India

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  Ancient India

  The Indian civilization is one of the oldest in the world. Farmers had begun to build villages in the valleys of the River Indus and the nearby River Ghaggar-Hakra (in modern-day...

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  India in the Middle Ages

  Two great empires ruled India in the early Middle Ages: the Kushans in the first three centuries AD and the Guptas in the 300s and 400s. Northern India fell under Muslim control...

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  Mughal India

  The Mughal Empire was founded in 1526, when Babur, a ruler from Afghanistan, and his invading army took victory over the Sultanate of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat. Babur could...

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  British India

  The English (later British) East India Company was set up in 1600 to trade with South and Southeast Asia. In 1617 it was given permission by the Mughal emperor Jahangir to trade...

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  Timeline of Indian history

  c.7000 BCE Settlements emerge on the western margins of River Indus floodplain. 3200–1700 BCE The Indus civilization flourishes in the Indus Valley, in the region of modern-day...

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