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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. They are also known from the literary sources like Sanskrit literature , Jain literature and Buddhist literature in context of literary sources .
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The term Kaisar-i-Hind means emperor of India in the vernacular of the Hindi and Urdu languages. The word kaisar, meaning 'emperor', is a derivative of the Roman imperial title caesar (via Persian and Ottoman Turkish – see Kaiser-i-Rum), and is cognate with the German title Kaiser, which was borrowed from the Latin at an earlier date. [10]
This category lists significant emperors, rayas, kings, sultans, princes, etc. who ruled over a territory of India. This does not include the British royals which ruled over India before 1947 . Subcategories
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.
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