The History of Modern India: Every Year

See the history of modern India from the British Raj forming in 1858 to the present. Due to multiple disputed borders, the de-facto borders will be used.

Music Credits:
"Jalandhar" by Kevin MacLeod

Information Credits:
Ollie Bye - Information on when Princely States ascended to India or Pakistan between 1947 and 1950.
Past Works
Syed, Javed - "The British Advent in Balochistan"
Wikipedia - For the flags and basic provincial name changes.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

The Indian subcontinent sure has some unique history, and the princely bordergore is exquisite. That Wagah border ceremony you showed during the intro sure is something. We should start doing that with our counterparts in the South to show who's boss!

[SheikahMapping]

Great choice of music! Also, congratulations on actually finishing the border gore that are the Princely States! Much love from a smaller mapper! 💓💜💙

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Portuguese India: Spices!
British India: Tea!
Danish India: Why am I here again?

Your dedication to doing all the princely states correctly is one of a kind. Respect.

[MasterHero]

The FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) region [1947-2018] in Pakistan isn't shown separate from N.W.F.P., although its status is kind of a mess. The area was on the frontier with Afghanistan similar to N.W.F.P., but was directly governed at the federal level. Between the 1980s and 2010s there was a large amount of militant activity including from the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and after several army operations the government decided to end its status and merge it with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018.

[bee-fsvb]

As a nepali, I've been wanting this from you for a long time. I'm sure you spent a lot of time on it. I appreciate your work! I wish you would include nepal and bhutan in this aswell, but other than that, good job

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

India fun fact: It is claimed that the game of chess originated in India some 1, 500 years ago. It is said to be based on the 7th-century war game called chaturanga that flourished in northwestern India at the time.

Pakistan fun fact: World's second largest salt mines (Khewra Mines) are located in Pakistan. The world's famous Himalayan pink salt is also mined in Pakistan

Bangladesh fun fact: The Cox Bazaar is the world's longest natural sea beach, covering 125 km/77.7 miles

[md-gnyf]

Wow! You even accurately included the state/province level boundary changes.

[SnapplyPie]

Danish India in the 1860s sounds like a Paradox game peace deal.

[johnmccnj]

TIL that Sikkim was never truly independent.

[yarumillai]

Bro there are more teaboos in a video about India rather than Indians themselves

[wallrider]

0:59 rip geography students at this time.

[Alinosi]

The princely states make the HRE look clean to me.

[BoogerFace]

The history of modern India has always been hard to understand with all the princely states and small short-lived countries. This video helped me understand it better.

[black_snw_]

I think you merged FATA and NWFP/KPK kinda early? Weren't they only merged in 2018?

[williamhild]

Bangladesh is an incredible country. It has only between 1 to 2 percent the area of the USA, yet has half as many people as the USA. Bangladesh has one of the highest population densities in the world, excluding small city states and very small countries.

[elijahjp]

Idc what anyone says, the song that is playing with the border changes is a banger.

[tahsin]

Love you also included the divisions of Bangladesh

[noneimportant]

Should’ve called it British Indian or subcontinent idk why u took Pakistan in that’s different

[Agapimo]

Excellent timeline map created, it would be to have modern territorial boundaries and also I noticed that the 👹Chinese 🇨🇳bullies have also invaded several areas which were not labeled.

Thank you for all you do🏆

[LM.LM]

I haven't read any of the comments, and I just know that it's hell