Indian Dynasties API
Free static API for 39 Indian historical dynasties. Periods, rulers, capitals, regions, religions, achievements. No auth, no rate limit, no cost.
Try it
Request:
curl https://dynasties.oriz.in/dynasties/mauryan.json Response:
{
"slug": "mauryan",
"name": "Mauryan Empire",
"alt_names": [
"Maurya Dynasty"
],
"period": {
"start": -322,
"end": -185,
"start_era": "BCE",
"end_era": "BCE"
},
"region": "South Asia (most of subcontinent)",
"capitals": [
"Pataliputra"
],
"rulers": [
{
"name": "Chandragupta Maurya",
"reign_start": -322,
"reign_end": -298,
"notes": "Founder"
},
{
"name": "Bindusara",
"reign_start": -297,
"reign_end": -273,
"notes": ""
},
{
"name": "Ashoka the Great",
"reign_start": -268,
"reign_end": -232,
"notes": "Promoted Buddhism"
}
],
"religion": "Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism (pluralistic)",
"predecessor": "nanda",
"successor": "shunga",
"notable_achievements": [
"Unified most of the Indian subcontinent",
"Ashoka's dhamma edicts"
],
"notes": "First pan-Indian empire; founded by Chandragupta with Chanakya as mentor."
} How to use
via dynasties.oriz.in
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https://dynasties.oriz.in/dynasties/mauryan.json via jsDelivr
Pinned to a git ref. Recommended for production code that wants reproducibility.
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/oriz-org/dynasties-api@main/dynasties/mauryan.json Stats
- Dynasties
- 39
- Rulers
- 261
- Span
- 544 BCE – 1949 CE
- Cost
- ₹0/mo
Why use this
- · Static JSON — no API key, no rate limit, no quota.
- · Served from Cloudflare Pages and jsDelivr edge caches.
- · BCE / CE explicit in the date schema — no ambiguous integer years.
- · Pre-bucketed by era for timeline visualisations.
- · Open data — fork it, audit it, send a PR.