| History of South Asia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Age | before 3300 BCE | ||||
| Mature Harappan | 2600–1700 BCE | ||||
| Late Harappan | 1700–1300 BCE | ||||
| Iron Age | 1200–300 BCE | ||||
| Maurya Empire | • 321–184 BCE | ||||
| 230 BCE–1279 CE | |||||
| Gupta Empire | •280–550 | ||||
| 1206–1596 | |||||
| Mughal Empire | 1526–1707 | ||||
| Maratha Empire | 1674-1818 | ||||
| Sikh Confederacy | 1716-1849 | ||||
| British India | 1858–1947 | ||||
| Modern States | 1947 onwards | ||||
| Timeline | |||||
Ancient India may refer to:
- The ancient History of India, which generally includes the ancient history
of the whole Indian subcontinent (South Asia)
- Indus Valley Civilization — during the Bronze Age
- Vedic period — the period of Vedic Sanskrit, spanning the late Bronze Age and the earlier Iron Age
- Mahajanapadas — during the later Iron Age
- Magadha Empire — during
classical antiquity (6th to 4th centuries BC) - Maurya Empire — the largest ancient Indian empire, contemporary to Hellenism in the west (4th to 2nd centuries BC), golden age of early Classical Sanskrit literature
- the Kingdoms of Ancient India as described in Sanskrit literature
Middle kingdoms of India — during late antiquity and the early Middle Ages- Indo-Greek kingdoms and Kushan Empire (2nd c. BC to 3rd c. AD)
- Gupta Empire
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