Timeline

Civilization-scale chronology. Every event ships with its source, evidence class, and date certainty. Disputed claims are flagged, not resolved silently. Undated lore is sectioned, not lost.

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📜Vedic Period1500 – 600 BCESamhitas, Brahmanas, Upanishads and the emergence of gotra lineages.🏛️Mahajanapada Era600 – 300 BCESixteen great kingdoms, rise of Buddhism and Jainism, Magadha supremacy.🦁Maurya Empire321 – 185 BCEFrom Chandragupta to Ashoka — unification, dharmic governance, and edicts.🪷Classical Dynasties300 BCE – 600 CEGupta, Satavahana, Pallava, Kadamba — temple culture and Sanskrit literature.🔱Early Medieval600 – 1200 CERashtrakuta, Chola maritime empire, Chalukya architecture.🏯Late Medieval1200 – 1700 CEVijayanagara peak, Bahamani Sultanate, regional literature florescence.⚖️Colonial Period1700 – 1947 CEArchival records, census data, colonial-era inscriptions and disruptions.🌐Modern India1947 – presentPost-independence temple documentation, heritage law, and digitisation.

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Dynasty register

Browse all dynasties. Each entry links to its full chronology — founding, patronage, end, and all linked events.

Discover events

Search across all aggregates — temples, manuscripts, dynasties, inscriptions. Open one, see its full chronology.

Village histories

Each village page renders its period-attested names and timeline of linked events.

Reading the colours

  • verified evidencearchaeological, epigraphic, or primary archival.
  • scholarly interpretationreferenced in peer-reviewed scholarship.
  • oral traditioncommunity-attested, traceable to consenting informants.
  • folklore / disputedpreserved, but rendered with provisional weight.