Outline of ancient India
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India:
Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start of Medieval India, which is typically dated (when the term is still used) to the end of the Gupta Empire around 500 CE.Template:Sfn
General history of Ancient India
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Pre-history (Neolithic Age) (c. 8000–3500 BCE)
- Indian Pre-history Age (Template:Circa–3300 BCE)
- Bhirrana culture (7570–6200 BCE)
- Mehrgarh culture (Template:Circa)
Proto-history (Bronze Age) (c. 3500–1800 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation (Template:Circa), including the "first urbanisation"
- Ahar–Banas culture (Template:Circa)
- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (Template:Circa–1200 BCE)[1]
- Cemetery H culture (Template:Circa–1300 BCE)[2]
Iron Age (c. 1800–200 BCE)
- Iron Age India (Template:Circa)
- Vedic civilization (Template:Circa)
- Black and red ware culture (Template:Circa–700 BCE) in Western Ganges plain[3]
- Northern Black Polished Ware (Template:Circa–500 BCE)[4]
- Painted Grey Ware culture (Template:Circa or 700–300 BCE)[5]
- Brihadratha dynasty (Template:Circa)
- Gandhara Kingdom (Template:Circa)
- Kuru Kingdom (Template:Circa)
- Indian Iron Age kingdoms (Template:Circa)[6]
- Pandyan Kingdom (Template:Circa)[7]
- Vedic civilization (Template:Circa)
Pre-Classical Period (c. 600 BCE–200 CE)
- Pradyota dynasty (Template:Circa–544 BCE)
- Haryanka dynasty (Template:Circa–413 BCE)
- Shaishunaga dynasty (Template:Circa–345 BCE)
- Nanda Empire (Template:Circa)
- Maurya Empire (Template:Circa–185 BCE)
- Sangam period (Template:Circa)
- Pandyan Kingdom (Template:Circa–1650 CE)
- Chera Kingdom (Template:Circa–1102 CE)
- Chola Kingdom (Template:Circa–1279 CE)
- Kalinga Empire (until 250 BCE)
- Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire (Template:Circa–300 CE)
- Satavahana Empire (230 BCE–220 CE)
- Kuninda Kingdom (Template:Circa–350 CE)
- Shunga Empire (Template:Circa–73 BCE)
- Kanva dynasty (Template:Circa–26 BCE)
- Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BCE–10 CE)
- Kanva Empire (75–26 BCE)
- Kushan Empire (30–375 CE)
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom ( Template:Circa–395 CE)
Classical Period (c. 200–550 CE)
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- Gupta Empire (Template:Circa–650 CE)
- Later Gupta dynasty (Template:Circa)
- Vakataka Empire (Template:Circa)
- Pallava Empire (Template:Circa–901 CE)
- Kadamba dynasty (Template:Circa–1347 CE)
- Western Ganga dynasty (Template:Circa–1024 CE)
- Vishnukundina Empire (Template:Circa–624 CE)
- Maitraka dynasty (Template:Circa)
- Rai dynasty (Template:Circa–632 CE)
Culture in ancient India
Art in ancient India
Language in ancient India
Religion in ancient India
Sport in ancient India
Science and technology in ancient India
- Science and technology in ancient India
- Indian martial arts
- Ancient Indian medicine
- Architecture
- Indian in Sanskrit epics
Organizations concerned with ancient India
Museums with ancient Indian exhibits
- India (clockwise)
- United Kingdom
- British Museum, London
Notes
- Subnotes
References
Sources
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External links
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- Ancient India - The British Museum
- Ancient India - World History Encyclopedia
- TimeMaps Civilization: Ancient India
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- ↑ Civilsdaily, (August 15, 2017). "Case study | Pottery – Evolution and significance".
- ↑ M Rafiq Mughal Lahore Museum Bulletin, off Print, vol.III, No.2, Jul-Dec. 1990 [1] Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Franklin Southworth, Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia (Routledge, 2005), p. 177
- ↑ Strickland, K. M., R. A. E. Coningham, et al., (2016). "Ancient Lumminigame: A Preliminary Report on Recent Archaeological Investigations at Lumbini's Village Mound", in Ancient Nepal, Number 190, April 2016, p. 10.
- ↑ Neogi, Sayantani, Charles A. I. French, Julie A. Durcan, Rabindra N. Singh, and Cameron A. Petrie, (2019). "Geoarchaeological insights into the location of Indus settlements on the plains of northwest India", in Quaternary Research, Volume 94, March 2020, p. 140.
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