Abstract
This chapter presents a summary of the main events in the history of the subcontinent that used to be called India or Hindustan but has been divided between the new India and Pakistan since 1947. The chapter presents a brief review of the principal events from the Indus civilizations of the third millennium B.C. to the middle of the eighteenth century A.D., when the British began to arrive in force. It highlights the period of the British Raj and the growth of the Nationalist Movement that finally brought it to an end in 1947. The chapter also focuses on the events, expected and unexpected, and the pressures, internal and external, that have presented many problems to the rulers of the new India and have created or accentuated many urgent issues. It also explains the main happenings in the educational sphere from the time of Warren Hastings up to 1937, when Mahatma Gandhi's Wardha Scheme at last made a national issue of educational planning.
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