1650
Chandni Chowk is laid out at Shahjahanabad to a design by Jahanara Begum, daughter of Shah Jahan Chandni Chowk
1729
Rajmahal is built at Jaipur; it remains the only Pink City hotel still owned by the Maharaja
1746
The Lake Palace is built on Jag Niwas island by Maharana Jagat Singh II
1835
Rambagh is built at Jaipur as a garden house for the queen's handmaiden; it becomes the maharaja's residence
1840
The Oberoi Grand opens in Calcutta on Chowringhee
1871
Crawford Market opens in Bombay in Norman and Flemish stone; its fountain is designed by Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Crawford Market
1884
The Cecil opens at Simla, the summer capital of British India
1894
Falaknuma is completed at Hyderabad and later passes to the Nizam
1903
The Taj Mahal Palace opens on 16 December to seventeen guests, unfinished Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
1903
Jamsetji Tata opens the Taj Mahal Palace at Apollo Bunder Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
1911
The Viceregal Palace is added at Narendra Nagar for a viceroy's visit that never happens Ananda Ayurvedic protocol
1924
The Gateway of India is completed, twenty-one years after the Taj it stands beside Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
1925
Wildflower Hall is built at Mashobra as Lord Kitchener's residence
1943
Umaid Bhawan is completed at Jodhpur after fifteen years, built as famine relief work
1963
Mohan Singh Oberoi's group is by now the largest Indian-owned hotel company The Oberoi Group
1966
P.R.S. Oberoi opens the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development The Oberoi Group
1971
The HRH Group is formed by the Mewar family of Udaipur HRH Group of Hotels
1982
Palace on Wheels enters service using former royal carriages of the princely states Palace on Wheels
1986
Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair opens the first Leela in Mumbai The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts
2000
Ananda opens in the Viceregal Palace of the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal above Rishikesh
2000
The Bharat Hotels group launches The Lalit under Jyotsna Suri The Lalit
2000
SUJÁN begins in hospitality with Sher Bagh SUJÁN
2000
Ananda opens on the Tehri-Garhwal palace estate above Rishikesh, teaching Vedanta alongside the Ayurveda and defining the modern Indian destination spa Ananda Ayurvedic protocol
2000
Ashok and Neelam Khanna open Ananda — India's first destination spa Ananda Ayurvedic protocol
2004
The Deccan Odyssey begins running from Mumbai Deccan Odyssey
2005
Six Senses is established as a separate brand by the Shivdasanis Taj Hotels
2010
The Maharajas' Express begins running in India Maharajas’ Express
2012
Pegasus Capital buys Six Senses and Evason from the Shivdasanis Taj Hotels
2013
Bird Group opens the first Roseate house in Delhi Roseate Hotels
2019
Six Senses Vana opens at Dehradun, the group's first pure wellness house