Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology-Chapter 811 - 1664 - 1670 Part (1/4)

January

With a bill passed in the Imperial Council, 10% of the production lines from Mahabali Enterprises, Himalayan Group, and Dynasty Corporation have been nationalised, and their capacity has been completely dedicated to the war in the Middle East.

With the command of Ramayya Senapati, the Karachi Regiment, the Narayan Kot Regiment, the Larkhana Regiment, and the Pakhtun Regiment were mobilised and began to assemble at the western border between the Shamlu family and the Ustajlu family.

March

The 40 tonnes of gold have been transported from the Treasury of the Empire to the Treasury of the Reserve Bank. The monetary press of Bharat formally began to print the Legal tender of the Bharatiya Empire.

The gross domestic product of the Bharatiya Empire reached 17 billion Varaha or 384 tonnes of gold.

May

A population census has been conducted, and the population of the Bharatiya Empire has recovered to 189,000,000.

2,300,000 babies were born, increasing the population by nearly 1.5 percent.

July

The Sultanate of Mahra and the Qasimid state officially started their campaign against the Ottoman Empire.

The Southern Ming Dynasty, with the support of the Bharatiya Empire, solidified its presence in Kunming and began to launch campaigns in neighbouring cities and strategic bases in Yunnan.

September

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A few more iron and coal mines were discovered in the western part of Suvarnadwipa.

The production of iron increased to over 500,000 tonnes, the steel production reached 70,000 tonnes, the coal production reached 14 million tonnes, and the cement production reached 18 million tonnes.

Ava(Inwa) city, the capital of the Toungoo Dynasty, became the second nation in the world to have a city installed with kerosene lamps.

October

BNV Kathmandu ran into trouble during its sea trials. The design had to be modified, and some places had to be overhauled.

The Ottoman Empire opened up a southern battlefront against the Qasimid state and the Mahra Sultanate.

The Ottoman Empire occupied relatively large towns of Mahabad, Razan, Avaj, and Arak.

The Shamlu family surrendered to the Ottoman Empire.

The Ustajlu family surrendered to the Ottoman Empire.

The Afshar family surrendered to the Persian Kingdom under pressure from the Bharatiya Empire.

Virender Phogat came up with the principles of elasticity, which were named Phogat's law.

November

Due to constant victories, Mehmed IV increased the troops invested in the war in the Middle East. The troops increased from 50,000 to 212,000.

War on the southern front with the Qasimid state and the Mahra sultanate reached a stalemate. The troops were once again increased from 20,000 to 60,000.

Lekha Malini came up with binomial nomenclature, a system of naming biological organisms.

One year later, the sales of Harish Puthaar Vol 1 reached 2.3 million copies. The Chitrakala version has sold 900 million copies, and the revenue generated is over 50 million Varaha.

The second volume of Harish Puthaar was released with first-day sales of 1.2 million copies and 20 million revenue generated in a matter of a few weeks.

December

Hawaii was added as one of the frontiers, as well as Madagascar, making the total number of frontiers in the empire a whole 15.

By the end of the year, the population of Malaysia reached 500,000; Sumatra reached 400,000; Java reached 600,000; Kalimantan reached 350,000; Timor Lassi reached 420,000; Papua new guinea reached 550,000; Bali reached 220,000; Madagascar reached 150,000; Hawaii reached 50,000; Western Australia reached 900,000; North Terrotory reached 50,000; Southern Australia reached 100,000; Queensland reached 100,000; New South Wales reached 120,000; Victoria reached 100,000.

By the end of 1664, a total of 30,000 natives from America arrived in Australia, the majority women and children. The women were uniformly employed by various light industries opening up in Australia, while the men were directly employed by mining or the construction industry. The first two months, they did not get any salary, but after their debt to the royal family was cleared, they became citizens of the Bharatiya Empire and began to receive their salaries just like everyone else. The children brought back were given free education. It was decided by Vijay not to charge them anything until they could start to earn. After they started to earn, a certain percentage of their salary would be taken by the royal family until their debts were cleared, after which they could be considered free citizens of the empire.

By the end of the year, a total of 1,000 km of railway tracks had been laid down.

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January

Agni Devaraya graduated from middle school a few years in advance and joined a high school.

Vedant Devaraya and Tanvika Devaraya started their schooling earlier than their brother.

Money spent on campaigning for the election reached 400 million Varaha.

Chief researcher Balagangadhar from Takshashila Institute of Human Exploration, after experiencing countless failures in finding suitable fuel for the rocket, finally landed on the newly hyped-up kerosene. The results were ideal. Funding for the experiment increased, and the number of people rose.

February

Anand Binoy made a groundbreaking discovery that explained the relationship between magnetism and lightning.

Ramayya Senapati launched an attack on the Shamulu family territory as well as the Ustajalu family territory, occupying the whole region of Rigestan while designating the new border at Zabul at the southern end, following the river of Helmand until the northernmost reaches of Helmand near its origins, which includes Kandahar and other important cities.

The involvement of the Ottoman Empire in the Safavid Empire increased, with the troops increasing from 212,000 to 350,000. The Kingdom of Persia and Lalistan lost a few more towns.

Stalemate in the southern battlefield continued for the Ottoman Empire.

