Channel
@indian_historical
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,096subscribers
-6 since we began measuring on 20 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001684187184 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @indian_historical |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 19 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 20 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/indian_historical |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 73% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 02:01 | 2,096 | +4 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 15:56 | 2,092 | -1 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 23:36 | 2,093 | -5 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 13:59 | 2,098 | -7 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 22:26 | 2,105 | +1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 01:54 | 2,104 | +1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 08:27 | 2,103 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 18:02 | 2,104 | +3 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 18:03 | 2,101 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 12:00 | 2,102 | no change |
| 20 Aug 2026, 11:45 | 2,102 | first reading |
18 posts held, back to 19 April 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 16 February 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
461 reactions across 17 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 43.6% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 201 | 43.6% | |
| ❤ | 108 | 23.4% | |
| 🤬 | 70 | 15.2% | |
| 🔥 | 57 | 12.4% | |
| 🤯 | 21 | 4.56% | |
| 💯 | 4 | 0.868% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 18 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 461 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 19 April 2023 to 16 February 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Emaciated Famine Victim Standing with Unidentified Women The composition of the photograph was a staged portrait. This is typical of photographic documentation from the early 20th century. During this period, India regularly experienced years of famine, mainly due to peasant crises, poor harvests, droughts, and the colonial economic policies of the British Empire, which exacerbated food shortages (as proven by stud…
❤5👍1🔥1
Blowing From Guns in British India A painter Vassili Verestchagin addressed the topic of the British suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. The uprising of Indian mercenaries against their colonial employers was successfully suppressed, not least thanks to public executions that were poetically dubbed “Devil's Wind.” In 1857, the People's Paper newspaper described these extremely effective measures as follows:…
🤯2❤1
Crowd Gathered the Muslim League Direct Action Day Meeting It was an act of protest against British Cabinet negotiations on India. Calcutta, India, 1946 Indian History 🇮🇳
❤1🔥1
Wrestling Champ Tiger Daula Pins Down His English Adversary Clark This high-profile match served as a fundraiser for three causes: the Lahore Warplanes Fund, the Police Spitfire Fund, and the Minto Park Fund. 1930s Indian History 🇮🇳
🔥3
Casualties Receiving Attention After Bombay Riots This photo depicts the aftermath of violent clashes in Bombay when police attempted to reroute an unauthorized religious procession. People were injured, and doctors and assistants are trying to provide first aid. The procession was not just religious, but also marked the birthday of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose, who had died a year earlier in a pla…
Mass Migration Leading to Famine During Independence of India In the aftermath of partition, a huge population exchange occurred between the newly-formed India and Pakistan. About 14.5 million people crossed the borders and faced extreme hardship, hunger and death. 1947 Indian History 🇮🇳
❤3
‼️Wild Elephant Forced to the Ground During Khedda Operation This was a traditional method used to capture free-roaming elephants. Ropes were tightened around the animal’s legs and neck until it collapsed from exhaustion. Once immobilized, the elephant was bound, controlled, and later broken into captivity. Khedda operation was state-organized violence, justified as management. Wild elephants were captured to suppl…
❤1🤬1
India Before Mega Factories There was India of small industrial enterprises and forgotten modernity. This photo shows a modern milk dairy where workers manually bottled milk using metal tanks, glass bottles and mechanical separators. In the 1930s, such facilities represented progress but many of them disappeared without a trace. Overshadowed by large-scale industrialization, they were erased from public memory. Hi…
❤3
Students of the London Mission Girls' Boarding School Most of these girls must be from affluent families as education was almost impossible for the poor back then. Bengaluru, India, 1867 Indian History 🇮🇳
👍48❤16🤯13
Calcutta Policeman with Umbrella as a Part of His Uniform The umbrellas provided protection from the intense heat and heavy monsoon rains. India, 1920s Indian History 🇮🇳
👍42❤6
Streets of Calcutta India, 1945 Indian History 🇮🇳
❤18👍8
Children Playing Hopscotch There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Kashmir, India, 1900s Indian History 🇮🇳
❤15👍9
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @indian_historical. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Indian History” (@indian_historical), 2,096 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/indian_historical.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.