Indian Empire

Indian Empire and its linguistic variations have been historically attributed to the Mauryan Empire, the Mughal Empire and the British Indian Empire.See Indian Empire#Historical usage

 Historical usage 
 Mauryan Empire 
The Greeks applied to the Mauryan Empire and its emperors as the King of the Indians or the King of India. It is not clear whether this was used in general geographical or political context.

The Mauryans themselves used the title Chakarvarti, meaning an emperor which rules all lands of the Indian Subcontinent. In one of the edicts of King Ashoka (which is now lost), he mentions his realm as Jambudvipa, an ancient term for the Indian subcontinent.

Western scholars from the period of the British Raj apply the term First Indian Empire to the Mauryan Empire.

 Delhi Sultanate 
Ibn Battuta called the empire under Muhammad bin Tughlaq as Hind and Sind. The Delhi Sultanate was also known as the Empire of Hindustan (Persian: Mamalik-i-Hindustan), a name that gained currency during the period.

 Mughal Empire 
With the Age of discovery and rise of Mughal Empire during the 16th and 17th century, various western maps used the terms Hindoostan, Indostan and in some rare cases India to describe the territories of the Mughal Empire, although the common term used to describe the empire still remained as Mogul.

Mughal administrative records also refer to the empire as dominion of Hindustan, Country of Hind, Sultanate of Al-Hind as observed in the epithet of Emperor Aurangzeb, all of these being other names of India.

 British Indian Empire 

 Historical Maps 
Various historical maps attributing Indian Empire or India and its linguistic variations to a political entity.

 Related pages 
 Emperor of India
 Territorial Evolution of India

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Category:History of India