Monarchy was the predominant form of government in India until the not-too-distant past. Monarchy in ancient India was ruled by a King who functioned as...

Of Ancient India. Genesis Publishing. p. 348. ISBN 9788130702919. Retrieved 25 October 2012. R. T. Vyas; Umakant Premanand Shah (1995). Studies in Jaina...

Janapada and Mahajanapada Mahabharata Historicity of the Mahabharata Monarchy in ancient India Ramayana Vedic period For example: RV 1.108.8; 7.18; 8.10.5; 6...

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, reigns as head of state for the rest of their life, or until abdication. The extent...

of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, China and India, or Rome and the post-Roman Europe. Not always, but as a rule, the more monarchy is universal in space...

Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for the violent...

Bharata Khanda History of India Mahajanapadas Middle kingdoms of India Monarchy in ancient India Indo-Aryan peoples List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and...

into that place if necessary. Babu (title) Devaraja Maharaja Monarchy in ancient India Rana (title) Rai (title) Rawal (title) Zamindar Eraly, A. (2007)...

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...

(1995). The Ancient Near East c. 3000–330 BC. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16763-5. Lehman, Gunnar (1992). "The United Monarchy in the Countryside". In Vaughn...

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and...

The abolition of monarchy is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary. The abolition of...

Mahājanapadas were sixteen kingdoms and aristocratic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation...

aristocratic rule, contrast to monarchy (साम्राज्य samarajya in Sanskrit). Among the mahajanapadas, the sixteen great states in ancient India, two followed the gana...

The Roman Kingdom, also known as the Roman monarchy and the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history, when the city and its...

BC). In ancient India, education was mainly imparted through the Vedic and Buddhist learning system, while the first education system in ancient China...

Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or...

An elective monarchy is a monarchy ruled by a monarch who is elected, in contrast to a hereditary monarchy in which the office is automatically passed...

July Monarchy (French: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (French: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France...

The Sinhalese monarchy (Sinhala සිංහල රාජාණ්ඩුව) has its origins in the settlement of North Indian Indo-Aryan immigrants to the island of Sri Lanka. The...

Criticism of monarchy has occurred since ancient times. It can be targeted against the general form of government—monarchy—or more specifically, to particular...

The monarchy of Thailand is the constitutional form of government of Thailand (formerly Siam). The king of Thailand (Thai: พระมหากษัตริย์ไทย, historically...

In Hinduism, kingship was a monarchy institution guided by the religious laws of Hinduism, with corresponding complex and hierarchical structure. Hindu...

Statecraft in India and China. (Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-39098-0). Pines, Yuri (2023). "Ancient China and India: The story...

Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme...

The monarchy of Cambodia is the constitutional monarchy of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The king of Cambodia (Khmer: ព្រះមហាក្សត្រកម្ពុជា) is the head of...

Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such...

legends. The state entities were born later. In ancient times, religious myths were used to strengthen monarchy. The ruler of Babylon Hammurabi claimed to...

Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918...

Independence Act 1947, which divided British India into two independent sovereign states of India and Pakistan. The monarchy was abolished on 23 March 1956, when...