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.

Fa-Hien in AD 414 (5th century) he recorded his travels in ‘Record of Buddhist Countries’ today known as the ‘Travels of Fa-Hien’. It is an excellent geographic account of his journey along the Silk Route and the first comprehensive eyewitness account of the history and customs of Central Asia and India.

Ashokathe Great was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of Indian subcontinent from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE.

• On November 1, 1858, a grand Darbar was held at Allahabad.
• Here Lord Canning sent forth the royal proclamation which announced that the queen had assumed the government of India.
• This proclamation declared the future policy of the British Rule in India.

Trusteeship is a socio-economic philosophy that was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi.

• On September 16th of 1932, Mahatma Gandhi began a “fast unto death” to protest British support of a new Indian Constitution that would separate the Indian electorate by caste, thereby segregating the “untouchables” & ensuring that the social classes would remain unfairly divided .
• In 1932, a round table conference was organized and Ambedkar, an eminent lawyer and a Dailt leader was invited to attend the same.

Rousseau distinguished between various types of freedom. The most basic sort is the natural liberty that abounds in the state of nature. The Mountain, Rousseau wrote: “Liberty consists less in doing one’s will than in not being subject to that of another”

• Emperor Zain-ul Abidin was known as “Akbar of Kashmir”.
• He was called so because he was one of the greatest rulers of Kashmir. Like Emperor Akbar he was also a generous and liberal king.

The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor General of Bengal the Governor General of British India and all financial and administrative powers were centralized in the hands of Governor General-in-Council.

Nana sahib, born on May 19, 1824, as Dhondu Pant, was a rebel Indian leader during the great revolt of 1857. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Balaji Rao II, he sought to restore the Maratha confederacy and the Peshwa tradition.