1956: The Dalai Lama enters India through a high mountain pass. He is followed by the Panchen Lama.
Tibetan Passport 1947/1948 issued to then Chief of the Finance Department of D Tibet b4 the #ChineseInvasionOnTibet.
Oct 6, 2015 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Instrument of Accession of Jammu & Kashmir to the Union of India signed by Mahraja Hari Singh. Oct1947 #IndianHistory
1947-1948s: Nehru inspecting the Women's Militia (Women's Self-Defense Corps).
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
Sep 18, 2015 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Netaji Subash Chandra Bose established the Bank of Azad Hind in 1944, Rangoon, to manage funds donated by the Indian community
#NetajiFiles
5 April 1944, the "Azad Hind Bank was inaugurated at Rangoon. Netaji used this chair for the first time. #NetajiFiles
Jun 21, 2015 • 71 tweets • 69 min read
Hinduism expansion in Asia, from its heartland in Indian Subcontinent, to the rest of Asia, started circa 1st century
Greater India was the historical extent of the culture of Hinduism & Buddhism beyond the Indian subcontinent.
Jun 11, 2015 • 66 tweets • 43 min read
Lt. Col. Hari Singh of the India's posing outside a captured Pakistani police station in Lahore. #IndoPakWar1965
Indian army in the #IndoPakWar1947.
May 29, 2015 • 25 tweets • 17 min read
Devi Mahatmya ManuScript in #Sanskrit on palm-leaf, Bhujimol script, Bihar or Nepal, 11th century. #IndianHistory
Rigveda (padapatha) Manuscript in Devanagari on paper, early 19th century. #Sanskrit #IndianHistory
Apr 20, 2015 • 45 tweets • 14 min read
Lord Shiva as Nataraja. 850-1250 CE
Bronze, #CholaDynasty Statue,
Metropolitan Museum New York.
#IndianHistory
#Art
A four-faced Bhagwan Shiva's Mukhalinga, 10th century, from Nepal, currently in Asian Art Museum.
#IndianHistory
Apr 12, 2015 • 21 tweets • 15 min read
Ashoka the Great's Empire after Kalinga War C.265 BCE, was the major power at that time. #IndianHistory
Location of #KalingaEmpire. c.261 BCE, Kalinga was an early republic in central East India. #IndianHistory