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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.
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
13 – Discovery of the stela which describes the founding of an ancient Maya city by the archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in the Cobá archaeological zone in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula. The stela is over 11 meters long and contains 123 carved hieroglyphics arranged in quadrants. The inscriptions ...
Thomas Abraham (b. 1948), founder president of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) as well as the National Federation of Indian American Associations (NFIA) Sakharam Ganesh Pandit (1875–1959), lawyer who argued against government efforts to revoke American citizenship for Indian emigrants
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
Chakrabarti D.K. 1988 A history of Indian archeology from the beginning to 1947; Chakrabarti D.K. 2006. The Oxford companion to Indian archaeology : the archaeological foundations of ancient India, Stone Age to AD 13th century; Braj Basi Lal (2011). Piecing Together - Memoirs of an Archaeologist. Aryan Books International. ISBN 978-81-7305-417-4.
Part of a series on the History of India Timeline Prehistoric Paleolithic Masol c. 2.6 Ma Riwat c. 2.5 Ma Madrasian culture c. 1.5 Ma Soanian c. 500,000 BCE Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 1000 BCE Bhirrana 7570 – 6200 BCE Jhusi 7106 BCE Lahuradewa 7000 BCE Koldihwa 7000 BCE Mehrgarh 7000 – 2600 BCE South Indian Neolithic 3000 – 1000 BCE Ancient Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 – c. 1700 ...
Very few known Indian texts recording history before 15th century C.E. exist, hence, historical evidence for much of India's history comes through foreign historians. [20] [21] There is very little evidence of a native historiographical tradition in ancient India. [11] Al-Biruni stated the following about local Indian histriography: [10]