An Introduction to Indian History
The Indus valley civilization saw its genesis in the holy land now known as India around
2500 BC.
The people inhabiting the Indus River valley were thought to be Dravidians, whose
descendants later migrated to the south of...
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An Introduction to Indian History
The Indus valley civilization saw its genesis in the holy land now known as India around
2500 BC.
The people inhabiting the Indus River valley were thought to be Dravidians, whose
descendants later migrated to the south of India.
The deterioration of this civilization that
developed a culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade can be attributed
to ecological changes.
The second millennium BC was witness to the migration of the bucolic
Aryan tribes from the North West frontier into the sub continent.
These tribes gradually
merged with their antecedent cultures to give birth to a new milieu.
The Aryan tribes soon started penetrating the east, flourishing along the Ganga and Yamuna
Rivers.
By 500 BC, the whole of northern India was a civilized land where people had
knowledge of iron implements and worked as labor, voluntarily or otherwise.
The early
political map of India comprised of copious independent states with fluid boundar
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