars (Palayakkarar wars)
- Polyandry
- Polygyny
- Pompeii
- Poona Pact
- Popular Rights Movement (Freedom and People's Rights Movement)
- Portuguese in India (Estado da India)
- Porunthal
- Porus (Puru)
- Postal system of the Delhi Sultanate
- Post-Roman kingdoms
- Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
- Power loom
- Prabhavati Gupta
- Pradakshina (Circumambulation)
- Pradakshina patha (Circumambulatory path)
- Pradyota of Avanti (Chanda Pradyota)
- Praja Mandal
- Prakrit
- Prakrit classical language
- Prasenajit (Pasenadi)
- Prashasti
- Pratishthana (Paithan)
- Pratityasamutpada (Dependent origination)
- Prayaga assembly (Harsha's assembly at Prayag)
- Prayaga prashasti (Allahabad pillar inscription)
- Preservation of Sanchi
- Press Act of 1835 (Metcalfe Act)
- Press and Registration of Books Act 1867 (Registration of Books Act)
- Priest-king
- Princely states
- Principate
- Print and the French Revolution
- Printing press in Goa
- Print revolution
- Prithviraj Chauhan (Prithviraja III)
- Prithviraj Raso
- Proja
- Proliferation of jatis
- Prophet Muhammad (Muhammad)
- Protestant Reformation (Reformation)
- Proto-industrialisation
- Provincial autonomy
- Provincial elections of 1937
- Provincial elections of 1946
- Ptolemy's Geography
- Puhar (Kaveripattinam)
- Pulakeshin II
- Punch
- Punch-marked coin (Karshapana, Pana, Kahapana)
- Punjab Land Alienation Act 1900
- Punnapra-Vayalar uprising 1946
- Purana Kassapa (Purana Kashyapa)
- Purananuru
- Purana Qila (Old Fort)
- Puranas (Mahapuranas, Puranic traditions)
- Purandara Dasa (Father of Carnatic music)
- Puranic Hinduism
- Purna Swaraj (Complete independence)
- Purusharthas (Four aims of life, Four goals of life)
- Purusha Sukta (Purushasukta)
- Purva Mimamsa school (Mimamsa)
- Pushyabhuti dynasty (Vardhana dynasty)
- Pushyamitra Shunga
Q
- Qadiri order (Qadiriyya)
- Qalandars
- Qanat
- Qanungo
- Qaul
- Qawwali
- Qazi (Kazi)
- Qazi-ul-Quzat (Chief Qazi)
- Qing dynasty (Manchu dynasty)
- Queen Didda (Didda)
- Queen's edict (Allahabad-Kosam pillar)
- Queen Victoria's Proclamation (Queen Victoria's Proclamation 1858, Queen's Proclamation, Proclamation of 1858)
- Quit India movement (August Kranti)
- Quriltai (Kuriltai)
- Qutb Minar (Qutub Minar)
- Qutb Shahi dynasty (Golconda sultanate)
- Qutbuddin Aibak (Lakh Bakhsh, Qutb-ud-din Aibak)
- Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
- Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque
R
- Rabatak inscription
- Radcliffe Line
- Radiocarbon dating (Carbon-14 dating, C-14 dating)
- Raghuvamsham
- Raichur doab
- Raigad Fort
- Raja Bhoja (Bhoja Paramara)
- Raja Dahir (Dahar)
- Rajagaha (Rajgir, Rajagriha)
- Rajan (Raja)
- Raja of Burdwan (Burdwan raj)
- Rajaraja Chola I (Rajaraja I)
- Rajaram (Chhatrapati Rajaram)
- Raja Ravi Varma (Ravi Varma)
- Rajasuya
- Rajatarangini (River of Kings)
- Rajendra Chola I (Gangaikondachola, Rajendra I, Rajendra Chola, Gangaikonda Chola)
- Rajendra Lala Mitra
- Rajendra Prasad
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- Rajkumar Shukla
- Rajmahal hills
- Rajukas
- Rajya Vyavahara Kosha (Rajvyavahar Kosh)
