Medieval India - Wikipedia Medieval India Outline of South Asian history Palaeolithic ( 2,500,000 -- 250,000 BC ) Madrasian Culture Soanian Culture Neolithic ( 10,800 -- 3300 BC ) Bhirrana Culture ( 7570 -- 6200 BC ) Mehrgarh Culture ( 7000 -- 3300 BC ) Edakkal Culture ( 5000 -- 3000 BC ) Chalcolithic ( 3500 -- 1500 BC ) Anarta tradition ( c. 3950 -- 1900 BC ) Ahar - Banas Culture ( 3000 -- 1500 BC ) Pandu Culture ( 1600 -- 1500 BC ) Malwa Culture ( 1600 -- 1300 BC ) Jorwe Culture ( 1400 -- 700 BC ) Bronze Age ( 3300 -- 1300 BC ) Indus Valley Civilisation ( 3300 -- 1300 BC ) -- Early Harappan Culture ( 3300 -- 2600 BC ) -- Mature Harappan Culture ( 2600 -- 1900 BC ) -- Late Harappan Culture ( 1900 -- 1300 BC ) Vedic Civilisation ( 2000 -- 500 BC ) -- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture ( 2000 -- 1600 BC ) -- Swat culture ( 1600 -- 500 BC ) Iron Age ( 1500 -- 200 BC ) Vedic Civilisation ( 1500 -- 500 BC ) -- Janapadas ( 1500 -- 600 BC ) -- Black and Red ware culture ( 1300 -- 1000 BC ) -- Painted Grey Ware culture ( 1200 -- 600 BC ) -- Northern Black Polished Ware ( 700 -- 200 BC ) Pradyota Dynasty ( 799 -- 684 BC ) Haryanka Dynasty ( 684 -- 424 BC ) Three Crowned Kingdoms ( c. 600 BC -- AD 1600 ) Maha Janapadas ( c. 600 -- 300 BC ) Achaemenid Empire ( 550 -- 330 BC ) Ror Dynasty ( 450 BC -- AD 489 ) Shishunaga Dynasty ( 424 -- 345 BC ) Nanda Empire ( 380 -- 321 BC ) Macedonian Empire ( 330 -- 323 BC ) Maurya Empire ( 321 -- 184 BC ) Seleucid India ( 312 -- 303 BC ) Pandya Empire ( c. 300 BC -- AD 1345 ) Chera Kingdom ( c. 300 BC -- AD 1102 ) Chola Empire ( c. 300 BC -- AD 1279 ) Pallava Empire ( c. 250 BC -- AD 800 ) Maha - Megha - Vahana Empire ( c. 250 BC -- c. AD 500 ) Parthian Empire ( 247 BC -- AD 224 ) Middle Kingdoms ( 230 BC -- AD 1206 ) Satavahana Empire ( 230 BC -- AD 220 ) Kuninda Kingdom ( 200 BC -- AD 300 ) Mitra Dynasty ( c. 150 -- c. 50 BC ) Shunga Empire ( 185 -- 73 BC ) Indo - Greek Kingdom ( 180 BC -- AD 10 ) Kanva Empire ( 75 -- 26 BC ) Indo - Scythian Kingdom ( 50 BC -- AD 400 ) Indo - Parthian Kingdom ( AD 21 -- c. 130 ) Western Satrap Empire ( AD 35 -- 405 ) Kushan Empire ( AD 60 -- 240 ) Bharshiva Dynasty ( 170 -- 350 ) Nagas of Padmavati ( 210 -- 340 ) Sasanian Empire ( 224 -- 651 ) Indo - Sassanid Kingdom ( 230 -- 360 ) Vakataka Empire ( c. 250 -- c. 500 ) Kalabhras Empire ( c. 250 -- c. 600 ) Gupta Empire ( 280 -- 550 ) Kadamba Empire ( 345 -- 525 ) Western Ganga Kingdom ( 350 -- 1000 ) Kamarupa Kingdom ( 350 -- 1100 ) Vishnukundina Empire ( 420 -- 624 ) Maitraka Empire ( 475 -- 767 ) Huna Kingdom ( 475 -- 576 ) Rai Kingdom ( 489 -- 632 ) Kabul Shahi Empire ( c. 500 -- 1026 ) Chalukya Empire ( 543 -- 753 ) Maukhari Empire ( c. 550 -- c. 700 ) Harsha Empire ( 606 -- 647 ) Tibetan Empire ( 618 -- 841 ) Eastern Chalukya Kingdom ( 624 -- 1075 ) Rashidun Caliphate ( 632 -- 661 ) Gurjara - Pratihara Empire ( 650 -- 1036 ) Umayyad Caliphate ( 661 -- 750 ) Pala Empire ( 750 -- 1174 ) Rashtrakuta Empire ( 753 -- 982 ) Paramara Kingdom ( 800 -- 1327 ) Yadava Empire ( 850 -- 1334 ) Chaulukya Kingdom ( 942 -- 1244 ) Western Chalukya Empire ( 973 -- 1189 ) Lohara Kingdom ( 1003 -- 1320 ) Hoysala Empire ( 1040 -- 1346 ) Sena Empire ( 1070 -- 1230 ) Eastern Ganga Empire ( 1078 -- 1434 ) Kakatiya Kingdom ( 1083 -- 1323 ) Zamorin Kingdom ( 1102 -- 1766 ) Kalachuris of Tripuri ( 675 - 1210 ) Kalachuris of Kalyani ( 1156 -- 1184 ) Chutiya Kingdom ( 1187 -- 1673 ) Deva Kingdom ( c. 1200 -- c. 1300 ) Late medieval period ( 1206 -- 1526 ) Delhi Sultanate ( 1206 -- 1526 ) -- Mamluk Sultanate ( 1206 -- 1290 ) -- Khalji Sultanate ( 1290 -- 1320 ) -- Tughlaq Sultanate ( 1320 -- 1414 ) -- Sayyid Sultanate ( 1414 -- 1451 ) -- Lodi Sultanate ( 1451 -- 1526 ) Ahom Kingdom ( 1228 -- 1826 ) Chitradurga Kingdom ( 1300 -- 1779 ) Reddy Kingdom ( 1325 -- 1448 ) Vijayanagara Empire ( 1336 -- 1646 ) Bengal Sultanate ( 1352 -- 1576 ) Garhwal Kingdom ( 1358 -- 1803 ) Mysore Kingdom ( 1399 -- 1947 ) Gajapati Kingdom ( 1434 -- 1541 ) Deccan Sultanates ( 1490 -- 1596 ) -- Ahmadnagar Sultanate ( 1490 -- 1636 ) -- Berar Sultanate ( 1490 -- 1574 ) -- Bidar Sultanate ( 1492 -- 1619 ) -- Bijapur Sultanate ( 1492 -- 1686 ) -- Golkonda Sultanate ( 1518 -- 1687 ) Keladi Kingdom ( 1499 -- 1763 ) Koch Kingdom ( 1515 -- 1947 ) Early modern period ( 1526 -- 1858 ) Mughal Empire ( 1526 -- 1858 ) Sur Empire ( 1540 -- 1556 ) Madurai Kingdom ( 1559 -- 1736 ) Thanjavur Kingdom ( 1572 -- 1918 ) Bengal Subah ( 1576 -- 1757 ) Marava Kingdom ( 1600 -- 1750 ) Thondaiman Kingdom ( 1650 -- 1948 ) Maratha Empire ( 1674 -- 1818 ) Sikh Confederacy ( 1707 -- 1799 ) Travancore Kingdom ( 1729 -- 1947 ) Sikh Empire ( 1799 -- 1849 ) Colonial states ( 1510 -- 1961 ) Portuguese India ( 1510 -- 1961 ) Dutch India ( 1605 -- 1825 ) Danish India ( 1620 -- 1869 ) French India ( 1759 -- 1954 ) Company Raj ( 1757 -- 1858 ) British Raj ( 1858 -- 1947 ) Periods of Sri Lanka Prehistory ( Until 543 BC ) Early kingdoms period ( 543 BC -- 377 BC ) Anuradhapura period ( 377 BC -- AD 1017 ) Polonnaruwa period ( 1056 -- 1232 ) Transitional period ( 1232 -- 1505 ) Crisis of the Sixteenth Century ( 1505 -- 1594 ) Kandyan period ( 1594 -- 1815 ) British Ceylon ( 1815 -- 1948 ) Contemporary Sri Lanka ( 1948 -- present ) National histories Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Regional histories Assam Balochistan Bengal Bihar Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Kabul Kashmir Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rajasthan Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh Punjab Odisha Sindh South India Tamil Nadu Tibet Specialised histories Agriculture Architecture Coinage Demographics Dynasties Economy Education Indology Influence on Southeast Asia Language Literature Maritime Metallurgy Military Partition of India Pakistan studies Philosophy Religion Science & Technology Timeline Medieval India refers to a long period of the history of the Indian subcontinent between the `` ancient period '' and `` modern period ''. Definitions of the period itself vary widely, and partly for this reason, many historians now prefer to avoid the term completely. One definition, used in the rest of this article, includes the period from the 8th century to the 16th century, essentially the same period as the Middle Ages of Europe. It may be divided into two periods : The ' early medieval period ' which lasted from the 6th to the 13th century and the ' late medieval period ' which lasted from the 13th to the 16th century, ending with the start of the Mughal Empire in 1526. The Mughal era, from the 16th century to the 18th century, is often referred to as the early modern period, but is sometimes also included in the ' late medieval ' period. An alternative definition, often seen in those more recent authors who still use the term at all, brings the start of the medieval period forward, either to about 1,000, or to the 12th century. The end may be pushed back to the 18th century, making the period in effect that between the start of Muslim domination ( at least in northern India ) and British India. Or the `` early medieval '' period is begun in the 8th century, ending with the 11th. The use of `` medieval '' at all as a term for periods in Indian history has often been objected to, and is probably becoming more rare ( there is a similar discussion in terms of the history of China ). It is argued that neither the start nor the end of the period really mark fundamental changes in Indian history, comparable to the European equivalents. Burton Stein still used the concept in his A History of India ( 1998, referring to the period from the Guptas to the Mughals ), but most recent authors using it are Indian. Understandably, they often specify the period they cover within their titles. The critic Peter Hardy argues that Muslim historiography on medieval India is often motivated by Islamic apologetics, which tries to justify `` the life of medieval Muslims to the modern world ''. Contents 1 Early medieval period 2 Late medieval era 3 Early modern era 4 Notes 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links.com Early medieval period Main article : Middle kingdoms of India The start of the period is typically taken to be the slow collapse of the Gupta Empire from about 480 to 550, ending the `` classical '' period, as well as `` ancient India '', although both these terms may be used for periods with widely different dates, especially in specialized fields such as the history of art or religion. At least in northern India, there was no comparably large state until perhaps the Delhi Sultanate, or certainly the Mughal Empire, but there were several different dynasties ruling large areas for long periods, as well as many other dynasties ruling smaller areas, often paying some form of tribute to larger states. John