Eras of Indian history
Three great eras, each with its kingdoms, events, people, places, quizzes, books and research on one page.
Ancient India7,000 BCE – 550 CEFrom the first farming villages at Mehrgarh and the planned cities of the Harappan civilization, through the Vedic age and the Mahajanapadas, to the Mauryan and Gupta empires.33 polities →Medieval India550 CE – 1757Harsha and the Chalukyas, the struggle for Kannauj, the Chola maritime empire, the Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagara and the Deccan sultanates, the Mughals and the rise of the Marathas.21 polities →Modern India1498 – presentEuropean trading companies, Company rule after Plassey, 1857, the British Raj and the national movement, Independence and Partition, and the Republic of India.139 polities →