Timeline

• c. 3000 – 1500 B.C.E.
  Indus Valley Civilization

• c. 1600-1000 B.C.E.
  Migration of Aryans

• c. 2300-200 B.C.E.
  Composition of the Rig-veda, Yajur-veda, Sma-veda, Atharva-veda, and the Upanisads.

• c. 400 B.C.E. – 400 C.E.
  Composition of the Mahabharata

• c. 200 B.C.E. – 300 C.E.
  Composition of the Dharma-sastras, laws of Manu, Ramayana, and Bhagavad-gita.

• c.300-1700 C.E.
  Composition of the Puranas and early Tantras

• 711-715 C.E.
  Invasion of Muslims into Northwest India

• c. 1200 C.E.
  Muslim Capital established at Delhi

• c. 1469-1539 C.E.
  Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism

• 1498 C.E.
  Vasco da Gama arrives on India’s west coast.

• 1526-1707 C.E.
  Mughal rule in India

• 1542-1605 C.E.
  Akbar the Great

• 1757 C.E.
  Bengali Muslim rulers defeated by the British.

• 1869-1948 C.E.
  Mohandas K. Gandhi

• 1947 C.E.
  Indian Independence and partition.