- Rakhal Das Banerji (R.D. Banerji)
- Rakhigarhi (Rakhi Garhi)
- Rakhigarhi DNA study (Rakhigarhi aDNA, Rakhigarhi genome study)
- Rakhigarhi icon site
- Rakhi system
- Ralph Fitch
- Ramagupta
- Ramananda
- Ramanuja (Ramanujacharya)
- Ramappa temple (Rudreswara temple)
- Rama Raya (Aliya Rama Raya)
- Ramayana
- Ramcharitmanas
- Rammohun Roy (Raja Rammohun Roy)
- Ramosi uprising
- Rampa rebellion 1879
- Rampurva bull capital (Rampurva capitals)
- Rana Kumbha (Maharana Kumbhakarna)
- Rana Sanga (Sangram Singh)
- Rang Ghar
- Rangpur
- Rangpur uprising 1783 (Rangpur dhing)
- Rani Abbakka (Abbakka Chowta)
- Rani Bhawani of Rajshahi (Rajshahi zamindari)
- Rani Durgavati
- Rani Gaidinliu
- Rani ki vav (Queen's stepwell)
- Rani Lakshmibai (Rani of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Lakshmibai)
- Rani of Jhansi Regiment
- Rasa theory (Navarasa)
- Rash Behari Bose
- Rashiduddin (Rashid al-Din)
- Rashsundari Debi (Rassundari Devi)
- Rashtrakutas
- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
- Rast Goftar
- Ratnins
- Ravidas (Raidas)
- Raya
- Raziya Sultan (Razia Sultana)
- Razmnama (Book of War)
- Reading public
- Realism in Renaissance art (Realism)
- Rebel administration in 1857
- Red Fort (Lal Qila)
- Refrigerated ships
- Regional mosque architecture
- Regions in the Mahabharata
- Regulating Act 1773 (Regulating Act of 1773, Regulating Act)
- Relief of Lucknow
- Remunerations of sovereignty
- Renaissance
- Renaissance debate
- Renaissance man (Universal man)
- Rentier
- Renuka Ray
- Repatriation of antiquities
- Repatriation of cultural artefacts
- Report of the Native Newspapers (Native Newspaper Reports)
- Reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of seats)
- Resident (British Resident)
- Resignation of Congress ministries
- Revolt of 1857 (Great Rebellion of 1857, Sepoy Mutiny, First War of Independence, Great Rebellion, Uprising of 1857)
- Revolutions of 1848 (Revolution of the liberals)
- Ricardian theory of rent (Average rent)
- Richard Arkwright (Arkwright)
- Right to equality (Articles 14-18)
- Right to freedom of religion (Articles 25-28)
- Rigveda (Rig Veda)
- Rig Veda family books (Family books)
- Rig Vedic rivers
- Rigvedic women seers (Brahmavadinis, Women Vedic seers, Brahmavadini)
- Rihla (Rihla of Ibn Battuta)
- Rinderpest (Cattle plague)
- Ring-fence policy (Ring fence)
- Rise of Islam (Arab conquests)
- Rise of Magadha
- Rishabhanatha (Adinatha)
- Rishi and rishika
- Rita (Rta, Ritam)
- Robert Bruce Foote
- Robert Clive
- Robert Owen
- Rock-cut architecture (Rock-cut caves, Artificial caves)
- Rock-cut monasteries
- Rock Edict XII
- Rock Edict XIII
- Rock painting (Rock art, Rock art of India)
- Rohtas Fort (Qila Rohtas)
- Rojdi
- Roman army
- Roman cities
- Roman coin hoards
- Roman economy
- Roman Empire
- Roman family
- Roman law
- Roman Republic
- Roman Senate (Senate)
- Romanticism
- Romesh Chunder Dutt (R.C. Dutt)
- Ropar (Rupnagar)
- Rosetta Stone
- Rouletted ware
- Round Table Conferences
- Rowlatt Act (Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act 1919)
- Rowlatt satyagraha
- Royal centre of Vijayanagara
