Wikidata:WikiProject Indian History

The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of Indian History during the historic period (500BCE to modern times) in Wikidata. Our initial focus will be to cover the middle period (approximately 200CE to 1700CE). WikiData already has items for Dynasties and rulers, however it is hard to find all dynasties and rulers who have ruled parts of or all of the Indian subcontinent. We would be creating statements for dynasty and ruler items and also connect them up appropriately (currently the dynasties are not always connected to the rulers of that dynasty) so that they can be found by querying WikiData with a simple query like:

SELECT ?dynasty ?dynastyLabel ?start ?end

WHERE {

 ?dynasty wdt:P31 wd:Q164950; #instances of dynasty
          wdt:P17 wd:Q668.    #with country India
 OPTIONAL {?dynasty wdt:P580 ?start. }
 OPTIONAL {?dynasty wdt:P582 ?end. }
 SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }

}

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capital
father
child
instance of
subclass of

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Main queries

SELECT ?dynasty ?dynastyLabel ?start ?end

WHERE {

 ?dynasty wdt:P31 wd:Q164950; #instances of dynasty
          wdt:P17 wd:Q668.    #with country India
 OPTIONAL {?dynasty wdt:P580 ?start. }
 OPTIONAL {?dynasty wdt:P582 ?end. }
 SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }

}

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