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Government announces its strongest economic growth figures for 20 years – 9.4% in the year to March. May: At least nine people are killed in a bomb explosion at the main mosque in Hyderabad. Several others are killed in subsequent rioting. July: India says the number of its people with HIV or AIDS is about half of earlier official tallies.
Early Indian history does not have an equivalent of chronicles (like the ones established in the West by Herodotus in the 5th century BC or Kojiki / Nihongi in Japan): "with the single exception of Rajatarangini (History of Kashmir), there is no historical text in Sanskrit dealing with the whole or even parts of India" (R. C. Majumdar). [3]
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
The emergence of the Rashtrakutas heralded a new era in the history of South India. South Indian kingdoms had hitherto ruled areas only up to and south of the Narmada River. It was the Rashtrakutas who first forged north to the Gangetic plains and successfully contested their might against the Palas of Bengal and the Rajput Prathiharas of Gujarat.
View history; Tools. Tools. move ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. For Lists of rulers of India, see : List of Indian monarchs (c ...
The Indian subcontinent, the main centre of Indian culture The earliest Indian rulers are known from epigraphical sources found in archeological inscriptions on Ashokan edicts [ 1 ] [ 2 ] written in Pali language and using brahmi script.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 9 July 1212 15 May 1242 20 April 1240 ... A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.
The Indian subcontinent. 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. [1]