- Royal Indian Navy mutiny (Royal Indian Navy mutiny 1946, RIN mutiny, Bombay naval mutiny, Naval mutiny of 1946)
- R. Shamasastry
- Rudradaman (Rudradaman I)
- Rudramadevi (Rudrama Devi)
- Rummindei pillar inscription (Lumbini pillar)
- Rumours in 1857
- Russo-Japanese War (Treaty of Portsmouth 1905)
- R.V. Dhulekar
- Ryot (Raiyat, Riaya, Muzarian, Kisan, Asami)
- Ryotwari system (Raiyatwari, Ryotwari settlement)
S
- Sabarmati Ashram (Satyagraha Ashram, Harijan Ashram)
- Sabha
- Sabha and samiti
- Sachchidananda Sinha
- Sachiv (Surnavis)
- Sack of Baghdad
- Sack of Surat
- Sacred centre of Vijayanagara
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas (Hoysala temples World Heritage, Hoysala temples)
- Sadr-us-Sudur (Sadr)
- Saemaul Movement (New Village Movement)
- Saguna bhakti
- Sahukar (Sowkar)
- Sakya clan (Shakya)
- Sallekhana (Santhara)
- Salt monopoly (Salt tax)
- Salt satyagraha (Salt march, Dandi march)
- Saluva dynasty
- Sama
- Samachar Chandrika
- Samachar Darpan
- Samaharta and Sannidhata
- Samanta (Samanta system)
- Samarangana Sutradhara
- Samarth Ramdas (Ramdas)
- Samaveda (Sama Veda)
- Sambad Kaumudi
- Sambandar (Tirujnana Sambandar)
- Sambhaji (Chhatrapati Sambhaji)
- Samiti
- Samkhya school (Sankhya)
- Samsara (Transmigration, Rebirth, Punarjanma)
- Samskaras (Sixteen samskaras)
- Samudragupta
- Samudragupta's southern campaign (Dakshinapatha campaign)
- Samurai
- Sanad
- Sanchi stupa (Great Stupa at Sanchi, Sanchi World Heritage Site, Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi)
- Sandhivigrahika (Minister of peace and war)
- Sangama dynasty
- Sangam age
- Sangam capitals and ports
- Sangam literature (Sangam texts)
- Sanganakallu
- Sangat
- Sangha (Buddhist sangha)
- Sangita Ratnakara
- Sanjaya Belatthiputta
- Sankaradeva (Srimanta Sankardev, Shankaradeva)
- Sankassa (Sankisa)
- Sankisa elephant capital
- Sannyasi-Fakir rebellion (Sannyasi rebellion)
- Sanskrit College Benaras 1791 (Benaras Sanskrit College)
- Santhal (Santal)
- Santhal Pargana
- Santhal rebellion (Santhal Hul, Santhal revolt)
- Saptamatrikas (Seven mothers)
- Saptanga theory (Seven limbs of the state, Saptanga)
- Sapta Sindhu (Land of seven rivers, Sapta Sindhava)
- Sarai Nahar Rai
- Saranjam
- Sarasvati river (Ghaggar-Hakra, Ghaggar-Hakra river)
- Sarasvati river basin (Ghaggar-Hakra basin, Saraswati basin)
- Sarbat Khalsa and gurmata (Gurmata)
- Sargon of Akkad
- Sari
- Sarkar (Sarkar and pargana)
- Sarnath
- Sarnath school of art
- Sarojini Naidu (Nightingale of India)
- Sarthavaha
- Sarutaru
- Sarvastivada
- Sasanian empire (Sasanids)
- Satara prati sarkar (Satara parallel government)
- Satavahana coins
- Satavahana dynasty (Andhras, Satavahanas)
- Satavahana metronymics (Satavahana matronymics, Metronymic names)
- Sati
- Satnami revolt
- Satrap (Kshatrapa)
- Satsuma Rebellion 1877
- Sattra (Satra)
- Sattriya dance
- Satyagraha
- Satyameva Jayate
- Sawai Jai Singh II
- Sawar
- Sayana (Sayanacharya)
- Sayyid brothers (Kingmakers)
- Sayyid dynasty (Sayyids)
- Scientific Revolution
- Scramble for Africa
- Seba dal
- Second battle of Panipat
- Second Battle of Tarain
