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  2. History of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The history of Hinduism is often divided into periods of development. The first period is the pre-Vedic period, which includes the Indus Valley Civilization and local pre-historic religions. Northern India had the Vedic period with the introduction of the historical Vedic religion (sometimes called Vedic Hinduism or ancient Hinduism [ d ] ) by ...

  3. List of Hindu empires and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.

  4. Monarchy in ancient India - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the Vedas, the formation of a military fraternity governing the local population happened. As they became absorbed into the local population, political power within the society began to change from an inter-clan system in which various clans divided up responsibilities into a more Vedic-like system in which one ruler ruled over and provided for his subjects. [8]

  5. Kingship (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu Civilisation: A Miracle of History. Gyan Publishing House. ISBN 978-81-212-1041-6; Basham, Arthur Llewellyn (1981). Ideas of Kingship in Hinduism and Buddhism. Kingship In Asia and early America: 30. International Congress of Human Sciences In Asia and North Africa. pp. 115–132. Scharfe, Hartmut (1989-01-01).

  6. Vedic period - Wikipedia

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    The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.

  7. Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    It is viewed as those eternal truths and traditions with origins beyond human history– truths divinely revealed in the Vedas, the most ancient of the world's scriptures. [99] [100] To many Hindus, Hinduism is a tradition that can be traced at least to the ancient Vedic era. The Western term "religion" to the extent it means "dogma and an ...

  8. Hindu nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Since Hinduism does not represent an identifiable religious group, terms such as 'Hindu nationalism', and 'Hindu', are considered problematic in the case of religious and nationalism discourse. As Hindus were identifiable as a homogeneous community, some individual Congress leaders were able to induce a symbolism with "Hindu" meaning inside the ...

  9. Historical Vedic religion - Wikipedia

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    The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195073492. Beckwith, Christopher I. (2011). Empires of the Silk Road. A history of central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present. Princeton University Press. Bronkhorst, Johannes (2007). Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India. BRILL.