March

The gross domestic product of the empire reached 20.4 billion Varaha, an increase of 20% from the previous year, making its value in gold 433.5 tonnes.

The Varaha has been depreciated by 5.33%, where it has gone from 150 to 3.4 gm of gold to 160 Varaha to 3.4 gm of gold.

A total of 10 tonnes of gold has been added to the Treasury from the gold that has been mined in various mines overseas as well as within the empire, bringing the total reserve of gold in the Reserve Bank to 200 tonnes, increasing the money in circulation to 9.4 billion Varaha.

Mohan Atali put forward the concept of conservation of mass.

April

Elections for the Cabinet ministers took place, and all of the Cabinet ministers got re-elected for the 3rd time. Most Chief Ministers lost their third election, while there were some dark horses who took their places. Narasimha Modi won the Chief Ministerial election for the second time in Solanki Puri.

For the first time ever, elections had been held to select the observer for the Election Nobility and Examination Commission of Bharat. Without any Surprises, Kishore Balabadra was once again elected as the Observer of the Empire.

May

Over 10,500,000 people migrated from the empire to the overseas territories, but due to the high birth rate in the empire, instead of the population reducing, the population remained at a steady and healthy 190,725,000.

Vinay noticed the phenomenon of certain people not getting cowpox twice, thereby developing the concept of vaccination.

July

Ganapatra Pillai made improvements for the telescope, compound microscope, as well as invented a device called a barometer, which measures the atmospheric pressure.

The Southern Ming Dynasty captured several cities in Yunnan, like Qujing, Yuxi, Baoshan, and Zhaotong.

The ASEAN Summit was held, and the frontiers of the Bharatiya Empire in Southeast Asia were accepted as members of ASEAN.

September

Distillation of crude oil was figured out by European scientists, setting off a competition among major cities in Europe like London, Lisbon, Madrid, France, Vienna, Rome, Moscow, along with others, to become the first cities to have kerosene lamps.

The iron production hit 600,000 tons, an increase of 20%. Steel production hit 90,000 tons, an increase of 28.57%. Coal production reached 15 million tons, an increase of 7.14%, while cement production reached 19 million tons, an increase of 5.56%.

October

Kathmandu-class clipper successfully passed the sea trials, becoming the fastest, largest, and most deadly piece of vehicle that humans have ever produced, weighing in at a whopping 4,500 tons with a speed of over twenty knots.

The design contract for the improvement of the Delhi-class battleship and Guwahati-class armed merchant ship went to Berunda Design Bureau and Molin Design Bureau. But, catching everyone by surprise, the Southern United Naval Design Bureau won the contract for the design of a 2,000-tonne armed clipper named Surat-class, inspired by the Kathmandu-class clipper and Chennai-class clipper.

With the upset of Berunda Design Bureau and Boswell Design Bureau, Vishesh Neeladri finally resigned from Boswell Design Bureau and joined Bhavishya Design Firm as the chief designer, holding a 20% stake, with the major shareholder being Kalyan from Ashoka Shipyard. Anantha Raju Shetty resigned from Berunda Design Bureau and joined Matsia Design Bureau of Chola Shipyard after the exchange of interests by his uncle, Ravi Shetty, and Ganaprabhu Berunda.

November

A total of 234,000 natives were brought back from America and spread across the 6 frontiers of Suvarnadwipa.

After launching a poll, all the frontiers were given new names.

Malaysia was renamed Malaya Pradesh, Sumatra was renamed Vāyudhvajā, Java was renamed Javanesha, Kalimantan was renamed Kālakūṭa, Timor Leste was renamed Pūrvadeśa, Papua New Guinea was renamed Nāgapura, Bali was renamed Bali Devara pura, Madagascar was renamed Madagascar Nagara, Hawaii was renamed Hawaii Nagara, Western Australia was renamed Arohana Pura, Northern Territory was renamed Vidya Nagari, Southern Australia was renamed Prabhavpura, Queensland was renamed Surya Nagari, New South Wales was renamed Vishala Nagari, and Victoria was renamed Reshmi Vardana.

December

A total of 2,500 kilometres of railway track had been laid down, connecting more major cities to the central transportation hub of Bengaluru and Nagpur.

In order not to leave the railway track without any use until the trains are available, Vijay ordered for carriages to be built to travel on top of the railway tracks, pulled by elephants.

The total population of Malaysia reached 1.4 million, Sumatra reached 1.1 million, Java reached 1.6 million, Kalimantan reached 1.02 million, Timor Leste reached 1.18 million, Papua New Guinea reached 1.5 million, Bali reached 700,000, Madagascar reached 450,000, Hawaii reached 150,000, Western Australia reached 2.3 million, Northern Territory reached 130,000, Southern Australia reached 250,000, Queensland reached 250,000, New South Wales reached 320,000, and finally, Victoria reached 260,000.

P.S. I have written 3 more chapters; I will edit them tomorrow. I'm sick today.

P.S. This will be the end of the volume, and I'll start the next volume with the actual Industrial Revolution. I hope the time jump hasn't pushed off a lot of people.

P.S. If I had written like I normally would, I could have written 12–20 chapters from this chapter alone, and to reach 1670, it would have taken 100 more chapters. In fact, I would have, if there were something exciting, but there's nothing else but the Ottoman war of attrition and other improvements.