Keay puts the typical number of dynasties within the subcontinent at any one time at between 20 and 40, not including local rajas. Rashtrakuta dynasty, was a Kannada Dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and the 10th centuries and one who built World Heritage center Ellora, Maharashtra. Eastern Chalukyas, 7th to 12th centuries, a South Indian Kannada dynasty whose kingdom was located in the present - day Andhra Pradesh they were the descendants of Western Chalukyas. Pallava dynasty, rulers of Telugu and some Tamil areas from the 6th to 9th centuries. Pala Empire, the last major Buddhist rulers, from the 8th to 12th centuries in Bengal. Briefly controlled most of north India in the 9th century. Chola Empire, a South Indian empire which ruled from Tamil Nadu and extended to include South - east Asian territories at its height. From 9th century to 13th century. Empire of Harsha, a brief period of control of most of north India, from 601 to 647, under Harsha of the Vardhana dynasty. Western Chalukya Empire, ruled most of the western Deccan and some of South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. Kannada - speaking, with capital at Badami. Kalachuri dynasty, ruled areas in Central India during 10th - 12th centuries. Western Ganga dynasty, was an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka, often under the overlordship of larger states, from about 350 to 1000 AD. The large monolithic Bahubali of Shravanabelagola was built during their rule. Eastern Ganga dynasty, was a royal dynasty ruling Odisha region who are descendants of Kannada Western Ganga Dynasty and Tamil Chola Empire. They have built famous Konark Sun Temple and Jagannath Temple, Puri. Hoysala Empire, a prominent South Indian Kannadiga empire that ruled most of the modern day state of Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the Hoysalas was initially located at Belur but was later moved to Halebidu. Kakatiya Kingdom, a Telugu dynasty that ruled most of current day Andhra Pradesh, India from 1083 to 1323 CE. The Sena dynasty, was a Hindu dynasty that ruled from Bengal through the 11th and 12th centuries. The empire at its peak covered much of the north - eastern region of the Indian subcontinent. The rulers of the Sena Dynasty traced their origin to the south Indian region of Karnataka. Late medieval era Delhi Sultanate, five short - lived dynasties, based in Delhi, from 1206 to 1526, when it fell to the Mughal Empire. Bengal Sultanate, 1352 to 1576, ruled over Bengal and much of Burma. Ahom Kingdom, 1228 -- 1826, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, resisted the Mughals, eventually taken by the British. Reddy Kingdom, 1325 to 1448, in Andhra Pradesh. Seuna ( Yadava ) dynasty, 1190 - 1315, an old Kannada - Maratha dynasty, which at its peak ruled a kingdom stretching from the Tungabhadra to the Narmada rivers, including present - day Maharashtra, north Karnataka and parts of Madhya Pradesh, from its capital at Devagiri. Rajput States, were a group of Rajput Hindu states that ruled present - day Rajasthan, and at times much of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Western Uttar Pradesh and Central Uttar Pradesh. Many Rajput kingdoms continued under the Mughals and as Princely States in British India until Indian independence. Vijayanagara Empire, 1336 -- 1646, a Hindu - Kannadiga empire based in Karnataka, in the Deccan Plateau region. UNESCO World Heritage site Hampi in Karnataka district of Bellary was their capital city. Gajapati Kingdom, was a medieval Hindu dynasty that ruled over Kalinga ( the present day Orissa ). Early modern era The start of the Mughal Empire in 1526 marked the beginning of the early modern period of Indian history, often referred to as the Mughal era. Sometimes, the Mughal era is also referred to as the ' late medieval ' period. Mughal Empire, was an imperial state founded by Babar, who had Turco - Mongol origin from Central Asia. The empire ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 16th to 18th century, though it lingered for another century, formally ending in 1857. Maratha Empire, was an imperial power based in modern - day Maharashtra in western India. Marathas replaced the Mughal rule over large parts of India in the 18th century, but lost the Anglo - Maratha Wars in the early 19th century, and became rulers of Princely States. Kingdom of Mysore, was a Kannada