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The Indian subcontinent [note 7] is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geographically, it spans the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , [ note 1 ] Maldives , [ note 2 ] Nepal , [ note 3 ] Pakistan , [ note 4 ] and Sri Lanka .
The Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE) unified most of the Indian subcontinent into one state, and was the largest empire ever to exist on the Indian subcontinent. [103] At its greatest extent, the Mauryan Empire stretched to the north up to the natural boundaries of the Himalayas and to the east into what is now Assam.
Among the Indian subcontinent's notable indigenous trees are the astringent Azadirachta indica, or neem, which is widely used in rural Indian herbal medicine, [205] and the luxuriant Ficus religiosa, or peepul, [206] which is displayed on the ancient seals of Mohenjo-daro, [207] and under which the Buddha is recorded in the Pali canon to have ...
The Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent or Indo-Muslim period [1] is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [2] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.
Chronology of India James Mill (1774–1836), in his The History of British India (1817), [a] distinguished three phases in the history of the Indian subcontinent, namely Hindu, Muslim, and British civilisations. [b] [c] This periodisation has been influential, but has also been criticised for the misconceptions it gave rise to.
This is a list of cities in the Indian subcontinent by their number of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers. City Country Skyline 100m+ 200m+ 300m+ Total High-Rises 1
Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent, partly because of the climate of the Indian subcontinent makes the long-term survival of organic materials difficult, essentially consists of sculpture of stone, metal or terracotta. It is clear there was a great deal of painting, and sculpture in wood and ivory, during these periods, but there are only a ...
Historians Catherine Asher and Cynthia Talbot state that the term "Indian subcontinent" describes a natural physical landmass in South Asia that has been relatively isolated from the rest of Eurasia. [111] The use of the term Indian subcontinent began in the British Empire, and has been a term particularly common in its successors. [107]