Ancient India
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'''Ancient India''' may refer to:
*The ancient history of the whole [[Indian subcontinent]] ([[South Asia]])
**[[History of South Asia]] and [[History of India]]
**[[Indus Valley Civilization]] — during the [[Bronze Age India|Bronze Age]]
**[[Vedic period]] — the period of [[Vedic Sanskrit]], spanning the late [[Bronze Age India|Bronze Age]] and the earlier [[Iron Age India|Iron Age]]
**[[Mahajanapadas]] — during the later [[Iron Age India|Iron Age]]
**[[Magadha|Magadha Empire]] — during [[classical antiquity]] (6th to 4th centuries BCE)
***[[Maurya Empire]] — the largest ancient Indian empire, contemporary to [[Hellenism]] in the west (4th to 2nd centuries BCE), golden age of early Classical [[Sanskrit literature]]
***[[Gupta Empire]]
**the [[Kingdoms of Ancient India]] as described in Sanskrit literature
**[[Middle kingdoms of India]] — during [[late antiquity]] and the [[early Middle Ages]]
***[[Indo-Greek Kingdom]] and [[Kushan Empire]] (2nd c. BCE to 3rd c. CE)
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