Outline of ancient India
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India:
Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start of Medieval India, which is typically dated to the end of the Gupta Empire around 500 CE.
General history of Ancient India
An elaborate periodisation may be as follows:Pre-history (Neolithic Age) (c. 8000–3500 BCE)
- Indian Pre-history Age
- Bhirrana culture
- Mehrgarh culture
Proto-history (Bronze Age) (c. 3500–1800 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation, including the "first urbanisation"
- Ahar–Banas culture
- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture
- Cemetery H culture
Iron Age (c. 1800–500 BCE)
- Iron Age India
- *Vedic civilization
- **Black and red ware culture in Western Ganges plain
- **Northern Black Polished Ware
- ** Painted Grey Ware culture
- * Brihadratha dynasty
- * Gandhara Kingdom
- * Kuru kingdom
- *Indian Iron Age kingdoms
- *Pandyan Kingdom
Early Historic (c. 500 BCE–300 CE)
- Pradyota dynasty
- Haryanka dynasty
- Shaishunaga dynasty
- Nanda Empire
- Maurya Empire
- Sangam period
- *Pandyan Kingdom
- *Chera Kingdom
- *Chola Kingdom
- Kalinga Empire
- Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire
- Satavahana Empire
- Kuninda Kingdom
- Shunga Empire
- Kanva dynasty
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom
Classical Period (c. 300–550 CE)
There are varying definitions of this period.- Gupta Empire
- Later Gupta dynasty
- Vakataka Empire
- Pallava Empire
- Kadamba dynasty
- Western Ganga dynasty
- Vishnukundina Empire
- Maitraka dynasty
- Rai dynasty
Culture in ancient India
Art in ancient India
Languages in ancient India
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Old Tamil
- Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent
- * Brahmi
- * Tamil-Brahmi
- * Pallava script
- * Gupta script
- * Kadamba script
Religion in ancient India
- History of Jainism
- History of Hinduism
- * Historical Vedic religion
- ** Vedas
- ** Vedic mythology
- ** Vedic priesthood
- History of Buddhism
Science and technology in ancient India
- Science and technology in ancient India
- *Indian mathematics
- *Indian astronomy
- *List of Indian inventions and discoveries
- Indian martial arts
- *Malla-yuddha
- *Kalaripayattu
- Ancient Indian medicine
- * Siddha medicine
- * Ayurveda
- Architecture
- *Dravidian architecture