🃏 The Vedic age

When: Composition of the Rigveda begins? — c. 1,500 BCE · Sapta Sindhu

When: Jorwe farming villages at Inamgaon? — c. 1,400 BCE · Inamgaon

When: Cemetery H culture at Harappa? — c. 1,300 BCE · Harappa

When: Battle of the Ten Kings? — c. 1,200 BCE · Parushni (Ravi) river

When: Iron comes into use in the Ganga plain? — c. 1,100 BCE · Atranjikhera

When: Painted Grey Ware settlements spread in the doab? — c. 1,000 BCE · Hastinapura

When: Later Vedic texts: Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda? — c. 1,000 BCE · Kuru-Panchala region

When: Kuru kingdom consolidates Vedic ritual? — c. 900 BCE · Hastinapura

When: Early Upanishads composed? — c. 800 BCE · Videha

When: Second urbanisation: Northern Black Polished Ware? — c. 700 BCE · Kaushambi