Timeline
Every bar is a polity. Read vertically at any point to see who existed at the same time — the subcontinent was almost never ruled by a single power.
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600 BCE
550 BCE
500 BCE
450 BCE
400 BCE
350 BCE
300 BCE
Pan-Indian · 1
Northwest · 4
North · 2
Gangetic Plain · 6
East · 5
Central · 2
West · 1
Deccan · 1
South · 3
Sri Lanka · 1