The Indian History


 
 
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The Indian History

Indian history is divided into three periods-ancient, medieval, and modern periods. The ancient period is said to stretch from the time humans learnt to write Emperor Harshavardhana’s death in 647CE. The medieval period of Indian history is taken to extend from 647 to 1700 CE. The medieval period in India is further divided into the early medieval period (647-1200 CE) and the later medieval period (1200-1700 CE) to date.

  • A map of the Indian sub-continent, made by a famous Arab geographer -- al-Idrisi -- in 1154, shows south India in the north and Sri Lanka at the top. But another map of the same area made by a French cartographer (a person who makes maps) in 1720 is quite different from what al-Idrisi made.
  • Historians have to be very careful when they use old things to study history, because the methods of making maps and texts differ from time to time, and not everything written in the past was correct.
  • The remains of ancient monuments, weapons, utensils, currencies and other such art facts together with any written records of the period either in papers, scriptures or simply by way of symbols and signs made on the walls, helped historians in tracing changes over a period of several years

     
     
     


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