Earliest times:

    People have lived in what is now India for at least    200,000 years. About 4,500 years ago, a civilization began to flourish in the Indus Valley in what are now western India and Pakistan. Archaeological excavations in the early 1920's uncovered extensive ruins of two cities named Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. The people of Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and other Indus

    Valley cities had a system of writing. However, scholars have not yet succeeded in deciphering this script. The Indus Valley people also had systems of counting, measuring, and weighing. About 1700 B.C., the Indus Valley civilization gradually broke up. Scholars believe that changing river patterns, including a series of floods, may have caused the end of the culture.

History| Early Times | The Aryans |
| Invasions by the Persians and the greek | The golden Age | Southern India |
| Period of Invasions | The Mughal Empire | The Europeans |
| East India Company | Indian Rebellion | Rise of Indian Nationalism |
| The Constitution | World War II | Independence and Partition |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Recent Developments |