Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1950 – present

India

A state of 1950 – present — 76 years, still standing in South Asia. It replaced British Raj, Kingdom of Mysore and Hyderabad State and 267 more. It was replaced by Faridkot State. The atlas records 118 things within it — wars and battles 21 · unrest and atrocity 20 · famine and plague 11 · natural disasters 19 · treaties 1 · people 46. Its line of rulers holds 17 people.

  • Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
76 years
and still standing
Rulers
17
the President of India
Most ground
3.19 million km²
in 1987
Within it
118
recorded rows
Symbols
3
on record, with years
Map: India in 1987, its borders in gold among its neighbours
India in 1987, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 3.19 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Cambay State: 1730 – 1948Chamba State: 550 – 1948Chhatarpur State: 1785 – 1950Faridkot State: 1803 – 1947India: 1950 – 2026

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

The line of President of India - the office this state names as its head of state.

Rajendra Prasad · 1950 – 1962 · left office aliveSarvepalli Radhakrishnan · 1962 – 1967 · left office aliveZakir Husain · 1967 – 1969 · died in office, manner not recordedV. V. Giri · 1969 – 1969 · resigned or stood down, the article saysMohammad Hidayatullah · 1969 – 1969 · left office aliveFakhruddin Ali Ahmed · 1974 – 1977 · died in office, manner not recordedB. D. Jatti · 1977 – 1977 · resigned or stood down, the article saysNeelam Sanjiva Reddy · 1977 – 1982 · left office aliveZail Singh · 1982 – 1987 · left office aliveRamaswamy Venkataraman · 1987 – 1992 · left office aliveShankar Dayal Sharma · 1992 – 1997 · left office aliveK. R. Narayanan · 1997 – 2002 · left office aliveA. P. J. Abdul Kalam · 2002 – 2007 · left office alivePratibha Patil · 2007 – 2012 · no death date to read the end againstPranab Mukherjee · 2012 – 2017 · left office aliveRam Nath Kovind · 2017 – 2022 · no death date to read the end againstDroupadi Murmu · 2022 – … · still in office1960198020002020
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Rajendra Prasad1950 – 196212 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan1962 – 19675 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Zakir Husain1967 – 19692 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
V. V. Giri1969 – 1969under a yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Mohammad Hidayatullah1969 – 1969under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed1974 – 19773 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
B. D. Jatti1977 – 1977under a yearresigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1977 – 19825 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Zail Singh1982 – 19875 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ramaswamy Venkataraman1987 – 19925 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Shankar Dayal Sharma1992 – 19975 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
K. R. Narayanan1997 – 20025 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam2002 – 20075 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Pratibha Patil2007 – 20125 yearsending not on record
Pranab Mukherjee2012 – 20175 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ram Nath Kovind2017 – 20225 yearsending not on record
Droupadi Murmu2022 – in officein office since 2022still in office

17 rulers, 17 with terms dated as terms, covering 1950 – 2022. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 16 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.92, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Heads of government

The line of Prime Minister of India, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

Jawaharlal Nehru1947 – 1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri1964 – 1966
Gulzarilal Nanda1964 – 1964
Indira Gandhi1966 – 1977
Gulzarilal Nanda1966 – 1966
Morarji Desai1977 – 1979
Charan Singh1979 – 1980
Indira Gandhi1980 – 1984
Rajiv Gandhi1984 – 1989
V. P. Singh1989 – 1990
Chandra Shekhar1990 – 1991
P. V. Narasimha Rao1991 – 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee1996 – 1996
H. D. Deve Gowda1996 – 1997
Inder Kumar Gujral1997 – 1998
Atal Bihari Vajpayee1998 – 2004
Manmohan Singh2004 – 2014
Narendra Modi2014 – …

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

1960197019801990200020102020

3.18 million km² in 1960, 3.19 million km² in 2020; at its largest 3.19 million km² in 1990. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • British Raj Red Ensign
    flag, 1858 – 1947British Raj Red Ensign · Public domain
  • Flag of India
    flag, from 1946Flag of India · Public domain
  • Emblem of India
    coat of arms, from 1950Emblem of India · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 1999: 70 recorded — 14 wars and battles, 10 risings, regime changes and massacres, 46 other19002000 – 2099: 44 recorded — 7 wars and battles, 10 risings, regime changes and massacres, 27 other2000

1900 – 199970 rows · 14 wars and battles · 10 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 62 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209944 rows · 7 wars and battles · 10 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 36 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood76 years

    stood longer than 41% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held3,190,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 95% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century11.0

    had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record17

    has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 41 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Manipur State · Linked · 1110 – 1949Manipur StateKingdom of Amber · Linked · 1128 – 1949Kingdom of AmberKingdom of Marwar · Linked · 1250 – 1949Kingdom of MarwarBundi State · Linked · 1342 – 1949Bundi StateGarhwal Kingdom · Linked · 1358 – 1949Garhwal KingdomKingdom of Cochin · Linked · 1450 – 1949Kingdom of CochinIndia · 1950 – 2026India12001400160018002000
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q668 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.