- Second Buddhist council
- Second Jain council (Vallabhi council)
- Second Round Table Conference
- Second Urbanisation
- Second World War
- Secret History of the Mongols (Mongqol-un niuca tobca'an)
- Seleucus-Chandragupta treaty
- Self-Respect movement (Suyamariyathai Iyakkam)
- Self-Strengthening Movement
- Semi-colony
- Sena dynasty (Senas of Bengal, Senas)
- Senguttuvan (Chera Senguttuvan)
- Separate electorates (Communal electorates)
- Sepoy grievances
- Sepoy panchayat
- Serampore Mission Press
- Serfdom (Serf)
- Serfoji II
- Settler colony (Settler colonialism)
- Sexagesimal system (Base-60 system)
- Shabad (Shabd)
- Shadanga (Six limbs of painting)
- Shad darshana (Six darshanas, six schools of Indian philosophy)
- Shahbazgarhi and Mansehra edicts
- Shahid Amin
- Shah Jahan
- Shahjahanabad
- Shahjehan Begum
- Shahji Bhonsle
- Shah Mal
- Shah Mir dynasty (Sultanate of Kashmir)
- Shahna-i-Mandi
- Shahu (Chhatrapati Shahu)
- Shaikh (Pir, Murshid)
- Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid Alf Sani)
- Shaikh Salim Chishti (Salim Chishti)
- Shaista Khan
- Shaivism
- Shaka era (Saka era, Shalivahana Shaka, Shaka Samvat, Indian National Calendar)
- Shakas (Scythians, Sakas, Indo-Scythians)
- Shakti Peethas (Shakti Pitha)
- Shalabhanjika
- Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar
- Shang dynasty
- Shankaracharya mathas (Four mathas)
- Shankarrao Deo
- Sharia (Shari'a, Shariat)
- Sharqi sultanate (Sultanate of Jaunpur)
- Shattari order (Shattariyya)
- Sher Shah's tomb, Sasaram
- Sher Shah Suri (Farid Khan, Sher Khan)
- Shifting cultivation (Slash and burn, Jhum)
- Shikhara (Sikhara)
- Shimla conference 1945 (Wavell Plan, Simla conference)
- Shinkansen (Bullet train)
- Shishunaga dynasty (Shishunaga)
- Shishupalgarh (Sisupalgarh)
- Shogun
- Shore Temple
- Shortughai
- Shramana tradition (Shramanas, Parivrajakas)
- Shravanabelagola
- Shravasti (Savatthi)
- Shreni (Shrenis)
- Shreshthi (Setthi)
- Shrivijaya (Srivijaya empire)
- Shroff (Sarraf)
- Shudra
- Shulba sutras (Sulba sutras)
- Shunga dynasty (Sunga, Shungas)
- Shvetambara (Svetambara)
- Sicca rupee
- Sick man of Europe
- Siddis (Habshis)
- Siddis of Janjira (Janjira)
- Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu (Sidhu Manjhi, Sidhu Murmu)
- Sidi Saiyyed Mosque (Sidi Saiyyed ni Jali)
- Siege of Arcot 1751
- Siege of Chittorgarh
- Siege of Delhi 1857 (Siege of Delhi)
- Siege of Lucknow (Lucknow Residency, Siege of Lucknow 1857)
- Sijda and paibos (Sijdah, Paibos)
- Sikandar Bagh (Secundra Bagh)
- Sikandar Lodi
- Sikh misls (Misls, Sikh confederacies)
- Silappadikaram (Silappatikaram)
- Silesian weavers' revolt (Silesian weavers uprising)
- Silk Route (Silk Road)
- Silsila
- Silver rupya (Rupee, Rupiya, Silver rupee of Sher Shah, Rupaya and dam)
- Simon Bolivar (Liberator)
- Simon Commission (Indian Statutory Commission)
- Simuka
- Sinauli (Sanauli)
- Sindhu (Indus River)
- Sindhudurg Fort (Sindhudurg)
- Singbonga
- Sipah-abadi
- Siraj-ud-daulah
- Siri Fort
- Sitadhyaksha
- Sittanavasal
- Sivakalai iron finds (Sivagalai)
- Skandagupta (Kramaditya)
- Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate
