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The Maurya Empire went into decline after the death of Ashoka, and Central India was contested among the Sakas, Kushanas, and local dynasties during the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE. Ujjain emerged as the predominant commercial center of western India from the first century BCE, located on the trade routes between the Ganges plain and India's ...
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India.
The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan Migration with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
In the 6th century, three different Guhila dynasties are known to have ruled in present-day Rajasthan: Guhilas of Nagda-Ahar– most important branch and future ruling dynasty of Mewar. Guhilas of Kishkindha (modern Kalyanpur) Guhilas of Dhavagarta (modern Dhor)
During the medieval and later feudal/colonial periods, many parts of the Indian subcontinent were ruled as sovereign or princely states by various dynasties of Rajputs. The Rajputs rose to political prominence after the large empires of ancient India broke into smaller ones.
The Abhiras had an extensive empire comprising modern-day Maharashtra, Konkan, Gujarat and parts of southern Madhya Pradesh. [3] Some scholars regard the Abhiras as a great almost an imperial power in the third century A.D. [ 4 ] The sculpture from Ellora revealing an affiliation with the Abhira pantheon could be linked with the Traikutaka ...
The Vijayanagara Empire, [a] also known as the Karnata Kingdom, was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India.It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty, belonging to the Yadava clan of Chandravamsa lineage.
The Pandyas were one of the three ancient Tamil dynasties (Chola and Chera being the other two) who ruled the Tamil country from pre-historic times until the end of the 15th century. They ruled initially from Korkai, a seaport on the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula, and in later times moved to Madurai .