🪔 Civilisation of Bharat

Civilisation of Bharat

Everything YugMap has on India’s civilisation in one place — its ages, its knowledge and science, languages, arts, faiths, ways of governing, its land, and its links with the wider world.

🕰 Through the ages

Ancient India BharatavarshaFrom the first farming villages at Mehrgarh and the planned cities of the Harappan civilization, through the Vedic age and the Mahajanapadas, to the Mauryan and Gupta empires.Open → Medieval India Hind / HindustanHarsha and the Chalukyas, the struggle for Kannauj, the Chola maritime empire, the Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagara and the Deccan sultanates, the Mughals and the rise of the Marathas.Open → Modern India India, that is BharatEuropean trading companies, Company rule after Plassey, 1857, the British Raj and the national movement, Independence and Partition, and the Republic of India.Open →

🔬 Knowledge and science

Made in Bharat: 5,000 years of inventionsEvery invention and discovery, Harappan to 1947, on one timeline and map — filter by field.Open → Astronomy in BharatWater clocks, Aryabhata to the Kerala School, Jantar Mantar, Hanle and AstroSat.Open → Medicine & health in BharatAyurveda, yoga, the science of exercise and modern public health.Open → Science in ancient IndiaHarappan, ancient and medieval milestones, grouped by field.Open → Science in India5,000 years of science and technology milestones, by field.Open → Tools & TechnologyFrom stone tools to the Moon, age by age.Open → Firsts of BharatFrom the oldest stone tools to the Moon’s south pole.Open →

🔤 Languages and literature

Literature of BharatThe Vedas, the epics, Sangam poetry, Kalidasa, the bhakti poets and the modern age.Open → Languages & scriptsThe Eighth Schedule and Classical languages, and scripts from Brahmi to Devanagari.Open → Census 2011 languagesHow many speak each language, and how many languages each State speaks.Open → BooksRecommended books on Indian history.Open → GlossaryKey terms of Indian history, each explained from its NCERT chapter.Open →

🎨 The arts

World Heritage Sites of IndiaAll 45 UNESCO sites with the year inscribed and state, on a map.Open → History of Indian musicSamaveda to sapta swara, raga, dhrupad and qawwali, Hindustani and Carnatic, and the great composers.Open → Art & cultureClassical dance, music, temple styles, painting and India’s UNESCO intangible heritage.Open → MonumentsTemples, stupas, forts and archaeological sites on a map, with UNESCO status.Open → Classical dance historyThe eight classical dances and their history.Open → Musical instrumentsThe four families of instruments and the masters who made them famous.Open →

🕉 Faith and philosophy

Religions & philosophiesVedic thought, Buddhism, Jainism, Bhakti, Sufism, Sikhism and the reform movements.Open → Deep topicsInscriptions, coins, scripts, literature, art, administration, laws, economy, society and environment.Open →

👑 Polity and society

Society through the agesKinship, guilds and work, the reformers and reform laws, and equality under the Constitution.Open → DynastiesDynasty succession charts, ruler by ruler.Open → PolitiesEvery kingdom, empire and republic on YugMap, by year.Open → Constitutional historyActs, reforms and commissions, 1773–1950.Open → Civics: how India is governedThe Constitution, rights, elections, Parliament, the courts and panchayats.Open → PersonalitiesThe people on YugMap, by role.Open → Unsung HeroesFighters, rulers, scholars, scientists and reformers few people remember.Open → Women in historyRulers, saints, artists, reformers, freedom fighters and scientists.Open →

⛰ The land

Geography: Physical IndiaMountains, rivers, plateaus, coasts and islands on one map — with a find-it map quiz.Open → PlacesCities, capitals through time, monuments and trade routes.Open → Capitals through timeWhere India was ruled from, century by century.Open → India’s recordsThe biggest, longest, highest and first — land, rivers, people, ports and record-setting bridges and tunnels.Open → Disasters, famines and resilienceFamines, epidemics, earthquakes and cyclones — and how India learned to respond.Open → How India’s states were formedEvery reorganisation from 1956 to 2019, and each state’s family tree.Open →

🌏 Bharat and the world

Trade routes & portsHarappan trade, the great land routes, the Indian Ocean and the ports.Open → Travellers’ IndiaWho came, from where, when, and what they wrote.Open → India and the WorldTrade, faith, travellers, empires and diplomacy — India’s links with other lands through 5,000 years.Open → World civilisations and IndiaWhat was happening in India and across the world, era by era.Open →

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