- Slavery in the Roman Empire
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930
- S.N. Mukherjee
- Soanian culture (Sohan culture)
- Socialist market economy
- Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
- Socotra
- Sohgaura copper plate (Sohgaura inscription)
- Solidus (Solidi)
- Soma
- Somapura Mahavihara (Paharpur vihara)
- Somnath Lahiri
- Somnath temple (Somanatha temple)
- Som Prakash
- Song Yun
- Sopara (Shurparaka)
- Sources of history
- South Indian merchant guilds (Ainnurruvar, Manigramam)
- Sowa Rigpa (Amchi, Tibetan medicine)
- Spinning jenny
- Spinning mule
- Sri Gupta
- Stages of Gupta temple architecture
- Steam engine
- Steatite (Soapstone)
- Steppe
- Sthaviravada and Mahasanghika (Sthavira, Mahasanghika)
- Sthulabhadra
- Stipendiary chief
- Stolen Generations
- Stratigraphy
- Stridhana
- Strong Centre debate
- Structural adjustment programmes (SAP)
- Stupa (Thupa)
- Subah (Suba, Subadar)
- Subaltern Studies
- Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
- Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji)
- Subsidiary alliance
- Sucheta Kripalani
- Sudarshana lake (Sudarshana reservoir)
- Suez Canal
- Sufis and the state
- Sufism (Tasawwuf)
- Suhrawardi order (Suhrawardiyya, Suhrawardiya)
- Sukaphaa (Chaolung Sukaphaa)
- Sulaiman the merchant (Sulaiman al-Tajir)
- Sulh-i-kul (Peace with all)
- Sultanganj Buddha
- Sultan Ghari
- Sultan Jehan Begum
- Sumant (Dabir)
- Sumerian civilisation (Sumer, Sumerians, Sumer and Akkad)
- Sumerian language (Sumerian)
- Summary Settlement of 1856 (Summary Settlement)
- Sundarar (Sundaramurti)
- Sunset law
- Sun Yat-sen
- Supa
- Suppression of thuggee (Thuggee Department)
- Supreme Court at Calcutta 1774
- Surat
- Surdas
- Surkotada
- Surya Siddhanta
- Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta)
- Sutas
- Sutkagen Dor
- Sutta Pitaka
- Swadesamitran
- Swadeshi movement
- Swami Haridas
- Swamimalai bronze icons
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Swami Vivekananda
- Swaraj (Self-rule)
- Swaraj Party (Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party)
- Swarajya (Hindavi Swarajya)
- Syadvada (Doctrine of maybe)
- Syriac Christians (Syrian Christians, Saint Thomas Christians)
- System of advances (Dadni system)
T
- Tabaqat-i-Akbari
- Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
- Tacitus
- Taille
- Taiping Rebellion
- Taiwan (Republic of China)
- Taj Mahal
- Takshashila University
- Tale of Genji
- Taluqdar
- Tamilakam
- Tamil-Brahmi (Tamili)
- Tamil classical language
- Tamil Sangams (Three Sangams)
- Tamralipti (Tamluk)
- Tana Bhagat movement
- Tanaka Shozo
- Tanka and jital (Silver tanka, Copper jital, Tanka, Tankah)
- Tansen (Ramtanu Pandey)
- Tantia Tope (Tatya Tope, Ramchandra Pandurang)
- Tantra (Tantrism, Tantric practices)
- Taqavi (Taccavi)
- Tara
- Tarabai
- Tarabai Shinde
- T.A. Ramalingam Chettiar
- Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO, Tata Steel)
- Tat tvam asi
- Taxila (Takshashila, Taxila World Heritage Site)
- Tazkira
- Tebhaga movement
- Temple economy
- Temple Entry Proclamation 1936
