An atlas of South Asia's peoples

Where they came from, how they moved, who ruled them and for whom, how they were counted, and what they believed. Seven axes and the layers across them, one database, every fact graded.

• Geography phase 1 Rivers, monsoon, passes, coasts and deserts. What the land allowed.
• Chronology phase 1 One master timeline of dated, graded events.
• Political divisions phase 1 About twenty snapshot maps, Harappan c. 2500 BCE to 2026.
• DNA phase 2 The mother line from Africa; ancient and modern ancestry; what genetics can and cannot say.
• Migrations phase 2 Who came, when, on what evidence, and what changed.
• Census phase 3 How the land was counted: the Ain-i-Akbari, British censuses, all eight countries, Census 2027.
• Peoples live Who lives where: religion, Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the survey estimates for OBCs, language and ethnic group, by state and province.
• Power phase 1 Who ruled, and for whom: ruling houses and the communities they rose from; later, the parties that claimed a section and what the surveys measured.
• Names live Surnames, gotras and clans drawn as trees, and ten surnames traced: meaning, community, place and record. Seeded from Indian Name Trees.
• Faiths phase 4 Who adopted or changed religion, how, on what evidence; and when tension moved from inside a community to between faiths.
• Epics phase 5 The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Jatakas: when each was composed and written down, the places it names, and the period it depicts.

What the database holds

Also as JSON at /api/health; the timeline at /api/events.