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This is when there was first farming settlements starting to pop up around the North-West corner of India
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Pepper was introduced into cooking
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The end of the urban Indus Valley and the second urban urbanization. This is when Hinduism arose in the area.
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The Aryans (nomadic people from Asia) expand into the Indus and Ganges Valleys in India
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India gets divided into into 16 different Aryan states
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Charvaka develop many schools, creating the basis of Hinduism and philosophy
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The birth of the religion of Vardhamana which has most of the basic 'rules' in modern religion in India such as how the cow is holy
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Demetrios wins in battle and begins the Yona or Greek period in Indian history
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Under the rule of Ashoka he converted India to Buddhism and had it spread throughout Asia.
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Muslim armies invade a part of India and try to spread their religion
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Vasco da Gama is the first European explorer to reach India and Christianity was soon introduced after that
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Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire, builds the Taj Mahal for his wife
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Aurangzeb ruled India and tried to force Hindus to convert to Islam
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The British took over India by an Indian Viceroy
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The British split the state of Bengal into two separate states; one Hindu and one Muslim
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The Indian National Congress was formed. It was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire.
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The start of World War 1 which Indian troops were apart of by sending troops to fight with the British.
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They fought most of their battles in East and North Africa
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A crowd of non-violent protesters were fired upon by British Indian Army.
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Gandhi becomes the leader of the Indian independence movement
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India again was supplying troops to Britain
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People demanded that a new country for Muslim Indians be created
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The end of WWII when America dropped atomic bombs on Japan and then they later surrendered,
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British grants India independence but it wouldn't become an actual country like India we know now until a year later when the separated Pakistan and India
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This is when British officially 'cut ties' with Indian when Britisha and Indian officials decided to separate India and Pakistan (Pakistan was for Muslim Indians)
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War with Pakistan over disputed territory of Kashmir.
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The Caste system was officially outlawed but its still in use in modern times.
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The New Indian Constitution was ratified and they named their first Prime Minister (Jawaharlal Nehru)
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Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir.
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Third war with Pakistan over creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.
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On May 11th India welcomed its one billionth citizen, to put into perspective on how many people that is, there is 7.5 billion on Earth. about 1/7 of those people are just in that one country.
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The first woman President (Pratibha Patil)
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A Dehli court rules that homosexual intercourse is legal between adults above the consent age
