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=== Bronze Age ===
=== Bronze Age ===
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=== Iron Age ===
=== Iron Age ===

Revision as of 15:50, 22 January 2023

Republic of India
भारत गणराज्य
Flag of Republic of India
Flag
Coat of arms of Republic of India
Coat of arms
CapitalNew Delhi
Largest cityMumbai
Official languagesHindi
English
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism
GovernmentFederal parliamentary bourgeois republic
• President
Ram Nath Kovind
• Vice President
Venkaiah Naidu
• Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Area
• Total
3,287,263 km²
Population
• 2018 estimate
1,352,642,280


India, officially the Republic of India, is a bourgeois country in South Asia and the second most-populated country in the world behind the People's Republic of China.[1]

History

Bronze Age

An urban civilization developed in the Indus Valley around 2600 BCE. Its major cities included Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. The Indus civilization collapsed around 1900 BCE, and archaeologists found many unburied remains showing signs of violent death.[2]

Iron Age

See main article: Maurya Empire

Classical period

See main article: Gupta Empire

Early modern period

See main article: Mughal Empire

Colonization

See main article: British Raj

The British East India Company took control of India in 1765 and established a trade monopoly. The British Raj took control of India in 1847 and suppressed a rebellion in 1857. The British stole at least $44.6 trillion from India, while the population of India dropped by 20% between 1870 and 1920 and tens of millions died from famine under British rule.[3]

Independence

In 1971, the United States supported Pakistan's genocide in Bangladesh, which killed 300,000 to three million civilians and created ten million refugees.[4]

In 1989, India introduced economic changes that allowed capitalists to take control of scarce natural resources.[5]

References

  1. Philip B. Calkins (2022). India. Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. Neil Faulkner (2013). A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals: 'The First Class Societies' (pp. 19–21). [PDF] Pluto Press. ISBN 9781849648639 [LG]
  3. Jason Hickelby (2019-01-09). "How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It" Black Agenda Report. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  4. Gary Bass (2013-11-19). "Looking Away from Genocide" The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  5. "‘India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History’" (2022-07-14). Monthly Review. Retrieved 2022-07-14.