- Temporary settlement
- Tenali Ramakrishna (Tenali Rama)
- Tennis Court Oath
- Terapanth and Sthanakvasi
- Terracotta plough (Banawali plough)
- Terra nullius
- Tevaram (Tirumurai, Thevaram)
- Thanjavur Marathas (Bhonsles of Thanjavur)
- Thanjavur painting (Tanjore painting)
- Tharisapalli copper plates (Syrian Christian copper plates)
- The Bengalee
- The Hindu
- The Indian War of Independence 1857
- Theories of imperialism (Hobson, Lenin's Imperialism)
- Theory of kingship of Balban (Zil-i-Ilahi)
- Theravada
- Therigatha
- Thermoluminescence dating (TL dating)
- The Tribune
- Third battle of Panipat
- Third Buddhist council
- Third-century crisis (Crisis of the third century)
- Thirsty crow pot
- Thirty Years' War
- Thomas More
- Thomas Munro (Sir Thomas Munro)
- Thomas Roe (Sir Thomas Roe)
- Thousand Pillar temple (Rudreswara Swamy temple, Hanamkonda, Rudreshwara temple)
- Three crowned kings (Vendar, Muvendar, Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas)
- Three-field system (Three-field rotation)
- Three flows of international exchange
- Three gems of Kannada literature (Ratnatraya, Pampa, Ponna and Ranna)
- Three orders
- Three Principles of the People (San min chu-i)
- Tiananmen Square protests (Tiananmen Square protests 1989, Tiananmen 1989)
- Tibetan refugees in India
- Tigawa temple
- Tilak Swaraj Fund
- Timeline
- Timur (Tamerlane)
- Timur's invasion (Invasion of Timur)
- Tinai (Five landscapes)
- Tinkathia system
- Tipitaka (Tripitaka)
- Tirthankara (Jina)
- Tirukkural (Kural)
- Tiruvalluvar
- Tithe
- Titu Mir revolt (Narkelberia rising)
- Tobacco in Mughal India
- Toba eruption (Toba super-eruption)
- Todar Mal (Raja Todar Mal)
- Todas
- Token currency
- Tokugawa economy
- Tokugawa shogunate (Edo shogunate)
- Tolkappiyam
- Tolstoy Farm
- Tomara dynasty (Tomaras)
- Tondaradippodi
- Topikal and kudakkal (Hat-stones and umbrella-stones)
- Topra pillar
- Torana (Gateway)
- Town air makes free
- Trade routes
- Tradition of Vedic chanting (Vedic chanting, Oral transmission of the Vedas)
- Trail of Tears
- Trajan
- Transfer of capital to Daulatabad
- Travels in the Mughal Empire (Travels in the Mogul Empire)
- Treasure Trove Act (Indian Treasure Trove Act)
- Treaty of Allahabad 1765
- Treaty of Amritsar 1809
- Treaty of Amritsar 1846
- Treaty of Bassein 1802 (Treaty of Vasai)
- Treaty of Kanagawa (Treaty of Peace 1854)
- Treaty of Lahore 1846
- Treaty of Madras 1769
- Treaty of Mangalore 1784
- Treaty of Nanking 1842 (Treaty of Nanjing)
- Treaty of Purandar
- Treaty of Salbai 1782
- Treaty of Seringapatam 1792 (Treaty of Srirangapatna)
- Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
- Treaty of Vienna (Congress of Vienna, Vienna Peace Settlement)
- Treaty of Yandabo 1826
- Triangular trade
- Tribal republic coins (Yaudheya coins)
- Tribal versions of the epics
- Tribe (Janjati, Scheduled Tribe)
- Tripartite struggle (Struggle for Kannauj)
- Tripitaka Koreana
- Tripuri crisis 1939 (Tripuri session)
- Triratna of Buddhism (Three jewels, Triratna)
- Triratna of Jainism (Three jewels of Jainism)
- True arch and dome (Voussoir arch)
- Tryst with Destiny
