India
India was a large subcontinent in south Asia.
History
12th century
Ben Daheer's goods included embroidered fabrics from India. (DW: The Crusade)
13th century
Marco Polo once transported an entire army and its equipment from Cathay to India, all without loss. He brought the sacred tooth of Buddha in the other direction, from India to Cathay, where it became one of Kublai Khan's most valued possessions. (DW: Marco Polo)
17th century
The pirate Captain, Henry Avery, acquired treasure belonging to the Mughal of India. (DW: The Curse of the Black Spot)
19th century
The First Doctor visited India in 1843, where he met Siger Holmes and learned of a temple that housed a gateway to another world. (NA: All-Consuming Fire) Some time after she established the Torchwood Institute in 1879, (DW: Tooth and Claw, TW: The New World) Queen Victoria founded Torchwood India to collect all alien artefacts which fell within the British Raj. (BBCR: Golden Age)
During the Second Afghan War, British troops entered Afghanistan through India. (NA: All-Consuming Fire)
In 1886, Clemency Eddison became pregnant by a Vespiform in India. He drowned in a monsoon when the River Jumna overflowed its banks, and she returned to England to give birth to the child in secret. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
- It is not known whether the Vespiform was one of the aliens who arrived in India through that gateway to another world.
In 1887, Siger's son Sherlock Holmes accompanied the Seventh Doctor, Benny, and Ace to India to prevent Azathoth from leading an invasion though that gateway. (NA: All-Consuming Fire)
20th century
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was born in India and lived there until the age of eight. (NA: Blood Heat, No Future, PDA: Island of Death)
In 1924, Captain Jack Harkness was sent to shut down Torchwood India and confiscate all of its artefacts. (BBCR: Golden Age)
India saw the last days of British rule in 1947, which were marked by internal strife and rioting. The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble accidentally arrived during this time, and were involved in stopping a case of Zytron energy poisoning with the help of Mahatma Gandhi. (NSA: Ghosts of India)
In the 1970s, a cult based around the Skang moved to Bombay; Indian Army official Major Chatterjee was UNIT's liaison officer in this operation. (PDA: Island of Death)
21st century
The Cybermen crossed through the Void to India; a group of Cybermen marched on the Taj Mahal, a famous Indian landmark. (DW: Army of Ghosts) Later in the year, when the Rift opened, among many other phenomena, Jathaa sungliders appeared over the Taj Mahal. (TW: End of Days)
In 2009, former Torchwood India staff enacted a plan to return to the whole world to 1924 but were stopped by Torchwood Wales. (BBCR: Golden Age)
By 2010, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright were running an orphanage together in India. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)
In the wake of Miracle Day, India's Prime Minister called for peace with Pakistan. (TW: Rendition)
22nd century
In the period where Ganger clones were used in acid mining factories, the population of Gangers in India was 10 million. (DW: The Almost People)
57th Segment of Time
An Indian elephant was one of the creatures on board the Ark. (DW: The Ark)
Behind the scenes
- Cast and crew that were born in India include: David Garth, Barry Justice, Waris Hussein, Joanna Lumley, and Zohra Sehgal.
- According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information; when the world learned that the Gangers were sentient, India made all its Gangers independent.
