Humans in India

1*Analysis of mitochondrial DNA dates the immigration of Homo sapiens to South Asia to 75,000 to 50,000 years ago.

2*Humans outside of Africa descend from a population of Homo sapiens migrating from East Africa roughly 70,000 years ago and spreading along the southern coast of Asia and to Oceania before 50,000 years ago.

3*3300 to 1300 BC: Indus Valley Civilisation, which spread and flourished in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent from 3300 to 1300 BCE, was the first major civilisation in South Asia.

4*This civilisation collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilisation.

5*The Iron Age Vedic Civilisation. era saw the composition of the Vedas, the seminal texts of Hinduism.

6*The Vedic culture developed in India between 1500 BCE and 500 BC.^[6] As a consequence, Hinduism is considered to be the successor of Vedic religion.

7*4th & 3rd C. BC:Most of the Indian subcontinent was conquered by the Maurya Empire during the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE

8*5th&6th C.BC:The Later Vedic Civilisation extended over the Indo-Gangetic plain and much of the Indian subcontinent, as well as witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms, Magadha, Gautama Buddha and Mahavira propagated their Śramaṇic philosophies during the fifth and sixth century BCE.

9*India saw the rule of both Hindu and Muslim rulers from c. 1200 to 1750 CE.