- Tufan dal
- Tughlaqabad Fort
- Tughlaq dynasty (Tughluq dynasty)
- Tukaram (Sant Tukaram)
- Tulsidas
- Tulughma (Rumi method)
- Tuluva dynasty
- Turkan-i-Chahalgani (The Forty, Chalisa)
- Turushka
- Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (Jahangirnama)
- Twelve Jyotirlingas (Jyotirlinga)
- Twenty-One Demands 1915
- Two-nation theory
U
- Udant Martand
- Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves
- Udayagiri caves (Madhya Pradesh) (Udayagiri caves of Vidisha)
- Udayana of Vatsa (Udayana)
- Udayin (Udayabhadra)
- Uddalaka Aruni
- Udham Singh (Shaheed Udham Singh)
- Udvada Atash Behram (Iranshah)
- Ujjain (Ujjayini)
- Ukiyo-e (Ukiyo)
- Ulama (Ulema, Alim)
- Ulatbansi
- Uluq (Horse-post)
- Ulus
- Umayyad caliphate (Umayyads)
- Undavalli caves
- Under-ryot
- Underwater archaeology (Marine archaeology)
- Unequal treaties
- Unicorn seal (Unicorn motif, One-horned animal)
- Unification of Germany (German unification)
- Unification of Italy (Risorgimento)
- Unionist Party (National Unionist Party)
- Union Powers Committee
- Union, State and Concurrent Lists (Seventh Schedule)
- Unity in diversity (Many in the One)
- Universal adult franchise (Universal adult suffrage)
- Universities of Padua and Bologna
- Untouchability (Asprishya)
- Upanayana (Sacred thread ceremony)
- Upanishads
- Upavedas
- Upper Palaeolithic (Late Stone Age)
- Upper town and lower town (Citadel and lower town)
- Ur
- Uraiyur
- Urbanisation in Mughal India
- Urbanism in Mesopotamia (Urbanisation in Mesopotamia)
- Urban professional classes
- Urs
- Uruk (Warka)
- Usha Mehta and Congress Radio (Secret Congress Radio)
- Ushr
- US Occupation of Japan
- Ustad Mansur (Nadir-ul-Asr)
- U Tirot Sing (Anglo-Khasi war)
- Utnur (Ash mounds)
- Uttarabodhi mudra
- Uttaradhyayana Sutta
- Uttaramerur inscriptions (Uthiramerur inscriptions)
- Uttarapatha
V
- Vachana
- Vagbhata (Ashtanga Hridaya)
- Vaikom satyagraha 1924-25
- Vaishali
- Vaishali lion pillar (Kolhua pillar)
- Vaisheshika school (Vaisesika)
- Vaishnavism
- Vaishya
- Vajapeya
- Vajji (Vrijji, Vajji confederacy, Vrijji sangha)
- Vajrayana Buddhism (Tantric Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrayana, Tantrayana)
- Vakataka dynasty (Vakatakas)
- Valabhi (Vallabhi)
- Valabhi temple type (Wagon-vault roof)
- Vallabhacharya (Vallabha)
- Vallabhbhai Patel (Sardar Patel)
- Vamsha
- Vande Mataram
- Vanik
- Varada mudra
- Varaha (Boar avatar)
- Varahamihira
- Varaha panel of Udayagiri
- Variyam (Variyar)
- Varkari tradition (Pandharpur wari, Sants of Pandharpur)
- Varman dynasty (Varmans of Kamarupa)
- Varna (Varna system, Four varnas)
- Varna-jati system
- Vasant Shinde
- Vasco da Gama
- Vasishthiputra Pulumavi
- Vassalage
- Vasubandhu
- Vasudeva-Krishna (Vasudeva)
- Vasudhaiva kutumbakam
- Vatsa
- Vedangas (Six limbs of the Veda)
- Vedanta (Vedanta school, Uttara Mimamsa)
- Vedaranyam salt march
- Vedas (Four Vedas)
- Vedic deities
- Vedika (Railing)
- Veerapandiya Kattabomman
- Veer Baal Diwas
- Velir (Velir chieftains)
- Vellalar
- Vellanvagai
- Vellore mutiny
- Velu Thampi Dalawa (Velu Thampi)
- Venice
- Vernacular Press Act
