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Polity South Asia

British East India Company

1600 CE – 1874 CE · 274 years

British joint-stock company (1600–1874)

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Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: British East India Company's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1815 CE to 1815 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1815 CE

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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1604 CE – still standing

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Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

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1775 CE – 1818 CE

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Jama Masjid

1656 CE – still standing

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British Raj

1858 CE – 1947 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1600 CE and 1874 CE.

1600 CE Meenakshi Temple 1604 CE Golden Temple 1632 CE Taj Mahal 1656 CE Jama Masjid 1673 CE Badshahi Mosque 1674 CE Maratha Empire Expansion

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