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Landmark South Asia archaeological

Lothal

2400 BCE – 1900 BCE · 500 years

Indus Valley port city in Gujarat, India with the world's oldest known tidal dock and bead-making workshops

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Indus valley civilization (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Dravidians (1500 BCE–1000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Vedic Aryans (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Hindu kingdoms (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Hindu kingdoms and republics (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Mauryan Empire (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Kushan Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Saka Kingdom (1 BCE–300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Gupta Empire (400 CE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Hindu kingdoms (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Maitraka Kingdom (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Vallabhi (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Gurjara Pratihara (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Rajput Kingdoms (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Solankis (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Rajput Kingdoms (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. minor Hindu kingdoms (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Sultanate of Delhi (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Gujarat (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Islamic states (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  22. Islamic and Hindu states (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  23. Mughal Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Maratha Confederacy (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  25. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  26. India (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

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Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

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Attested 2000 BCE

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Thar Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

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Dravidians

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

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Sundarbans

3000 BCE – still standing

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