← Sentinel Atlas Itihasa & Purana →

An interactive chronicle · c. 3300 BCE — present

Bharat Chronicle

Scroll through India's rulers, invasions, and republics — from the unnamed governors of the Indus Valley to the Prime Minister in office today. Click any stop on the timeline below; the map and the record beside it update together.

The epics and the pantheon now have their own page: Itihasa & Purana. The map is a stylized illustration, not a survey-accurate boundary map — territories are shown as approximate spheres of influence to convey scale and change over time, not precise borders. Over three thousand years of a subcontinent's history are compressed here into nineteen stops; each one elides far more than it states.

Threads that run across the eras

Four questions that cut across the timeline above, kept here as standing reference rather than tied to a single stop.

Prime Ministers of India

Since the office was created in 1947 · 15 people, 18 terms

Partition & new nations

How three countries emerged from one colonial territory

Wars & major conflicts

Since independence, with how each one resolved

State reorganization

India's internal map has never stopped being redrawn

The Constitution of India

The full current text of India's founding legal document — 494 articles across 26 parts, plus 12 schedules — adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and in force from 26 January 1950. Browse by part, jump to an article by number, or search by title.

Article and schedule text sourced from constitutionofindia.net (Centre for Law and Policy Research), reproduced verbatim as the current, in-force text. Part titles alongside the navigation are supplied for orientation and are not part of the source text.