Outline of ancient India
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Ancient India – India as it existed from the pre-historic times (c. 7000 BC or earlier) to the start of the Middle Ages (c. 500 AD).[1]
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Geography of ancient India
Government and politics in ancient India
General history of ancient India
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Periodisation of Indian history
An elaborate periodisation may be as follows:[2]
- Pre-history and Indus Valley Civilisation (until c. 1750 BC);
- Vedic period (c. 1750-500 BC);
- "Second Urbanisation" (c. 500-200 BC);
- Classical period (c. 200 BC-1100 AD);[note 1]
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- Pre-classical period (c. 200 BC-300 AD);
- "Golden Age" (Gupta Empire) (c. 320-650 AD);
- Late-Classical period (c. 650-1100 AD);
- Islamic period (c. 1100-1850 AD) and beginning of western colonialism (c. 1500-1850);
- Modern period (British Raj and independence) (from c. 1850).
Pre-history
- Neolithic Age India Mehrgarh culture (c. 7000 – 3300 BC)
- Bronze Age India
- Indus valley civilization (c. 3300 – 1300 BC)
Iron Age (c. 1200 – 272 BC)
- Iron Age India (c. 1200 – 272 BC)
- Vedic civilization (c. 2000 – 500 BC)
- Black and red ware culture (c. 1300 – 1000 BC) (c. 1200 – 600 BC)
- Northern Black Polished Ware (c. 700 – 200 BC)
- Indian Iron Age kingdoms (c. 700 – 300 BC)
- Kalinga (India) (400 BC – 1842 AD)
- Vedic civilization (c. 2000 – 500 BC)
Second Urbanisation
- Nanda Empire (424–321 BC)
- Maurya Empire (321–184 BC)
- Sangam Period (c. 300 BC – 300 AD)
- Pandya Kingdom (c. 300 BC – 1345 AD)
- Chera Kingdom (c. 300 BC – 1102 AD)
- Chola Kingdom (c. 300 BC – 1279 AD)
- Pallava Kingdom (250 BC – 800 AD)
- Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire (250s BC – 5th century AD)
- Satavahana Empire (230 BC – 220 AD)
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom (200 BC – 400 AD)
- Kuninda Kingdom (3rd century BC – 4th century AD)
- Shunga Empire (185–73 BC)
- Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BC – 10 AD)
- Kanva empire (75–26 BC)
- Kushan Empire (30–375 AD)
Classical Age of India
- (Middle kingdoms of India)
- Gurjara-Pratihara Empire
- Vakataka Empire
- Chola Empire
- Pala Empire
- Kadamba dynasty (345–1000 AD)
Middle Ages (c. 500 – 1500)
- Badami Chalukyas (547–742)
- Rashtrakuta Empire (742–982)
- Eastern Chalukyas
- Western Chalukyas (983–1185)
- Solanki
- Kalachuri
- Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri
- Hoysala Empire (1114–1342)
- Vijayanagara Empire (1342–1565)
Culture in ancient India
Art in ancient India
Language 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
- Siddha medicine – oldest medical system known to mankind
- Ayurveda
- Architecture
- Indian in Sanskrit epics
See also
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Notes
- ↑ Different periods are designated as "classical Hinduism":
- Smart calls the period between 1000 BC and 100 AD "pre-classical". It is the formative period for the Upanishads and Brahmanism[subnote 1] Jainism and Buddhism. For Smart, the "classical period" lasts from 100 to 1000 AD, and coincides with the flowering of "classical Hinduism" and the flowering and deterioration of Mahayana-buddhism in India.[4]
- For Michaels, the period between 500 BC and 200 BC is a time of "Ascetic reformism",[5] whereas the period between 200 BC and 1100 AD is the time of "classical Hinduism", since there is "a turning point between the Vedic religion and Hindu religions".[6]
- Muesse discerns a longer period of change, namely between 800 BC and 200 BC, which he calls the "Classical Period". According to Muesse, some of the fundamental concepts of Hinduism, namely karma, reincarnation and "personal enlightenment and transformation", which did not exist in the Vedic religion, developed in this time.[7]
Subnotes
References
- ↑ Stein 2010, p. 38.
- ↑ Michaels 2004.
- ↑ Smart 2003, p. 52, 83-86.
- ↑ Smart 2003, p. 52.
- ↑ Michaels 2004, p. 36.
- ↑ Michaels 2004, p. 38.
- ↑ Muesse 2003, p. 14.
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