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India became independent at the stroke of midnight. Astrologers treat that moment as the country's birth, and follow its chart through everything that came after
Reading the chart
Rising sign
TaurusVrishabha Lagna
The sign coming up over the eastern horizon at that moment. Everything else in the chart is counted from it.
Moon
Cancer, in Pushya
The Moon's star (nakshatra) sets the order of the planetary periods. Pushya starts the chart in Saturn's period.
Five planets in one sign
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn all sit together in Cancer, the chart's 3rd house.
Vimshottari and Chara dasha
Vedic astrology splits a life into periods, each ruled by one planet. Move through the events and the bar shows which period India-Bharat was in. Jaimini’s Chara dasha gives each period to a sign instead; switch between the two above the bar. Under each event are the slow planets on that date, with the house they fell in counted from the Lagna, then from the Moon (e.g. 3rd · 1st).
Mars period
2025 to 2032 (running now)
No events recorded yet
Saturn period1947 to 1965Partition violence and the mass migration of refugees across the new borders.
Mahatma Gandhi shot dead in Delhi on 30 January.
Constitution comes into force on 26 January; India becomes a republic.
No events recorded between 1950 and 1962
Border war with China.
Emergency proclaimed on 26 October 1962 during the war with China. It stays in force until 10 January 1968.
First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies on 27 May.
War with Pakistan over Kashmir, ended by a UN-backed ceasefire on 23 September.
Mercury period1965 to 1982Indira Gandhi is sworn in on 24 January after the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
The rupee is devalued by about 57% against the US dollar on 6 June.
No events recorded between 1966 and 1971
War with Pakistan in December; Bangladesh becomes independent.
Emergency proclaimed on 3 December 1971 during the war with Pakistan. It stays in force until March 1977.
India conducts its first nuclear test, code-named Smiling Buddha, at Pokhran on 18 May.
National Emergency declared on 25 June 1975, lifted in March 1977.
Morarji Desai of the Janata Party is sworn in on 24 March, ending 30 years of Congress rule.
After the Janata government collapses, Indira Gandhi is sworn in again on 14 January.
Ketu period1982 to 1989Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated on 31 October.
A gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal on the night of 2–3 December kills thousands.
Venus period1989 to 2009V. P. Singh leads the National Front coalition from 2 December 1989 until it falls in November 1990.
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated at Sriperumbudur on 21 May.
Balance-of-payments crisis leads to the July 1991 reforms opening the economy.
No events recorded between 1991 and 1998
Nuclear tests at Pokhran on 11 and 13 May.
Conflict with Pakistan in the Kargil district of Ladakh, ending on 26 July.
Terrorists attack the Parliament of India in New Delhi on 13 December.
No events recorded between 2001 and 2008
The Sensex loses more than half its value between January and October amid the global financial crisis.
Coordinated terror attacks across Mumbai from 26 to 29 November.
Sun period2009 to 2015The BJP wins a majority on its own in results declared 16 May. Narendra Modi is sworn in on 26 May.
ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission enters Mars orbit on 24 September, on its first attempt.
Moon period2015 to 2025The ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes are withdrawn from circulation on 8 November.
A terrorist suicide bombing on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, Kashmir, kills 40 personnel on 14 February.
Article 370 is abrogated on 5 August, ending Jammu and Kashmir's special status. The state is reorganised into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, from 31 October.
A nationwide lockdown begins on 25 March and is eased in phases from June.
GDP falls about 24% year on year in April to June, the sharpest drop on record, during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The Delta wave overwhelms hospitals and oxygen supplies, the deadliest phase of the pandemic in India.
Parliament repeals the three farm laws on 29 November, after a year of farmer protests.
India becomes the first country to land near the lunar south pole, on 23 August.
The Ram temple in Ayodhya is consecrated on 22 January.
Results on 4 June leave the BJP short of a majority. Narendra Modi begins a third term on 9 June, relying on coalition partners.
Terrorists kill 26 people, mostly tourists, near Pahalgam in Kashmir on 22 April.
India strikes terrorist targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on 7 May. A ceasefire follows on 10 May.
Mars period2025 to 2032 · running · no events recordedD1 · Lahiri
Lagna
Taurus (Vrishabha) · House 1
Sun
Cancer (Karka) · Ashlesha 4 · House 3
Moon
Cancer (Karka) · Pushya 1 · House 3
Mars
Gemini (Mithuna) · Ardra 1 · House 2
Mercury
Cancer (Karka) · Pushya 4 · House 3
Jupiter
Libra (Tula) · Vishakha 2 · House 6
Venus
Cancer (Karka) · Ashlesha 2 · House 3
Saturn
Cancer (Karka) · Ashlesha 2 · House 3
Rahu
Taurus (Vrishabha) · Krittika 3 · House 1
Ketu
Scorpio (Vrischika) · Anuradha 1 · House 7