WE CAN SHOW INDIAN HISTORY IN SOME STEPS

ANCIENT INDIA

THE EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION IN INDIA IS CALLED INDUS VALLEY     CIVILIZATION . THIS CIVILIZATION BELONG TO CHALCOLITHIC      AGE - AN AGE IN WHICH WEAPONS AND UTENSILS OF STONE, COPPER, BRONZE WERE IN USE . EXCAVATIONS AT HARRAPA (PAKISTAN) AND MOHENJODRO(SIND - PAKISTAN) , JOHN MARSHELL SUGGESTS 325BC AS THE DATE OF THIS CIVILIZATION. THE FEATURES OF THIS CIVILIZATION ARE 
a) IT WAS URBAN CIVILIZATION.
b) PEOPLE PRACTISED AGRICULTURE. 
c) GOLD, SILVER & IVORY ORNAMENTS WERE USED .
d) PEOPLE WORKSHIP TREES,PHALLIC STONES, & MOTHER GODDES
e) AR T OF WRITTING WAS WELL DEVELOPED
f) IT RESEMBLES SUMERIAN CULTURE NOT ARYAN.

DYNASTY PERIOD

THIS PERIOD IS  FROM MURYA DYNASTY TO MUGHAL DYNASTY AND THIS PERIOD IS ALSO CONSISTS OF DOWN AND FALL OF EMPERORS.
MAURYA DYNASTY & GUPTA DYNASTY , CHALUKAYAS , THE PALLAVAS , CHOLAS,  & THE RAJPUTS ARE MAIN ATTRACTION OF THIS ERA AS WELL AS CHANDRA GUPT MAURYA , ASHOK , CHANDRA GUPT, HARSHA VARDHAN , JAI CHANDRA , PRITVIRAJ CHAUHAN , WERE SOME IMPORTANT RULERS   OF INDIA BEFORE MUSLIM PERIOD.

SULTAN MAHMUD OF GHAZNI & MOHAMMAD GHORI WERE THE FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE IN INDIA . THE SLAVE DYNASTY, KHILJI DYNASTY , TUGLAK DYNASTY , LODHIS & MUGHAL DYNASTY WERE SOME IMPOTANT DYNASTIES OF THIS ERA AS WELL AS SOME RULERS LIKE  SHIVAJI (MARATHAS) , HADIER & TIPU SULTAN ETC ARE MAIN HEROIS OF THIS ERA.

THIS PERIOD WAS ALSO THE PERIOD OF SCIENCE ART & CULTURE
KABIR , RAMANAND , CHAITANYA , JAIDEV , CHANAKYA , KALIDAS , TULSIDAS , SURDAS,FAZZI ,   BIRBAL , GHALIB ARE SOME STARS OF ART & CULTURE.
SCIENTS LIKE VARAHMIVIR , BRAHMGUPT , DHANVANTRI , BANABHATT .
AND ALSO GREAT ART & CULTURE LOVING EMPEROR LIKE AKBAR THE GREAT , JEHANGIR , SHAHJAHAN.   
BHADUR SHAH JAFFAR IS THE LAST EMPEROR OF INDIA AFTER FAILURE OF FIRST  WAR INDDEPENDENCE
HE WAS DEPOSED TO RANGOON BY BRITISH EMPIRE.

MODERN INDIA

THIS PERIOD START FROM AFTER THE FAILURE OF FIRST INDIAN INDEPENDENCE BUT THE EFFECT OF EUROPEANS ARE MAIN ATTRACTION OF THIS ERA .THIS PERIOD CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PERIOD
1) BRITISH RULE ON DELHI.
2) INDEPENDENT NATION

1) THE FOUNDER STONE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRE LAID BY PORTUGESE. AFTER DUTCH , FRENCH , BRITISH CAME HERE AND FORMED THEIR COLONIES. VASCO DA GAMA WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN WHO DISCOVERED SEA ROUTE TO INDIA.
BRITISHERS RULED OVER DIFFERENT PARTS OF INDIA BUT AFTER THE FAILURE OF FIRST FREEDOM STRUGGLE THEY BECAME THE OFFICIAL RULERS OF INDIA TILL 15 AUGUST 1947.
2) THE SECOND FACE OF THIS ERA IS FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF INDIA. FIRST MOVEMENT WAS THE MOVEMENT OF RAJAS, NAWABS UNDER THE FLAG OF OLD EMPEROR BHADUR SHAH GAFFAR. RANI LAXMI BAI , TATYA TOPE ,NANA SHAHIB, BEGUM HAZRAT MAHAL WAS SOME HEROIS OF THIS STRUGGLE. AFTER THE FAILURE OF THIS MOVEMENT BRITISH BECAME THE OFFICIAL RULERS OFINDIA.
IN SECOND PHASE OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE NATIONLIST CAME IN FRONT OF BRITISH EMPIRE.FORMATION OF INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS.LEGEL STRUGGLE OF  GANDHIJI , NEHRU SARDAR PATEL , MOLANA AZAD TYPED PERSONS AS WELL AS POWER STRUGGLE OF NETAJI SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE , BHAGAT SINGH , CHANDRASHEKAR TYPED PERSONS. AT LAST INDIA GOT FREEDOM BUT SOME FREEDOM FIGHTER LIKE MOHAMMAD ALI GINNA BECAME RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALIST AND DEMANDED SEPARATE NATION . DUE TO SOME POLICIES OF BRITISH EMPIRE INDIA DIVIDED INTO TWO NATIONS
INDIA & PAKISTAN .
14TH AUGUST 1947 -THE BLACK DAY IN INDIAN HISTORY- THE DIVISION DAY OF INDIA.BUT INDIA GOT FREE ON 15TH AUGUST 1947.AND WE STARTED NEW JOURNEY TOWARDS PEACE & LOVE.