The Buddhist vihara at Sanchi, famous for its Great Stupa is located atSanchi Town in Raisen District of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The Great Stupa at Sanchi is the oldest stone structure in India.

The Archaeological Survey of India is an Indian government agencyattached to the Ministry of Culture that is responsible forarchaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 byAlexander Cunningham.

The Jagannath Temple of Puri is a famous, sacred Hindu templededicated to Jagannath and located on the eastern coast of India, atPuri in the state of Odisha. Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva was the founder of the Eastern Ganga dynasty which ruled Kalinga, India.

The Lodi dynasty was a Pashtun dynasty that ruled Delhi Sultanatefrom 1451 to 1526. It was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi when he replaced theSayyid dynasty.

Muhammad binTughlaq founded a new city, called Jahanpannah which connected older Delhi with Siri. Later, he ordered that the capital of his Sultanate be moved from Delhi to Deogir in Maharashtra. The capital move failed because Daulatabad was arid and did not have enough drinking water to support the new capital.

The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement is best described by his call to Do or Die.

Kanishka was the most important ruler of the Kushana dynasty. He was the founder of the Saka era which starts from 78 A.D. He was not only a great conqueror but also a patron of religion and art. The famous physician of ancient India Charaka was also patronized by him.Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara. Charaka has been called the Court Physician of Kanishka.

The Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE) was the first empire to unify India into one state and was the largest on the Indian subcontinent. At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam.

The Khilji dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Turkic origin, which ruled large parts of South Asia between 1290 and 1320.

Megasthenes was a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indika. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India.At the beginning of his Indica, he refers to the older Indians who know about the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in India.