The History of Modern Day India
5500 BCE to 2000 BCE: Indus Valley Civilization. Provinces with
Indus Valley Civilization Sites: Sindh, Rajasthan, Punjab(both East & West), UP, Gujrat, Baluchistan, Haryana, Kashmir, Maharashtra.
2000 BCE to 600 BCE: Vedic Civilization or Gangetic Civilization.
600 BCE to 300 BCE: Sixteen Mahajanapadas or Sixteen Great Kingdoms.
4th Century BCE: The Nanda Empire. It was the
first powerful and influential Indian imperial power.
322 BCE to 185 BCE:TheMaurya Empire. It was the
largest ever Indian empire and imperial power.
1st Century BCE to 1st Century CE: 1) North-West India: Indo-Greek Kingdom. 2) North-Central India: Sunga Empire. 3) South India: Satavahana Kingdom. 4) West India: Indo-Scythian Kingdom.
1st Century CE to 3rd Century CE: 1) North India: The Kushan Empire. 2) South India: Satavahana Kingdom. 3) West India: Indo-Scythian Kingdom.
4rd Century CE to 6th Century CE: The Gupta Empire. Most of the historians consider this period as
The Golden Age of India.
6th Century CE: 1) North India: The White Huna Kingdom under Mihirakula and his father Tormana. And also many small Kingdoms.. 2) South India: The Pallava Empire.
7th Century CE: 1) North India: Empire of
Harshavardhan. 2) South India: The Pallava Empire and The Chalukya Empire.
NOTE:
Islam came to India in this time, mainly in the South India in the 1st half of 7th century by Arab traders.
8th Century to 12th Century CE: 1) West India: TheGurjara Pratihara. 2) East India: Pala Empire. 3) South India: Rashtrakutas Empire and Chola Empire. Again, between 8th and 11th century a fierce
Tripartite Struggle took place among them
over Kanauj or Gangetic plane. Again, the Karkota dynasty of King Lalitaditya Muktapida of Kashmir created a huge
north Indian empire (625-1003) extended upto
Central Asia(Turkestan).
13th Century CE to Mid 16th Century CE: 1)
North India: Delhi Sultanate. It was the third Indian empire of Central Asians after Scythians and Hunas. Sufism and Bhakti Movement started during this time. 2)
South India: Chola Empire( upto mid 14th century) and Vijaynagar Empire (upto mid 16th century). 3)
Rajputana and Western India: Rajputs 4)
Other Areas: Himalayan Kingdoms by Gurkhas and Maharasthra by Bahmani Empire.
1526 CE to 1556 CE: 1)
North India: Total Chaos. Four rulers came into being: Babur, Sher Shah, Humayun and Hemu Vikramaditya. 2)
South India: Vijaynagar Empire. 3)
Rajputana and Western India: Rajputs
1556 CE to 1707 CE: Mughal Empire. It was
one of the greatest empires of India. Mughals were Chagatai Turks of Uzbekistan. During this time, a new culture of singing, dancing, drinking, writing, art, inter-religious marriages and synthesis of faiths developed.
1680/1707 CE to 1805/1818 CE: Maratha Empire. It was the last Pan-Indian imperial power. At its peak, it was stretched from Bengal to Peshawar and from Kashmir to Tamilnadu.
Bengal: Battle of Palassey(1757) took place which later proved to be a turning point in the history of India.
First half of the 19th Century: 1) North-West India: Sikh Kingdom in Punjab, Haryana, Kashmir and KP. 2) Rest of India: Rapid expansion of British East India Company rule
annihilating many small states.
1857 CE: The Sepoy Mutiny or
The Indian Rebellion.
1858 CE to 1947: British India. Bengal Renaissance. Congress was established in 1885, Muslim League in 1906 and RSS in 1925.
Age of Gandhi (1919- his death).
1947 CE: Partition of India. The Republic of India was born.
1947 CE to Present Time: Nehruvian Period (1948 to 1964). Help in the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
First Non-Congress Government came in 1977. India becomes a Trillion Dollar economy in 2007.