A dynasty that ruled over Iran between 1501 and 1736 CE. It consolidated the empire, established a system of state and bureaucracy and patronised the arts and letters, especially manuscript painting. The court of Safavid Iran was a major cultural influence to the arts under the Mughal rule in the Indian subcontinent.
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A ruler of the Badami Chalukya dynasty whose reign saw the territorial expansion of the kingdom over the Deccan region.…
George Curzon (b. 1859; d. 1925) was a British statesman who served as the Viceroy of India between 1898 and…
First major South Asian empire, covering, at its height, a vast majority of the Indian subcontinent. Founded around 320 BCE…
Sultana Chand Bibi (b. 1550; d. 1599) was the acting ruler and regent of the Bijapur Sultanate from 1580–90 and…
Chandragupta Maurya (b. n.d.; d. c. 297 BCE) was the founder of the Mauryan Empire and ruled from c. 321…
Violent conflict from 1983 to 2009 between the Sinhala-majority Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),…
A dynasty that ruled over the southern Deccan in India between the eleventh and mid-fourteenth centuries. At its peak, the…
Rajamalla IV (b. n.d. ; d. n.d.) was a ruler of the Western Ganga dynasty, which governed parts of present-day…