India, Year by Year

Learn India year by year — a navigable timeline of the Republic, each year a structured, exam-ready digest of polity, economy, society, science and the world, with the Bills and Acts of that year.

Contemporary India

2014–2026Digital public goods, big-bang laws and India on the global stage.

2026 Delimitation package and Supreme Court judges-strength ordinance define 2026 2025 Being researched 2024 Being researched 2023 Being researched 2022 Being researched 2021 Being researched 2020 Being researched 2019 Being researched 2018 Being researched 2017 Being researched 2016 Being researched 2015 Being researched 2014 Being researched

Reforms, Rights & Growth

2000–2013High growth, the rights era (RTI, RTE, MGNREGA) and a connected India.

2013 Being researched 2012 Being researched 2011 Being researched 2010 Being researched 2009 Being researched 2008 Being researched 2007 Being researched 2006 Being researched 2005 Being researched 2004 Being researched 2003 Being researched 2002 Being researched 2001 Being researched 2000 Being researched

Liberalisation

1991–1999The 1991 reforms open the economy; a new middle class and a nuclear India.

1999 Being researched 1998 Being researched 1997 Being researched 1996 Being researched 1995 Being researched 1994 Being researched 1993 Being researched 1992 Being researched 1991 Balance-of-payments crisis triggers India's 1991 economic liberalisation

Coalitions, Insurgencies & Change

1978–1990Mandal, Punjab and Kashmir, and the slow exhaustion of the old economy.

1990 Being researched 1989 Being researched 1988 Being researched 1987 Being researched 1986 Being researched 1985 Being researched 1984 Being researched 1983 Being researched 1982 Being researched 1981 Being researched 1980 Being researched 1979 Being researched 1978 Being researched

Wars, the Green Revolution & the Emergency

1965–1977Food self-sufficiency, the 1971 war and a constitutional crisis.

1977 Being researched 1976 Being researched 1975 Being researched 1974 Being researched 1973 Being researched 1972 Being researched 1971 1971 War, the birth of Bangladesh, and Indira Gandhi's electoral mandate 1970 Being researched 1969 Being researched 1968 Being researched 1967 Being researched 1966 Being researched 1965 Being researched

The Republic & the Nehru Years

1950–1964A Constitution, planned development, non-alignment and institution-building.

1964 Being researched 1963 Being researched 1962 Being researched 1961 Being researched 1960 Being researched 1959 Being researched 1958 Being researched 1957 Being researched 1956 Being researched 1955 Being researched 1954 Being researched 1953 Being researched 1952 Being researched 1951 Being researched 1950 India becomes a Republic as the Constitution comes into force, 26 January 1950

Independence & Integration

1947–1949Freedom, Partition and the welding of 565 princely states into a Union.

1949 Being researched 1948 Being researched 1947 Independence and Partition: the birth of the Indian Union, 15 August 1947

Each year's digest is researched by a multi-model AI editorial board and cross-checked. Bills and Acts are drawn from our live BillTracker. Corrections welcome.