kingdom have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore. Fully independent after the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1646, reduced in size by the British, but ruled until 1947. Nayak dynasty of Kannada, Telugu, Tamil kings ruled parts of south India after the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1646. Their contribution can be seen in Ikkeri, Sri Ranga, Madurai, and Chitradurga. Sikh Empire, was a major power in the Northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, which arose under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Punjab region. They were usurped by the British East India Company between early and mid 19th century, following the British victory in the Anglo - Sikh wars. Notes Jump up ^ Keay, 155 ``... the history of what used to be called ' medieval ' India... '' ; Harle, 9 `` I have eschewed the term ' medieval ', meaningless in the Indian context, for the years from c. 950 to c. 1300... '' Jump up ^ Stein, Burton ( 27 April 2010 ), Arnold, D., ed., A History of India ( 2nd ed. ), Oxford : Wiley - Blackwell, p. 105, ISBN 978 - 1 - 4051 - 9509 - 6 ^ Jump up to : `` India before the British : The Mughal Empire and its Rivals, 1526 - 1857 ''. University of Exeter. Jump up ^ Ahmed, xviii Jump up ^ Keay, 155 ``... the history of what used to be called ' medieval ' India... '' Jump up ^ Rowland, 273 Jump up ^ Examples : Farooqui ; Radhey Shyam Chaurasia, History of Medieval India : From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D., 2002, google books ; Satish Chandra, Medieval India : From Sultanat to the Mughals, 2004 ( 2 vols ), google books ; Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India : From the Stone Age to the 12th century, 2008, google books Jump up ^ A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 By E. Sreedharan, p. 457, referencing Peter Hardy Jump up ^ Rowland, 273 ; Stein, 105 Jump up ^ Not for Burjor Avari, who ends `` ancient India '' at 1200. Avari, 2 Jump up ^ For architecture, see Michell, 87 - 88. For `` classical hinduism '', see the note at Outline of ancient India. Jump up ^ Keay, xxii - xxiii Jump up ^ Keay, xx - xxi Jump up ^ Zubair, Syed ( 4 November 2012 ). `` Before India ''. Deccan Chronicle. References Avari, Burjor, India : The Ancient Past : A History of the Indian Subcontinent from C. 7000 BCE to CE 1200, 2016 ( 2nd edn ), Routledge, ISBN 1317236734, 9781317236733, google books Farooqui, Salma Ahmed, A Comprehensive History of Medieval India : From Twelfth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, 2011, Pearson Education India, ISBN 8131732029, 9788131732021, google books Harle, J.C., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, 2nd edn. 1994, Yale University Press Pelican History of Art, ISBN 0300062176 Keay, John, India, a History, 2000, HarperCollins, ISBN 0002557177 Michell, George, ( 1977 ) The Hindu Temple : An Introduction to its Meaning and Forms, 1977, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978 - 0 - 226 - 53230 - 1 Rowland, Benjamin, The Art and Architecture of India : Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, 1967 ( 3rd edn. ), Pelican History of Art, Penguin, ISBN 0140561021 Further reading Satish Chandra ; Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India, Har - Anand Publications, 2010. Elliot and Dowson : The History of India as told by its own Historians, New Delhi reprint, 1990. Elliot, Sir H.M., Edited by Dowson, John. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period ; published by London Trubner Company 1867 -- 1877. ( Online Copy : The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period ; by Sir H.M. Elliot ; Edited by John Dowson ; London Trubner Company 1867 -- 1877 -- This online Copy has been posted by : The Packard Humanities Institute ; Persian Texts in Translation ; Also find other historical books : Author List and Title List ) Gommans, Jos J.L. ( 2002 ), Mughal Warfare : Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, 1500 - 1700, Routledge, ISBN 0 - 415 - 23989 - 3. Lal, K.S. ( 1999 ). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra ; Pusalker, A.D. ; Majumdar, A.K., eds. ( 1960 ). The History and Culture of the Indian People. VI : The Delhi Sultanate. 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Question: in which two part is the medieval history of india divided
Answer: 'early medieval period'