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The capital city of Pataliputra was bound in the north by the river Ganges, in the east by the river Champa, in the south by the Vindhya mountains and in the west by the river Sona. During Buddha's time its boundaries included Anga. Its earliest capital was Girivraja or Rajagaha (modern Rajgir in the Nalanda district of Bihar).
Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices. [1][2] The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the colonisation of the Americas after Christopher Columbus went to the ...
Southeast Asia in a Renaissance map constructed after 's Geography, rediscovered by in c. 1300. Cartography of India as a part of the greater continent of Asia developed in Classical Antiquity. In Greek cartography, India appears as a remote land on the eastern fringe of Asia in the 5th century BCE (Hecataeus of Miletus).
India had a 25% share of the global textile trade in the early 18th century, [126] and it represented the most important manufactured goods in world trade in the 18th century. [127] The most important centre of cotton production was the Bengal province, particularly around its capital city of Dhaka. [128]
The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also known as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of the sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
Indus Valley Civilisation, at peak phase (2600–1900 BCE) Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. [1] The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; [2] by 4500 BCE, settled life had spread, [2] and ...
India. The Vijayanagara Empire[a] or the Karnata Kingdom was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India. It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty, members of a pastoralist cowherd community that claimed Yadava lineage. [5][6][b]
Sultanate of Golconda. The Sultanate of Golconda (Persian: سلطنت گلکنده; Urdu: سلطنت گولکنڈه) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate, [6] Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty[a] of Turkoman origin. [7][8] After the decline of the Bahmani Sultanate, the Sultanate of Golconda was established in ...