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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
General history of Ancient India
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Pre-history (Neolithic Age) (c. 8000–3500 BCE)
- Indian Pre-history Age (c. 10,000Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–3300 BCE)
- Bhirrana culture (7570–6200 BCE)
- Mehrgarh culture (c. 7000 – c. 2500 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
Proto-history (Bronze Age) (c. 3500–1800 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation (c. 3300 – c. 1300 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), including the "first urbanisation"
- Ahar–Banas culture (c. 3000 – c. 1500 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (c. 2600Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1200 BCE)[1]
- Cemetery H culture (c. 1900Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1300 BCE)[2]
Iron Age (c. 1800–500 BCE)
- Iron Age India (c. 1800 – c. 200 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Vedic civilization (c. 1700 – c. 600 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Black and red ware culture (c. 1500Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–700 BCE) in Western Ganges plain[3]
- Northern Black Polished Ware (c. 1200Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–500 BCE)[4]
- Painted Grey Ware culture (c. 1200Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". or 700–300 BCE)[5]
- Brihadratha dynasty (c. 1700 – c. 682 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Gandhara Kingdom (c. 1500 – c. 545 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Kuru kingdom (c. 1200 – c. 345 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Indian Iron Age kingdoms (c. 600 – c. 345 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)[6]
- Pandyan Kingdom (c. 600 BCE – c. 650 CEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)[7]
- Vedic civilization (c. 1700 – c. 600 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
Early Historic (c. 500 BCE–300 CE)
- Pradyota dynasty (c. 546Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–408 BCE)
- Haryanka dynasty (c. 544Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–413 BCE)
- Shaishunaga dynasty (c. 413Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–345 BCE)
- Nanda Empire (c. 345 – c. 322 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Maurya Empire (c. 322Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–185 BCE)
- Sangam period (c. 300 BCE – c. 300 CEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Pandyan Kingdom (c. 600 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1650 CE)
- Chera Kingdom (c. 300 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1102 CE)
- Chola Kingdom (c. 300 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1279 CE)
- Kalinga Empire (until 250 BCE)
- Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire (c. 2600Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–300 CE)
- Satavahana Empire (230 BCE–220 CE)
- Kuninda Kingdom (c. 2600Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–350 CE)
- Shunga Empire (c. 185Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–73 BCE)
- Kanva dynasty (c. 73Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–26 BCE)
- Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BCE–10 CE
- Kushan Empire (30–375 CE)
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom ( c. 12 BCEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–395 CE)
Classical Period (c. 300–550 CE)
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- Gupta Empire (c. 320Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–650 CE)
- Later Gupta dynasty (c. 490–750 CEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Vakataka Empire (c. 250 – c. 500 CEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Pallava Empire (c. 275Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–901 CE)
- Kadamba dynasty (c. 345Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1347 CE)
- Western Ganga dynasty (c. 350Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1024 CE)
- Vishnukundina Empire (c. 420Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–624 CE)
- Maitraka dynasty (c. 475 – c. 776 CEScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Rai dynasty (c. 489Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–632 CE)
Culture in ancient India
Art in ancient India
Languages in ancient India
Religion in ancient India
Science and technology in ancient India
- Science and technology in ancient India
- Indian martial arts
- Ancient Indian medicine
- Architecture
Organisations concerned with ancient India
Museums with ancient Indian exhibits
- India (clockwise)
- United Kingdom
- British Museum, London
Notes
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References
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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] Script error: No such module "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" Script error: No such module "webarchive"., 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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External links
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- Ancient India - The British Museum
- Ancient India - World History Encyclopedia
- TimeMaps Civilization: Ancient India
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