Interactive timelines that trace evolutions, networks, and connections from across South Asia's cultural past.

Since the turn of the twentieth century, cinema has been a popular medium in India. In the two decades after India’s independence, however, Hindi cinema truly came into its own. This timeline studies this Golden Age of Hindi cinema, from the rise of the superstar culture, to the plethora of stories told on screen by auteur-directors, and the role fans played in shaping the industry.

For millennia, the history of the Indian subcontinent has been one of movement. Driven by conflict, trade, exploration and quests for political power and wealth, people arriving over land and sea brought new forms of art, architecture and religions to the region, even as ideas, knowledge and commodities travelled from the subcontinent to distant parts of the world. This timeline traces the milestones of this expansive history, from the prehistoric to the pre-colonial periods.