- Vesara style (Hybrid style, Chalukya style)
- Vessantara Jataka
- Vidatha (Vidhata)
- Vidyapati
- Vidyaranya (Madhava Vidyaranya)
- Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- Vijayalaya
- Vijayanagara Empire (Karnataka samrajyamu)
- Vijay Stambha (Tower of Victory)
- Vikramaditya VI
- Vikramashila (Vikramashila Mahavihara)
- Vikramorvashiyam
- Vikram Samvat (Vikrama era)
- Village artisans
- Village community in Mughal India
- Village panchayat in Mughal India
- Vima Kadphises (Kadphises II)
- Vimana
- Vinaya Pitaka
- Virahanka (Virahanka-Fibonacci sequence)
- Virupaksha temple
- Vishakhadatta
- Vishaya
- Vishishtadvaita (Qualified non-dualism)
- Vishnudharmottara Purana (Chitrasutra)
- Vishnu Purana
- Vishnu reclining on Sheshnag (Anantashayana Vishnu)
- Vishnuvardhana (Bittideva)
- Vishti (Forced labour)
- Vitarka mudra
- Vitthala temple
- Volksgeist (Das volk)
- Votive inscriptions
- V.S. Sukthankar
- V.S. Wakankar (Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar)
- Vyasa (Veda Vyasa, Krishna Dvaipayana)
W
- Wagh nakh (Tiger claws)
- Wahdat-ul-wujud (Unity of Being)
- Wajid Ali Shah (Jan-i-Alam)
- Wali (Auliya)
- Wall Street Crash 1929 (Black Tuesday)
- Waqia-navis (Waqia-nawis)
- Wardha scheme of basic education (Nai Talim)
- Warehouse of Mohenjo-daro (Granary)
- Warren Hastings
- Washington Consensus
- Watan jagir
- Water frame
- Western Chalukyas of Kalyani (Kalyani Chalukyas, Later Chalukyas, Chalukyas of Kalyani)
- Western Kshatrapas (Kardamaka dynasty, Western Satraps)
- White Australia policy
- William Bentinck (Lord William Bentinck)
- William Digby
- William Hawkins
- William Hodges
- Winston Churchill
- Women in Mughal agrarian society
- Women in the civil disobedience movement
- Women in the Constituent Assembly (Women members of the Constituent Assembly)
- Women in the Renaissance
- Women's Indian Association (WIA)
- Woodblock printing (Woodblock print)
- Wood's Despatch 1854 (Magna Carta of English education in India)
- Worcester v Georgia (Marshall judgement of 1832)
- World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Wounded Knee Massacre 1890
X
- Xinhai Revolution 1911 (1911 Revolution, Xinhai Revolution)
- Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang, Hsuan Tsang, Xuan Zang)
Y
- Yadava dynasty (Seunas, Yadavas of Devagiri)
- Yajna (Yagya, Sacrificial tradition, Vedic sacrifice)
- Yajna Sri Satakarni
- Yajnavalkya
- Yajnavalkya Smriti
- Yajurveda (Yajur Veda)
- Yaksha and yakshi
- Yam (Mongol courier system)
- Yasa (Yasaq)
- Yashodharman
- Yashti
- Yaudheyas
- Yavana
- Yijing (I-tsing)
- Yintu (Yindu)
- Yoga (Yoga school, Yoga darshana)
- Yogachara (Vijnanavada)
- Yoga Sutras
- Yoga UNESCO intangible heritage (Yoga ICH)
- Young India and Navajivan (Young India, Navajivan)
- Young Italy
- Young Turks
- Yuan dynasty
- Yugantar (Jugantar)
- Yuktas and pradeshikas
Z
- Zabt (Zabti, Zabt system)
- Zaibatsu
- Zain-ul-Abidin (Budshah)
- Zakat
- Zamindar
- Zamindari consolidation
- Ziauddin Barani (Barani, Ziyauddin Barani)
- Ziggurat
- Zikr (Dhikr)
- Zimmi (Dhimmi)
- Ziyarat
- Zollverein (German customs union)
- Zoroastrianism