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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 ...
Nationalisation of 14 major private Banks. 15 August: Indian Space Research Organisation formed under Department of Space. 1971: 3–16 December: Third war with Pakistan, culminating in the creation of Bangladesh: Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union. 1974: 18 May: The Smiling Buddha is the first nuclear device in ...
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 ...
This article is a list of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents.. The Indian subcontinent, the main centre of Indian culture
However, the term "Rajput" has been used as an anachronistic designation for Hindu dynasties before the 16th century because the Rajput identity for a lineage did not exist before this time, and these lineages were classified as aristocratic Rajput clans in the later times. Thus, the term "Rajput" does not occur in Muslim sources before the ...
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 Maratha Confederacy is also referred to as the Maratha Empire. Historian Barbara Ramusack notes, "neither term is fully accurate since one implies a substantial degree of centralisation and the other signifies some surrender of power to a central government and a longstanding core of political administrators".
The Chaulukya dynasty (IAST: Caulukya), also Solanki dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Gujarat in western India, between c. 940 CE and c. 1244 CE.Their capital was located at Anahilavada (modern Patan).