COME AND KNEW MY INDIA

According to consensus in modern genetics anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.However, the earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Settled life, which involves the transition from foraging to farming and pastoral ism, began in South Asia around 7,000 BCE.

At the site of Mehargarh, Baluchistan, pakistan, presence can be documented of the domestication of wheat and barley, rapidly followed by that of goats, sheep,and cattle.

4,500 BCE, settled life had spread more widely and began to gradually evolve into the Indus Velly Civilization, an early civilization of the Old world, which was contemporaneous with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. 

This civilization flourished between 2,500 BCE and 1900 BCE in what today is Pakistan and north-western India, and was noted for its urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage, and water supply.

Most of the Indian subcontinent was conquered by the Maurya Empire  during the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. From the 3rd century BCE onward Prakrit and Pali literature in the north and the Tamil Sangam literature in southern India started to flourish.

Wootzu Steel originated in south India in the 3rd century BCE and was exported to foreign countries.During the Classical period, various parts of India were ruled by numerous dynasties for the next 1,500 years, among which the Gupta Empire stands out. This period, witnessing a Hindu religious and intellectual resurgence, is known as the classical or "Golden Age of India".